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Fostering fluency and comprehension in Key Stage 1 reading

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24 Jan 2025
Nurturing and developing pupils' reading skills will help to enhance motivation to read, creating a virtuous circle where the more a child reads, the better they become at it, the more they want to do it.
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Writing for pleasure? It’s a serious, necessary pursuit – now, more than ever

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08 Oct 2024
Through a case study, Ellen Counter explores how we can, and why we should, put enjoyment for writing at the forefront of the agenda in schools.
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PLEASE MIND THE GAP and ensure you take all your ‘belongings’ with you – part 2: ‘Champions’

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31 Oct 2023
Effective leadership in schools enables all children in KS1, KS2, KS3 & KS4 to have their personalised needs met.
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Shining a light on Development Language Disorder (DLD) - Friday 18th October 2024

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02 Oct 2024
Shining a light on Developmental Language Disorder-strategies for the mainstream school. #DLDday
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Improving vocabulary for primary pupils

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21 Feb 2023
Michelle Nicholson discusses our Spring Conference, Word Utopia, which aims to be a celebration of language and lexicon for the primary phase.
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Reading at Key Stage 1 – What might we do and how might we do it?

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29 Sep 2020
Kathy Roe shares some strategies for supporting children with reading in Key Stage 1.
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Marky McMarkface: let’s talk about feedback

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28 Feb 2019
Sophie MacNeill explores some ways to shake up feedback to make it more efficient and effective in terms of teacher workload and pupil progress
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KS2 Reading Fluency Project: text selection guidance

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05 Feb 2020
Reading fluency - selecting texts with the power to turn around a reluctant upper key stage 2 reader can be a challenge... 
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Five top tips for Year 6 writing in the summer term

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22 Apr 2025
Ben Meyjes offers some top tips to support year 6 writers in achieving their potential in the summer term.
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Introducing environmental issues to children

Blog
14 Jul 2021
This is our moment. We cannot turn back time. But we can grow trees, green our cities, re-wild our gardens, change our diets and clean up rivers and coasts. We are the generation that can make peace with nature. Let’s get active, not anxious. Let’s be bold, not timid #Generationrestoration