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Enough stories to last forever
What do all good stories, all good lessons and indeed all assemblies, do at the very start? They always start by grabbing attention.
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If ever there was a need for problem solving …
As children get used to the idea of exploring ideas and seeing new approaches, the more it benefits them as individuals, and society as a whole.
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We don’t all learn how to spell the same way
There is nothing wrong with remembering how to spell “could” by using the memory jogger “could old unicorns like doughnuts?”
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Just imagine!
How can you inspire children to try different approaches and ideas to writing? There’s a very old Chinese story about a young boy who is given a paintbrush. The boy is told…
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Has anything like this happened to you?
We love hearing anecdotes from our authors. Our author of the month, Meg Fabian, recently shared this memory with us… Back in the early 70s I was teaching in an infant school…
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There’s some weird rules out there
In terms of clarity of speech and writing, grammatical rules need to be understood and used, but it is not easy to stop and give the children pause for thought.
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Maths is irrelevant
There is a tendency among some adults to suggest that maths is irrelevant to their daily lives. And yet of course we all know that to be a fully functioning adult, one…
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What’s been happening at Brilliant Publications?
Integrating phonics into your foreign language lessons talk at the Language Show. Do you support the re-introduction of compulsory languages at GCSE? Do you remember what life was like before central heating?
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Why is the bike IN the tree?
Can your children write a puzzle hook to start a narrative about the picture which will leave readers with more questions than answers?
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‘Doing maths’ always needs a purpose
How can we make use of children asking “Why?” Exploiting and answering the question can be a very powerful tool when it comes to teaching and learning maths.
