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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 in North London. The children in my class were quite young and the loos were outside across the playground. ‘Accidents’ were very common.…
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What’s been happening at Brilliant Publications?
If you could put any of our books on your Christmas list, which would you choose? OK, I realise that our books are unlikely to appear very near the top of anyone’s Christmas list. (We can always wish!) But if there is one book of ours that you’d really like to own and haven’t yet…
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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 needs to be able both to live within one’s means, and to evaluate this week’s “special offers.” But that is just the start…
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What’s been happening at Brilliant Publications?
It’s been a fairly routine week in the office this week I’m very pleased to say that an engineer was able to fix our boiler on Monday, so we no longer need to wear quite so many jumpers and thick socks! On Wednesday we had our annual safety inspection check, which we passed with flying…
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Paperback Writers
Given how much writing already goes on in primary classrooms, who in their right mind would want to add to the load? Answer, we did.
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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.
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Is it really possible to teach SPaG with games?
What child can resist the part of their English coursework that is titled “How to be rude - like William Shakespeare”? Or how about “A Martian is learning English”?
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What’s been happening at Brilliant Publications? (13 October 2022)
Today is ‘National Train Your Brain Day’ in the United States. I thought it was a fun thing to celebrate. What do you like to do to stimulate your brain?
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