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Of course you can paint!
Use this clearly structured, skills-based approach for teaching the development of painting skills at Key Stage 1 and Key Stage 2.
April 11, 2024 -
Celebrate World Poetry Day with lions in the garden!
Download ‘Lions in the Garden’ for World Poetry Day. You will also get a mixture of short and long question types linked to the reading content domains to try.
March 11, 2024 -
How to boost confidence
Strategies are our short cuts to solutions. Once we feel we have strategies in place for each new eventuality, we invariably feel happier and more confident.
October 30, 2023 -
Confident readers / good readers…
It is undeniably true that good readers are normally confident readers. While of course confident readers are invariably good readers. So which one does one seek to boost first?
September 27, 2023 -
What is the best way to explain difficult news?
Terrorism and extremism are not easy subjects to teach. The Manchester Arena attack will raise questions as it is in the news again while Martyn’s Law progresses through parliament.
July 28, 2023 -
What makes success?
Practise the retrieval and recording of information and develop the ability to answer inference, prediction and sequencing questions.
June 14, 2023 -
Listen mum, I speak French
Teaching French with short plays can be so beneficial. By rehearsing and performing in French, children read, speak and hear the words.
May 17, 2023 -
Confidence is everything
What is the one thing that more than anything else dissuades a child from reading and writing? The answer to this question is “confidence.”
May 9, 2023 -
What’s been happening at Brilliant Publications?
The latest two books in the Boost Spelling Skills series have gone to the printers. I am looking forward to seeing printed copies in a couple of weeks.
March 16, 2023 -
For the more able
What are the most effective ways of stretching the minds of more able children at KS2? More able children are as varied in their individual attributes as everyone else in the class. Therefore a wide range of approaches and activities is needed to provide them with the stimulus that they need in school.
February 6, 2023
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