Creatively Retelling The Very Hungry Caterpillar

Who doesn't love this book?An absolute classic! With Year 1 doing their Minibeast topic, I had to make a link and explore the book. We had read it through and used some of the brilliant Talk4Writing techniques to help us retell the story. To engage the children further, we decided to create...

Creating Interactive Guides to the Human Body

You may remember a project I did with Year One last term:I decided to do a similar project with Year Three for their science topic about the Human Body. We started with the Curiscope Virtuali-tee. This amazing augmented reality t-shirt never fails to create a lesson of awe and wonder! If you've...

Two Mr Ps in a Pod(Cast)

I've just returned from the best holiday with my amazing family in Florida. We had such an amazing time.While having a chat at night with my brother we got onto the topic of making a Podcast. My younger brother works as a HLTA in a primary school and from sharing stories about life in the classroom,...

Bringing Picture Books to Life!

Ever since John Murray (@ReadingExplorer) visited our school around 5 years ago, our school's approach to reading has changed massively. One aspect of the training which has really engaged our teachers and students was the use of picture books as a stimulus in English. It is something we have embraced...

Removing Barriers in Reading Comprehension by improving Oral Speaking

Recently, I was asked to write an article for Teach Primary magazine alongside John Murray (@ReadingExplorer.) The topic was to explain the pedagogy behind the Read Write Perform approach. You can read the article here:A big focus with Read Write Perform is to get teachers to value oral speaking...