Musings of a pragmatic teacher

Teaching is an important profession and as cheesy as that sounds teachers really do have a huge impact upon the future of those that they te...

This blog has, in part, been inspired by #teacher5aday.  I have been tweeting and blogging professionally for a few years. I see Twitter as ...

As educators we are constantly striving to improve not just the performance of our pupils but their engagement in their learning. This resul...

If you are a year 2 teacher you will have recently administered the new KS1 SATS. They were very different in format this year but the bigge...

The 1970-1990 childhood   Once upon a time there were two children called Janet and John. Janet and John were brother and sister and lived a...

There is lots of negativity surrounding education at the moment so in order to counteract that I started to think about all of the things I ...

Teaching is my job, it is what I do, it is what I have done for nearly 20 years. I love my job and to a certain extent it defines me, it is ...