In researching SSP and seeing our youngest sign his the letter sounds there is clearly an opportunity to pair the letter or digraph (text) / with images, sound-signs / action or ‘sound personalities.’ (We have gone with a fox). I …
With a commitment to smaller, slower steps, I am starting with just sounds and simple words for Phase 2, Set 1 (s, a, t, p). We are also looking at the format and presentation of the sounds. For now, these …
Three more conversations into my reading phonics phonology project / professional learning. A self-directed ‘edventure’ for a Secondary teacher and parent two happy readers and one five year old learning to read. With schools closing, it felt a little guilty …
I shared two connected posts, home learning and teaching and my use of Triptico to create resources with our Year R son. This experience offered a good reason to learning about both phonics and handwriting, and where these two important …
So I have had a few attempts exploring Might and Magic Chess Royale. Our eldest has played quite a bit, introducing out daughter (9), with our youngest (5) watching and enjoying some of the bigger (10×10) battle scenes. Here is …
I am not going to lie, home schooling a 5, 9 and 11 year old has posed it challenges. The mornings follow a school led programme, lunch almost a marker for something other than “school-directed” learning. “Free-time technology” is only …
I am beginning to conceive curriculum execution as two-step process. Planning what to teach (planning with the end in mind), then sequencing what has been planned. Though ‘planning’ is essential, ‘plans’ can be constraining when learning goes on an edventure …
Basic in 2012, I invested a lot of time researching forecasting pupil performance. Specifically CATs and FFT. In 2015, as part of our Improvement Strategy we wanted to feedback to Heads of Department on their prediction accuracy – on a …
