Writing

Stand Together
30th January 2020
Stand Together Each year Holocaust Memorial Day has a theme. This year it’s ‘Stand together’. I work closely with...
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What Do You Need For a Story?
8th December 2019
What Do You Need For a Story? For most stories, you need a place, you need a time, you...
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Workshop Ideas
28th June 2019
Workshop Ideas First up, one of my students was looking into what kinds of ‘games’ could teachers play with...
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Collected Ideas for Poetry With Year 1
3rd June 2019
Collected Ideas for Poetry With Year 1 For the writing blog this month, I’ve collected together a set of...
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Over My Toes
30th April 2019
Over My Toes Over my toes goes the soft sea wash see the sea wash the soft sand slip...
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What I Saw
20th March 2019
What I Saw I’ll tell you what I did in town I saw a greengrocer in the underground with...
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Poetry to Commemorate the Holocaust
14th January 2019
Poetry to Commemorate the Holocaust On Sunday January 27 it’s Holocaust Memorial Day. I will be in Cambridge at...
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Volcano Bag
31st August 2018
I was listening to the radio and I heard about a woman who lived on the island of Monserrat...
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How to Shake Things Up in the Writing, Reading, Talking, Listening Field
30th July 2018
For teachers wondering about how to shake things up in the writing, reading, talking, listening field: How about a...
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Writing – Starting Points
11th June 2018
The simplest, easiest and most painless way to write is to be stimulated or inspired by another piece of...
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Reveal-Conceal and Other Ideas For the Classroom
15th May 2018
Teachers sometimes ask me for ways they can use to get away from the rigid questioning of children about...
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How to Look at a Poem
6th March 2018
If you’re sitting looking at a poem and you’re wondering what to say about it, think about or write...
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Scribbles, Notes, and Blogs
8th January 2018
I used to scribble all my ideas down in a notebook but now that we’ve got phones and tablets...
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