Rethinking the Curriculum, the Learning Challenge Curriculum How introducing pre-learning activities can spark life into stale lesson plans Anfield Road Primary School in Liverpool is a recently amalgamated school, combined in September 2014 from the infant and junior schools of the same name. Eighteen months ago, Anfield Road Primary saw... View Article
Discussing Reading with Children The starting point for evaluating reading in primary schools is to look at the standards and progress within reading. One of the main ways to address the whole-school approach and progression within reading, is to speak directly to pupils and get an in-depth understanding of the... View Article
The KS2 reading test results have lit a proverbial bonfire! As a result, many schools are reflecting on and reviewing the way in which reading in primary schools is taught. Before I consider the effective teaching of reading in primary schools, let us put the dodo to rest! The test... View Article
International Education Consultancy in… Shanghai I recently went on the most amazing adventure. When Linda emailed to ask whether I would travel to Shanghai to provide international education consultancy and introduce the Learning Challenge Curriculum into a primary school there, my brain didn’t have chance to catch up to my... View Article
Mum is 23 years older than Henry and 3 years younger than dad. If the total ages of all three is 73, how old is mum? This type of question should now become common-place in most schools and academies at some stage and signals that there is a fundamental change... View Article
The limits of the status quo ‘If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it’ is a common enough phrase. If it was true in all cases I would now be pedalling around the country to visit schools and speak at conferences on my Raleigh Grifter. It was given to me as... View Article
