Category: School & Library Visits
The Shocking Truth About Literacy Testing
Authors, travelling around schools, see stuff – stuff that inspectors would never see or even bother to look for, because inspectors are looking for what they want to see. I keep seeing the Green, Amber and Red colours of testing software printouts. This software works out where to put the most resources to achieve the…
A Poem for National Poetry Day
I had a great day in a school yesterday – I’ll tell you more later. I was reading them one of my Ricky Rocket stories in which there is a lot of… well… let’s call it bottom burping! Every time I milk that story, I think, “Oh dear! How have I stooped so low. But…
Whatever Happened To Manual Instruction?
Yesterday I visited Lydbrook Primary School, here in the Forest of Dean. It was once a village school that took children up to school leaving age – Lydbrook was a mining village and many of the children went to work underground or in other manual trades. One of the teaching blocks has this fabulous sign…
