After our first few weeks of moving Spring Into Maths from a withdrawal group to an in-class programme, my target group are all excited for ...

Yesterday I had the opportunity to observe Karen, one of our amazing teacher aides, taking a Spring Into Maths session with three of my stud...

For the last year and a half I have watched one of my students who arrives every morning with a huge smile of his face completely fall to pi...

This year I have been looking at ways stronger connections to content specific vocabulary can help overcome hindered student self efficacy...

Last week one of our writing tasks was to create Kahoot quizzes with a buddy that would challenge others to recall the deeper and surface f...

Throughout this year I have focused on growing the self efficacy of group of reluctant writers. As I could only capture 6/8 responses in th...

Last week we revisited explanation writing. This is something most of my group find a challenge as they do not believe they are 'good ...

I have realised that the more enthusiastic I am about our learning the more enthusiastic my learners are, so with that in mind I introduced ...

This is a celebration post and one I am extremely proud of! The clips below show the end result of our pechaflickr style challenge. You wi...

Our writing session today was the most focused and on task my group have been all year! A big statement to make but also one that is very tr...

This lesson gave me the chance to build on from our pechaflickr introduction from last week. We began with a revisit of how to participate i...

This year I have been focusing on building student self efficacy in writing. Why? Because I have a large group of reluctant writers. I know...

One of the sessions I attended at ISTE explored different ways of encouraging creativity in writing. The link to my previous post is here . ...

Following on from the use of a mentor text I knew that collaboration was the safety net needed to preserve the student self efficacy that wa...