Category Archives: Literacy
Developing cross-curricular ICT skills with Year 3
Yesterday, I spent the the day teaching 30 Year 3 gifted and talented pupils from schools across the Bradford East 1 partnership. The host school was Thackley Primary School and the staff did a great job to ensure we had … Continue reading
Posted in Curriculum ICT, Primary focus Literacy
Tagged Gifted, ICT, iMovie, James Langley, podcasting, Talented
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World Book Book Day 7 March
Can you let us know what is your favourite book? Which books do you like best? Scary books, adventure books, joke books? What book are you reading at the moment? Which author do you like best? Do you have any … Continue reading
A Podcasting Quest
The year 3 pupils at St James’ CE Primary School, Bradford, spent the morning podcasting movie trailers linked in to their creative curriculum theme ‘Quests’. We started by listening to the persuasive language used in two film trailers – E.T. … Continue reading
Reading CPD for lunch time supervisors
Lunch time supervisors at Cavendish Primary enjoying training on supporting children with their reading.
Sound it Out – New to Letters and Sounds CPD
Delegates enjoying the Benny Hill plenary at the New to Letters and Sounds CPD at The Innovation Centre in Keighley yesterday (18.9.12)
iPad Reading Project
This academic year, 3 primary schools were chosen to participate in a program to support the development of reading. The pupils involved were from Year 2, Year 1 and Reception. After initial training with Innovation Centre staff on how to … Continue reading
Miriam Lord Primary School – Education Blog Awards 2012
Miriam Lord Primary School received some wonderful news this morning. They have been chosen as winners in not only one, but two categories in the Education Blog Awards 2012. The UK Education Blog Awards celebrate the best in school blogging. … Continue reading
Phonics training for teaching assistants at Thackley Primary
This week, teaching assistants at Thackley Primary engaged enthusiastically in phonics training delivered by Alison Philipson. They looked at the principles behind phonics, practised enunciation and phoneme counting and designed some fantastically creative posters to illustrate the phonics phases.
Posted in Primary focus Literacy
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Challenging High Achievers: with a little help from my friends
Just occasionally I get asked to deliver CPD other than Guided Reading and phonics. This week I am delivering the second of two, one hour, staff meetings on challenging high achievers in literacy. Whilst preparing for this, it struck me … Continue reading
Posted in Primary focus Literacy
Tagged Challenge, High Achievers, literacy, Philip Webb
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