Coronation of King Charles - Monarchy Debate (intro)
On 6th May 2023, millions of people worldwide watched a new king being crowned, but many question whether the monarchy is an outdated...
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Kate McCallam
Nov 11, 20226 min read
Why My Kid Hoovers and Classroom Motivation
What cleaning up has to do with classroom motivation.
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Kate McCallam
Jun 22, 202211 min read
Finding our Budding Mark Kermodes - UKS2 write film reviews.
Shared texts for teaching Film Review writing.
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Kate McCallam
Jun 20, 202215 min read
The Times Education Commission - Why The UK Urgently Needs Educational Reform
In May 2021, The Times Education Commission was set up to ‘examine the future of education in light of the Covid-19 crisis, declining...
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Kate McCallam
May 5, 20222 min read
Assessing Creativity in Writing - (not counting the number of fronted adverbials)
Assessing writing has always been tricky - it's highly subjective and can be hard to pin-point what makes one piece of writing better...
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Kate McCallam
May 4, 202212 min read
A Forward Thinking Curriculum : Let's Get Down To The Nitty Gritty
A Forward -Thinking Curriculum: Let’s Get Down To The Nitty Gritty Educational Consultant and Author, Kate McCallam, shares why grit is a...
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Kate McCallam
Apr 9, 20224 min read
Being A Writer-Teacher
Full article (abridged version in newsletter at bottom of page) Being a Writer-Teacher by Kate McCallam Kate is a Y6 veteran and a...
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Kate McCallam
Feb 13, 20222 min read
Poetry Lesson for Valentine's Day
The brilliant, John Hegley, has some fab poetry that can be easily adapted and played with in class. Take a look: A Declaration of Need...
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Kate McCallam
Feb 2, 20223 min read
'Getting Creative With Our Amazing Language' by Richard D'Souza - a brilliant booklet for Y6 and KS3
This is a fabulous free resource that every English teacher should download and use with their class. It is written for pupils and gives...
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Kate McCallam
Jan 1, 20221 min read
The Future of Work - What Matters Most For Our Children
see published article section also
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Kate McCallam
Oct 29, 20211 min read
Grand Designs: Why Classroom Design Really Matters
RISE Magazine - Net Support Autumn 21 : https://www.netsupportsoftware.com/rise-magazine/
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Kate McCallam
Jul 11, 20213 min read
New Towns Project
I loved this cross-curricular project and so did the children. It was a brilliant geography-biased topic following our history-biased WW2...
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Kate McCallam
Jun 14, 20217 min read
Estate Agent Speak - Hagrid's Hut
* Context: The following literacy lesson (unit) is part of our wider class theme, Re-building Britain (After The War). It is essentially...
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Kate McCallam
Mar 28, 20215 min read
Writing for Pleasure - Detailed Description of Object inspired by Arvon Craft of Writing Course
The teacup smelt of floral gossip and a side of old ladies; it smelt of betrayed friendships and broken trust.
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Kate McCallam
Mar 6, 20215 min read
Poetry - Secret Life of Pets (Arvon inspired)
I might spike a sparrow, might murder a mouse,
then, I’ll bring it back bloody, my prey, my house
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Kate McCallam
Mar 13, 20204 min read
Formal Letters of Complaint
Despite my continual attempts to bring this to your attention, you have simply ignored my requests or have made false promises. The former o
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Kate McCallam
Mar 12, 20203 min read
Mr Fisher by Joanne Harris - Character Inference and Brilliant Narrative Story Start
It had been a disappointing term at St Oswald’s. For most of the boys in 3F, creative writing was on a par with country dancing and food tec
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Kate McCallam
Mar 5, 20203 min read
Should Prep/Homework Be Abolished? For and Against
This caused unneccessary tension in the home and was an additional burden for working parents to bear.
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Kate McCallam
Mar 5, 20202 min read
Setting - A City Scene
....it was already full, for this was a city, a busy city, and it sang to the tune of Work, Work, Work.
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