Back in the summer of 2016 I blogged about how I'd become a Reading Teacher ( with a capital R and T, as Teresa Cremin says ). I re...

I remember very clearly when my love affair with Jane Austen began. It was the summer between fifth and sixth year of high school, when I ...

Reading for pleasure is all the rage in schools, but how often do we, and the children we teach, read for displeasure? Or, perhaps more a...

‘The Children of Castle Rock’ is a daring new adventure story in the tradition of all good boarding school novels. Lovers of Harry Potter,...

In this hilarious send up of self-help guides and larger-than-life celebrity life coaches Ben Davis introduces Freddie, gamer and son of ...

After reading this great blog post by Rob Smith of the Literacy Shed I spent some time in reflection, questioning myself, my past practic...

It's no secret that one of my favourite books for children is 'Hitler's Canary' by Sandi Toksvig , so when her agent off...

OK, I'll admit right away that I'm not about to lambast the time-honoured tradition of choosing and reading aloud a book to your c...

I often try to catch my children unawares in order to film them carrying out their day-to-day activities without the inevitable showiness th...