An education blog from Aidan Severs Consulting (www.aidansevers.com)
Friday 31 August 2018
Diary of a Deputy - Week 1: False Start?
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It's Friday, I'm on the coach on the way back from year 5's first trip - the first trip I've organised as Deputy Head. We...
Monday 27 August 2018
Book Review: 'Dave Pigeon' by Swapna Haddow, Illustrated by Sheena Dempsey
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Funny books. That's what our children get these days when they move off the reading scheme books at school and begin to read whole ch...
Friday 24 August 2018
Book Review: 'Armistice Runner' by Tom Palmer
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The World Wars have provided many an author with fodder for their fiction and there are some truly brilliant books out there as a result....
Wednesday 22 August 2018
Book Review: 'The Girl Who Thought Her Mother Was A Mermaid' by Tania Unsworth
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I'm just going to come right out and say it: this is a perfectly told story which twists fantasy into reality in an oh-so satisfying ...
Book Review: 'Once Upon A Wild Wood' by Chris Riddell
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There are many, many retellings and rehashings of popular traditional fairy tales, but this isn't one of them. Children who love fair...
Monday 23 July 2018
Book Review: 'Secrets of a Sun King' by Emma Carroll
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There's not been a prominent children's novel set in Egypt for a while, so when I heard that Emma Carroll's latest book was t...
Sunday 15 July 2018
Book Review: 'Ottoline and the Purple Fox' by Chris Riddell
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Two of my daughters (year 1 and year 3 currently) became instafans of Chris Riddell's Ottoline character after I picked up a hardback...
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