An education blog from Aidan Severs Consulting (www.aidansevers.com)
Thursday 6 September 2018
Writing Characters In Key Stage 2
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My new year 5 team and I sat down to plan together for the first time last week. Our class novel is Cosmic by Frank Cottrell-Boyce and th...
Tania Unsworth On Conveying Character
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Tania Unsworth, author of the wonderful The Girl Who Thought Her Mother Was A Mermaid describes the process she goes through when writing ...
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...
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