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The Swindmills of Your Mind: Responding to John Swinney's Edu-Speak

The Swindmills of Your Mind: Responding to John Swinney's Edu-Speak

PE1668 Submission from Anne Glennie to the Petitions Committee 19th June 2019 I am writing to the committee in response to the Deputy First Minister’s latest submission (17th June 2019). I agree entirely that ‘phonics is only one part of

admin June 21, 2019May 3, 2020 Education, Gossip No Comments Read more

The Winner Takes It All

The Winner Takes It All

As 2016 drew to a close, Strictly Come Dancing, X Factor and The Apprentice all crowned new champions, as the losers clapped to hide their misery in the side-lines. In PISA, the biggest education tournament of them all, Scotland recorded

admin January 27, 2017May 5, 2020 Education, Literacy No Comments Read more

Scotland’s Standardised Testing: How did we get here?

Scotland’s Standardised Testing: How did we get here?

A simplified timeline of events: 2010: Curriculum for Excellence (forward-thinking, aspirational and inspirational) begins full implementation. 2010: Standardised testing is abolished. BUT: HMI start asking to see our standardised testing. (But, erm, we just got rid of it… ) THEN: Schools

admin January 24, 2016May 6, 2020 Literacy No Comments Read more

Planning and Assessing Listening and Talking

Planning and Assessing Listening and Talking

Would you like some *new* and *free* documents to help with planning and the assessment of Listening and Talking? Of course you would! Well, I have created the following that might be useful in your school to provide consistency in

admin October 5, 2015May 6, 2020 Education, Literacy, Resources No Comments Read more

Read Between the Lines (TESS article)

Read Between the Lines (TESS article)

Recent comments from Nicola Sturgeon suggest that national testing might be about to return to Scotland. I do support our forward-thinking curriculum, but I also feel there are bits of it where we could do better. We cannot ignore the

admin June 13, 2015May 6, 2020 Education, Literacy No Comments Read more

Identifying Reading Problems: How will I know?

Identifying Reading Problems: How will I know?

I’ve just finished an interesting article in TESS: ‘When will literacy get its fairy tale ending?’ by Emma Seith. It has a great graphic showing the depressing SSLN results compared with two years ago, and there’s some super stats about

admin May 16, 2015May 6, 2020 Education, Gossip, Literacy, Phonics Forever, Uncategorized No Comments Read more

Closing the Gap: Get a New Plan, Stan

Closing the Gap: Get a New Plan, Stan

It has been a busy few weeks in the education world in Scotland, with what has felt like hunners of literacy reports and results being published. Having read them all, I am disappointed to find a lack of specific advice as

admin May 12, 2015May 6, 2020 Education, Literacy, Phonics Forever, Reflective Reading, Resources No Comments Read more

It’s time to wake up and smell the /k/ /o/ /f/ /ee/

It’s time to wake up and smell the /k/ /o/ /f/ /ee/

On 29th April the latest SSLN results were published, revealing the performance of our children in reading, writing, talking and listening. You would hope, that given the fact that almost all of our teachers now feel confident in delivering the

admin May 10, 2015May 6, 2020 Education, Literacy, Phonics Forever 8 Comments Read more

Why Everyone Needs an Assessment Giraffe

Why Everyone Needs an Assessment Giraffe

What does a giraffe have to do with assessment? Well, Jeffrey the giraffe, as well as being extremely intelligent, handsome, and good at telling jokes, actually performs a very important function in the classroom: he encourages formative assessment – reminding

admin March 11, 2015May 6, 2020 Education, Literacy, Reflective Reading No Comments Read more

Jeffrey the Assessment Giraffe

Jeffrey the Assessment Giraffe

Well, here we are – finally, it’s the last week of school before Christmas! Woo hoo! Today’s prize is a very special one indeed! How would you like to win your very own Mini Jeffrey Puppet for your classroom? As

admin December 14, 2014May 6, 2020 Advent Calendar, Education, Literacy No Comments Read more

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