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We really want some gossip to spread… and it’s slowly happening! Gossip about children’s reading. Today the director rang me [...]
13/12/2017
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I’ve been doing a little reflecting lately (possibly too much today). This week I have organised two lots of teacher observation visits, taking [...]
22/10/2015
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The day is almost here! Tomorrow (September 8) is International Literacy Day (proclaimed by UNESCO). The theme for this year’s [...]
07/09/2015
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Our holidays came to a pretty sharp end when we jumped off our bus ride from Nairobi a couple of hours earlier (thankfully) and Ron Matheson from [...]
04/09/2015
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This week we started recording The Fun of Phonics songs at a local recording studio – exciting! It was a little bit of a slow start: me [...]
01/08/2015
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In a little over a month, schools all over the world will be celebrating International Literacy Day (September 8). I am quite excited that the [...]
24/07/2015
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This week we started filming! We are making a phonics DVD as a teaching resource for local schools. It will include examples of good phonics [...]
24/06/2015
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This week we celebrated Heroes Day in Uganda, you can celebrate any hero on the day you want to. Last year Australian Irene Gleeson was honoured [...]
14/06/2015
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I had a little chat with a year 1 teacher during a school visit this week. I know this teacher a bit, we had team-taught for a little while (she [...]
24/05/2015
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I recently posted about a weekend of training nursery teachers. I wanted to share a few things from the weekend… Here’s a few [...]
27/04/2015