• We really want some gossip to spread… and it’s slowly happening! Gossip about children’s reading. Today the director rang me [...]

  Let’s spread some gossip!

  13/12/2017
• I’ve been doing a little reflecting lately (possibly too much today). This week I have organised two lots of teacher observation visits, taking [...]

  Change ahead… slow down!

  22/10/2015
• The day is almost here! Tomorrow (September 8) is International Literacy Day (proclaimed by UNESCO). The theme for this year’s [...]

  International Literacy Day is here!

  07/09/2015
• 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 [...]

  Receiving more than giving…

  04/09/2015

• 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 [...]

  Recording studio time!

  01/08/2015
• 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 [...]

  Celebrate International Literacy Day by giving…

  24/07/2015
• 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 [...]

  Phonics on camera

  24/06/2015
• 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 [...]

  Visiting the place of a National Hero

  14/06/2015

• 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 [...]

  Money motivation… sad face :(

  24/05/2015
• I recently posted about a weekend of training nursery teachers. I wanted to share a few things from the weekend… Here’s a few [...]

  ‘I had to humble myself to come…’

  27/04/2015