• For all the music buffs out there, can you read this? This is a piece of music primary pupils are practising for the annual Music, Dance and [...]

  Musicians, can you read this?

  18/07/2016
• Gloria, an 11-year-old girl who lives nearby, came to see us earlier in the year. She now regularly visits us and asks us for homework [...]

  Daughters teaching mothers…

  17/07/2016
• For the past two weeks a faithful team of helpers have assisted Catherine, Emma (incredible intern) and I to test 890 pupils from 20 schools in [...]

  Testing time…

  10/07/2016
• Firstly, we would like to wish you all a happy new year! Can you believe that we saw in the new year at a ceilidh (Aussie friends: that means [...]

  Looking behind and looking forward…

  08/01/2016

• Last week thousands of P7 (year 6) pupils across the country sat for their Primary Leaving Examinations (PLE). I dropped into one examination [...]

  Married before finishing primary…

  09/11/2015
• 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
• 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

• You are good for nothing. You were born poor. You will die poor. There is no hope for you. This is what a primary school teacher said to Davis [...]

  You were born poor. You will die poor.

  04/07/2015
• 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