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Month: July 2012

Michael Rosen on art

Pedagogy is paramount!

July 13, 2012 John7 Comments

Some time ago I read a piece in the tescommentcolumn by Michael Rosen entitled ‘Art doesn’t come with a set of instructions’. Since then, after reading his frequent rants against the government’s attempts to improve the standards in literacy teaching across the country and his tirades against the phonics screening check, I’ve come to see… Continue reading Pedagogy is paramount!

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Signs of Sounds-Write

July 3, 2012 John

Seen outside a primary school in Bedford the other day and posted to me by a happy parent!

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