If you follow my blog or Facebook page, you will know that in 2023 I moved away from grouping my children for reading and started using whol...

The Power of Simple Organisers: Building Independence in Young Writers, Intentionally linking Reading and Writing Why a Basic Organiser Stru...

The Weight and Urgency of Educational Change Yesterday, I blogged about the sweeping changes currently overtaking education—changes implemen...

When Change Feels Like a Weight  Trying to Prove a Point – But Missing the Heart Right now, we are facing a government intent on proving som...

In The Beginning When I first started whole-class teaching a few years ago, I began to think more about connected texts. Many of the texts t...

The narrowing of the curriculum "winners and losers" Over recent years, significant changes have taken place within New Zealand’s...

One of the important elements of the scope and sequence is the intention to correct students' understanding of the equals sign, or hopef...