In the classroom

Something you often hear, these days, is that we want our students to think like a writer , or a   scientist , a  mathematician, or even a...

I've mentioned, I think, that we're learning about Ancient India at the moment. It's one of our Ancient World depth studies as o...

One of the things that constantly surprises me is the way middle school kiddos struggle to take notes of key ideas and then summarise what t...

Today I had the privilege of accompanying 18 of our senior students to a GRIP Leadership Conference .  These 18 students represent our thre...

Every Wednesday afternoon my class gathers for a chat.  We spend a whole lesson talking.  If I'm being totally honest: we often spend l...

Unlike many teachers I LOVE planning. I love posing a question and trying to create a framework through which my class can work toward answe...