Thirty science writers and teachers who write have formed a group to support and promote brilliant science writing for children … More
Category: primary science
One Scientist Reads A Science Text
In my writing, I claim that scientists read differently. When a scientist reads, it doesn’t look like an English lesson. … More
High-quality textbooks won’t work without high-quality textbook reading.
Last Thursday (11th June), Nick Gibb delivered a speech titled the social justice case for an academic curriculum. As a … More
Writing to Learn (not Learning to Write)
Writing is a process of deep thinking. It slows and clarifies thought: paragraph by paragraph; sentence by sentence; word by word. … More
Ready for Lift Off – This Week We Wrote About Rockets
To launch Autumn Term 2014, we took 50 year 6 children to Cambridge to build and test rockets at Sidney Sussex … More
But, So, However, Therefore and Furthermore
And, But, So, However, Therefore and Furthermore. If I hadn’t made the move from secondary school to primary school last … More
What Part Don’t You Get? Part 2
In my last blog, I wrote about the four reasons why many of my secondary students couldn’t learn science through … More
Reading for Learning 