Introducing the Functionally Fluent School Leadership programme
In the recent Teacher Wellbeing Survey conducted by the NASUWT, 86% of teachers surveyed said that their job had had a negative impact...
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Oct 162 min read
Five easy ways to get started with Rooted in Reading
Uprooted by Su Blackwell, currently on show at the National Centre for Craft and Design in Sleaford. Reading can have a transformational...
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Feb 16, 20224 min read
Joe Wicks, Functional Fluency and teacher observation
This blog was written a while back and then forgotten about. Since then Functional Fluency International has developed considerably. It...
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steve246253
Dec 2, 20213 min read
The 15 Rooted in Reading Principles
Back in November 2010 I was invited to go down to London to lead a research seminar at the DfE on the reading for pleasure promotion...
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Nov 23, 20214 min read
How we became a school that reads
The following piece by Ben Wilkinson and Sonja Bredgaard was published on The Guardian's teacher blog back in 2012. Interest in reading...
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steve246253
Jan 19, 20202 min read
Rooted in Reading – 5 key benefits of the blue reading passport
The second passport we produced, the blue one, was conceived as a more primary-orientated version of the original green passport. The...
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Jan 11, 20202 min read
Rooted in Reading: 10 things you need to know about the original green passport
1. The green passport was the first one in the series. Indeed, when I wrote it I thought it would be the only one but then when my...
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steve246253
Jan 6, 20201 min read
Rooted in Reading passports: an introduction
It occurred to me recently that, although Rooted in Reading has now been around for over a decade, there are still many teachers out...
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steve246253
Apr 1, 20194 min read
Reading comprehension: as easy as pie!
Listening recently to Andy Hargreaves talking about professional capital on YouTube , I was struck by his definition of the third element...
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steve246253
Jul 27, 20185 min read
Gaps – vocabulary, reading and NATE Conference
I am updating this blog, which dates from July 2018, in January 2022. The issues it highlights have been considerably exacerbated by...
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steve246253
Nov 4, 20173 min read
Learning and Trust – thoughts from research
Education is an exchange, but not a monetary one in most circumstances. Instead of exchanging money, a symbolic representation of labour...
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steve246253
Oct 13, 20175 min read
The Rooted in Reading Award and student attainment
The Rooted in Reading Award passport was originally designed to be reading’s equivalent to the Duke of Edinburgh Award. The tasks are...
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steve246253
Nov 6, 20164 min read
Should we abandon reading for pleasure? Part 2
A couple of years ago I wrote my first blog with this title, which, if you are interested, you can read here. My thesis in that post was...
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steve246253
Sep 13, 20167 min read
Reading in secondary schools: Ofsted, research and Rooted in Reading
Below is a series of quotations from key documents about the importance of reading for pleasure. My comments in italics suggest ways in...
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steve246253
May 21, 20162 min read
1st National Baccalaureate workshop
Yesterday, Rob Shadbolt, Head of Wood Green School, Witney, Oxfordshire, hosted the first ever National Baccalaureate workshop....
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steve246253
Jan 31, 20164 min read
The Big Picture, 15 minute medium term plan
Last month I spoke about medium term planning at the Priory Ruskin Academy Super Teachmeet (see poster here) so I thought I might...
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steve246253
Nov 14, 20151 min read
Personal Best and the 5 key features of Growth Mindset: making it real
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steve246253
Nov 14, 20154 min read
Personal Best and the 5 key features of Growth Mindset: making it real
Photo credit – Suffolk Maths http://www.suffolkmaths.co.uk/pages/1growthmindset.htm You will have seen many diagrams by now explaining...
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steve246253
Oct 29, 20152 min read
Personal Best Academy – the planning stage
So, after not posting anything for several months, I now plan to start on a series of posts outlining the setting-up, training stages and...
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steve246253
Jul 12, 20152 min read
Personal Best – growth mindset and literacy
On Thursday 16 July we will be holding a launch party and press event for Personal Best at LA Mare de Carteret High School, Guernsey at 9...
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Introducing the Functionally Fluent School Leadership programme
In the recent Teacher Wellbeing Survey conducted by the NASUWT, 86% of teachers surveyed said that their job had had a negative impact...
Five easy ways to get started with Rooted in Reading
Uprooted by Su Blackwell, currently on show at the National Centre for Craft and Design in Sleaford. Reading can have a transformational...
Joe Wicks, Functional Fluency and teacher observation
This blog was written a while back and then forgotten about. Since then Functional Fluency International has developed considerably. It...
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