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Could there be a theme more pressing or more pertinent for UNESCO World Poetry Day this year than peace and inclusion? Could there be a genre more suited to avoiding rhetoric and yet shocking us [...]

Celebrate Shakespeare’s birthday in April or… any time of the year! Collaborations between the Opening Doors team and our network of schools has truly flourished recently. Educators [...]

# 3 Shaping the Opening Doors Hubs Or What makes effective CPD? In this the third blog of three, I’ll explain the approach myself and the Opening Doors Hub schools took to support [...]

#2 Opening Doors Post Lockdown: Doors Ajar Continuing the Story of Opening Doors School Hubs 2022-3 In the Spring/Summer of 2022 several themes were emerging in the landscape of primary education [...]

    # 1 The story of the first Opening Doors Hubs 2022-3 Or the power of principled, collaborative, guided CPD on teaching writing The Opening Doors approach to ambitious English with [...]

Multi-generational Frames of Reference or Still dreaming of change Life was getting busier for everyone.  Lots of work and school distractions were putting a strain on family meeting [...]

Classifying a text part 2 or Playing intergenerational snap Having said in my previous blog that LTE Classification lessons have a tendency to be less emotive and more cerebral in the classroom, [...]

Classifying a Text Part 1 or What’s in your pack of Snap Cards? (with thanks to Michael Walsh for the metaphor) Before relaying an account of the next few lessons with my family, I’m going to [...]

Sredni Vashtar the Ferret – or should we call him Brian? or If…then…so…hypothesising in English Professor David Crystal tweeted early on in our lockdown phase that the [...]

or…the adults’ writing So – this entry might seem like an indulgence.  You may be following the blog to gain an insight in to how Let’s Think can work for students in KS3. [...]