Tag: giggles
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Poetry problems.
There’s something about poetry that children find tricky. I’ve always had a natural flare for poetry and writing. Ever since I was in year 3, when I wrote a rhyming poem about an autumn leaf. In year 8, RE, I wrote a poem about bullying that grabbed the attention of the Reverend teacher. She asked…
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Be careful what you say… in front of your TA!
I was in my NQT year. I was teaching an ordinary Year 3 English lesson about descriptive writing. We were focussing our writing on Harry Potter and his battle against “he who shall not be named”. The children were struggling to write about it so I started rambling on about what the children could write…
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