Ksenia's musings

This year I started marking the kids writing books the way that I had seen other teachers mark in their rooms.   After a while, I found tha...

Yesterday some of the teachers at school presented ideas that they learned at uLearn 2014.  Being in the junior school I decided to attend t...

I often hear teachers say that they don't have the technical know-how to teach computer skills. I say that you don't have to be the ...

Recently I have been thinking about teaching in general. It has changed completely from what I remember happening in my primary classroom. I...

A little while ago I went on a phonics course with some colleagues of mine. Being a Year 5 teacher for majority of my teaching career I didn...

I had the pleasure of observing this in my classroom the other day. We have been working on rereading our work and checking for errors ...

I know I've said this before, but being with Year 2s I'm always amazed by how quickly they pick up new skills.  The progress they ma...