Good morning! As part of my endeavour to highlight amazing authors and their books, I am pledging to an author spotlight every month. There'll be a Q&A with them, blog posts about their books (both released and those to be released), a resource specially made by me for one of their books and then an … Continue reading AUTHOR SPOTLIGHT – Mel Taylor Bessent
Good morning! Today is the start of a brand-new, weekly series on my blog all about reclaiming reading. Reading is BRILLIANT. We all know that. I'd assume if you're popping along here it's either because you're a teacher, a reader or one of my friends, so you know that getting kids reading and seeing the … Continue reading Reading reclaimed #1 – Get kids reading
Good morning guys! I hope you are all well on this very chilly Sunday morning! Welcome to the first #SixforSunday post of 2026. Share 6 books every week for the prompt (or y'know... go rogue and share 6 books about whatever you want, ha). I'm very excited to get this going again because it's going to … Continue reading #SixforSunday – 2025 books I loved
Hello there! Welcome back to #SixforSunday! Today, I am sharing the prompts for #SixforSunday for 2026. New to #SixforSunday? It couldn't be any simpler! Share 6 books on your socials (be it Instagram, blog, Tumblr, TikTok) which meet the theme of the week. I would love to see you if you're joining in! Use the hashtag #SixforSunday if … Continue reading #SixforSunday 2026
Hello there 2026! I hope you are all well this fair morning! I'm here with a round up of my 2025 reading. I figured since you hadn't had any bookish content in 2025; I'd share some of my stats with you all! I know lots of people have moved over to Storygraph - I did … Continue reading 2025 round up
Unless you've been living under a rock, you will know that the UK government has announced that 2026 has been named the 'Year of Reading'. Now... as a teacher and a reader, I have lots of positive thoughts about this, but I also have a lot of apprehension around this. Both of these I will … Continue reading 2026 – the year of reading?!
Hello everyone! Thanks for stopping by at the promise of an exciting new resource. I’ve been posting stuff over on Instagram about resources that I use regularly and people are very keen to see them and download them, so here I am with another one! I've been sharing more of my resources recently, and it's … Continue reading FREEBIE: REFLECTIVE JOURNAL
Hello again! *THIS POST HAS HAD AN UPDATE - THERE IS NOW A RESOURCE WITH THE ANSWERS ON* I've been posting stuff over on Instagram about resources that I use regularly and people are very keen to see them and download them, so this week I'm going to share 3-4 resource collections that I use … Continue reading FREEBIE: Y6 SPAG WEEKLY TESTS
Hello again! I've been posting stuff over on Instagram about resources that I use regularly and people are very keen to see them and download them, so this week I'm going to share 3-4 resource collections that I use regularly! Today is the turn of my 'Feel Good Friday' collection. So, on a Friday morning, … Continue reading FREEBIE: Feel Good Friday collection
Hello again! Last week, I posted this blog post with some reasoning tests and my god, it just TOOK OFF. Over 7,000 of you downloaded the resource (pictured below). If you haven't seen that resource, then go check it out! Today I'm here with another share perfect for your Y6s and their reasoning practice. One … Continue reading FREEBIE: REASONING STATISTICS FOCUS TEST
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