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The experience of being Chair of the school or academy board can best be summed up by the three letters AOB – despite the best laid plans it’s the unexpected items that make the job challenging, unpredictable and occasionally exciting and rewarding.

The truth is that writing is hard. What’s more, teaching it is even harder! key to success in key stage 1 is cover less, practise more.

How to identify and address gaps in learning so that children are helped to become confident, increasingly accurate spellers.  This blog includes a free, helpful lesson outline. 

Kirsten Snook reflects on what makes the biggest differences to increasingly busy subject leaders with increasingly tight budgets.

Martin Galway shares some of the key messages and content from his recent presentation on fluency at this 2019’s ResearchEd national conference.

A summary of the session with Professor Tim Rasinski, hosted by HFL Education - 17th November 2020.

Thought-provoking rationale and strategies for nurturing active readers.

With 150 pupils across Hertfordshire now involved in HfL’s KS2 Reading Fluency Project, Penny Slater reflects on what has been learned from the project so far.

Fluency is undergoing somewhat of a revival in England. It has long been the poor relation, the magnolia paint let’s say, of reading; a general stage the ‘typical’ reader will attain when s/he reaches about a quarter past seven years old.

In this short blog, Penny Slater points to some texts that may prove useful in the last few weeks leading up to this year’s SATS.