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Three banners from the very successful Galway Rally.  Next up is Tullamore!  

Hello and I am delighted to be back after my little break away from Anseo world! A lot has happened in teacher land. The Budget! The government have acted selfishly and without communication from educational partners, teachers, principals and parents… Looks like they won’t back down and I could go on and on about it. | Read on…

I have found that the multi-cueing methods which are recommended by our own infant curriculum and which amount to guessing using picture, context and/or initial sound cues, and which are also encapsulated in the Reading Recovery method, to be far less effective when teaching both beginner readers and older strugglers than teaching according to the | Read on…

Oh. My. God.  As if this government could be any more stupid.  We have spent the last eight years in schools without any funding for computer equipment.  This means that any computers bought between 2001 and now have been bought by parents or sponsored by very generous companies.  Most of us are still using computers | Read on…

I’m sure those teachers using Jolly Phonics or a similar synthetic phonic programme are familiar with the ‘invented’ spelling regularly used by children who have only learned basic code graphemes to date and so are unfamiliar with advanced code alternatives.

Using a projector and a normal whiteboard rather than investing in a full IWB set up is often the case in cash-strapped or possibly clever schools.  A discussion on this very topic is going on on the DICTAT mailing list and Education Posts Forum so here was my twopence worth…

Seeing as Batt O’Keefe has the easiest name to pun, I was thinking of lightening the mood with some of the best slogans I witnessed at the protest.  If you have found any good ones or wish to add any more, please do. Fled to China like Batt out of Our Hell (main picture) Batt | Read on…

It was cold.  It was very wet.  Even so, 12,000 people stood on Molesworth Street and gave a clear signal to the government that the budget cuts to education were wrong. I stood around amongst the sea of slogans – some of which were brilliant, (Battman Robin our kids, Taoiseach Leave our Kids Alone, All | Read on…

The following is a link to a simple ‘parents’ guidance’ to support early reading ( by Debbie Hepplewhite – a teacher, synthetic phonics consultant, trainer and advisor and editor of www.rrf.org and www.synthetic phonics.com) which may be of help to you.