“When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.”
(Franklin Roosevelt)
“If at first you don’t succeed, failure may be your style.”
(Quentin Crisp)

THE LONDON literary scene was left in turmoil [...]

ToonDoo. is a free, online comic strip creator tool that allows you to create your own comic strips, publish and share it with the rest of the world.Teachers worldwide have gone along and used toondoo with great impact in school, assignment, and presentation environments.
Not just that, it also comes with two cool features for creating [...]

Another gloriously sunny day and another gloriously sunny school. This time, Warboys School, in Cambridgeshire. What fun! Challenges and achievements.

We had some fun in three lessons and then explored even further in an after school staff meeting. I am grateful to the Year 1 and 2 children who enjoyed the lesson so much that they [...]

Another gloriously sunny and fun filled day, this time at Somersham Primary in Cambridgeshire.
We were joined by staff from other schools during the day. Here, Kathy Kaluza, from Erith, is kind enough to record some of her thoughts and observations on a lesson:
The children were completely drawn into the world created for them by Tim & [...]

A bright and sunny day at Ashbeach School, Ramsey St Mary’s Cambridgeshire. And what a beautiful environment!

The last time I came up to work with the ASCA partnership, Ashbeach school were just about to get down to constructing their own classroom space out of straw bales! The school grounds are remarkable all round. Areas for [...]

Dear Tim,
We loved your presentations here last week. Find attached some of the pupils’ work produced during those sessions.
Miss Weston, Year 6 teacher passed them to me for scanning and typing.
Keep up the brilliant work.
From Mrs Fraser (Year 6 TA) Gorsemoor Primary
Some of these children are in key stage 1
Standing there looking across the jagged [...]

In the words of Estyn, the office of Her Majesty’s Chief Inspector of Education and Training in Wales, Mounton House is a residential/day special school maintained by Monmouthshire County Council for boys aged 11 to 16 who, because of their emotional, behavioural and learning difficulties, have statements of special educational needs. It has 58 places [...]

Dear Tim, having attended the workshop you held at Charles Dickens School, Portsmouth, in January I was very inspired to use Myst with my own pupls to stimulate and extend ideas and vocabulary.
I am the English Manager at Newbridge Junior School in Portsmouth and was faced with the annual challenge from Portsmouth L.E.A. to submit [...]

I always enjoy working with larger groups of children, perhaps in a hall. It means that more children get to experience some wanderings in the world of words. It also means that more staff can observe and share their experiences.
So I really enjoyed myself today at Gorsemoor Primary school in Staffordshire.
We spent the day in [...]

A second trip back to the cluster of schools around Little Aston School in Staffordshire.
I value head teacher, Liz Pearce’s approach: let’s get our children fired up and enjoying their writing, ahead of “a testing time” next week.
Having a chat with colleagues about the up-coming maths, English and science SATs next week, we all agreed that [...]

Today, all of the staff from the three schools I have worked with during this week in Germany, Lister school in Herford, Sir John Mogg School,  Detmold, and Weser School, in Hameln, gathered together at Weser school, for some more wanderings through the wonderful world of words.
May Day is a public holiday in Germany, but these [...]