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Tim Roach

Tim Roach

Comma Police

This article was originally appeared in the Summer 2020 issue of Primary Matters, published by NATE.

Jun 15, 2020

Comma Police

Jun 15, 2020

Tim Roach

Forging the links

A personal blog about curriculum from the perspective of a classroom teacher, looking at what I will be teaching next year in Year 3 and…

Aug 10, 2019

Forging the links

Aug 10, 2019

Tim Roach

Reading SATs 2019 — a raw response

The following are some thoughts on the national curriculum test (commonly known as SATs in England) for reading, taken by Year 6 pupils in…

Jul 9, 2019

Reading SATs 2019 — a raw response

Jul 9, 2019

Tim Roach

Greater depth? A mile wide and an inch thick: the problem with primary writing

First of all, let’s put aside what this blog isn’t. It isn’t an attack on teachers who use video clips in their lessons. I them in my…

Jun 19, 2019

Greater depth? A mile wide and an inch thick: the problem with primary writing

Jun 19, 2019

Tim Roach

The 7 Plagues of Pupils’ Writing

The seven plagues of pupils’ writing … and what we must do to prevent them.

May 12, 2019

The 7 Plagues of Pupils’ Writing

May 12, 2019

Tim Roach

What Stephen King taught me about teaching writing

“Learning itself is a present, you know. The best one anybody can give or get.”

Apr 7, 2019

What Stephen King taught me about teaching writing

Apr 7, 2019

Tim Roach

A case for the teaching of writing through direct instruction

“Writing is the hardest thing we ask students to do.” (Hochman & Wexler, The Writing Revolution, 2017, p.2)

Feb 24, 2019

A case for the teaching of writing through direct instruction

Feb 24, 2019

Tim Roach

The teachers who made me

The first teacher I remember was Mrs (or was it Miss?) Dales. It was the infants in Immingham, a small town 10 miles from Grimsby — a town…

Sep 28, 2018

The teachers who made me

Sep 28, 2018

Tim Roach

Tim Roach

Teacher, VP/DHT. Loves: 📚, vinyl, Neil Young, Stephen King & good TV. Hates: correcting comma splices, capital letters & full stops.

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