I sat in the swimming pool viewing area observing my child’s swimming lesson progress, in the far corner of the pool; he is now on blue caps and in the deep end. Nearer to me in my peripheral vision a swim teacher was leading a class of slightly younger children, in the shallower end of… Continue reading Semiotic assemblages at the poolside
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Reflections on oracy, dialogic teaching and the UKLA conference 2024
This summer (5-7 July 2024) I had the pleasure of attending the UK Literacy Association conference in Brighton, ‘Making a Difference’. The conference has a broad focus going beyond traditional literacies of reading and writing and acknowledging embodied, neurodiverse and multiliteracies. As the conference attracts a hybrid teacher, practitioner and academic audience, I was very… Continue reading Reflections on oracy, dialogic teaching and the UKLA conference 2024