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Category: Writing

Trialling a new approach to bilingual education

August 18, 2019 Adam Hill

The day before the next academic year kicks off, I’m thinking about the biggest challenge that faces me as a Head of Year this term:

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Two ways to create ‘Choose Your Own Adventure’ stories

July 14, 2019 Adam Hill

As part of our How We Organize Ourselves unit about decision-making, students planned and wrote ‘Choose Your Own Adventure’ stories. In case you’re not familiar with these,

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My aims for next year (2019-20)

June 30, 2019 Adam Hill

Every year, at the beginning of the summer break, I like to take the opportunity to reflect and outline my goals for the next academic

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Guest post: Teaching our Languages #TeachingOurLanguages (by Graham Noble)

May 19, 2019 Adam Hill

Graham Noble is a Grade 4-6 ESL teacher at Delia School of Canada but will be starting an English-Humanities position at Han Academy, Hong Kong,

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TCRWP: a pedagogical overview of writing

March 3, 2019 Adam Hill

As a school, we are gradually implementing Columbia University’s Teachers College Reading and Writing Project (TCRWP). This is already well established in our lower grades

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Guest post: How children experience creative writing (by Brett Healey)

August 26, 2018 Adam Hill

Brett Healey is a Literacy Coach at Victoria Shanghai Academy in Hong Kong. He specialises in the teaching of writing which led him to complete

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Russia 2018: World Cup classroom connections

June 17, 2018 Adam Hill

World Cup fever has hit! Over the last couple of weeks, we have been considering ways to integrate it into our class learning in order

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Teaching writing: ten lessons from Matt Glover

February 4, 2018 Adam Hill

This week, we were excited to welcome author and education consultant Matt Glover to our school for professional development regarding children’s writing. I thoroughly enjoyed

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Using Pokémon Go to spark debate

November 13, 2016 Adam Hill

This is now my third blog post about Pokémon Go. Like I have said before, I believe that it has a place in the classroom due

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