Scribing Verbatim: What We Hear When We Really Listen
From Chrissie, Reception Teacher, Croydon‘Helicopter Stories allows me the time to sit and listen to children in a way that isn’t always possible in a…
Category: Choosing to Write
Let The Children Do It: A Helicopter Story Nativity
Guest Blog: Kathryn Stevens Pre-school Teacher, Watermead Day Nursery, Leicestershire “Do a Nativity,” they said.“The parents will love it,” they said.And so we did. We…
Helicopter Stories in Year 1: A Class of Thirty Authors
Shernice Donovan – Year 1 Teacher, Rusthall St Paul’s Primary, Kent Back in June 2018, when I found out I would be teaching Year…
A celebration of the many positions children adopt when they engage with writing
The Ofsted Bold Beginnings report stated a need for children in Reception to be taught proper pencil grip and how to sit correctly at a…