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Is wearing yellow simply enough for Mental Health Awareness Day?
It's 5am on a Sunday morning and I'm wide awake reflecting on the working week, planning next week and having a whole load of other random facts running through my mind. The traits of many a busy person and no doubt, many a woman of a certain age too! One particular...
October 2021- Dyslexia Awareness Month
It's October, that means it's Dyslexia Awareness Month and in the UK the British Dyslexia Association helps to raise understanding with Dyslexia Awareness Week, 4-10 October 2021. This year, they ask us to consider dyslexia as being 'invisible'. Our friends at...
How do I teach a child to read ‘live or wind’?
If you're reading this article, I'm guessing you know the different ways to say/read the words 'wind or live' and of course, until we are reading in context it can be read as either. Throughout the week, I work with a mix of students, from children in home education,...
I just made brownies!
It was fantastic this week to log into a lesson with one of my adult learners to be told, "I just made brownies!" My student was so thrilled to have read and followed a recipe for the first time and it's fabulous to see progress like this, where individuals suddenly...
GCSE Success!
It's been a testing 18 months for all of our students trying to study during Covid, there have been long periods where students have had to access learning online. Despite this, it's wonderful to hear of GCSE successes. It's always so wonderful to learn of my own...
SALE NOW ON – OVER 50% OFF – *All our CodeBreakers Home Edition workbooks
To celebrate 5yrs of CodeBreakers and our new website, giving instant access to workbooks, we've massively reduced CodeBreakers Home Edition workbooks - Our sale is now on with over 50% OFF. We appreciate that there are a number of SEN families looking to gain...
How are parents and children managing during home learning and is there a greater impact on children with additional learning needs?
How are parents managing during home learning and is there a greater impact on children with additional learning needs? It's no surprise that many parents are have a mixed response to home learning at present. Some parents are embracing the opportunity to have a...
What is good intervention, why does phonics not work?
Quite often I get asked, why is Codebreakers more than just phonics? What is the difference between phonics and a systematic synthetic phonics programme? Too often I hear, phonics doesn't work. Phonics interventions and teaching phonics usually relates to the 44...
SALE NOW ON!!! Over 50% off CodeBreakers Home Learning
To celebrate CodeBreakers' 5th birthday, we are now offering OVER 50% OFF CodeBreakers home learning edition. We've now also updated how to access Codebreakers. Simply visit our website...
Can online learning work during Covid lockdowns? Is it the future?
At the end of 2019, I started to explore online learning options for my older students. Little did I know that in March 2020, Covid would strike and we would find ourselves in lockdown. So can online learning work, especially for our students with SEN? Is there a...
Is wearing yellow simply enough for Mental Health Awareness Day? - Codebreakers
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It’s 5am on a Sunday morning and I’m wide awake reflecting on the working week, planning next week and having a whole load of other random facts running through my mind. The traits of many a busy ...
The Witchetty Grub and the Grubbety Witch
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The Witchetty Grub and the Grubbety Witch eBook : Williamson, Daniel, Monteiro, Kleverton: Amazon.co.uk: Kindle Store
Sutton schoolgirl, 12, takes petition with 11,000 signatures to Downing Street
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The campaign was started by parents fighting for support for their disabled children
