Today is National Writing Day. A day to celebrate the power of writing creatively, inspiring people of all ages and abilities to try writing for enjoyment. Reading and writing is such a key area to learning. My range of books focus on your child’s education and the part you can play in helping them realise…

“Education is not the filling of a bucket, but the lighting of a fire!” That quote, from poet William Butler Yeats, is one of my favorites, and it neatly encapsulates the reason I got into teaching in the first place! A group of minds… in one room… thinking and working together can – and does…

When Einstein, in 1939, wrote to President Roosevelt, warning him that uranium could be turned into a new and important source of energy, and that powerful bombs could be constructed, could he ever have imagined the power of AI as we now know it? Like the arms race, has a new (technological) race now begun…

Education is in a mess and ministers are completely out of touch with the problem. An editorial in the Times (23.5.23) highlights unacceptable numbers of children not attending school. The article ponders on what ‘has persuaded a significant number of parents that education is an optional extra rather than a moral and legal obligation…’ But…

Autism is a much misunderstood area of disability. People with Autistic Spectrum Condition (ASC) can be – and quite often are – highly intelligent; it’s even been speculated that the great Albert Einstein was autistic. That being said, the word ‘autistic’ still carries with it unwanted and unnecessary negative connotations, that can – and still…