Mastery can be for all. Expectations are the key. Let’s think about these two statements. Mastery for all is about inclusivity. Mastery for some children with Special Educational Needs and Disabilities (SEND) may mean coming to terms and achieving the best they can. Mastering their own individual form of learning difficulty. What are high expectations?…

How have I got on with my New Year goals? Have I persevered with the horrors of that blank page? Here I am again, unwashed, in my dressing gown – it’s 11.30 and I have just written 858 words of a monologue to enter for the NAWG (National Association of Writers’ Groups). Yesterday, I struggled…

My last few blogs have focused on the concept of mastery, as an overall educational goal in schools; but with a difference. Mastery for All, my focus for this new year, explores this concept. Parents: Help Your Child Succeed is the overall strap line for my books for parents. Why? Many parents often do not…

It sounds a bit like a wedding vow, doesn’t it – I will! I will! I have to keep saying this to get myself back on the writing track. Doubt is hanging around me again so I have to waft it away like a bad smell. My birthday yesterday, featuring our family get-together, was the…

Christmas has been and gone. All that excitement leading up to just one day has ended with its usual anti climax as I have landed with a bump on my bottom, having fallen from the magic rainbow. The day was wonderful. Yes – it was magic while it lasted. Why? Mainly because my granddaughter received…