Classroom Stories
20 Nov 2019

Stanmore Bay School: Reception Classroom

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Suzanne Francis runs a Reception class at Stanmore Bay School, Auckland and currently has 25 students in her room.  She gets a new intake of students at the beginning of each term.   In the term that her students are with her, she works hard at preparing them for the long-term literacy learning journey that they will embarking upon.  As well … Read More

Oct 2019 book and movie reviews
11 Nov 2019

Update on The Arts October 2019

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I spent most of October reading the six short-listed novels for the 2019 Man Booker Prize: ‘The Testaments’ (Margaret Atwood); ‘Ducks, Newburyport’ (Lucy Ellmann); ‘Girl, Woman, Other’ (Bernadine Evaristo); ‘An Orchestra of Minorities’ (Chigozie Obioma); ‘Quichotte’ ( Salman Rushdie); ‘10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World’ (Elif Shafak).   I commented on some of these in my last book blog, … Read More