After graduating from the University of Bath, Alex gained her PGCE at Southampton University. Since then, she has taught KS1 and KS2 and held senior leadership positions in schools across Hampshire and London. After working as a Lead Practitioner for English, Senior Teacher and Deputy Head, Alex became a Teaching and Learning Advisor for a Multi-Academy Trust across the South Coast. Most recently, she has also worked with ITT providers, supporting the next generation of teachers. Alex is a self-professed grammar geek with an unhealthy obsession for puns who needs frequent reminders from her daughter to keep her hands off her bookcase.
Get in Touch: alex@literacytree.com
KS: Lower KS2, R & KS1, Upper KS2
Year Group: Reception, Year 1, Year 2, Year 3, Year 4, Year 5, Year 6, Year 7
If you were to play a game of Literacy Tree bingo of the key terms we commonly use, you’d be placing a safe bet if you chose ‘live modelling’ as one of your options. We talk about live modelling a…
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At Literacy Tree, we are huge advocates of the value of wordless texts. Communicating through pictures on cave walls was the very first form of storytelling some 40,000 years ago, so this ancestral literary legacy living on must mean something.…
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In the next instalment of our ‘How to Use’ series, we take a look at some of the key documents from our Subject Leaders’ Toolkit which are designed to work alongside the curriculum maps to support schools with text selection:…
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Last term, we began exploring the various considerations needed when choosing which books to use at different points across the school year. In the second part of the blog, we will examine further some of the aspects to take into…
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Deciding which texts to use across different parts of the year is one of our favourite things to do with our schools. While we hope that our suggested curriculum maps give schools a starting point with which to work, we…
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What does a Literacy Tree INSET look like? As consultants, we are lucky enough to work with schools on a wide range of needs to support them with the teaching of English. As primary teachers, English specialists and Writing Moderators,…
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KS: Upper KS2
Year Group: Year 6
