The Pobble blog

You ask your child to write something. They groan. They stare at the ceiling. They suddenly need a drink. They tell you they can't think of anything, that writing is boring, that they don't know how t...

If writing at home regularly ends in frustration, you are not doing it wrong. The blank page is genuinely hard, even for adults. For a child who is still figuring out how to hold ideas in their head a...

Only 1 in 4 children say they enjoy writing in their free time. That's the finding from the National Literacy Trust's 2025 survey of over 100,000 children. It's a striking number, and for many parents...

Here is a number worth sitting with for a moment.

Writing assessment is a complex professional judgement. AI is beginning to change how schools approach it.

Parents' evening (or parent-teacher interview night, if you're in Australia or New Zealand) has a way of sneaking up on you. One minute you're thinking you should probably prepare something, and the n...

Being involved in your child's learning is one of the most valuable things you can do as a parent. Research consistently shows that children whose families engage with their education at home (not jus...

Your child spends a significant part of their day at school, but the adults who know them best are at home. When those two worlds connect well, children tend to do better: they're more confident, more...

Poetry holds a special place in the primary English curriculum. It gives students space to play with language, express ideas, explore emotion and make careful choices as writers.

When I visit schools, the writing conversations are usually very similar. Teachers talk about reluctant writers. English leads talk about consistency between year groups. Senior leaders talk about wor...