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I'm Mark Taylor and I interview educators from around the world so that I can enable you to support your children to live, learn and grow to their full potential

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Let Play Lead the Day – Championing children’s freedom to play

October 20, 2025

Ben Case is part of the Tapestry education team and a former primary and early years teacher. He works closely with settings to support their use of Tapestry and believes tech is only successful if you bring staff with you. As a teacher Ben regularly presented at TeachMeet Sussex and he now helps to host…

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Closing the Attainment Gap: How AI Tutors Are Scaling Quality Math Education – Third Space Learning

October 13, 2025

The AI maths tutor that gets pupils reasoning out loud. Third Space Learning believe an AI tutor should do more than just generate questions and mark answers. What if it could provide scaffolded support according to knowledge gaps, speaking to students and encouraging them to verbalise their reasoning as they go? What if every pupil…

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Endless Studios: Coding & Game Design for Young Learners

October 6, 2025

Matt Dalio dreams of a world in which every kid has the resources to shape their own technology instead of being shaped by it. In 2011, he founded Endless which aims to provide universal access to technology and equal opportunities to succeed in the digital world by tackling three key challenges. Endless is harnessing the…

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Most Recent Blog Posts

Primary Music Lesson 12

17 Jan 2018

Primary Music Lesson: Rhythmically Speaking: 12 Building Structure and Variation Mark Taylor, director of Rhythmically Speaking, explores variation around a simple structure to further develop the samba ensemble.  

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Primary Music Lesson 11

17 Jan 2018

Primary Music Lesson: Rhythmically Speaking: 11 Call and Response Mark Taylor, director of Rhythmically Speaking, develops the samba ensemble with a call and response routine.

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Primary Music Lesson 10

17 Jan 2018

Primary Music Lesson: Rhythmically Speaking: 10 Samba Ensemble Mark Taylor, director of Rhythmically Speaking, brings the previously prepared rhythmic elements together into a combined samba ensemble.  

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Our aim is to achieve a higher priority for the education of children from birth to 13. High quality learning in the early years of life is vitally important to the creation of an educated society. Young children are not simply preparing for the future, they are living a never to be repeated time of life and the best way to learn is to live.

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