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Hywel Roberts
All articles by Hywel Roberts
‘We need more proclaiming in our classrooms’
One travelling teacher on why we should give all children the opportunity to get lost in a moment of adventure
29 May 2018
Jack plants his beanstalk in a classroom fertile for young imaginations
In the latest instalment in a fortnightly series, one ‘travelling teacher’ recalls how his Year 2 class made an overgrown, imaginary garden centre beautiful again
22 March 2018
‘I turned on the wireless and there he was - the Barnsley student with the voice of Eccleston, and a dose of Burton’
In the latest instalment in a fortnightly series, one ‘travelling teacher’ recalls putting on The Tempest in Asda – and the wonderful student actor who wouldn’t get out of role
3 February 2018
Tales of a Travelling Teacher: The child who built an entire castle out of banana boxes
One ‘travelling teacher’ remembers the little boy, wise beyond his years, who took his learning and built something majestic
10 January 2018
With some kids you really have to dig for gold. And here, in my drama lesson, I’d discovered a rich seam
In the latest installment in a fortnightly series, one ‘travelling teacher’ remembers a drama lesson in which there was rather too much in the way of smoke and mirrors
9 December 2017
‘Who are these children who inhabit our classrooms?’
In the latest in a fortnightly series, one ‘travelling teacher’ recalls a little girl on a boat who had lost her mother
4 November 2017