Got picked up at 10 this morning and off to today’s school. The teacher here had seen my presentation for the Okayama City BOE in Summer so invi...

I wasn’t Genki to say the least this morning. The bad weather didn’t help. Yesterday’s kindergarten teacher kindly gave me a lift to...

Today was a bit different. We’d been asked to help out with a kindergarten that is designing an immersion programme. They have a good core curri...

It’s cold and wet! We have to be in Tochigi tonight, but for now I had to get my backlog of mail sorted out (the servers have only just settled ...

In every prefecture in Japan there is at least one pilot school doing a 3 year research project into Elementary School English. And today we were invi...

Nellie’s is a large bookstore in Tokyo that specialises in English Language Teaching materials. They’re well worth looking up if you’...