Eve Morton

School Improvement Advisor
Primary English
eve.morton@northtyneside.gov.uk

Eve is a qualified teacher and holds a BA (Hons) in Primary Education with QTS.

She has more than 20 years of teaching experience across key stages 1, 2 and 3, with 8 of those years as part of a senior leadership team.

As well as being the school improvement advisor for English, she is an experienced lecturer and mentor on the North Tyneside SCITT programme, and also provides support for MFL leads. Eve has been a facilitator on the NPQLL programme on behalf of Ambition Institute for the last 2 years.

Eve holds a national accreditation for ‘Teaching Reading Comprehension and Enjoyment’ CPD; is an experienced key stage 2 external moderator and has also been a ‘Deputy Standardisation Team Leader’ for STA.

In recent years, she has worked closely with colleagues from the Open University Reading for Pleasure team and provided a local teacher reading group to promote reading for pleasure across all age phases. Eve is currently working towards her NPQLTD qualification.

Whilst supporting and challenging schools with all aspects of literacy, including effective teaching of phonics, Eve is also very passionate about the teaching of reading using high quality texts and understanding how children learn to read.

Articles by Eve Morton

More Than Baby Talk: How Nursery Rhymes Can Benefit Older Students

By Eve Morton
AI generated image showing a collection of scenes from well know nursery rhymes.

This is world Nursery Rhyme Week and millions of children around the globe will be singing, doing the actions and…

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Using poetry in teaching: A Tool for the Classroom

By Eve Morton
AI generated image. The background of the image is made up of fanciful images escaping from the pages of an open book in the foreground of the picture.

Poetry is a little like Marmite – you either love it or hate it! This may stem from your own…

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Teaching reading fluency: a focused look

By Eve Morton
Three shelves full of books to promote reading fluency.

What is Reading Fluency? Reading fluency involves much more than just reading quickly. A common misconception among pupils-and sometimes adults-is…

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