Oops!: Helping Children Learn Accidentally

This is about engaging children and young people in great learning so well they barely know they are learning, let alone learning well. Drawing on Hywel’s years of experience using drama and The Mantle of the Expert’ (and much more besides) to draw the best out of young people, this book is about the dance that happens between teachers and learners, it’s about the importance of relationships in that engagement, it’s about how to build and sustain rapport with learners. And it’s about finding a delight and a joy in the process of learning, enhanced by those spontaneous, serendipitous events that help you remember just why you came into the job in the first place.

A book of happy accidents and improvisations that would be a lovely addition to any teacher’s bookshelf
Ian McMillan, Poet, broadcaster and comedian

The voice of a true pioneer, clear and sure in the belief that teaching is an amalgam of so many things beyond subject knowledge’. The book races along at an almost breathless speed-just like the writer.
Luke Abbott, Director of Mantle of the Expert

Oops! is about principles. It’s about a mentality that encourages us to drop the reins of rigid, boring schemes of work and instead create learning that is exciting and relevant!
Jamie Portman, Assistant Headteacher, Campsmount Technology College

Hywel Roberts’ message is that engagement is the message and in delivering it he’s sharp, he’s intellectually underpinned, he’s effervescent, he’s the teacher you wished your teachers had seen teach.
Phil Beadle, teacher, broadcaster, author

If you want the children in your school to make great progress and remember you as a teacher who made learning fun, dip into this book for inspiration and ideas.
Diane Heritage, Deputy Lead Associate, North of England National College