Showing posts with label KS1. Show all posts
Showing posts with label KS1. Show all posts
Monday, 18 June 2018

From The @TES Blog: Year 1 Should Be Like EYFS, Not Vice Versa

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This piece that I wrote for the TES outlines a few questions that I have been asking myself about formalisation of teaching in the Early ...
Friday, 16 March 2018

From The @thirdspacetweets Blog: What Every KS2 Teacher And Maths Lead Needs To Know About NEW KS1 Maths Assessment Frameworks

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Valentine’s Day 14th February 2018 brought KS1 teachers not one but two lovely treats: the teacher assessment frameworks for the 2017/18 a...
Thursday, 14 December 2017

Scaffolding Structures for Reading Comprehension Skills

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This is a very different blog post to the sort I normally write; it represents some very hypothetical thinking and the purpose of writing i...
Saturday, 2 December 2017

Mathematical Misconceptions And Teaching Tricks: What The Research Says

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Imagine a factory. Think of the vast machines clanking away. Think of the whirring, the turning, the raw materials becoming a finished pro...
Friday, 15 September 2017

9 Important Changes to the Primary Maths Curriculum and Assessment

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In response to the DfE's latest documents, I wrote this for Third Space Learning. It's a summary of the key changes in the way pri...
Monday, 20 March 2017

On the TES Blog: Why Every Primary Should Be Using Bar Modelling – And Six Steps To Make It A Success

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As a primary maths coordinator, it's been difficult to escape the lure of bar modelling: it's in every new publication, on all the...
Sunday, 29 January 2017

Why your Maths interventions for KS2 SATs should not start in Year 6

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When a primary school receives good Key Stage 2 SATs results, the whole school celebrates, and rightly so: all teachers in all year groups...
Sunday, 21 February 2016

All Aboard!

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In 'All In The Same Boat' I touched very briefly on today's subject matter and after a couple of conversations after yesterda...
Saturday, 20 February 2016

All In The Same Boat

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Now that we've all experienced the cocktail of initial relief , mild anger and nervous hilarity that the DfE's announcements yester...