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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 ...

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

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...

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

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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...

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...

Bar Modelling is taking the primary maths world by storm. The 2014 curriculum appears, despite initial unhappiness, to be achieving a shif...

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

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If you are short of time but would like to get the gist of this technique, please see my Quick Reference Guide: http://thatboycanteach.blo...

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

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