Another bit of fun from me over on the TES site:  https://www.tes.com/news/five-songs-get-your-after-sats-party-started

This might come across as idealistic or cynical. It might even sound hypocritical to those who’ve taught Year 6 alongside me. But there real...

In my first blog post in this series I explored the difference between reading comprehension strategies and reading skills. I noted that ...

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...

It's often helpful to use data to inform teaching but finding time to sit down and go through it with a fine enough tooth comb isn...

Here's one I wrote for Third Space Learning:  https://thirdspacelearning.com/blog/reflections-primary-maths-leader-ks2-sats-new-curric...

Discovering new vocabulary is one of the most exciting parts of reading, but children don't always know what new words mean. Of course...

To my excellent year five teachers, Thank you so much for all your hard work this year - that sounds like such a standard, stock phrase ...

https://www.tes.com/news/school-news/breaking-views/primary-and-secondary-teachers-need-each-other-and-we-need-start Transition time is ...

The fourth and final post in my series of blog posts for Third Space Learning focusing on teacher and pupil wellbeing during the key stag...

The latest in my series of blog posts for Third Space Learning focuses on SATs week itself. The focus is on teacher and pupil wellbeing a...

After the shock results of the key stage 2 reading test last year, there is barely a primary school in the country that hasn't priorit...

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...

Ask a child what 'The Night Spinner' by Abi Elphinstone is about and they will speak of magic and monsters, adventure and action. ...

Regular readers of this blog will know of the journey I've been on with reading. And now, having a good solid year of reading behind ...

Lisa Thompson cleverly intertwines a truly intriguing mystery story with an entertaining study of how people respond differently to loss. W...

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

Given that I'm maths leader at my school you'd expect that my blog would contain more than just one post about maths , but it doesn...