An education blog from Aidan Severs Consulting (www.aidansevers.com)
Tuesday 20 November 2018
Reading For Displeasure: 13 Books To Take Children Out Of Their Comfort Zone
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Reading for pleasure is all the rage in schools, but how often do we, and the children we teach, read for displeasure? Or, perhaps more a...
Monday 19 November 2018
Building Sticky Note Sentences
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The EEF's KS2 Literacy Guidance has as one of its recommendations that teachers should 'develop pupils' transcription and s...
Wednesday 14 November 2018
From the @TES Blog: Times Tables Check: What Do I Need To Know?
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We’ve known about the proposed key stage 2 multiplication check for a while now, but have so far been waiting for more information about ...
Thursday 8 November 2018
Reading Roles Linked To Reading Comprehension Strategies
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Recently someone contacted me through my blog asking a very important question: I have recently come across your Reading Roles. From 2016 ...
Tuesday 6 November 2018
Explicitly Teach Metacognition to Boost Maths Skills
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Anyone who has ever taught primary maths will, most likely at many points, have asked themselves, ‘Why on earth did they do it like that?...
From the @tes Blog: The Myth of Pupil Data Groups
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Once upon a time there was a spreadsheet and on that spreadsheet there was lots of interesting pupil data. Very helpfully, the spreadsh...
Thursday 1 November 2018
Book Review: 'Little Bits of Sky' by S.E. Durrant
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If I were to be lazy I'd describe 'Little Bits of Sky' as an emotional rollercoaster of a story about two children in care. Bu...
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