Ten years of teaching in 30 sentences
I have made rock hard, salty Tudor-style biscuits with a year 4 class that tasted utterly revolting. I have watched a child puke over another […]
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Creativity in the classroom: myths and strategies
Back in April, I was a mentor at London’s Google innovator Program where I ran a session on strategies to improve creative thinking. Then in […]
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Teaching abstraction in maths
When it comes to reasoning in maths, quite often (assuming they’ve got the arithmetic and calculations bit nailed) what the questions are testing is how […]
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The three types of mistake and how to use them in the classroom
When a child makes a mistake in my maths class, my typical response has usually been something along the lines of, “can you spot where you […]
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Developing language in maths
Whether or not you pay much attention to Bloom’s Taxonomy and the like, teaching children how to explain their thinking/working/methods etc in maths is key. […]
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Every damn day
Over the past three months, I’ve worked out pretty much every morning for 30+ minutes, except for two for being ill and one for being […]
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Colour coding in maths
So, this week in maths was all about multiplication. The majority of my maths group struggled with long multiplication from the get go. I went […]
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Setting and growth mindset – are they really mutually exclusive?
At the start of half term, I read Debra Kidd’s blog post on setting and I’ve returned to thinking about it ever since, mainly for […]
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#Blimage challenge: Darth Vader, flow and learning
After seeing the #blimage hashtag on Twitter several times and wondering what on earth it was, I found Steve Wheeler’s blog post explaining the #blimage […]
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Subject responsibilities in primary: doing less and doing it better?
I read this post about subject specialisms in primary on Sunday and it inspired me to share how we have approached this in years 5 […]
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