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1. The most troubling aspect of the discourse about SLANT etc has been the conflation of so many conditions and individual circumstances into 'this is exclusive to children with SEND.' A few things it is important to get below..

After 5 years working at the Primary Campus, I still couldn't recommend our wonderful school enough.
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The 40 finest edu-threads from the last 4 months:

(a mere glimpse of the vast intellectual talent alive across our profession)

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Leadership is about time.

It’s about creating more time. For innovation. For connection. For reflection.

It’s about stopping the waste of time, on pointless admin, on meetings that could be an email, on activity that is for the sake of activity.

It’s about saving time…

This album was my go to when I was doing my undergrad dissertation so there’s something quite fitting about listening to it whilst completing my NPQH final assignment! 🎵 Nearly there! 🤞

I think this is one of the most important messages for primary curriculum design: if we start with identifying the concepts, it can help us consider how much time each subject needs in each year. This might help us avoid overloaded SoWs - fewer things in greater depth

The good news is that there are plenty of concepts, but there aren’t too many. Where is the best place to look for them? There are two main sources:

How concepts help pupils to learn the curriculum

It turns out that if we identify the concepts aka big ideas and teach pupils these, then they are likely to know more, remember more and be able to do more, over time...

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What Direct Instruction is and what it isn't.

We are incredibly excited to welcome the wonderful Andy Buck for a day of leadership development with Red Kite Alliance. What a great agenda!

Mining for student mistakes (& misconceptions) isn't just good for learning.

Done well, it can also strengthen classroom culture. Here's how:

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The below feels like a really helpful breakdown of what ‘respect’ means, beyond the surface-level understanding of the word, in the context of an organisation👇🏽

Leeds Half Marathon training going well 🏃‍♂️ now in awe of all those running the London Marathon today! ✨

If you’re reviewing your choices of text based on this section of the Ofsted English subject report, you may find this blog, where I describe the main considerations when choosing books to share with a class, helpful. mrssteaches.school.blog/2022/04/08/cho…

🧵What the world needs now...

There is so much noise at the moment. Sometimes it's so deafening I shut down. Much of the noise has a personal and professional overlap for me. I am torn between shouting into the abyss and finding an island far away.
Today a thread...

*1/3* of 5-7 year olds have *unsupervised access* to social media. This is insane. Parents please take the phones off your children. It’s not a baby sitter. It’s a window into every horror humanity can imagine, and at best it’s a mindless attention hoover that teaches children to…

The summer term is in full swing. Want some free visual summaries of practical teaching ideas? Tom Sherrington and I have got you covered. Here is our Five Ways series with links to the individual posters and Tom’s superb blog posts.