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Asking young children questions before a lesson improves their learning if immediate feedback is given. Without feedback, the benefits disappear. sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

And every time I hear someone criticise strategies that include boundaries, penalties and consequences on the grounds that it isn’t a ‘relational’ approach, it tells me they haven’t considered what relationships actually are, or how they are formed and maintained- healthy ones at

Direct vocabulary teaching leads to faster word learning, but immersion-based exposure/cross-situational learning wins on durability. sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Shackleton's Endurance - FMHT ⁦John Walker, Sounds-Write⁩ Epic fmht.co.uk/shackletons-en…

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Increasingly nervous for my biggest small person 🥹

The Circle of Life…or if I wanted to be more controversial: ‘MEAT; it’s in your bread’. Today we are spreading CalPhos - a fertiliser product with phosphate and calcium, as our soils are very low phosphate. It’s a great, organic fertiliser. And it’s derived from meat

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Chuffed my blog’s on Teacher Tapp today. Thank you, TT! ☺️ I wrote it yesterday. It’s a reflection, from a headteacher’s perspective, on how it feels the day before download day. Link in post below ⬇️

Sleep consolidates yesterday’s learning, but doesn’t make you better at learning something new the next day. If anything, the results suggests quality of learning before sleep matters: stronger pre‑sleep retrieval may set pupils up for slightly better learning tomorrow, hinting

Scaffolds in writing can empower or impoverish. Used as scripts, they risk “elaborate dictation” - polished mimicry without authorship. But used well, frameworks can apprentice pupils into noticing, choosing & crafting. The line is very thin, but purpose & enactment decide.

Actually, the pass rate is well over 90% for all GCSEs, and hasn't changed much since last year (or the year before). You're just being a snob who thinks discounts Level 1 passes.

Greengage jam 😋

The late Dawn Cox Miss used to collate lots of useful links for us all to use- I have tried to continue her hard work for others here- docs.google.com/document/d/12S… I have added GCSE and A Levels and linked to my toolkit post with trends/analysis/links- trythisteaching.com/toolkit/post-e…