How are your pupils' word hoards coming along? Which words have you been teaching? How explicitly have you been teaching them? What if you've focused on the wrong ones? This week's post takes a look at why prioritising tier 2 words might be the way forward: www.aidansevers.com/post/why-we-...

Does Tylenol Cause Autism? Of course not. www.cremieux.xyz/p/did-the-hh...

Send this to someone who is developing their curriculum and/or doing work around vocabulary teaching: How To Select Key Vocabulary For Your Subject's Curriculum www.aidansevers.com/post/how-to-...

New blog post: www.aidansevers.com/post/one-thi... Do you agree? Disagree? What happens in your school?

My latest blog post is here - the first of 25-26. www.aidansevers.com/post/one-com...

I wrote a poem Probably been done before I still wrote it though

The primary days are over! All three at secondary school for at least a year.

Northern boy in London after kicking off the new school year doing some challenge in maths training for a lovely group of school staff. Let's see what 25-26 holds! Good start ♥️

Send this to a teacher who loves spending their summer in school: www.aidansevers.com/post/what-sh...

Hot off the press, end-of-term reading: KS2 Continuous Provision: Gradual Release of Responsibility The next part of my series on how schools might implement continuous provision in key stage 2, based on my experience of having done it. www.aidansevers.com/post/ks2-con...

Schools are thinking around their current assessment processes and looking towards what might be next and better... Here's a few ideas: www.aidansevers.com/blog/categor...

It’s KS2 results day tomorrow. If anyone has any questions about accountability measures, which pupils are included and which ones aren’t, and how things are calculated, please do ask. I’ll be around all day.

New blog post! One of the key challenges when designing and delivering continuous provision to any age group, but particularly in KS2, is ensuring that there is curriculum coverage. Here I explain how this can be managed: www.aidansevers.com/post/ks2-con...

Haven't even shared last week's blog post either. Here I am, writing stuff and just hoping that people happen to google that thing... www.aidansevers.com/post/replaci...

My website stats are telling me to make more effort to share my blog posts on social media. So here I am, sharing my new blog post on social media. Click, and make my stats happy: www.aidansevers.com/post/continu...

New blog post - lots of schools interested in this stuff at the moment. This one contains some great feedback from one of the schools I've worked with. "There was a general sense that this approach is not extra work, just a different way of thinking." www.aidansevers.com/post/wonder-...

Really looking forward to getting back to this concept with a school down South. Continuous provision beyond EYFS and into KS2. Was never my idea, but I had to make it work, & I loved the challenge & believe in the outcome. www.aidansevers.com/post/case-st... www.aidansevers.com/post/case-st...

Anyone else got another week off? My youngest has and therefore I have!

Read it: www.aidansevers.com/post/curricu...

Read it: www.aidansevers.com/post/curricu...

Icky name aside, the idea of identifying sticky knowledge on behalf of pupils is a tricky one. Yes we should be precise about what we intend to teach, but can we really presume to be able to identify what will stick? And is that really as ambitious as we can be? I think we can do better.

Want to be the *5th* person ever to read this? Be my guest... And maybe you can then explain to me why it has bombed 🤣

New blog post out and about right about now: www.aidansevers.com/post/replaci...

New blog post out and about right about now: www.aidansevers.com/post/replaci...

I wrote this and posted it and then forgot to share it. Here you are, perhaps the nudge you needed... www.aidansevers.com/post/reducin...

Is today the worst day of SATs? The reading test that used to be the first test they did, and which can be so unpredictable and difficult? Or is it Wednesday, when they have to do two separate maths tests? Could it be Thursday because they've just had enough?

I have a better version of this waiting in the wings at @hwrk-magazine.bsky.social but for now, here's a LinkedIn rant turned blog post to cover a few thoughts on the matter. www.aidansevers.com/post/reducin...

You know your curriculum is jam-packed but you're waiting for the government to finish their curriculum review before you do anything about it. The thing is, you could be doing it now. You could be developing a curriculum to roll out in September that better serves your pupils & teachers.

I know it must seem like I always bang on about this but it's because it actually can help. Got kids for whom answering the 3 mark questions on the KS2 reading test would be the icing on the cake? Try this 👇 www.aidansevers.com/post/sats-20...

Had a good chat with a school leader today. They want to implement continuous provision in KS2 and had come across my blog post. Now you can come across it too: www.aidansevers.com/post/case-st...

Went to my year 6 daughter's parents' evening. They showed me how well she'd done on SATs reading mocks. The only tweak she needed? To be able to answer 3 mark questions. Luckily I have just the thing for that. Got children in a similar position? Read this: www.aidansevers.com/post/what-im...

I forgot to pay for my website domain renewal so the already lower holiday stats have been at zero for a few days 😭 Back up now so you can fill your boots: www.aidansevers.com Or for interesting reads that'll help you with stuff: www.aidansevers.com/blog

The Sharif don't like it...

Really thankful that @pepsmccrea.bsky.social is doing some SEND based evidence snacks. This one is about universal design/accessible design and stamps the very important idea that we should make teaching ‘accessible by default’. snacks.pepsmccrea.com/subscribe?re...

How would you interpret this? Plan effective lessons, by using evidence of prior learning to provide sufficient opportunity for pupils to consolidate and practise applying new knowledge and skills.

www.aidansevers.com/post/why-you... The intention is not to sensationalise or frighten, but to respond to a very real need that I've seen. This will meet some people where they are at, others not so much. If you are one of the ones that recognises this issue, give me a shout.

Y6 teachers - focus your maths lessons here: a) 4 ops & FDP (these cover over half of the papers) b) the 3 content domains below - the only maths areas that haven’t been seen in SATs now for 3 yrs (so law of probability…) Via @lbqorg.bsky.social: primary.lbq.org/hub/2024-mat... #EduSkyPrimary

www.aidansevers.com/post/why-you... The intention is not to sensationalise or frighten, but to respond to a very real need that I've seen. This will meet some people where they are at, others not so much. If you are one of the ones that recognises this issue, give me a shout.

Also discovered that Google is not a fan of my page loading times (2.5s is too long) so I'm about to go and replace around 200 blog images with jpgs instead of pngs 😭😭😭. I've also changed the font to a standard font.

I found out this week that Google hasn't indexed loads of my blog posts. This means they won't appear in search results. I'm on it with rectifying that but for now, here are a few which haven't been showing up. Perhaps a click, read and a share will help them get seen though?

"At the moment, the schools who are doing something about this are ahead of the curve and are doing things that eventually other schools will want to catch up with." Bold claim but I believe it.

Here's today's new blog post, continuing the theme of #greaterdepth. In this one I share some pen portraits of what it might look like to have a child working at greater depth in foundation subjects, particularly how they might have strengths and areas for development.

Actually need to work out from my notes what the next thing to write about is... Any questions to answer? I love doing that.

Sunday morning share of this week's new blog post before a new one drops tomorrow (which I have not yet written) www.aidansevers.com/post/persona...

Is the term 'adaptive teaching' fit for purpose? It still seems to imply that there is a 'normal' way and then an adapted (differentiated) way. I'm not sure we'll ever move away from pitch to the mythical core then adjust up and down with language like this. And we DO need to move away from that.

I think a lot of us need to go back to the beginning via the end with the curriculum. We didn't start with the end in mind, we jumped straight into the middle bit and dreamed up objectives and key facts without thinking about why we might teach all that stuff. www.aidansevers.com/post/curricu...

I still believe that you can be doing something about this now, and that you don't have to wait for the outcome of any review. Particularly in foundation subjects. Revisit the NC - each subject's aims and purposes, and then the content. How much does your curriculum range beyond what is required?

Evening share of today's new blog post:

New blog post! www.aidansevers.com/post/persona...

**UPDATED** based on KS2 Reading Tests from 2022, 2023 and 2024 - this resource now goes beyond the language of 'what impression do you get?' and features questions about personality and atmosphere of the text as well as questions focusing on summarising the whole text.