Category: Blog
Enhancing digital and blended learning using Max Science
15 February 2021I recently bought a new smart phone. My 4-year-old godson picked it up and within seconds he was doing things with it that I didn’t think was possible. The point is that children adapt quickly to digital technology and enjoy learning using any aspect of…
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Enhancing digital and blended learning using Max Maths
03 February 2021If you ever watched a young child pick up a smart phone for the first time, you will know how confident they are and how much they enjoy technology. The point is that children adapt quickly to digital technology and enjoy learning using any aspect…
Read more Pre-teaching for Bar Modelling
01 June 2020I have never seen anything written about this aspect of Bar Modelling. Traditionally, teachers go on courses, train others, and then immediately start to roll out the method to their students. This approach has two problems. Firstly, the ‘why’ is rarely addressed. In his book,…
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Developing the skill of evaluation in scientific enquiries
07 May 2020This is the final blog in the series, designed to help primary teachers start the development of their learners’ scientific enquiry skills. Although a lot of words have been written and there are lots to ideas to assimilate, I hope you have gained an insight…
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Synthetic Phonics 2
20 April 2020The English alphabetic code is a complicated one, there are 26 letters, 44 phonemes and there is no 1-2-1 letter-sound relationship! Maybe that’s why Synthetic Phonics has become increasingly popular in the Young Learner’s classroom as a way to introduce learners to reading and writing…
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