I much prefer to do a 2-page spread at a time right down the pile. I get a better feel for what the class has struggled with, and any common errors / misconceptions.

"Never" is the problem word. Don't simplify until the end - usually good advice in tree diagrams.

Write for him and with him. Write verbally and on paper and with a twig in the sand on the beach. Love and value writing along with reading along with speaking. Love words and sounds and songs. Enjoy it all - they are very soon grown up.

Carrier bags, obvs 😀

Extremely useful. Thank you so much. Now I can start gently digging.

Thank you so much for that link. I'm running an attendance project at the moment, and therefore casting around for useful stuff to read. In terms of actually making change in a specific year-group in a specific school a lot of it comes down to an assortment of very human stories.

Is it "y7 students" or is it "some specific y7 students" affecting the data for the yr grp? It would be interesting to know what those same specific students' attendance rates were in y6. Have they fallen off a while after transition, or did they rise to the challenge of transition & then revert?

But why not 10 lots of 12, plus 5 lots of 12?

Great fabric! Who makes it?

Have you a tin of Dreamies you can rattle so he comes in for bedtime? Most cats love Dreamies enough to make them useful for compliance purposes :) We always preferred our moggies to be inside overnight

I see mine for the first time tomorrow - over half of them sat the Nov paper, so we'll see how hard they work... Work ethic thus far has been quite patchy with this year's cohort.

Yes - one or two students on the edges get a somewhat oblique view of one board, but it's the best I can manage.

Smartboard and whiteboard are at right-angles to each other, near one corner. So my desk is diagonal in that corner, faci g the diagonal class. It works, mostly, and I've got used to it. :)

A colour that is recognisably Maths to students and staff alike in your school. But sometimes a £ deal can be just too good to miss out on... 😀

Yes. The trouble is that for students stuck around the grade 2/3 boundary these multi-stage problems require a level of working memory and structuring that they do not [yet] have. They are losing many other more accessible marks, and those are the gaps I try to close "first".

Gotta love a fact family! ❤️

Trig that needs rearranging is especially tricky... I remind them that 4 = 12/3 and 3 = 12/4 so they can see where their "swappables" are when looking at SoH etc...

A few years ago I discovered bullet journal as started by Ryder Carroll. It was life-changing for me. There is much written about ways to bulletjournal but my best advice is to keep it really simple. Check it out. You won't regret it.

Have we gotta read all the books BEFORE 1 Jan? 😱