⭐ The Hidden Curriculum We Actually Want How everyday routines, habits, and teacher interactions build powerful long-term understanding

What does your hidden curriculum look like?

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⭐ A Gather Around: A Step-By-Step Model Script A step-by-step guide for WAGOLL+ members on how to use Gather Arounds to demonstrate processes and events for primary children

Not all modelling is best conducted at the front of the classroom...

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My latest Substack on rethinking scaffolding in the primary classrooms. buff.ly/8NX0yCk

My latest Substack on rethinking scaffolding in the primary classrooms. buff.ly/8NX0yCk

⭐ A Gather Around: A Step-By-Step Model Script A step-by-step guide for WAGOLL+ members on how to use Gather Arounds to demonstrate processes and events for primary children

Not all modelling is best conducted at the front of the classroom...

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⭐ The Hidden Curriculum We Actually Want How everyday routines, habits, and teacher interactions build powerful long-term understanding

What does your hidden curriculum look like?

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My first post of the new academic year...

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The Art of Modelling: Thinking Aloud Helping children hear the expert thinking behind knowledge, concepts and processes

Thinking Aloud - Children need to know how you became intelligent and the process that that entails

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A 6 Week Professional Development Cycle: A Model for Great PD Training A Practical Framework for Embedding Impactful Teaching Strategies

A sample 6 week PD cycle

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📼 WAGOLL Rewind: June 2025 A research-informed recap for busy primary educators. Here's what you might have missed in June!

A summary of my posts in June.

⭐ The Art of Introducing a Learning Outcome Helping pupils tune into what really matters in the lesson

The Art of Introducing a Learning Intention

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The Art of Modelling: Demonstrating Expert Knowledge Taking a broader view of what modelling means for teaching in the primary classroom

Modelling is essential for novice learners. It directs attention, encodes key moves, and shows what success can look like. But in practice, we do far more than just model outcomes.

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A 6 Week Professional Development Cycle: A Model for Great PD Training A Practical Framework for Embedding Impactful Teaching Strategies

An example of a 6 week cycle of PD

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Considering the Primary Child: Teaching with Development in Mind To use research-informed strategies effectively, primary teachers must balance the science of learning with how children develop.

To use research-informed strategies effectively, primary teachers must balance the science of learning with how primary school children develop.

A Learning Model with the Environment in Mind A learning model that shows how memory and environment work together and reflects how children truly learn in EYFS and Primary.

A learning model that shows how memory and environment work together and reflects how children truly learn in EYFS and Primary.

📼 WAGOLL Rewind: June 2025 A research-informed recap for busy primary educators. Here's what you might have missed in June!

A research-informed recap for busy primary educators. Here's what you might have missed in June!

ADAPT Meetings: A Model for Great PD Training Using structured discussion to embed strategies that work in your classroom context

Using structured discussion to adapt strategies to work in your primary classroom context:

📘 Books That Stick: The Teaching and Learning Playbook A step-by-step guide to classroom strategies, underpinned by clear principles and a real solid book on how great teaching can be codified, shared, and developed.

One of my go-to book:

⭐ Write, Pair, Share – With Planning Script Helping children shape their thinking before they speak

Write, Pair, Share scaffolds thinking before it's discussed with a partner. Really important in primary. When discussions are more complex.

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The Art of Modelling: Demonstrating Expert Knowledge Taking a broader view of what modelling means for teaching in the primary classroom

This week's post!

Demonstrating Expert Knowledge: Taking a broader view of what modelling means for teaching in the primary classroom

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ADAPT Meetings: A Model for Great PD Training Using structured discussion to embed strategies that work in your classroom context

Using structured discussion to embed strategies that work in your classroom context

📼 WAGOLL Rewind: May 2025 A research-informed recap for busy primary educators. Here's what you might have missed in May!

Incase you missed my posts in May

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My latest Substack on The Art of Modelling is inspired by posts from Rachel, Alex and Emma!

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My latest Substrack for leads looking to run Adapt Meetings to support the contextualisation of teaching strategies into year groups and subjects.

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Discovery learning to drive would be chaotic and dangerous.

A maths lesson won't cause a crash, but if we agree that direct instruction reduces mistakes and confusion, that alone justifies its effectiveness for teaching biological secondary knowledge.

"If we don’t take the rich evidence base we have and really consider and evaluate how we can use it in real learning environments, then the broader movement termed the ‘science of learning’ will be seen as a fad like so many other failed initiatives in education" #Unterricht #Didaktik

Lived in Dubai for 11 years. My daughter was born and lived here for a years. This week she has now started referring to dinner as 'tea'. Proudest moment so far 🥲🤣 Proud northern dad!

A Learning Model with the Environment in Mind A learning model that shows how memory and environment work together and reflects how children truly learn in EYFS and Primary.

I really wanted to create a learning model that really focused on the reality of learning, particularly in the Primary and Early Years settings. The interaction with the environment is fundamental to the early learning stage:

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📼 WAGOLL Rewind: May 2025 A research-informed recap for busy primary educators. Here's what you might have missed in May!

Each week I've been sharing practical teaching strategies, task design research and book recommendations. I've found writing a great way of refining research into digestible content for myself and others.

In case you missed my posts over the last month:

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This week's Books that Stick: The Teaching and Learning Playbook

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