Go on - offer to do a staff input on early years maths! You know you want to! It is important for colleagues to understand early years –...

The end of the year – and it's time for some creative compliance (Image with thanks to William Gray) As we approach the end of the school...

December 2022 What is my objection to the ‘small steps’ narrative that seems to be currently dominating KS1 and EY mathematics teaching?...

I was involved in a Twitter conversation recently in which an early years’ colleague referred to something as being “real play”. I am...

(image: Julie Herlihy) Two recent events sparked this blog. Firstly, watching the launch video of the NCETM’s Reception and KS1...

(image: Esther O'Connor) This blog has been written based on some guidance I put together with the Reception and Y1 teacher in mind. It...

1. Number and Quantity This is the first part of an article first published in IMPACT, journal of the Chartered College of Teachers,...

“Recently sat through a meeting talking about children all moving towards achieving ELGs and moving through the same learning at the same...

Number bond fluency and subitising This quick blog comes from a Twitter exchange about number bond fluency on KS2 (and early KS3). I have...

How might picture and story books enhance the mathematical experience we offer our young children, birth to seven? This blog has been...

The latest iteration of the EYFS Framework (DfE 2020) has included some contentious changes. For mathematics these are the removal of...

Mathematics and the new EYFS Within the two weeks leading up to the end of the most stressful and distressing school year we have ever...

Yesterday saw the publication of the revised EYFS framework, including the new ELGs. This post focusses on the mathematics area of...

Two home/school tasks for Nursery and Reception. Lids Collect about 5 containers – all different and all with lids – and you need a bag...

Two games to play in Reception over the next few weeks, that children can also play at home Obviously, all our focus is on the wellbeing...

Two counting and reasoning games to play in Reception over the next few weeks, that children can also play at home Obviously, all our...

I have decided I ought to collect together all my most recent pieces of writing for various organisations, that are available online, to...

Several things have come together this morning for me to be able to write this blog. · Firstly, a request that has been sitting in my...

(Learning nothing?) In re-visiting my blogs of the last 3 years I realise I owe a debt to Dylan William, whose often controversial tweets...

(Playing Mancala with homemade playing bases ) The issue of 'scripted lessons' crops up from time-to-time. I originally posted this blog...