Following Learning
Simon Gregg's thoughts on lessons
Wednesday, 15 June 2022
Mathematics is not a "building block" subject
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I've been reading Alf Coles and Nathalie Sinclair's I Can't Do Maths! Why children say this and how to make a difference . It t...
Tuesday, 22 February 2022
Why play?
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Here's a nice thing to do. Go down to the Med with your blow-up kayak. Push it out to sea, straight out to avoid the waves rocking it ov...
Saturday, 1 January 2022
Freedom
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Over the holidays I've been reading David Graeber and David Wengrow's The Dawn of Everything, A New History of Humanity . It's a...
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Monday, 20 December 2021
Building mathematics
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One of my students, A, has been with me for over a year now. He was just three years old when he started, and without much English. His fav...
Saturday, 20 November 2021
Where mathematics comes from
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At the moment I'm reading a little about materiality in learning - how physical materials and the physical environment and what they ca...
Wednesday, 27 October 2021
Arranging things
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Three of my new students (aged 3 and 4) have been settling in this half term. They have been doing lots of playing alongside each other, but...
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Tuesday, 14 September 2021
Numberblocks
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In PK, we've been watching the first two series of Numberblocks . These present the numbers zero to ten as different characters who, by ...
Sunday, 1 August 2021
Sleeper effects
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There are two studies I keep thinking about. Both involve large numbers of students. Both concern 'sleeper effects' - effects that d...
Saturday, 31 July 2021
Copycats
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As an EY team we look back at 'Moments in the Day' together - times when something in the children's play and learning strikes u...
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