Steve Caldwell
@stevie_caldwell
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Y3 Teacher | Deputy Head | Mathematics SLE | LA KS2 Writing Moderator | Assessment and Curriculum Lead | MA Educational Leadership | NPQH 23/24/25
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The elephant in the room is that the primary curriculum is utterly overcrowded. It’s so exhausting trying to do anything well or in any kind of depth. This has got to be contributing to teacher burnout. It needs sorting but nobody in any position of influence is talking about it.
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Ofsted inspector: You’ve not marked your books for 2 years.
Me: There’s a war on. It’s time to move on.
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“To all my amazing Y6 who…”
Shut up, your class are not on Twitter.
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Teacher: This method is pretty straightforward.
Year 3 children:
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I'm not sure if
@bennewmark
has reposted these gems recently, but I think it's a good time given the number of ECTs I've seen asking for helpful tips.
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What if we stopped sticking learning objectives into books? Would it hinder children's learning? If we know learning happens over time and that what we see in a lesson is performance, is there any point in ticking an 'objective achieved' box?
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Pleased to say I’m going be a deputy head next year 🎉🙌
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I’ve seen a fair few teachers making Fortnite themed activity cards and challenges etc. You know it’s PEGI 12 right? No primary aged child should legally be playing Fortnite and teachers certainly shouldn’t be normalising it with nonsense activities to ‘engage’ children.
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@educationgovuk
@NHSEngland
Unions and teachers lobbied for vaccines to be prioritised to school staff, but you told us that schools were not a vector in community spread. Remember?
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Some Y6 double page spreads on Ancient Greek religion 🙌
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If ‘dozens’ of Y6 children in your school are crying about SATs, I’d say you’ve got a much bigger problem than the difficulty of a reading paper.
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When you are awarded QTS, you should be given a career-long Athens login (or similar) to access research. This should absolutely be government funded. There could be a virtual hub where busy teachers could browse curated papers, and access research on specific topics. But alas...
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The first full week finished. Anyone else found that maths is absolutely fine but writing has taken a massive hit?
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Does anyone else feel like history is more of a core subject than science at primary level? History seems to drive so many other curriculum areas. Or is this me being biased because I love history?
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If you're going to dump on state schools whilst shamelessly promoting the standard of education you offer, maybe don't sit there with Classroom Secrets on your computer screen.
Very pleased to be able to promote
@InvictaAcademy
which I co-founded with
@Anna_Firth
in the
@DailyMailUK
today! Great thing is... veterans across the country are stepping up during
#Covid19UK
💪
👉
@VeteransGovUK
@JohnnyMercerUK
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Thought experiment:
Sports day. Let's stop doing them. Schools have competitions all year round, with 2 hours of PE a week. Why do we bother when they take so much organising?
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Oh, I do love a lecture about children's wellbeing from a government that voted not to feed them during the pandemic.
It will be deeply disappointing for children and parents that the NEU (National Education Union) has voted in favour of strike action.
Strikes will have a direct impact on children's education and wellbeing, particularly following disruption caused by the pandemic. 1/2
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Say it with me nice and slowly… STOP REPLYING AND QUOTE TWEETING HER.
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"That feedback is then printed onto a label to go into a child's book."
Or stick that label to a balloon and let go and watch as it flies into the air having the same impact on learning as it would stuck into a book.
This teacher has invented a new device that could revolutionise how students are marked in school! 😲🎓📖
#DragonsDen
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Children walked into a personalised post-it from me that acknowledged something brilliant they did in the previous week
#PositiveMondays
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Sending ex-secondary Ofsted inspectors to judge a primary school and EY in 2 days is a nonsense. The amount of tacit knowledge bound into each age phase is enormous and way beyond any Ofsted training programme.
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@PaulTassi
@Forbes
Absolutely abysmal execution of story delivery. Can’t believe this or Lightfall got out of the gate, it’s embarrassingly poor.
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Teachers and NHS staff are desperately refreshing Twitter in the hope Morgan and Hunt have finally been sacked
#reshuffle
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@C_Hendrick
I hope he gave the ones sitting nicely a house point. Positive reinforcement an all that.
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With Phil Collins trending, it's a good time to bring this out:
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I've created this crib sheet (inspired by
@shirleyclarke_
) to support teachers in applying Rosensine's Principles to a
@MathsNoProblem
lesson. If anyone has any feedback, it would be greatly appreciated.
@teacherhead
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Day one as a deputy vs end of first year as a deputy.
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Looks like I’ll be giving the role of Deputy Head a go in September 😀
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Classroom all sorted, first few days prepped. Now on to the dissertation 🤣🙃
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After playing
@DestinyTheGame
since Rise of Iron, I got my first We Ran today! Nobody irl knows what this means so I’ll share it with you
@TheTrueVanguard
😂
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It’d be great if the Guardian asked someone who actually had any experience of what they are talking about to write these columns
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Many hours later, the maths cupboard is looking tidy. Time for a beer! 🍺
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Getting to work on our first
@WALKTHRUs_5
cluster this week. We'll be linking it to the
@EducEndowFoundn
SEND 'Five-a-Day' approach.
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This is so much better than what commonly happens in primary. Dojo/reward points need to be kicked to the curb.
From my ‘A little guide for teachers: formative assessment’.
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A final bit of work on varied fluency and multiple representations of 3/4 digit numbers
#whatItaughttoday
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Maybe the reason phonics 'doesn't work for all children' is because teachers believe there are viable alternatives and therefore do not persist for long enough? I've seen children fall at the first hurdle and quickly be moved onto a whole word approach >
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First slide = ‘this is easy!’
Second slide = ‘ohhh I see what you’ve done!’
Third slide = 🤯
Love teaching place value!
#WhatITaughtToday
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@jamesrbuk
You’re cosplaying as an education journalist, when really you’re just here for your say in the culture war.
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@MrBoothY6
I did one this year, it was my first in 10 years. It’s peak primary school and should be included in any new Ofsted framework.
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iPads - so little impact for the recurring cost.
What’s the biggest waste of money you’ve witnessed in your time as a teacher? Whether in your department, school or nationally.
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Nick Gibb, an advocate of evidence informed education, leaves his post and education academics are cheering. He was incredibly effective in pushing the teaching of phonics forwards, and deserves recognition for it.
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If Ofsted is focusing their subject inspections on the way the subject is taught as an academic discipline (generally a good thing), then primary RE is in for a rough ride. The gap in pedagogy between the academic subject and 'draw what happiness looks like' in primary is massive
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After one year of using the
@WhiteRoseEd
pupil workbooks, I can safely say the positives far outweigh the negatives.
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People who have left teaching complaining that Teach First graduates have left teaching is a bit of a weird one.
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Lots of beer from parents this year. Looks like choosing ‘The Good Beer Guide 2019’ as the class read paid off.
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Wearing that ‘I hate Peroni’ t-shirt to work really paid off.
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For any teachers stressing about getting their new classroom ready... worry not, this is mine currently 😫
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Here's the full article I wrote for
@TeachPrimary
about planning for progression in history.
Building a curriculum with historical content that is both ambitious and carefully sequenced can seem daunting task – but this is how to do it, says Stephen Caldwell...
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@Nick_Pettigrew
@alexvtunzelmann
Like or loath Katherine Birbalsingh, she has done more for disadvantaged children than you pair of whoppers will ever do put together.
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It’s official - this year our school is not ticking off individual objectives in an online tracking tool 🙌
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Add to that social media exit tickets, and the like. Don’t blame parents when a 9 year old adds you on Facebook when you hand out FB themed activities in class. It says a lot about a teacher when they assume children are excited and interested by social media. They’re not.
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If you ever teach the Great Fire of London, you’ll need to this book. It’s stunning. 🔥 📚
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Just read a school behaviour policy that said to address low-level disruption 'we use the ignore muscle.' 🤦♂️
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My yearly tweet to say that if a publisher wrote a high-quality science textbook and accompanying PowerPoint for every primary year group, they'd make an absolute killing.
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@ProgEducat
@naomicfisher
This view, on so many levels, has no grounding in reality whatsoever.
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I've been thinking about how other WalkThrus fit into the Modelling Handover framework. How does this look? Any suggestions?
@olicav
@teacherhead
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@amymayforrester
The amateur diagnosis of 'trauma' by teachers who are not able to define, identify or diagnose trauma accurately.
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@EJ_McGuinness
@GillianKeegan
If you value teachers so much, then why are they leaving in droves? Why has their pay been allowed to deteriorate for over a decade? Why did they need to go on strike to get a pay award that still lags behind inflation?
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Intelligent practice - making links between decimals and fractions, pictorial and written forms.
@WRMathsHub
#whatItaughttoday
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82% for my MA dissertation. Distinction confirmed😀A massive thank you to the wonderful school leaders who took part in the study.
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Teachers: TLAC works and I use it successfully in my context everyday.
Educationalists: No, TLAC is fascist.
😂😵💫🙃
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I still can't get over how poor those KS2
#sats
texts were. But to be fair, I never knew you could ride a bloody giraffe?! 🤔
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Today really is
#wedNESday
! My NES mini pre order has arrived!
@gamesyouloved
@nintencollect
@Gamin_Guys
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Tomorrow I’m at a conference listening to
@MaryMyatt
and
@HuntingEnglish
talk about curriculum design and the importance of vocabulary. Looking forward to it.
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I’ve read this 3 times already today. I absolutely love it. Thanks
@smithsmm
for the heads up, but shhhh now because you’re costing me a fortune! 😀🤣
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@PaulTassi
It seems so strange to look back and think ‘why didn’t they just nerf the pinnacle weapons?’
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'The guidance is clear: comprehension is an outcome, not a skill to practise, so we should not need to teach the testing domains in isolation, (i.e. focus for one lesson on summary, then prediction and then inference) or allow these to become our school reading curriculum.'
📚NEW BLOG 📚
The DfE's Reading Framework - updated in July - is a huge document.
Here, we unpick some of its sections and offer up further reading as well as points for reflection to support use of guidance in school.
➡️
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When the Y6 teacher starts photocopying tests papers at 8:30 on a Monday morning:
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@UniDaSensei
@zrd92490
And there it is. Console war nonsense - it took 2 tweets for the mask to slip 😴
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Cheshire teachers - who remembers this? If only there was an updated version!
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I'm staggered that people are shocked that you can't just refuse to be inspected. Just because you happen to agree in this case then it doesn't make it a good idea. It's a risky precedent to set that would ultimately make some schools unsafe.
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