Primary Ideas

A blog about our innovations and ideas we've made use of in our Key Stage Two classrooms.

Sunday, 21 January 2018

The Piano Key Problem

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I was watching a program about how a piano works earlier with my daughter. One of the facts was about the number of white and black keys. W...
Saturday, 20 January 2018

Supermarket Maths

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It's a quick one... Supermarkets are full of maths, well everywhere is. You're probably walking around with your phone in y...
Sunday, 14 January 2018

Team 100WC – Comment on Writing

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One of the biggest impacts on writing standards in our classrooms has been the use of the 100 Word Challenge and similar writing opportuni...
Saturday, 13 January 2018

Dialogue and Breaking the Fourth Wall

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If you're looking for a way to teach punctuating dialogue, it's hard to beat Lee's " Teaching Direct Speech Punctuation us...
Tuesday, 9 January 2018

Minecraft and Rocks and Soils

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We recently taught some of our introductory work for our science module on rocks and soils. As part of this discussion, we were discussing ...
Sunday, 31 December 2017

Lightning Writing

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Just like anything else, one of the key elements of becoming a better writer is actually doing it. One of the strategies we have used to inc...
Sunday, 19 November 2017

Maths Reasoning - Was Peter right? What did he mean?

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On Thursday 16th November, Peter Kay was on the radio with Chris Evans. Here's a conversation they had. Available for 30 days (listen at...
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