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Vicky Crane ICTWAND
- Jun 4
- 16 min
Strategic thinking and planning
Assess your school's strategic planning against this four quadrant tool. Access a range of strategic planning ideas, resources & questions.
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Vicky Crane ICTWAND
- Sep 22, 2023
- 11 min
Improving KS2 reading outcomes
Improving KS2 reading outcomes. What can be done to ensure more pupils achieve the expected standard in Key Stage 2 Reading?
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Vicky Crane ICTWAND
- Apr 14, 2023
- 19 min
Curriculum implementation - responding to the challenges
Question for senior leaders: What does it take to turn your ambitious curriculum into reality? What, at a senior leadership level, are...
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Vicky Crane ICTWAND
- May 27, 2022
- 22 min
Handwriting development
Think piece on handwriting. The importance of developing handwriting can not be overemphasised. Eradicate handwriting as a limiting factor.
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Vicky Crane ICTWAND
- May 22, 2022
- 5 min
5 on Sunday
This week: Computing Curriculum Ofsted research; leadership prompts; Book - cloud spotting; latest EEF guide; Padlet a great tool for school
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Vicky Crane ICTWAND
- May 15, 2022
- 3 min
5 on Sunday musings
Educational related items of the week for primary leaders and primary teachers interested in all things education and CPD for schools
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Vicky Crane ICTWAND
- Apr 4, 2022
- 2 min
Developing inference skills for struggling readers
Developing inference skills. Supporting struggling readers. Implementing high-impact school solutions. Special offer booklet.
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Vicky Crane ICTWAND
- Mar 18, 2022
- 13 min
Is school improvement actual improvement or just something different?
When planning for school improvement how do we ensure it leads to genuine benefits for pupils and teachers? Not for the faint hearted!
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Vicky Crane ICTWAND
- Jul 12, 2020
- 32 min
Melded learning - teacher CPD
New opportunities; new ways of learning. Lets embrace the possibilities melded learning presents for teacher professional development.
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Vicky Crane ICTWAND
- Jun 27, 2020
- 12 min
The importance of automaticity
This is the third post in a series about word reading and removing barriers to pupils making progress in reading. Orthographic mapping!
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Vicky Crane ICTWAND
- Jun 20, 2020
- 15 min
Struggling with phonics?
Is phonological awareness the missing link for your struggling word readers, young or old? Phonics learning needs a firm foundation.
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Vicky Crane ICTWAND
- May 16, 2020
- 13 min
Structured leadership conversations
Increase the impact of leadership conversations by using the structures and downloadable resources on this blog. Invest in each other.
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Vicky Crane ICTWAND
- May 4, 2020
- 31 min
How fast should we read?
How fast should we read?
What advice do we give to parents / pupils about reading rates? Impact of fluency on comprehension?
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Vicky Crane ICTWAND
- Jan 18, 2020
- 4 min
Ofsted subject monitoring visits
These resources will support subject leaders with curriculum development - focusing on thematic reviews and Ofsted subject monitoring visits
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Vicky Crane ICTWAND
- Jan 5, 2020
- 8 min
Accountable Talk in the classroom
Talk resources - developing classroom talk
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Vicky Crane ICTWAND
- Nov 1, 2019
- 2 min
New online reading course
Online reading course on teaching reading comprehension for primary teachers. Amazing value and great reviews.
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Vicky Crane ICTWAND
- May 12, 2019
- 27 min
Knowledge in the primary curriculum?
A blog and podcast focusing on 'knowledge' in the curriculum designed to extend and deepen school conversations. Part of a series of posts.
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Vicky Crane ICTWAND
- May 6, 2019
- 7 min
Transport your readers : setting descriptions
Teaching pupils how to write setting descriptions is deceptively hard. This blog includes resources for teachers and pupils.
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Vicky Crane ICTWAND
- Apr 20, 2019
- 1 min
KS2 SATs Reading analysis 2017 and 2018
With just a few weeks to go, teachers in Year 6 may wish to consider analysis of previous KS2 Reading papers in order to prepare targeted...
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