Curriculum
Posted on March 21, 2018 by Vicky Burrill
Author of our English for the More Able series, Vicky Burrill, picks out 10 books to engage and inspire your students.
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Curriculum
Posted on March 20, 2018 by Sarah-Anne Fernandes
In this first blog article, out of a series of two, Sarah-Anne Fernandes discusses the 'selected response' type questions that pupils will face in their maths reasoning paper.
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Assessment
Posted on March 16, 2018 by RS Assessment from Hodder Education
Scaled scores and standardised scores – what’s the difference?
With so many different assessment measures being used throughout primary schools, we’re often asked to clarify the difference between them. So we’ve gone back to the drawing board to provide some quick facts about two key test outcomes: scaled scores and standardised scores (because while both show performance, they aren’t quite the same thing).
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Curriculum
Posted on March 12, 2018 by Nick Hart
In this blog article, Nick Hart discusses the effectiveness of using real-life problems in maths.
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Curriculum
Posted on March 12, 2018 by John Dabell
In this blog article, John Dabell demonstrates how maths can be combined with magic tricks to bring numbers to life.
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Curriculum
Posted on March 2, 2018 by Lucy at Rising Stars
Every day in March, we will be sharing Year 6 questions from Assessment Bank on Twitter and Facebook which you can use to test your class' knowledge ahead of the National Tests.
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Curriculum
Posted on March 2, 2018 by Lucy at Rising Stars
We are excited to announce that RS Assessment from Hodder Education has been shortlisted as a finalist in the ‘Best Use of Formative Assessment’ category for the e-Assessment Awards 2018!
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Assessment
Posted on February 20, 2018 by RS Assessment from Hodder Education
Thanks to Ruth Duckworth for the following article.
One of the areas that has been identified as a weakness for Year 6 pupils taking end of Key Stage 2 reading tests relates to content domain 2a: ‘give or explain the meaning of words in context’. This is an ongoing concern for teachers, as 20% of the questions on the 2017 reading SATs paper focused on this domain.
Further reaching than Year 6, teachers from Year 2 and across Key Stage 2 know that the increased pitch of vocabulary in both English reading and grammar, punctuation and spelling test papers is a challenge for many pupils - especially when undertaking more formal SATs type format tests (whether half-termly or at the end of each term). It is therefore imperative to read widely with all children, plan English lessons around high quality texts, and also explicitly teach new vocabulary in context across wider curriculum subjects.
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Curriculum
Posted on February 16, 2018 by Nick Hart
In this blog article, Nick Hart proposes 5 phases of teacher modelling to set children up to succeed.
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Curriculum
Posted on February 16, 2018 by John Dabell
In this blog article, John Dabell discusses why between-class ability grouping in maths should be abandoned.
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