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Peter Richardson in Primarypete — Leadership Innovation CollaborationOct 30, 20152 min read

Storybird is Beautiful

I’ve always loved Storybird. It just feels ‘right’. Whenever you speak to their customer service team they seem to genuinely care. Whenever you use the site, things just ‘work’. Whenever your children use the site, they find an enthusiasm for writing that might have otherwise stayed…

Peter Richardson in Primarypete — Leadership Innovation CollaborationFeb 2710 min read

The Third Way — Rising Stars Mathematics

It’s been quite a journey over the last few months. Worrying about children meeting anywhere near age related expectations. Listening to Nick Gibb and Emma Valerio. Developing and using the excellent free materials from the NCETM and White Rose Hub…

Peter Richardson in Primarypete — Leadership Innovation CollaborationDec 21, 20157 min read

A Journey in Mastery Maths

You could describe this as a bit of a slow burner…

As with many teachers trained under the National Strategies I’ve been guilty of having a quick read of the ‘preamble’ for each subject in the 2014 curriculum but very quickly moved on to that list of objectives and start to…

Peter Richardson in Primarypete — Leadership Innovation CollaborationOct 30, 20156 min read

IPads and AAC

This is probably the hardest blog post I’ve written. Mainly because it’s to do with my mum, who suffers with Multiple Sclerosis. She has it developed enough for speaking to be difficult and her movement limited to one side of her body. She is wheelchair/bed bound now and her fine motor skills have gone…

Peter Richardson in Primarypete — Leadership Innovation CollaborationOct 26, 20153 min read

Disillusionment of Twitter Collaboration

I love Twitter. The ability it gives to instantly connect with anyone and share thoughts, ideas and whimsy. But as Twitter has become more and more mainstream, the core ethos of those early pioneers (which my fingertips have been merely on the coat-tails of…

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University of Northampton in Teacher TrainingOct 13, 20153 min read

Primary Teaching — my first few weeks

First year student Ryan High, started his Primary Education (QTS) (BA (Hons)) course in…

Peter Richardson in Primarypete — Leadership Innovation CollaborationFeb 32 min read

I’ve finally found it! Wordwall!

Since we’ve had 2:1 IPads in some of our classes and groups of Chromebooks in some others, I’ve been…

Peter Richardson in Primarypete — Leadership Innovation CollaborationFeb 54 min read

Digital Maths Intervention???

At the moment in our school we set for Maths. In the ‘old days’ under the previous curriculum, that worked fine as lower achieving children learnt their next steps and moved on in a linear fashion (frequently from the content of a year below where they actually were).