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Along with being a primary school teacher and leader, blogging is where this all started for Aidan. If it wasn't for his passion for writing and sharing his learning and experiences, he wouldn't be working as an education consultant with schools across the country today. Shared best practice should be available to all and here on the Aidan Severs Consulting blog you can get ideas for making a difference in your own school. The blog is also a great place to learn exactly the kind of work that Aidan can partner with your school on.
The Power and Purpose of Literacy: Vocabulary and Oracy
A child's oracy and vocabulary development is crucial to their development as a person. Here's why...
Aidan Severs
Mar 30, 20237 min read
How The Local Area Can Inspire your Art Lessons
Although a school's local area is more often thought of when teaching geography and history, it can be a great source of inspiration in art.
Aidan Severs
Mar 23, 20233 min read
What Are All The Different Types Of Knowledge? (part 2)
Terminology around knowledge and curriculum can be confusing. In part 2 of this series, we define more types of knowledge.
Aidan Severs
Mar 9, 20234 min read
Ofsted Resources for Curriculum and Subject Leaders
Ofsted's resources which can help curriculum and subject leaders to develop their subject are collated here in this blog post.
Aidan Severs
Feb 10, 20232 min read
The 3 Cs of Curriculum Design
By thinking about continuity, correct coverage and consistency, school leaders can begin to think about how to design their curriculum.
Aidan Severs
Jan 11, 20235 min read
Curriculum How To: Developing A Concept-Based Curriculum
When developing curriculum, school leaders can use key concepts to map out cross-curricular links which promote learning.
Aidan Severs
Nov 17, 20225 min read
Including Word Etymology On Knowledge Organisers
In my last blog post I wrote about the basics of knowledge organisers - if you don't yet use them, that blog post will be a good starting...
Aidan Severs
Aug 22, 20224 min read
Using Knowledge Organisers In Primary
What are Knowledge Organisers? A place where all the selected key/core knowledge for any given unit of work in any subject is organised...
Aidan Severs
Aug 15, 20223 min read
What Are All The Different Types Of Knowledge? (part 1)
Substantive, disciplinary, declarative, conceptual, procedural... and where's skills? A blog post to clarify the meanings of these words.
Aidan Severs
Jul 18, 20228 min read
Helping Staff To Adopt Your New Curriculum
Having staff on-board with curriculum innovations is crucial to their success. In this post we explore 5 steps towards making this happen.
Aidan Severs
Jun 27, 20225 min read
Your Greatest Gift to the Next Teacher? By Russell Pearson (Dynamic Deputies)
Russell Pearson of the Dynamic Deputies suggests that there are things children should know and be able to do before they move year group
Aidan Severs
Jun 20, 20225 min read
Monitoring Your Subject 101
This post offers some starting tips for subject leaders who want to find out more about what's going on in their subject.
Aidan Severs
Jun 6, 20224 min read
3 Ways To Identify Your Subject's Improvement Priorities
For subject leaders, identifying priorities for development can be difficult. This article outlines 3 ways to prioritise well.
Aidan Severs
May 30, 20224 min read
Curriculum Drivers: Have You Got Too Many?
Every curriculum is driven by certain principles; sometimes there are too many drivers, making curriculum delivery difficult.
Aidan Severs
May 23, 20225 min read
5 Reasons Why Subject Leadership Training Is A Top Priority
Subject Leadership is an important role in the primary school. Here we explore why investing in training for those staff members is crucial.
Aidan Severs
May 5, 20224 min read
How To Achieve Both Curriculum Cohesion And Teacher Autonomy
Not that long ago, back when I was a teacher and before I had any SLT responsibilities, I worked in a brilliant school where we teachers had a lot of autonomy. Sure, there too existed many structures to ensure accountability, but we also had the freedom to make many decisions for ourselves. One such area of liberty was in curriculum planning. I struggle now to remember what was actually on the school's long term plan but I do remember half-termly after-school planning meeti
Aidan Severs
Apr 25, 20225 min read
8 Things To Consider When Designing A Primary Art Curriculum
Designing an art curriculum can be more complicated than it seems. In this article we explore 8 things to consider when developing yours.
Aidan Severs
Mar 10, 20227 min read
From Paper to Practice: Beyond Curriculum Intent, and Into Implementation (Part 3)
Before reading this, make sure you've caught up on the prior blog posts in the series: Part 1 Part 2 Curriculum Implementation: Learning From Mis-Implementation Mis-implementation will occur. It’s what you do after it’s occured that really matters. All of the previously-mentioned parts of the implementation process present the risk of things not going to plan. Some undesirable things happen that weren’t even considered during the planning phase. When I arrived at my last sc
Aidan Severs
Feb 10, 20225 min read
From Paper to Practice: Beyond Curriculum Intent, and Into Implementation (Part 2)
Before reading this, make sure you've caught up on the first blog post in the series: Part 1 Curriculum Implementation: Getting Implementation Right By... The good news is, that you as head teachers will already be doing everything that you need to do in order for your curriculum implementation to be successful. You are already providing training to staff on a variety of matters. You are already giving staff planning time. You are already supporting in the development of tea
Aidan Severs
Feb 9, 202212 min read
From Paper to Practice: Beyond Curriculum Intent, and Into Implementation (Part 1)
The curriculum (intent) is done! Many schools are now in the position where, after a significant drive from Ofsted, and the realisation that the wider curriculum needed strengthening, their curriculum is all down on paper, and ready to be delivered by teachers. On the paper work, all the Is are dotted, and all the Ts crossed, and the shiny new curriculum has made its way into the curriculum guidance document that you hope against all hopes that teachers, in amongst their busy
Aidan Severs
Feb 8, 20226 min read
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