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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.
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KS2 Continuous Provision: Gradual Release of Responsibility
No two weeks are quite the same when you're implementing continuous provision in key stage 2... Crucially there is a gradual release of responsbility which provides the necessary support for pupils to move towards independence.

Aidan Severs
Jul 163 min read
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KS2 Continuous Provision: Ensuring Curriculum Coverage
One of the key challenges when designing and delivering continuous provision to any age group, but particularly in KS2, is ensuring that there is curriculum coverage. By delivering masterclasses, setting apprentice tasks, creating routines, providing scaffolds and carrying out check-ins and conferencing, continuous provision and curriculum coverage can be balanced well in KS2.

Aidan Severs
Jul 25 min read
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Continuous Provision in KS2: FAQs
This blog explores how KS2 continuous provision - based on EYFS principles - can foster independence, creativity, and deep learning. It addresses common questions on adapting the approach to meet curriculum demands, setting up purposeful provision areas, ensuring progression and challenge, integrating effective assessment, and managing behaviour. Grounded in careful planning and adult guidance, it offers practical steps for implementation.

Aidan Severs
Jun 246 min read
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Curriculum: The Sticky Problem of Sticky Knowledge
Icky name aside, the idea of identifiying sticky knowledge on behalf of pupils is a tricky one. The Origins of Sticky Knowledge I think...

Aidan Severs
May 266 min read
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Personalising Challenge for Pupils Working at Greater Depth
If you are here for the blog post entitled ' Greater Depth: Pupil Pen Portraits and Personalised Challenge' then please use this link:...

Aidan Severs
Mar 176 min read
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Reading Roles: Teaching Metacognitive Reading Comprehension Strategies
What is (or are) Reading Roles? Reading Roles is a resource designed to aid children’s metacognition when reading. Metacognition can be...

Aidan Severs
Jan 306 min read
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Reading Roles Based on Research-Backed Reading Strategies
Explore effective Reading Strategies to enhance comprehension in students.

Aidan Severs
Jan 306 min read
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Reading Roles Generic Reading Activity Exemplified
In my blog post Reading Roles: Teaching Metacognitive Reading Comprehension Strategies I mentioned a generic activity which can be used...

Aidan Severs
Jan 3010 min read
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Reading Roles: The Philosopher Role and Answering Philosophical Questions About Texts
In my blog post Reading Roles: Teaching Metacognitive Reading Comprehension Strategies  I mentioned the Philosopher role. Here's some...

Aidan Severs
Jan 302 min read
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Task Setting: Adopt, Adapt or Create?
When it comes to planning and resourcing lessons you have three broad options: Adopt Adapt Create I'd have loved to have shoehorned...

Aidan Severs
Jan 283 min read
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From SEND To Greater Depth: Taking Everyone On The Journey (And Getting Them All To The Destination)
Imagine your next unit of work as a journey into a city centre. In this post I'll use a journey into the centre of London because it was...

Aidan Severs
Dec 10, 20244 min read
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Reading Comprehension: Teaching a Metacognitive Approach to Inference-Making
Whilst searching for something else on my old blog I came across an old blog post by Clare Sealy , who is now the Head of Education...

Aidan Severs
Nov 26, 202410 min read
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Teaching Reading: Boosting Background Knowledge To Aid Inference-Making
A few years ago, the author Tom Palmer sent me a copy of his latest book Wings: Typhoon. It's a great read aimed at 8 to 10 year olds and...

Aidan Severs
Nov 22, 20247 min read
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Want Children To Read For Pleasure? Become a Reading Teacher (or Parent)
Uncover the secrets to sparking a love for reading in children. Become a reading teacher or parent.

Aidan Severs
Nov 19, 20248 min read
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Case Study: Revolutionising Curriculum Delivery in KS2
Explore how a UK primary school transformed its KS2 curriculum delivery, emphasizing open-ended challenges, same-day interventions, and more

Aidan Severs
Nov 12, 20246 min read
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SATs 2025: Answering 3-Mark Reading SATs Questions - An Update
Since I last wrote about helping children to answer 3-mark questions , the way those questions are asked has changed. Whilst much of the...

Aidan Severs
Nov 5, 20245 min read
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Assessment: Why Should I Identify Children Working At Greater Depth In Foundation Subjects?
I recently wrote about how we might assess and identify children who are working at greater depth. Upon sharing the blog post , someone...

Aidan Severs
Oct 29, 20244 min read
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Assessment: How Can I Identify Greater Depth Children In Foundation Subjects?
Uncover the complexities of identifying greater depth children with an insightful assessment that goes beyond traditional methods.

Aidan Severs
Oct 15, 20245 min read
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Case Study: Continuous Provision and EYFS-Inspired Practice in KS2
Bringing an early years approach into KS1 isn’t unheard of – there are plenty of Year 1 classrooms where continuous provision has been...

Aidan Severs
Oct 8, 20246 min read
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Developing A Greater Depth Toolkit To Aid Task Design
Having written a few blog posts over the years about working with pupils of greater depth , I occasionally get requests to work with...

Aidan Severs
Oct 1, 20246 min read
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