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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.

S1 E1: Inclusive Curriculum, Action Planning and Curriculum in MFL with Emily Griffin

S1 E1: Inclusive Curriculum, Action Planning and Curriculum in MFL with Emily Griffin

S1 E1: Inclusive Curriculum, Action Planning and Curriculum in MFL with Emily Griffin

The Subject Leaders Podcast Series 1 Episode 1: Emily Griffin, English, MFL and curriculum leader speaks about curriculum and Ofsted

Apr 19, 202320 min read

How I Work With Businesses On Their Education Outreach

How I Work With Businesses On Their Education Outreach

How I Work With Businesses On Their Education Outreach

As an education consultant, one of my roles is to help businesses like yours to develop education curricula to improve your outreach efforts. Educational resources such as lesson plans and activities can be an effective way for businesses to reach out, engage with their audience, establish their brand as a thought leader in their industry and most importantly, to give something back to the community. Goals and Targets The first step I take when developing an effective educati

Apr 9, 20233 min read

How The Local Area Can Inspire your Art Lessons

How The Local Area Can Inspire your Art Lessons

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.

Mar 23, 20233 min read

What Are All The Different Types Of Knowledge? (part 2)

What Are All The Different Types Of Knowledge? (part 2)

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.

Mar 9, 20234 min read

The 3 Cs of Curriculum Design

The 3 Cs of Curriculum Design

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.

Jan 11, 20235 min read

Curriculum How To: Developing A Concept-Based Curriculum

Curriculum How To: Developing A Concept-Based Curriculum

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.

Nov 17, 20225 min read

What Are All The Different Types Of Knowledge? (part 1)

What Are All The Different Types Of Knowledge? (part 1)

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.

Jul 18, 20228 min read

Helping Staff To Adopt Your New Curriculum

Helping Staff To Adopt Your New Curriculum

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.

Teacher Development

Jun 27, 20225 min read

Monitoring Your Subject 101

Monitoring Your Subject 101

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.

Jun 6, 20224 min read

3 Ways To Identify Your Subject's Improvement Priorities

3 Ways To Identify Your Subject's Improvement Priorities

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.

May 30, 20224 min read

Curriculum Drivers: Have You Got Too Many?

Curriculum Drivers: Have You Got Too Many?

Curriculum Drivers: Have You Got Too Many?

Every curriculum is driven by certain principles; sometimes there are too many drivers, making curriculum delivery difficult.

May 23, 20225 min read

5 Reasons Why Subject Leadership Training Is A Top Priority

5 Reasons Why Subject Leadership Training Is A Top Priority

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.

May 5, 20224 min read

How To Achieve Both Curriculum Cohesion And Teacher Autonomy

How To Achieve Both Curriculum Cohesion And Teacher Autonomy

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

Apr 25, 20225 min read

8 Things To Consider When Designing A Primary Art Curriculum

8 Things To Consider When Designing A Primary Art Curriculum

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.

Mar 10, 20227 min read

From Paper to Practice: Beyond Curriculum Intent, and Into Implementation (Part 3)

From Paper to Practice: Beyond Curriculum Intent, and Into Implementation (Part 3)

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

Feb 10, 20225 min read

From Paper to Practice: Beyond Curriculum Intent, and Into Implementation (Part 2)

From Paper to Practice: Beyond Curriculum Intent, and Into Implementation (Part 2)

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

Feb 9, 202212 min read

From Paper to Practice: Beyond Curriculum Intent, and Into Implementation (Part 1)

From Paper to Practice: Beyond Curriculum Intent, and Into Implementation (Part 1)

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

Feb 8, 20226 min read

Forensic Assessment

Forensic Assessment

Forensic Assessment

As teachers we are all too familiar with the concept of assessment and its importance. We know that without assessment there is no...

Dec 15, 20216 min read

Beware The Reverse-Engineered Curriculum (or The Potential Pitfalls Of Retrieval Practice)

Beware The Reverse-Engineered Curriculum (or The Potential Pitfalls Of Retrieval Practice)

Beware The Reverse-Engineered Curriculum (or The Potential Pitfalls Of Retrieval Practice)

Aren't Knowledge Organisers brilliant? Isn't Retrieval Practice just the bees knees? As for Powerful Knowledge... sigh - the stuff dreams...

Dec 14, 20214 min read

The Anne Robinson Curriculum: No Weak Links Allowed

The Anne Robinson Curriculum: No Weak Links Allowed

The Anne Robinson Curriculum: No Weak Links Allowed

Lekha Sharma recently wrote a short but very provocative blog post about the connectedness of the primary curriculum. It prompted an interesting discussion on Twitter between some people who know their stuff and it prompted me to write this. My other prompt was an afternoon of lessons that I taught in a year 4 class. This post is not about my teaching, or even about pedagogical choices, it's more simply about how a well-designed cross-curricular approach to curriculum desig

Dec 3, 20218 min read

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