If you've not read anything I've written previously on these subjects, you can catch up here: KS2 Continuous Provision Flexible Lesson Design Learning Sequences And now you're up to speed, you might be wondering what these three have to do with each other. Well, let's start with a few questions that some teachers asked me recently when we were working on getting KS2 Continuous Provision right in their school: What is the role of the adult? What does timetabling look like? How can behaviour be...

When I started teaching we had three kinds of plans (of course it was three - 3-part lessons, 3-way differentiation - we loved a good three): LTPs, MTPs and STPs (or lesson plans). I'm not sure how much that language has survived, but I'm hoping things are moving on, especially in the case of the overlooked but very important MTP. Medium Term Plans came as a result of Medium Term Planning - an extra, long, afterschool session of planning once a half term, usually towards the end of the half...

Recently ( and actually, for a while now ), I've been banging on about how clear your curriculum needs to be , particularly with regards to ensuring your curriculum statements (objectives, key facts/information) are explicit and clear. And it's not just me who thinks this is important. I've recently carried out some curriculum reviews for different schools and organisations, and one piece of feedback I've given regularly is along these lines: Provide more explicit guidance in unit overviews...