V much agree about the movement within streams. Not sure it would be possible to take the top 80% without abandoning the rest in practice. (View Post)

Dienes blocks are great too. But as with all of these things, you need to know how to use them. I’m not having a go at primary teachers by the way. Most are hugely skilled generalists. I just think t… (View Post)

V good point Nigel. I know much less about primary so this post will be even more pie in the sky than the last one (and apols for double posting). If it were possible to put maths specialists (in com… (View Post)

As usual, what you say makes a lot of sense and I would acknowledge that what I’m about to say fits squarely into your bracketed paragraph but… I would argue that the only way to properly serve those… (View Post)

That would surely require, inter alia, Starmer to spend a weekend in the company of the son of a foreign spy with no security, and Rayner to briefly take over the party only to throw a cluster muniti… (View Post)