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Andrew Percival
@primarypercival
Deputy Head leading on Curriculum & English at Stanley Road Primary School. Interested in Cog Sci in the classroom.
Dec 20, 2023 • 16 tweets • 4 min read
A Thread on Handwriting…
Over the past 2 years, I have paid more attention to the way handwriting is taught than at any other point in my career. Handwriting seemed a fairly simple thing that pupils would just pick up with a few lessons on letter formation. I was wrong! Here are some things I think about now that I didn’t always consider before… Writing position
Without a strong writing position, pupils will struggle to maintain their writing over sustained periods. We use the acronym in the image below with the ’Ninety degrees’ phrase referring to the angle that ankles, knees and hips should be at when writing. Teachers use this prompt before children start writing in any lesson to ensure poor posture doesn’t impact on HW.
Jun 20, 2023 • 16 tweets • 5 min read
A thread on developing pupils' knowledge of sentence constructions....

As part of our work on developing a new writing curriculum, we have developed Twelve 'Teaching Tools' to support pupils' mastery of our sentence knowledge curriculum. The 'tools' move from being heavily scaffolded to support early knowledge acquisition towards a set of tools that build more independent application of the grammar knowledge we want pupils to be fluent in.
Jun 18, 2023 • 6 tweets • 1 min read
Zones of Regulation - some findings from Mason et al's research review (2023)

"Ochocki et al. found that the intervention group did not show statistically significant reductions in disruptive behavior, nor did it show significant improvements in self-control" "With a current paucity of peer reviewed studies on the effectiveness of Zones of Regulation, and the high degree of variability in reported outcomes in the small number of existing studies, it is difficult to consider Zones an evidence-based practice despite its widespread use."
Feb 3, 2023 • 6 tweets • 3 min read
I think we have a problem with primary writing - we are in thrall to overly fancy vocab and flashy literary devices. As a result, we neglect clarity of communication- simple language & accurate grammar.

Our new writing curric is an attempt to move from 'Purple Prose' to 'Beige' I have a hunch that the focus on 'Purple Prose' writing leaves many low prior-attaining children behind. They arrive in Y7 unable to write simple grammatically accurate sentences because this has not been prioritised in the pursuit of 'Wow words' and extravagant poetic imagery