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Interested in how we learn.

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What the exam paper cannot reach is the variation in classroom practice that put each child where they sit this morning.

Pupils sit the same paper. They did not have the same practice.

How protected is the fact-fluency slot in your weekly timetable?

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Around 500,000 Year 6 pupils sit the KS2 maths paper today. Arithmetic in the morning. Reasoning Paper 2 in the afternoon.

A thread on what the arithmetic paper actually measures. 🧵

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4) "Younger pupils' inability to subitise or easily recall addition facts hampers their progress." (Ofsted '23)

NCETM echoes this: "Key number facts are learnt to automaticity, and other key mathematical facts are learned deeply and practised regularly."

The consensus is clean.

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"Pupils do not pass through a magic barrier and suddenly become fluent." (DfE Reading Framework 2023).

Fluency is a gradient that compounds. So is the absence of it.

If you teach primary reading, where on the gradient does your current Year 5 sit?

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Around 500,000 Year 6 pupils sit the KS2 reading paper today.

A thread on what the reading paper can measure, and what it can't. 🧵

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EEF's working definition of fluency has 3 components: "Fluent readers can read accurately, at an appropriate speed without great effort (automaticity), and with appropriate stress and intonation (prosody)."
The reading paper sees one. The others were built earlier or they weren't

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@NeilErian @FixingEducation Ha! What's gonna happen then 😂

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@susannareid100 "there are statistics and then there are facts" 😂

Bet you're sick of all the "so-called" experts as well

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@elonmusk Erm... United States? 😂

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@GMB The lack of understanding the producers (and a lot of the general public) are demonstrating about how schools and the teaching profession work is staggering.

"So they can have a lie in". Actual words of @kategarraway 😂

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@jjenas8 Mate, it's pundits ruining the game. Not refs 😂

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@Crapule68 @Channel4News @C4Ciaran I'll be leaving in brogues, thank you very much

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@marcrileydj Bar Piccadilly Gardens the city centre is looking better than at any time in my life. Bit selective this

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@NEU_Manchester Is it just pickets today? Trying to find some action in town...

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@MancAcademy @st_vincent What time is St Vincent on? Gotta get my lad from his band rehearsal to the venue and it's a tight one 🤦🏽‍♂️

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