Thinking Deeply about Primary Education

By Kieran Mackle

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Welcome to Thinking Deeply about Primary Education, the podcast that gives you a peek inside the minds of some truly inspirational primary teachers. Whether you're new to the profession or a school leader with tons of experience this podcast is a must listen. For references, links and extended cut video episodes head over to www.thinkingdeeply.info

Episode Date
Handwriting, the 2025 Writing Framework, and Reluctant Writers with Nicky Parr
Dec 13, 2025
Building a Whole School EAL System for Multilingual Learners with Dr Robert Sharples
Dec 06, 2025
Thinking Deeply about AI for Schools: Alpha School
Nov 29, 2025
It’s the Thought that Counts: Why Learning to Count Is More Complex Than You Think
Nov 22, 2025
Succeeding as Deputy Head with Chris Passey and Adam Kohlbeck
Nov 15, 2025
Play Time: Neurodivergence, psychological safety and creativity in the classroom
Nov 08, 2025
Iterative Lesson Design: A Practical Cycle for Teacher Growth with Stuart Welsh
Nov 01, 2025
What We Asked. What We Learned: TDaPE in Term One 2025
Oct 25, 2025
The Power of Maths Journaling with Dr Kirsten Fenton and Holly Drummond
Oct 18, 2025
Mathematical Talk: The Heartbeat of Classroom Thinking (with Amy How)
Oct 11, 2025
Teacher Writers with Andy McHugh
Oct 04, 2025
Accessible by Default: In Action
Sep 29, 2025
What the science of learning teaches us about arithmetic fluency with John Jackson
Sep 20, 2025
The Teach Like a Champion Guide to the Science of Reading
Sep 13, 2025
Curriculum Thinking: International Perspectives with Lucy Crehan
Sep 06, 2025
Implementing the Writing Framework with Care and Balance
Aug 30, 2025
Calm, Consistent, and Certain: Building Better Behaviour in Primary
Aug 23, 2025
Accessible by Default: An Inclusive Teaching Discussion
Aug 16, 2025
Reforming Lessons: Sir Nick Gibb on Evidence, Policy, and Change in Education
Aug 09, 2025
The Illustrated Guide to Pedagogy with Fin Wilson and Jane Miller
Aug 02, 2025
More Than Flags and Rainbows: Part Two – From Foundations to Implementation
Jul 26, 2025
More Than Flags and Rainbows: Meaningful LGBTQ+ Inclusion in Schools with Ian Timbrell
Jul 19, 2025
Inside the 2025 Writing Framework: Jane Considine on the Future of Writing Instruction
Jul 12, 2025
Time for Reflection: Disciplinary literacy, supporting new literacy leads and the role of coaching in the school-improvement eco-system
Jul 05, 2025
A Language Pedagogy Deep Dive: Teaching Welsh in English-Medium Schools
Jun 28, 2025
From Maths Anxiety to Maths Advocacy: Leading Sustainable Change in Schools
Jun 21, 2025
Conceptual Clarity: A Conversation with Pete Mattock
Jun 14, 2025
Curriculum Coherence or Curricular Chaos?
Jun 07, 2025
From the Classroom to Leadership: Building Cultures that Thrive
May 31, 2025
Beyond Sentence Stems: Deep Scaffolding for Inclusive Literacy
May 24, 2025
Three Lessons Learned from Three Years in Deputy Headship
May 17, 2025
Lessons learned from a classroom sabbatical with Lisa Coe
May 14, 2025
Thinking Deeply about Conceptual Understanding
May 10, 2025
School-wide maths improvement with Lisa Coe
May 07, 2025
Literacy Leadership, Testing and Disciplinary Reading with Chris Such
May 03, 2025
The One Paper Every Primary Teacher Should Read – with Lloyd Williams-Jones
Apr 30, 2025
From Planning to Practice: Mastering Professional Development Design
Apr 26, 2025
Driving School-Wide Change with Lloyd Williams-Jones
Apr 23, 2025
Standing Room Only – Deconstructing Word Problems by Gareth Metcalfe
Apr 19, 2025
Deconstructing Word Problems with Gareth Metcalfe
Apr 12, 2025
Teaching Through Comparison: What Works and When?
Apr 05, 2025
Writing First, Assessment Second: A Conversation with Chris Youles
Mar 30, 2025
From Coaching to Confidence: The Power of Whole-Staff Rehearsal
Mar 22, 2025
What do schools who provide a stellar religious education offering do so well?
Mar 19, 2025
What's in Store at TDaPE Manchester 2025?
Mar 15, 2025
Ausubel's concept hierarchy explained
Mar 12, 2025
Sustaining School Improvement – Leadership, Culture, and Change with Adam Lowing & Stuart Welsh
Mar 08, 2025
What are some high-impact, low-effort ways to improve mathematics across a school?
Mar 05, 2025
Concreteness Fading: Bridging Procedural and Conceptual Understanding
Mar 01, 2025
How can schools embed a consistent, research-informed approach to mathematics teaching?
Feb 26, 2025
Disciplinary Literacy: Unlocking Deeper Learning with Juli Ryzop
Feb 22, 2025
How can I incorporate retrieval effectively in maths lessons without causing unnecessary cognitive overload?
Feb 19, 2025
The Future of School Inspection: Still Analysing Ofsted's Proposed Reforms
Feb 15, 2025
Improving reading across a whole school
Feb 12, 2025
The Future of School Inspection: Analysing Ofsted’s Proposed Reforms
Feb 08, 2025
David Ausubel's Key Ideas (In Summary) with Sarah Cottinghatt
Feb 05, 2025
Finding time in busy timetables for high-quality art lessons
Feb 01, 2025
Is the English writing system introduced in ways that can lead to spelling difficulties?
Jan 29, 2025
The Hospital of Hope and The Fight Against Cancer
Jan 25, 2025
To what extent is English orthography a representation of spoken language?
Jan 22, 2025
Maximising Learning with Interleaved Practice in Maths
Jan 18, 2025
Summative assessments: Why and when do we use them?
Jan 15, 2025
What are the four most prominent features of an effective mathematics lesson?
Jan 08, 2025
Beyond Words: The Purpose and Practice of Modern Foreign Language Education
Jan 04, 2025
What are the four most prominent features of an effective lesson?
Jan 01, 2025
Unlocking Learning: Background Knowledge, Spelling, and Modelling
Dec 28, 2024
Transforming Reading and Mathematics: Powerful Questions for Teachers
Dec 21, 2024
Promise or Peril: Can AI shape the future of education?
Dec 14, 2024
Exploring Explicit Teaching with Zach Groshell
Dec 07, 2024
What's in Store at TDaPE London?
Nov 30, 2024
Building Confidence in Primary Mathematics with Amy How
Nov 23, 2024
Lesson Design – Insights from Cognitive Science and Direct Instruction with Jake Cowling
Nov 16, 2024
Powerful RE with Adam Smith
Nov 09, 2024
Language and Learning – Supporting EAL Pupils in Mathematics
Nov 02, 2024
Time to Look – A Primary Art Field Guide
Oct 26, 2024
The questions that keep me thinking
Oct 19, 2024
Strategies for Success in Leadership
Oct 12, 2024
Primary Reading Simplified with Christopher Such
Oct 05, 2024
Sequencing the Primary Curriculum
Sep 28, 2024
Small Numbers, Big Ideas
Sep 21, 2024
Flourishing as a new or beginning teacher
Sep 14, 2024
Ofsted Overhaul: Changes, Challenges, and Complexities
Sep 07, 2024
Effective School Leadership with Lloyd Williams Jones
Aug 31, 2024
Purposeful Coaching with Matt Stone (Part Two)
Aug 24, 2024
Purposeful Coaching with Matt Stone (Part One)
Aug 17, 2024
The Phonics of Maths?
Aug 10, 2024
1:1 reading, AI in schools, challenges ahead for the DfE and Labour, and more...
Aug 03, 2024
Thinking Deeply about Mathematics Education: A Live Panel
Jul 27, 2024
Transforming Teaching: Essential Strategies for Curriculum Success
Jul 20, 2024
Changing your maths curriculum?
Jul 13, 2024
How to be present in your professional development
Jul 06, 2024
Why is teaching handwriting so difficult and what can we do about it?
Jun 29, 2024
Lessons learned from a decade of executive leadership
Jun 22, 2024
The key to effective teacher professional development
Jun 15, 2024
How to solve a problem like....Fractions
Jun 08, 2024
Bond, Don't Break: Developing a systematic approach to number facts
Jun 01, 2024
The Scaffolding Effect with Alex Fairlamb and Rachel Ball
May 25, 2024
A Blueprint for Exceptional Maths Teaching
May 18, 2024
'Using student data' with Richard Selfridge
May 11, 2024
"Following the Evidence" with Jon Kay
May 04, 2024
Spelling for Life with Lyn Stone
Apr 27, 2024
Comprehend This! (Reading is not a skills based subject)
Apr 20, 2024
Working independently, subject knowledge professional development, and an NPQ vs a Masters...
Apr 13, 2024
The key(s) to effective modelling
Apr 06, 2024
Establishing a belief in the potential of ALL pupils
Mar 30, 2024
Becoming a more responsive teacher
Mar 23, 2024
Learning from the world beyond education
Mar 16, 2024
Making learning more challenging
Mar 09, 2024
Primary Mathematics: The A - Z and everything in-between...
Mar 02, 2024
Becoming a teacher who is published...
Feb 24, 2024
Becoming a teacher who writes with Leisa Grace Wilson
Feb 17, 2024
Small Schools: Leadership, Curriculum and Pedagogy
Feb 10, 2024
Variation Theory, DI and Cognitive Load Theory: Estranged siblings or rivals to the throne?
Feb 03, 2024
The Role of Background Knowledge in Reading Comprehension with Reid Smith
Jan 27, 2024
Counting: 5 things you didn't realise you needed to know about...
Jan 20, 2024
3 fundamental aspects of geography teaching
Jan 13, 2024
Cursive writing, small school organisation and subject leader folders...
Jan 06, 2024
9 common misconceptions surrounding the teaching of phonics
Dec 30, 2023
Engaging parents/carers with mathematics at home
Dec 23, 2023
Under the Microscope: Research and Pedagogies for Early Math (Part Two)
Dec 16, 2023
'Leading from the middle' with Stuart Welsh
Dec 09, 2023
Smashing Glass Ceilings: Empowering Women in Education
Dec 02, 2023
EAL: What every teacher needs to know about teaching pupils who use English as an additional language
Nov 25, 2023
EAL: Supporting pupils who use English as an additional language
Nov 18, 2023
Under the Microscope: Research and Pedagogies for Early Math (Part One)
Nov 11, 2023
"Convince me AI has a place in education" with Neil Almond
Nov 04, 2023
Implementing an 'evidence-informed' approach to Reading
Oct 28, 2023
Morphology with Kathy Rastle
Oct 21, 2023
Balancing Whole-School and Personalised CPD with Neil Gorton
Oct 14, 2023
Unlocking the Magic of MathsBot.com with Jonny Hall
Oct 07, 2023
The Power of Geography with Sarah Larsen
Sep 30, 2023
Culture, evidence and school improvement with Rachel Ball
Sep 23, 2023
Thinking Deeply about Primary History with Stuart Tiffany
Sep 16, 2023
Leadership Reflections with Shannen Doherty
Sep 09, 2023
Persistent Classroom Problems with Tom Oakley
Sep 02, 2023
Becoming a Teacher with Ben Ebdon
Aug 26, 2023
Assessing reading, staffing, technology, research, teacher development and life beyond school...
Aug 19, 2023
Positive environments, differentiation, collaboration and assessing progress...
Aug 12, 2023
Under the Microscope: Cognitive Architecture and Instructional Design - 20 Years On (Part Two)
Aug 05, 2023
Under the Microscope: Cognitive Architecture and Instructional Design - 20 Years On (Part One)
Jul 29, 2023
Igniting Curiosity: Embracing Education Research
Jul 22, 2023
Manipulatives, assessment, mathematical language and retrieval success....
Jul 15, 2023
Breaking Free 3: The Future of Key Stage One Writing Assessment
Jul 08, 2023
Teacher Induction: A Field Guide for Teachers and Leaders
Jul 01, 2023
Breaking Free 2: The Future of Key Stage One Reading Assessment
Jun 24, 2023
The Erosion of Art, Music, Sport and Cooking
Jun 17, 2023
Breaking Free: The Future of Key Stage One Mathematics Assessment
Jun 10, 2023
Demystifying Ofsted: Outstanding
Jun 03, 2023
Bonds, Basics, Bars and Breadth: Primary Mathematics Unplugged
May 27, 2023
5 Things Every Teacher Needs to Know about Reading Comprehension
May 20, 2023
Strategic Thinking with Lloyd Williams-Jones
May 13, 2023
Knowledge Organisers: A Field Guide
May 06, 2023
"I’m leaving teaching", No hands up, Testing in Year 1 and Working walls...
Apr 29, 2023
Test-Enhanced Learning
Apr 22, 2023
In search of the Science of Mathematics (Teaching) with Brendan Lee
Apr 15, 2023
How to land your dream teaching job...
Apr 08, 2023
Summative assessments, planning with high quality texts and leading Year 6...
Apr 01, 2023
The stickiness of stories and what this means for teachers...
Mar 25, 2023
The English writing system and what every teacher needs to know about it...
Mar 18, 2023
Task Design for Teachers: Designing Effective Tasks
Mar 11, 2023
Some Practical Advice on Practicals in Science
Mar 04, 2023
Effective Communication with Parents/Carers: A Field Guide for Teachers and Leaders
Feb 25, 2023
It's time to face facts: Teaching multiplication tables for automaticity and understanding
Feb 18, 2023
Teaching Writing: A Field Guide
Feb 11, 2023
Backward Faded Examples with Dave Taylor
Feb 04, 2023
Curriculum Conversations: Implementation Challenges 2023
Jan 28, 2023
Supporting Struggling Readers
Jan 21, 2023
Is this the future of Planning?
Jan 14, 2023
The Art and Science of Teaching Primary Reading 2.0
Jan 07, 2023
Evidence Informed Practice: Connecting research with the classroom
Dec 31, 2022
The Great Subject Knowledge Compendium 2.5
Dec 24, 2022
The Great Subject Knowledge Compendium 2: Know Harder
Dec 17, 2022
Supporting HLTAs in their professional development...
Dec 10, 2022
Wellbeing: A Field Guide for Teachers and School Leaders
Dec 03, 2022
100 ways to Think Deeply about Primary Education with Kieran Mackle
Nov 26, 2022
5 ways to get the most from "Technology" in the classroom...
Nov 19, 2022
Manipulatives and Mathematics: A Thinking Deeply about Mathematics Education Panel
Nov 12, 2022
Problem Solving with Gareth Metcalfe (Part Two)
Nov 05, 2022
Primary History with Stuart Tiffany
Oct 29, 2022
(S5,E8) Mathematics, Research and More with Craig Barton
Oct 22, 2022
(S5,E7) Retrieval Practice with Kate Jones
Oct 15, 2022
(S5,E6) Assessment w/James Pembroke and Richard Selfridge
Oct 08, 2022
(S5,E5) Stress, Learning and Memory with Dan Rosen
Oct 01, 2022
(S5,E4) Evidence Informed Practice with Juan Fernandez
Sep 24, 2022
(S5,E3) Blogging, social media and subject leadership with Aidan Severs
Sep 17, 2022
(S5,E2) Teacher and School Development w/Becky Allen and Sam Sims
Sep 10, 2022
(S5,E1) Leadership with Clare Sealy
Sep 03, 2022
How to get the most from Interventions...
Aug 27, 2022
The Early Career Framework: One Year On...
Aug 20, 2022
Establishing Routines in the Classroom: A Field Guide
Aug 13, 2022
Implications for Teaching, Learning and Curriculum: The Work of David Ausubel
Aug 06, 2022
Mathematics Education: A Thinking Deeply Panel
Jul 30, 2022
Learning Objectives: What is the point?
Jul 23, 2022
How do you solve a problem like Staffing?
Jul 16, 2022
A Traditionalist Approach to the Performing Arts
Jul 09, 2022
Self-Explanation with Michael Pershan...
Jul 02, 2022
What Every Teacher Needs to Know about Fractions...(part 1)
Jun 25, 2022
SEND: The 2022 Green Paper
Jun 18, 2022
Teaching Children to Read Irregular Words...
Jun 11, 2022
5 Principles for Religious Education Curriculum Design...
Jun 04, 2022
The Mysterious World of Independent Schools...
May 28, 2022
School and Teacher Development: A Field Guide
May 21, 2022
Small school leadership...
May 14, 2022
The KS1 Moderation Survival Guide...
May 07, 2022
What every teacher needs to know about Place Value...
Apr 30, 2022
5 ways to get the most from Comparative Judgement...
Apr 23, 2022
Getting Routines Right...
Apr 16, 2022
The 2022 Education White Paper…Take Two
Apr 09, 2022
The 2022 Education White Paper...Take One
Apr 02, 2022
3 ways to get communication right in schools...
Mar 26, 2022
Writing Moderation...
Mar 19, 2022
Multiplication Tables
Mar 12, 2022
7 ways to support middle leaders...
Mar 05, 2022
(S4,E7) The Past, Present and Future of Professional Development with Mary Myatt
Feb 26, 2022
(S4,E6) Walkthrus with Tom Sherrington, Oliver Caviglioli and Shannen Doherty
Feb 19, 2022
(S4,E5) Leadership with Nick Hart
Feb 12, 2022
(S4,E4) SEN with Cassie Young
Feb 05, 2022
(S4,E3) Phonics with Charlotte MacKechnie
Jan 29, 2022
(S4,E2) Mathematics with Sarah Farrell
Jan 22, 2022
(S4,E1) Motivation with Peps Mccrae
Jan 15, 2022
8 ways to get the most from Pupil Progress Meetings...
Jan 08, 2022
Thinking Deeply about Primary Education Live (New Years Eve Special)
Jan 01, 2022
The Power of Professional Reflection
Dec 25, 2021
The Great Subject Knowledge Compendium One
Dec 18, 2021
Problem Solving Part One
Dec 11, 2021
5 ways to salvage book scrutiny...
Dec 04, 2021
9 ways to get the most from pre-diagnostic assessments.
Nov 27, 2021
7 ways to create the conditions for high quality writing...
Nov 20, 2021
6 ways to improve the use of manipulatives in Upper Key Stage Two.
Nov 13, 2021
8 ways to get the most from talk in the classroom...
Nov 06, 2021
5 ways to get the most from collaborative planning...
Oct 30, 2021
7 ways to improve your teaching of spelling...
Oct 23, 2021
Planning?
Oct 16, 2021
(S3,E7) Mathematics with Berkeley Everett and Steph Elliot
Oct 09, 2021
(S3,E6) Curriculum with Jon Hutchinson
Oct 02, 2021
(S3,E5) Mastery with Matt Swain
Sep 25, 2021
(S3,E4) Leadership, Leverage and Learning with Lloyd Williams-Jones
Sep 18, 2021
(S3,E3) Teaching, Learning and Mental Health with Tom Brassington
Sep 11, 2021
(S3,E2) School Leadership and Professional Development with Gareth Rein
Sep 04, 2021
(S3,E1) Mathematics with Andrew Jeffrey
Aug 28, 2021
Struggling Mathematicians...
Aug 21, 2021
Reading Fluency?
Aug 14, 2021
Career Development?
Aug 07, 2021
Education Book Clubs?
Jul 31, 2021
Confidence Weighted Multiple Choice Questions...
Jul 24, 2021
Differentiation...
Jul 17, 2021
Subitising...
Jul 10, 2021
Reading Comprehension
Jul 03, 2021
Feedback?
Jun 26, 2021
Number Lines?
Jun 19, 2021
Primary Science?
Jun 12, 2021
(S2,E8) Quiz 2: Cruise Control
Jun 05, 2021
(S2,E7) Mathematics with Gareth Metcalfe
May 29, 2021
Season Two, Episode Six: Christopher Such (Reading)
May 22, 2021
Season Two, Episode Five: Adam Smith (Religious Education)
May 15, 2021
Season Two, Episode Four: Victoria Morris and Neil Almond (History)
May 08, 2021
Season Two, Episode Three: Victoria Morris and Neil Almond (Geography)
May 01, 2021
Season Two, Episode Two: Andrew Keegan (Music)
Apr 24, 2021
Season Two, Episode One: Tom Garry and Matt Swain (Supporting Early Career Teachers)
Apr 17, 2021
Mathematics Subject Leadership
Apr 10, 2021
Workload…
Apr 03, 2021
Mathematics Curricula (Part 2)
Mar 27, 2021
Episode Twelve: How do you solve a problem like...Reading for Professional Development?
Mar 20, 2021
Episode Eleven: How do you solve a problem like...Mathematics Curricula (Part 1)
Mar 13, 2021
How do you solve a problem like...Supporting Early Career Teachers?
Mar 06, 2021
How do you solve a problem like...Number Bonds?
Feb 27, 2021
(S1, E8) The Great Primary Education Quiz
Feb 20, 2021
(S1, E7) Mathematics with Shannen Doherty
Feb 13, 2021
(S1, E6) Teaching, Learning and Curriculum with Jack Harker
Feb 06, 2021
(S1,E5) Task Design with Elliot Morgan
Jan 30, 2021
(S1,E4) Teaching, Leadership and Development with Christopher Such
Jan 23, 2021
(S1,E3) Teaching, Learning and Curriculum with Neil Almond
Jan 16, 2021
(S1,E2) Mathematics Subject Leadership with Lisa Coe
Jan 09, 2021
(S1,E1) Pedagogy and Research with Lloyd Williams-Jones
Dec 29, 2020