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📼 WAGOLL Rewind: 2025
A research-informed recap for busy primary educators. Here's what you might have missed this year!
Jan 3
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Ben Cooper
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⭐ WAGOLL+ Primary Playbook
A growing, members-only playbook of practical primary strategies, refreshed with new pages each month.
May 20, 2025
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Ben Cooper
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⭐ More Than Neat Books: The Case for Teaching Handwriting Explicitly
How handwriting supports memory, fluency, and externalised thinking - with a practical teaching script too!
Nov 24, 2025
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Ben Cooper
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Beyond Icons: Rethinking Dual Coding in the Primary Classroom
Dual coding isn’t just about removing text and adding pictures. It’s about how we use visuals and space to think more clearly, extend cognition, and…
Nov 14, 2025
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Ben Cooper
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🧠 Rethinking Scaffolds in the Primary Classroom
Not just support for struggle, tools for organising knowledge and extending thinking
Oct 27, 2025
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Ben Cooper
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⭐ More Than Neat Books: The Case for Teaching Handwriting Explicitly
Nov 24, 2025
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Ben Cooper
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Selecting Task Types: Designing Tasks That Help Children Think Part 2
Apr 9, 2025
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Ben Cooper
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Narrative: A Primary School Cognitive Load Hack
Apr 15, 2025
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Ben Cooper
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⭐The Power of Singing: A Primary Classroom Hack
May 31, 2025
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Ben Cooper
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Considering the Primary Child
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⭐ Rethinking '3 Before Me'
Why this popular classroom strategy might be slowing learning down and what to do instead.
Aug 28, 2025
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Ben Cooper
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A Learning Model with the Environment in Mind
A learning model that shows how memory and environment work together and reflects how children truly learn in EYFS and Primary.
May 26, 2025
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Ben Cooper
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⭐ WAGOLL+ Primary Playbook
A growing, members-only playbook of practical primary strategies, refreshed with new pages each month.
May 20, 2025
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Leading Teaching and Learning
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A 6 Week Professional Development Cycle: A Model for Great PD Training
A Practical Framework for Embedding Impactful Teaching Strategies
Jul 7, 2025
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Ben Cooper
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The Art of Modelling: Thinking Aloud
Helping children hear the expert thinking behind knowledge, concepts and processes
Jun 29, 2025
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Ben Cooper
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The Art of Modelling: Demonstrating Expert Knowledge
Taking a broader view of what modelling means for teaching in the primary classroom
Jun 16, 2025
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