My planning changed enormously over the years; mainly because I found that what I had been given to use, didn't work (and frankly, did my head in 🤯)

This month in my 'Essentials' membership we're focusing upon 'Planning'; specifically 'Long' and 'Medium-Term'.

Each year I'd experience the same problems with my 'Long-Term Planning' (I've taught 4-11 year olds and it happened in every year group):

• I'd get 'left behind' in my long-term plans as the terms were all different lengths and events like Christmas and Sports Day in the summer meant that my timetable changed
• I was aiming to make sure my children were secure before moving on, so I spent longer on things than I was supposed to
• I'd expected/hoped they would remember what they'd learned last time and invariably they didn't, so, instead of moving on, we had to revisit most of it all over again...

My Medium-Term wasn't any more successful:

Most approaches I was given to medium-term planning over the years were just the long-t...