Play, Cognition & Learning

Blogs about how children's cognition an learning develops and how it can be supported, including that teaching of reading, writing and maths.

A checklist is only part of the support. Understanding together why it helps, when to use it and how to begin makes it a shared plan.

Working Memory: Fatigue and the Hidden Demands of School

Working memory capacity is finite: we can only hold so much information in mind while using it. A pupil may be trying to remember an instruction while finding their book, organising an idea and thinking about spelling. For some pupils, this can feel like working at a desk already covered in papers.

Kathryn Gibb

7d4 min read