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Helen Maden-Sheridan

@fastmaths123.bsky.social

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Creator of ‘Fast Maths’. 42 Maths/Spelling Books published by Educational Publisher - ‘Topical Resources’. Teacher for 34 years. Ex-Primary Headteacher. Now freelance SLE (Specialist Leader in Education for Maths/Spelling/Reading Fluency)

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Helen Maden-Sheridan @fastmaths123.bsky.social · 23/10/2024

‘Mastery’ in Maths particularly - does it mean the same to everyone?

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Helen Maden-Sheridan @fastmaths123.bsky.social · 20/09/2024

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Helen Maden-Sheridan @fastmaths123.bsky.social · 17/09/2024

The sky in Cumbria at 7am this morning….makes you feel so good to be alive!

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Helen Maden-Sheridan @fastmaths123.bsky.social · 17/09/2024

Which path are you taking?

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Helen Maden-Sheridan @fastmaths123.bsky.social · 07/09/2024

Unbelievably Proud Teacher Moment. I became the Year 5 and 6 teacher of a Paralympian - Charlie Harding. On Monday, aged 21, Charlie was the guide for Oscar Kelly in the PTVI Triathlon at the Paralympics in Paris. They came 7th in the world! The podium awaits them in LA in 2028, 2032……

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Helen Maden-Sheridan @fastmaths123.bsky.social · 01/09/2024

Even when the test wasn’t done as part of the SATs, I still used the paragraph (it was different but similar every year) to do a before and after evaluation - this really helped children to improve their handwriting. Dug this out of an old folder of mine…from 2005!

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Helen Maden-Sheridan @fastmaths123.bsky.social · 01/09/2024

From the 1990s - one of the paragraphs that children had to copy on lined paper for KS2 SATs. A brilliant Assessment - pushed teachers to teach handwriting really well. Handwriting was so much better then - it definitely deteriorated once handwriting was assessed as part of the writing task.