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Building Strong Foundations in Pre-Reception: How Young Children Grow and Learn
š Show Notes Episode 4 ā Building Strong Foundations in Pre-Reception: How Young Children Grow and Learn
In this episode, Rachael explores what high-quality early-years provision looks like for children aged two to...
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Talking Our Way to Learning: How Language Shapes the Early Years
Strong Foundations, Part Three: Talking Our Way to Learning - How Language Shapes the Early Years Episode of The Leadership Lens with Rachael Snowdon-Poole Series: Strong Foundations in the First Years In this weekās...
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Strong Foundations, Part Two: Designing a Curriculum That Builds from the Ground Up
In this episode, I continue the Strong Foundations series by exploring what strong curriculum design looks like in the earliest years of education ā how itās structured, how itās experienced, and how it prepares...
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From Strong Foundations to Even Stronger Futures ā What Great Early Education Looks Like
In this episode, I explore what āstrong foundationsā really mean in early education ā why they matter, how theyāre formed, and what effective leadership looks like in making them secure. Youāll learn about: The...
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Achieve, Belong, Thrive: Leading with Confidence under the Renewed Ofsted Framework
Episode Title The Leadership Lens: Achieve, Belong, Thrive ā Leading with Confidence under the Renewed Ofsted Framework āØ Episode Overview From November 2025, Ofstedās renewed inspection framework will change the way...
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Behaviour for Learning: Building Cultures that Last
šļø The Leadership Lens Episode Title: Behaviour for Learning ā Building the Conditions for Thinking Episode Summary: In this episode of The Leadership Lens, Rachael Snowdon-Poole ā serving Headteacher in a recently...
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Getting Inclusion Right - What Ofsted Really Mean by Inclusion
Getting Inclusion Right ā What Ofsted Really Means by Inclusion
Episode Summary:
In this episode of The Leadership Lens, host Rachael Snowdon-Poole ā serving Headteacher in a recently Outstanding school and Director...
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From Novice to Expert: Building Flexible Knowledge Across the Primary Curriculum
Episode Title:Ā From Novice to Expert: Building Knowledge Across the Primary Curriculum Ā Description:How do children really learn to think critically? In this episode, Rachael explains how knowledge builds across the...
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Feedback That Changes the Learners... Not Just the 'Work'!
Written marking takes hoursā¦ but does it really change learning?
In this episode of The Leadership Lens, I share how our school moved away from time-consuming marking towards feedback that actually transforms...
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Beyond Pub Quizzes: Retrieval Practice That Works
Episode Summary In this episode of The Leadership Lens, Rachael Snowdon-Poole takes us inside her own schoolās journey with retrieval practice ā the scepticism, the design choices, and the lessons learned along the...
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Curriculum by Design in the Early Years - The Specific Areas of Learning
In this episode of The Leadership Lens, Rachael Snowdon-Poole unpacks the EYFS specific areas of learning and how to teach them by design, not by chance. We start with Mathematics (joy, purpose and intentional talk),...
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Learning That Lasts: Embedding the Prime Areas in EYFS - Free Episode
In this episode of The Leadership Lens, Rachael Snowdon-Poole explores the three prime areas of learning in the Early Years Foundation Stage ā communication and language, personal, social and emotional development,...
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