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The Journal

Notes on teaching
children with intent.

Short essays on what primary education should look like — written for parents who already suspect the system isn't built for their child.

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Featured · On Foundations
8 min read · 12 March 2026

The foundations that quietly decide secondary school.

By Year 8 the gap is three or four years old. The five primary-school foundations that decide whether secondary Maths feels easy or impossible — and why the window to lay them is closing right now.

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On Pedagogy

Why a class of ten changes everything.

A class of thirty isn't just a bigger class of ten. It's a structurally different educational object.

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On Faith

Faith at the centre — not the edges.

Top academics or Islamic grounding. Pick one. We reject the trade — and explain how.

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On Time

Three hours that do the work of seven.

Audit the school day honestly — most of it isn't teaching. Here's what we cut, and what replaces it.

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Reading is one thing.
Doing is another.

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