Once GCSE results day has been and gone, what are the key issues and outcomes that school staff should reflect on during an ...

11-plus exam prep can build valuable skills but shouldn't come at the expense of nurturing curiosity, resilience and ...

It’s the stuff of teachers’ anxiety nightmares. You’ve arrived in the classroom, nothing is planned, the books have gone missing, the pupils are jumping from desk to desk and you awake in an emotional ...

At our school, we’re always looking for new ways to integrate creativity into the curriculum. One of the projects we keep coming back to is blackout poetry. Blackout poetry is a fantastic method to ...

Whole-class reading works best, in my experience, when it’s built around a structured comprehension framework. I use the VIPERS reading approach – vocabulary, inference, prediction, explanation, ...

In many stories – especially adventures – characters discover an exciting new place and experience a sense of wonder. When writing a fantasy setting, the only limits are those of the writer’s ...

Literary Devices defines alliteration as: “A stylistic device in which a number of words, having the same first consonant sound, occur close together in a series.” Does alliteration have to use the ...

Performing the text allows students to find their own voice within Shakespeare’s language. However, it can be intimidating if they think there is a ‘right’ way to do this. One way to overcome learners ...

I challenge you to start researching the local history of your area with your pupils and not get hooked. My passion was ignited while teaching at a village school on the edge of Bradford. I discovered ...

Football has an incredible power to unite people across cultures and borders. For this reason, using it as a springboard for language learning is a natural fit. As a subject, it always sparks lots of ...

With major sporting events come great opportunities to bring the rich world of statistics into the primary classroom. Football provides vast amounts of data with which many children will already be ...

When we first think of fun and engaging KS2 drama lessons we might picture energetic improvisation; all the children buzzing with ideas and thoroughly enjoying themselves. But contrary to this ...