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 ...

Shackleton’s Journey is a mesmerising non-fiction picture book by William Grill that focuses on themes of courage and endurance, as well as going into detail about the lives of Shackleton’s crew and ...

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

We’ve packed this Pie Corbett poetry lesson plan with playful activities to help your KS2 class celebrate the power of imagination. The download features Pie’s original poem, ‘What are You?’, as well ...

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 ...

Part bird, perhaps part angel, Skellig is a mystical creature inhabiting a mundane setting. Considering his true nature will open some challenging debates, and close reading of David Almond’s powerful ...

Prior to starting this unit, you need to do a little preparation so that the children are engaged from the beginning. You will need a small suitcase or attaché case. In the case, place a copy of The ...

These creative writing ideas and examples will help pupils use compelling language to keep the reader on the edge of their seat… Peer inside the mind of a professional author and help KS2 pupils ...

Like it or not, teachers and schools are a frontline mental health service. According to the NHS Survey of Mental Health in Children and Young People 2021, probable disorders in children aged six to ...

Expand your primary assessment knowledge and methods in just ten minutes with these bite-sized CPD articles from assessment experts including Daisy Christodoulou and the Oxford assessment team. You'll ...

This free punctuation games download contains everything you need to play a sentence matching game for KS1 and a SPaG board game for KS2. This collection of grammar games from our friends at literacy ...

Teachers are professional question askers. Using questioning in our classrooms is a common strategy for getting our students to engage in critical thinking and self-reflection, and to become active ...