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Children’s bereavement – How teachers can help grieving pupils Develop staff understanding, skills and confidence in dealing with children's grief with this helpful advice...

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Collective punishment – Is it always wrong in schools? What is collective punishment and does it work? What are the alternatives? We explore this controversial teaching tactic...

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SENCo – The role, its challenges and how to succeed Being a SENCO means juggling many different roles while managing a challenging workload. Here we share advice about how to excel in this multifaceted role...

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Prevent duty guidance – How the latest updates affect your school Mubina Asaria outlines the latest updates and changes to the Prevent duty that school staff need to be mindful of

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Michaela Community School prayer ban – How it affects your school After Michaela Community School's recent High Court victory, what are the implications of schools now being able to impose 'prayer bans'?

Behaviour management strategies for primary school – Videos & advice Managing challenging behaviour in KS1 and KS2 children can be tricky, but this collection of expert advice, ideas and opinion pieces can help you keep the mood positive...

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Inspirational teacher – The educator who transformed me John Lawson reflects on how the best teachers turn us into better people, via values and philosophies that are still applicable decades on...

Challenging behaviour – The best ways to deal with it What do you do when the behaviour of a child in your class is very challenging? Try these behaviour management techniques...

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Chase High School – Achieving our first ‘Good’ Ofsted rating Executive headteacher, Jamie Foster, reflects on how Chase High School shed its lowly local reputation and entered a new era of renewal...

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DSL supervision – Are you doing enough to look after your DSL? Sarah Cook outlines the pressing need for better supervision of designated safeguarding leads within secondary settings

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Gardening in schools – How to fund greener school grounds Getting the whole community involved in upgrading your school grounds is vital for green development in schools, says Anne-Marie Bolton...

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Sensory audit – How to optimise your school for autistic children A few small adjustments to your environment informed by a sensory audit could make all the difference to an autistic child...

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Single sex schools – What coed settings can learn from them Let’s stop asking girls to behave more like the worst of boys and start encouraging boys to emulate the best of girls, writes Natasha Devon...

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Vaping in schools – Why schools need to set a policy and stick to it Daniel Harvey examines the spread of vaping in school – how often it happens, why it happens and how it might be tackled…

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Zero tolerance – Why real freedom requires order, not chaos As any educator worth their salt knows, the one area you can never compromise on is classroom behaviour, writes John Lawson...

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Nurture group – Two case studies Nurture groups within schools have proved successful in supporting children who are facing emotional and social challenges...

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Framing – How to turn classroom chores into sought-after perks The way we present tasks shapes how students perceive them – and in turn, how well they’ll take to them, observes Colin Foster...

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Behaviour management in Early Years – Expert tips and ideas We've gathered a selection of expert strategies for managing behaviour to help your nursery run smoothly and let all children get on with learning and having fun...

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Authority – Why the best educators teach like Attenborough Teachers must be specialists, but also passionate advocates, says John Lawson – because if you don’t love your subject, why should your students?

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Trauma-informed approach – Supporting a care-experienced child Taking a trauma-informed approach can create a truly nurturing environment for care-experienced pupils...

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Silent classroom – When (and when not) to use silence The notion of the 'silent classroom' may have fallen out of favour in recent years, but well-managed periods of silence still have their place, says Adam Riches

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Behaviour as communication – What are your learners telling you? It's tempting to assume that learners' behaviour results from conscious decision-making – but that's not always the case, says Amanda Wright

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Wootton Park School – Why we do community service Principal Dan Rosser explains why the spirit of community service is so important at Wootton Park School

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Empathy – Why teachers can have too much of it It seems an almost heretical question for teachers, but … could too much empathy be a bad thing? Colin Foster suspects so...

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Working class – The meritocracy myth of schools Matt Bromley explains why schools are classist – and offers some thoughts on what we might be able to do about it...

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