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Helicopter Stories – Let kids’ imaginations fly Ready to take your classroom on a storytelling adventure that sparks creativity, collaboration and endless smiles? Buckle up and explore the incredible world of Helicopter Stories...

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Adding surds – What students get wrong about expressions with square roots Colin Foster looks at the different ways in which surds can be combined – some of which can be difficult for students to make sense of...

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SEND interventions – 6 ideas to ensure students aren’t left out The way to make inclusion really work within the classroom ultimately comes down to tailored interventions, advises Gary Whall...

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SEN teacher – Streamline your record-keeping Demystify high-quality teaching and learning for SEND to create more efficient ways of working with the limited time and resources you have...

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Chess in schools – 8 ways to make it work There’s little evidence that chess has a direct and long-lasting effect on children’s intelligence, but it can have many other benefits...

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RSHE – The backlash, the hysteria and the government review A review of how RSHE is being taught may be helpful – but not if it’s intended to achieve specific policy goals before it’s even started...

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Conjunctions – Subordinating & coordinating KS1/KS2 ideas Buckle up for a captivating exploration into the world of coordinating and subordinating conjunctions, as we uncover the best teaching ideas and resources around...

Clauses – Ultimate KS1 and KS2 guide & resources Help children know their relative clauses from their subordinate clauses, their independent clauses from dependant causes, and more, with these resources and worksheets for primary school…

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Art history in schools – What to teach and how to do it Art history occupies a bigger place in the curriculum than it used to – and covering it sufficiently can be quite the challenge, says Caroline Aldous-Goodge

Non-chronological report – Best KS1/KS2 examples & resources Get children's report writing in order, even if it's not in chronological order, with these lesson ideas, activities and other resources for primary English...

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Initial teacher education – How to solve the recruitment crisis Viv Ellis and Sarah Steadman survey the initial teacher education landscape and put forward some ideas for how it might be improved...

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CAD and CAM – How to teach them in KS2 DT Computer-aided design and manufacture can be rather terrifying for teachers to tackle, but there’s no need to be afraid...

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Prosody in reading – How to teach it in primary One component of reading fluency has been sadly overlooked in recent government guidance...

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GCSE music – How to engage your cohort’s ‘bedroom producers’ Bedroom music production is an increasingly popular hobby among teens – but how many of them feel encouraged to pursue music at GCSE?

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D&T textiles – Transforming the textiles curriculum Find out how one West Yorkshire primary wove local history and the future of science into the textiles curriculum...

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Year 6 DT projects – Making a boxcar This inspiring Design & Technology curriculum is all about a race to the bottom...

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Knowledge-rich curriculum – Spotlighting knowledge & applying it How to put knowledge at the centre of your curriculum (and a warning)...

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Geography display – How they can bring your lessons to life The right kind of display can drive home just how dynamic and profoundly important the subject of geography really is, says Steve Brace...

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Initial Teacher Training – What we’ve lost, and why it matters Priorities when training teachers have changed – which might partly explain our current recruitment issues, argues Dr Shirley Lawes...

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Reward trips for schools – From ‘well done’ to ‘wheeeeeee…!’ You should approach reward systems carefully, says Daniel Harvey – but there’s no denying the thrill of a theme park trip for doing well...

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PE curriculum – Transforming fitness in school How one teacher went from being a reluctant participant in sport to winning a national award for leading PE, and transformed the curriculum along the way

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Maths mastery – What success looks like Getting to grips with maths can often conjure images of tediously repeating times tables, but implementing a mastery approach will take children’s learning much deeper...

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Parent communication – WhatsApp groups have gotten out of hand Introducing pupils to the basics of online etiquette is all very well... but won’t someone please think of the parents?

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Curriculum development – Why Ofsted shouldn’t get the final say Pleasing Ofsted doesn’t have to be to the deciding factor in school leaders’ decision-making, says Adrian Lyons...

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Interdisciplinary learning – Why it’s key to developing tomorrow’s scientists The UK’s science sector needs new recruits, notes John Mendenhall – so how can we persuade our students to step up?

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