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5 Changes you Should Make to your MFL Lessons to Help GCSE Students Progress Struggling to help your MFL students make progress in a content driven environment? Try Kate Carter’s strategies for success...

“I no longer wanted to be alive” – Could compassion-focused therapy save mental health in schools? Depression and anxiety drove Andy Sammons to the brink – but compassion focused therapy helped him back. Could it work for our whole school system?

How to Teach Climate Change in Secondary Geography Young activists are demanding that schools put climate change on the curriculum – but the geography department should have it covered, argues Steve Brace...

Use circular stories to help children understand structure Narratives that go round in circles can teach story structure in a simple and satisfying way, sparking creativity and innovative exploration of narratives, says Rachel Clarke...

The East London School Combining Creativity and Technology for an Engaging Learning Experience “It’s about maintaining standards but at the same time making this a really fun and exciting place to work,” says Britannia Village head of school Kiel Richardson...

10 of the best trigonometry questions, worksheets and resources for KS3/4 maths While working out angles of triangles might not seem like an obvious life skill to students, it's a key mathematical concept that you can help them master with these activities and lesson plans...

Vikings KS2 activities

Vikings KS2 – Best Norse Mythology resources for primary history Traders, explorers, warriors, innovators – the Viking age is a fun and popular era to study, and these activities, lesson plans and other resources can help you and your students delve into Nordic fact and fiction...

Where Will Your School’s next SENCo Come From? Anne Heavey suggests some ways in which schools can do more to spot and nurture the burgeoning talents of would-be SENCos...

Help Students with Long-Term Illness to Access Learning When long-term illness stops a student from coming regularly to school, we should be enabling access, not chasing attendance, says Claire Tripp...

Everything NQTs Need to Know Before September So you’ve secured your first teaching post. Once the euphoria subsides, curiosity, trepidation and maybe even desperation will follow. Here’s what you need to know...

Converting measurements – Best worksheets and resources for KS2 maths Switch from cm to mm, km to miles and metric to non-metric with ease with these worksheets, interactive games and other primary teaching resources...

Meet the Academy Where Staff are Falling in Love with Teaching Again Helen Mulley visits Leventhorpe school, in Hertfordshire – an outstanding academy that is refusing to rest on its laurels…

High Expectations, Not ‘Engaging’ Activities, Will Help Students Thrive No wonder the gap widens when the myth that engagement equals learning is still out there, argues Helen Howell...

Formal Written Tests Given to all Primary Year Groups are a Waste of Time What sort of testing system actually tests children on things you haven’t yet taught, asks The Fake Headteacher...

7 Quick MFL Ideas to Boost Secondary Students’ Word Power Try these simple strategies from Dominic McGladdery to help your pupils learn – and remember – the vocabulary they need for success...

3 Things We’ve Learnt about Professional Development How useful are INSET days? That rather depends on whom you ask, says Laura McInerney...

Understanding Shakespeare’s Henry V Through Key Quotations Helen Mears explains how some of the key utterances of one of Shakespeare’s most memorable monarchs impact on our understanding of his character...

Why This MAT CEO Quit Social Media Completely In a world where social media is king, Helena Mills has taken the bold step of deleting it from her life entirely...

The Right Models can Help Children Grasp Non-Fiction Though tricky to grasp, with the right models children can master more formal registers, say Christine Chen and Lindsay Pickton...

Help Children use Real-Life Experiences to Write from the Heart The winning goal, a holiday disaster, grandma’s silver earrings – our life experiences are a rich source of writing inspiration, says Teresa Cremin...

10 Books to Teach on Magical Creatures in Primary From taking care of unicorns to serenading ogres, these fantastical stories will leave you fizzing with lesson ideas...

Three Bridges Southall – A fresh approach to the teaching environment We like to do things differently here, says headteacher Jeremy Hannay...

Children Need to Experience the Intoxicating Calm of the Library We will be a poorer society if future generations never know the intoxicating calm of the library, says Chris Riddell...

How to Overcome Imposter Syndrome in Teaching Is there an imposter in your classroom…and could it be you? If you think the answer is ‘yes’, you aren’t alone, says Gordon Cairns – but you’re almost certainly mistaken...

Education is Far from Immune in Discriminating Against Women Females face penalties across all sorts of professions, and unfortunately education is not immune – so it’s time to stand up and be counted, says Keziah Featherstone...

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