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How to Make the Most of Role Play in Early Years With a little planning and forethought you can create a space that will inspire your children’s imaginative play for weeks to come, says Nikky Smedley…

Protect Students from Extremism by Taking a Positive Approach to Prevent Shielding young people from the influence and impact of extremism can be an inspiring experience, says Joe McElroy – with the right expert support...

How to Make Your Nursery’s Marketing Count When you are investing valuable time in trying to attract new customers, it pays to plan, says Jacqui Burke…

Teachers, Try to Manage your Workload or you Will Burn Out There’s always something else to be done in teaching, says our anonymous correspondent – but if you try and do it all yourself, you’ll be heading for a fall

Improve your behaviour management by ‘playing’ a cool and calm character Imagining yourself ‘in role’ can help you to remain collected when behaviour becomes difficult, says John Coxhead...

What to do After a Failed Ofsted Inspection A failed inspection should represent the first step in a journey of improvement, says Ruth Sparkes – and that’s the message you need to share

The Government’s Refusal to Fund Free Sanitary Products for School Pupils is Shameful This decision demonstrates a lack of empathy and compassion, says Fiona Millar...

Children’s Books Need More Diverse Characters Shockingly few kids’ books feature characters of colour or with disabilities – it’s our responsibility to challenge that

11 Ways Nurseries Can Get Ready for Ofsted Don’t let silly mistakes or misconceptions wreck your hard work when the inspector comes to call…

No One Should Have to Choose Between Teaching and Parenthood It's hard enough keeping teachers in the profession as it is right now, so don't make them pick between school and home life, says Tom Starkey

How to Make your Nursery’s Website Work Harder In a competitive marketplace it’s important to do what you can to ensure your online presence stands out from the crowd…

5 Ways to Make Classroom Maths Relevant to Secondary Students "When will I ever use this in life?" – Teachers are used questions like this, but these ideas from Christine Norledge will help pupils understand the relevance of mathematics before they've even asked...

Sick of EBacc? Could the International Baccalaureate Give Your Students a More-Rounded Education? Student agency at the core of IB’s new primary programme, says Dr Peter Fidczuk...

Why Secondary Students Need to Read Strong Female Characters in Literature Gender shouldn’t be a barrier to leadership opportunities, says Sally Green – and powerful female characters in literature can help get that message across...

Too Many School Leavers Still Don’t Have the Literacy Skills Needed to Thrive One in eight disadvantaged students don’t own a single book, says Jonathan Douglas – so what are we going to do about it?

Unhappy Parents? 5 Mistakes that Every Nursery can Avoid When communication breaks down between setting and home, queries and concerns can go unaddressed, to the detriment of your business…

Having ADHD Makes Me a Better Teacher Primary teacher David Keyte was in denial about his diagnosis until he began working with a pupil with the same condition

What’s the fuss about editing stations? How on earth can we get children to properly check their work? This may be the answer…

Education is About so Much More than Merely Preparing Young People for Employment “In praise of useless knowledge” – Top grades are not the benchmark of a good education, so let’s encourage learning for its own sake, insists Dr Shirley Lawes...

Blaming Failures in KS3 English Progression on Flawed KS2 Data is Ignoring the Real Problem There is no reason why we should expect students to arrive at secondary school GCSE ready, says Lindsey Till...

Looking for Great Early Years CPD? Think Outside the Box Developing, retaining and motivating staff can be difficult, so when it comes to professional development it’s worth broadening your horizons…

“We Must Take Part in Polarised Debates” – The Big Takeaway from the Festival of Education The call at this year's event to break down barriers between entrenched positions – such as knowledge vs skills and progressive vs traditional – is a refreshing one, says Harley Richardson

Will a Year’s Sabbatical Really Stop Teachers Leaving the Profession? A year’s sabbatical once you’ve served a decade is all very well, but a quarter of teachers don’t even make it to five years

How to Get Early Years Recruitment Right Mistakes when employing people can be costly both financially and in terms of your setting’s reputation, explains Vicky Stanton…

Entering a National Competition En Masse can Improve Children’s Writing Using a creative writing contest has produced some surprising outcomes for the children at Garstang Primary School, says deputy head Suzanne Thomas...

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