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8 Ways to Streamline and Simplify Your School’s Data Still manually pasting numbers into Word documents? It’s time to automate...

Lessons in School Leadership – Picking your Battles and Closing the Circle on Unfinished Jobs With so many things to oversee as a school leader it's easy to leave things up in the air and lose track of them altogether – make it your mantra to tie up those loose ends

Improve Student Willpower to Get them Engaged When They ‘Just Can’t be Bothered’ If you still think that the last lesson before lunch, or the final session of the day, is a learning ‘dead zone’, there’s something about willpower you need to know, says Gordon Cairns

How to Become a Reading Role Model in Primary School Reflect on and share your own experiences in order to support your pupils

NEU General Secretary Dr Mary Bousted on the People who Made Her a Great Teacher Each issue Teach Primary asks one amazing teacher: who’s changed your life? Here, the joint general secretary of the National Education Union introduces us to her dream team

The new Interim Teacher Assessment Framework (ITAF) changes explained Changes to the ITAF have led to confusion for Y6 teachers, but fear not – Tim Roach is on hand to help

“Traditional ‘Red Pen Marking’ Destroys Teachers’ Work-Life Balance – and Has Little Impact on Student Outcomes” High expectations, impeccable behaviour, no marking and professional respect…who wouldn’t want to work at Bedford Free School?

Make the Most of Story Time in EYFS Sharing a book is one of the most enjoyable parts of the day, but could you help your early years children get even more out of the experience? James Clements has some suggestions…

8 Tips that Will Help you Survive in Teaching – #JustLetMeTeach Forgotten why you ever wanted to be a teacher? Refocus and get back on track with Dr Emma Kell’s wise advice

The 6 essential ingredients of great English teaching in secondary school Of course you’ll give the final recipe your own, unique twist, says Andy Tharby – but get these elements right, and both progress and satisfaction should be guaranteed...

12 Questions that Terrify Primary Teachers From 'Where do babies come from?' to 'Have you seen the mess in the boys' toilets?', these are the queries all teachers dread

How to Manage a Challenging Parent – The CALM Approach Fight? Flight? Freeze? Don't panic, Steph Caswell has some practical advice to help you through encounters with angry parents

Students writing poetry comparison essays in classroom

Poetry comparison – How to write the perfect comparative essay When it comes to poetry analysis, Phil Beadle knows what examiners want to see – and he’s here to make sure you can help every student can deliver it

How To Take the Stress Out of School Readiness Hayley and Emma from award-winning Dandelion Education explain how their flexible, child-led approach is helping children step up to Year R...

Improving attendance in schools – Why attendance rewards penalise the students they’re designed to help Life is already more of a lottery for some kids than others, says Simon Pearse – and rewarding attendance with raffles just stacks the odds against them even higher...

8 of the best KS3 maths resources for teaching scale factor enlargement Make your students' understanding of ratio, proportion and rates of change improve tenfold with these activities, ideas and lesson plans

Dyslexia – What does it feel like to attend school as a child with dyslexia? Margaret Rooke set about finding out – and here are some of the answers…

Why Are We Excluding So Many children With SEND? I take great interest in the annual release of statistics from the Department for Education on the exclusion of children from school. In the last couple of years this has become something of a depressing exercise, with both fixed-term and permanent exclusions on the rise. In addition, I’ve had more conversations with LAs about exclusions […]

‘Assess’, ‘Plan’, ‘Do’, ‘Review’ Works For SEND Learners – So Why Not Try It For SEND CPD? We use a graduated approach when addressing learners’ needs, writes Michael Surr – so why not try doing the same with your SEND-related staff CPD?

If You’re Going To Provide Speech Support, Make It Available To ALL Pupils Henrietta McLachlan and Alex Hall take a look at what supporting the SLCN of all pupils actually involves in practice – and where schools have a tendency to get things wrong…

When it Comes to Teaching SEND Students Literacy a Whole-School Approach is the Only Option Literacy affects everything – so involve everyone, writes Nancy Gedge

Why Your School Should Teach Mandarin – and Why Students Should Learn It It’s time we started valuing subjects for more than how well they might prepare young people for an unpredictable jobs market, argues Cara Bleiman

Encourage Independent Thinking in Primary Maths We need to think carefully about the activity that a task will generate, says Mike Askew

Giving Career Advice to Students – What you Need to Know So, out of nowhere, you’ve been allocated 'careers advice provision' as part of your job description – but where do you start? Ruth Sparkes has some pointers...

The Benefits Of Whole Class Ensemble Tuition In KS2 Researchers from Birmingham City University have been studying the effect of WCET on pupils’ music experiences and attainment

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