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Delivering a powerful monologue – Expressive arts lesson plan for KS4 Close engagement with the text and plenty of opportunity to experiment can result in powerful monologue delivery from all your learners

Newborns In Nature – It’s Never Too Early To Take Infants Out Into The Fresh Air The sooner children are exposed to the outdoors, the better their chances of avoiding increasingly prevalent problems with attention, balance, strength, coordination or sensory processing

“Thou Cream Faced Loon!” – Teach Shakespeare Using Insults Start out with a well-chosen barb or two and you’ll be amazed at how quickly your students start learning to Shakespeare

Is Your School’s Sanctions System Actually Changing Behaviour, Or Just Getting Rid Of Rotten Apples? Punishments and sanctions are the only interventions that seem to be used constantly, universally and consistently without any evidence of their efficacy. It baffles me, says Dave Whitaker

Early Years Children And Parents Must See Smiling Faces From The Moment They Arrive A happy atmosphere relieves anxieties, improves emotional wellbeing and encourages communication

Cultivating Children’s Green Fingers Is Easy – Developing Gardening Skills In EYFS You can’t involve children in the creation of elements of their environment and then expect them not to touch or interact with it

Tracking Software – What To Look For, What To Avoid And What Your School Needs Feel like you're wasting time tapping pointless numbers into your tracking software? It's time to shop around

KS4 MFL Lesson Plan – A Wedding-Themed Lesson Is A Fun Way To Get Students Saying ‘I Do’ To Grammar The challenge to make translation more interesting and varied can sometimes leave us searching for inspiration, so why not spice up schemes of work with a wedding themed lesson?

“My Dad Cried When I Refused To Eat More Than A Tomato” – My Self-Esteem Story It’s vital that we integrate self-esteem into the school curriculum – here’s why, says Elizabeth Kesses, author of The Ugly Little Girl

Business Rates: The 2017 Changes Explained This year brings further topics for day nursery owners to consider, not least the upcoming business rates revaluation

“When Recruiting Our School Governors, Only White Males Applied” Hannah Wilson’s #BAMEed pledge, and how she plans on building a diverse faculty in her school

With Rising Numbers Of Overweight Children, It’s Time To Share The Facts With Parents The key to supporting healthy homes by engaging with parents is respect and, as far as possible, a non-judgemental attitude

Teachers: Why Stress Is Really Your Friend Rethink everything you know about the physical and mental strain of work and you’ll realise that lifting this burden from your mind is a power you had all along

Don’t Beat Yourself Up Over Early Years Timetabling All great early educators aspire to create the perfect learning environment, but with the things you can’t change just do what you can

7 funny trending teacher videos to welcome in the weekend From Star Wars Ofsted spoofs to 300's Spartans preparing to teach nursery, here are some of the best education-related comedy videos online

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Professor Alice Roberts’ education – “Great lessons spark curiosity” Professor Alice Roberts kept her options as open as possible at school – and would like today’s students to be able to do the same

‘It Takes Two’ – Good Communication Development Requires Interactions Between Parents And Children We need to spell out the fact that good communication development requires high-quality interactions between parents and children

There’s Still Time For Justine Greening To Find Her Voice, But It’s Running Out Fast We are dependent now on the government, and the Secretary of State in particular, to pull something out of the bag for us, but she is curiously and almost unnaturally silent

“We Have To Let Go In The End” – Where To Draw The Line Between Personal Care And Professionalism It’s part of our job to become close to the children we care for, but applying common sense and remaining professional is always the order of the day

4 Ideas That Are Transforming School Design With collaborative and project-based learning on the rise, as well as the increasing role of technology in education, could the humble classroom be due its most extreme makeover ever?

Lost In Space – So This Is The Science Museum, Kids…Now What? The vast and sprawling nature of this otherwise amazing institution makes it hard for pupils to create a timeline of events, so here's a guided tour that follows rockets to the moon

Introduce Children To Elements Of Risk Slowly; They Need To Feel Safe A Q&A with Fiona Bland, Early Years Adviser at NDNA, on risky outdoor play and activities, and children who may not be ready to challenge themselves just yet

It’s Time We Found A Job Title That Sums Up What Every Early Years Practitioner Does – Teach! What’s in a name? Why does our qualification dictate our title over the skills and attributes required of the role?

Maths Mastery Could Enable Everyone To Succeed, Once We Understand What It Really Means Mastery is much more than a fad, so once everyone knows what it is and why it's a good idea we can build a curriculum that lets learners flourish

Planning To Beat Disadvantage – Thinking About The Experiences That Help All Children Develop Closing the attainment gap between children with effective home-learning environments and those without

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