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Year 6 leavers - Covid-safe transition activities and ideas It's been a chaotic year but Year 6 children still deserve the best ending to their primary journey

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Year 6 leavers - Covid-safe transition activities and ideas It's been a chaotic year but Year 6 children still deserve the best ending to their primary journey

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Year 6 leavers - Covid-safe transition activities and ideas It's been a chaotic year but Year 6 children still deserve the best ending to their primary journey

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Year 6 leavers - Covid-safe transition activities and ideas It's been a chaotic year but Year 6 children still deserve the best ending to their primary journey

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Year 6 leavers - Covid-safe transition activities and ideas It's been a chaotic year but Year 6 children still deserve the best ending to their primary journey

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Teaching timetable – why we ditched the straightjacket by Ben Levinson

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Decoding in reading – why we need to settle this argument by Neil Almond

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Art in primary schools – separating myths from truths by Sophie Merrill

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Education research – why ‘evidence’ isn’t enough by Prof Cathy Burnett

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Art KS2 – explore urban life in this six-week unit

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Art lesson KS1 – The Tiger Who Came to Tea

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Pie Corbett model texts – show don’t tell by Pie Corbett

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KS2 art ideas – 6-week self portraits medium-term lessons plan by Julianne Britton

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13 of the best end-of-term resources to finish the primary year – Updated for 2022 by Lloyd Burgess

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Paddington Bear whole school resource pack – with English lesson plans and activity sheets! by HarperCollins

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Formal letter writing KS2 – 9 of the best examples, worksheets and resources for primary English by Teachwire

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Understanding Primary Assessment

Make sure your assessment is effective with these expert insights

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Outstanding primary maths CPD with Professor Mike Askew

Professor Mike Askew provides advice around three areas of primary mathematics to help you become a better teacher

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The Essential Primary Reading Toolkit

Discover creative lesson activities and innovative teaching practices in this CPD box set full of ideas for boosting reading ... more

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Great ways to help autistic pupils

This eight-part series will give you practical suggestions for helping children with autism

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Latest Primary Articles

Primaryby Hannah Day

Problem-solving skills – six ways to teach them to your class There’s a lot to be said for subject-specific knowledge, but these soft skills will support children across the curriculum

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PrimaryAssessmentby Sir Tim Brighouse and Mick Waters

Benchmarking – is our view of education all wrong? With the education system’s obsession with test results and benchmarking, are we at risk of reducing childhood to a measure of competencies?

PrimarySENDby Alison Willett

SEND review green paper – an explainer How will the government’s enquiry into special educational needs and disabilities really affect primary schools?

PrimaryEnglishby The Undercover Teacher

SATs papers KS2 – this year’s reading test favoured the already advantaged But does the STA care?

PrimarySTEMby Rebecca Stacey

Sustainable schools – the DfE’s new strategy is at risk of disappearing into an accountability fog A watershed moment for the tackling of our climate crisis is playing out across the planet, in our government, and inevitably in our schools. The DfE’s new Sustainability and Climate Change Strategy was first seen in draft form during COP 26 back in November 2021, where it was welcomed with open arms. It’s fair to say that other […]

Primaryby Steve Edmonds

School governors – 6 ways the role can improve your teaching Seeing how other schools do things can help develop your practice, says Steve Edmonds… 1. Gaining perspective Governing provides you with a helicopter view, rather than the classroom view, and that’s helpful for teachers because it explains how a policy – for instance ‘a focus on writing’ – moves from being strategic to being taught. […]

PrimaryEnglishby Karen Hart

KS2 poetry – Use classic stories and word lists to help pupils write free verse These KS2 activities, inspired by the stories of King Cnut and King Midas, garnered real enthusiasm from the children in working with mime, poetry, storytelling and writing. I previously found many of my attempts at using poetry were met with apathy, but by using a whole-class, collaborative approach, offering a basic framework and kicking things off […]

Primaryby Damian Mitchelmore

Coaching culture – how to build one in your school Tying on your cape and launching to everyone’s rescue may seem helpful, but allowing staff to become their own problem-solvers is better. Educators are hard-wired to want to help people achieve their best – it comes naturally as part of the job. But school leaders or senior staff who try to give their colleagues all […]

PrimaryEnglishby Chris Haughton

Chris Haughton – ‘There’s more to picturebooks than you might think’ Although they’re light on text, reading between the lines of picturebooks is one of the best introductions to critical thinking for pupils...

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