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Report Calls For End To Religious Segregation And Christian Worship In Schools A new report examining the role of religion in everyday life has criticised the admissions policies of faith schools, called for an extensive recruitment and retraining programme for RE teachers and questioned the requirement for most UK schools to devote time to religiojus worship. The report, titled Living With Difference, comes from the Commission on […]

You Keep Using that Word – Why Ofsted’s use of ‘consistency’ doesn’t mean what you think it means If you’re trying to impress with wall displays that are designed with a set square, you’re missing the point, says Julie Price Grimshaw… A headteacher told me recently that her biggest concern was the “lack of consistency” across the school. Having visited classrooms and been impressed with what I’d seen, I asked what she meant. […]

Food And Friendship - Tomato and Vegetable Pasta Bake with Cheesy, Crunchy Topping Recipe Inspiration for bringing the community and school together through cooking, including a great pasta bake recipe to serve 20 toddlers.

Kindness Through Creativity – Can the arts make children more empathetic? Tina Corri of People United explores how, in an already squeezed curriculum, schools can go about teaching values – and whether the arts might a role to play...

Hunting for Treasure – PSHE learning resource for KS1 and KS2 In 2014, we commissioned artist Bob Karper to explore the theme of Role Models with primary school pupils. This led to ‘Treasure’, an inter-generational project which connected pupils with residents at local care homes to explore who they treasure in their lives through poetry, music, drama, storytelling and making. It is our aim to explore […]

Meaning And Origins Of Names - Etymology Lesson Plan For KS1/2 English Musing on the origins of our monikers – be they John, Elsa, Havoc or Disney – will give children a taste for etymology, and open up subjects across the curriculum, take a look with this lesson plan.

Should I Stay or Should I Go? – The push and pull factors affecting teacher recruitment Teachers are joining and leaving in record numbers, so what’s drawing people in and what’s driving them away, asks Lloyd Burgess...

Selective View – Why lesson observations don’t give us the full picture Is it fair for teachers’ salaries and professional prospects to hinge on just 0.35% of the contact time they have with pupils? Ian McDaid argues not… Most teachers in the UK will probably have face-to-face contact with pupils for around 22 hours a week. Over a year, this adds up to 858 hours. Throughout that […]

Something for everyone – How inclusive Christmas performances can help children with SEN Find ways to include children with special educational needs in your festive performance and make their parents’ Christmas, says Adele Devine… Your Christmas performance may seem like the time to showcase those children who cooperate, speak beautifully, sing, smile brightly and love getting dressed up – their parents may have high expectations, and it’s natural […]

A Variety of Real-World Roleplaying Ideas for your Classroom Inject more meaningful learning into your home corner, play café or mud kitchen with these imaginative ideas..

Stressing the positives – how to build a culture of staff wellbeing in your school With workplace stress in schools continuing to command headlines, Mandy Gallagher, Head of Nursing at Schools Advisory Service, looks at the steps some heads and teachers have taken to manage the problem, and offers some advice of her own… Worries about the impact of stress and workload on education professionals have been simmering away for […]

Helpful Tips on How to Add Creativity Through Picture Books Engaging illustrations and imaginative tales can inspire creativity in your practice and children’s learning with these helpful tips. Browse more resources for National Storytelling Week.

Taking Maths Outdoors – Ideas on combining outdoor play and maths learning for EYFS Numeracy doesn’t have to be dull, or confined to the indoors! Here are some helpful suggestions for some creative (and messy) ways to get children using their mathematical skills in the fresh air…

Advent activities

Advent Activities - Multisensory Play And Creativity Ideas For EYFS Get your children in the mood for Christmas with this selection of fun, festive-themed games and multisensory activities, ranging from snow-based play to experimenting with socks, stockings and sacks… Browse more Christmas activities.

Make a Frilly Paper Craft Flower From Scraps This super flower craft will make for a punchy project suitable for children of any age. Make out of paper, card, magazines, and turn into a variety of products; cards, garlands, badges, the list goes on.

Create and Colour a Layered Paper Craft Fox Make a neat woodland fox with this papercraft set suitbale for older children. The set includes a printable template. This craft would be great for a woodland topic or Autumn topic.

Five Minute Box

Review – The Five Minute Box Reviewed by John Dabell The Five Minute Box is a very manageable system for helping children get started along the road towards literacy, and particularly for enabling the early identification of potential specific learning difficulties. It is entirely multi- sensory, following a ‘hear it, see it, say it, write it’ approach for sounds, irregular keywords […]

Craft a Woodland Pine Cone Owl Felt Project Make a cute woodland pine cone owl with this set suitbale for most ages. The set includes a printable template. This craft would be great for a woodland topic or even a more festive craft for Christmas.

Tips For Taking Learning Outside Across the Curriculum This article gives teachers initial ideas of how to break their lessons out of the classroom and outside. There are a variety of ideas ranging accross the curriculum for all teachers to try.

Print and Colour Christmas Stockings and Presents Card Craft Print and colour presents and stockings designs to create a lovely Christmas card suitable for younger children. Set includes 3 street design printables. Children will love colouring in the designs and glueing on to cards, simple and quick Christmas craft.

Masking Watercolour Christmas Holly Card Craft Use this Holly Jolly Christmas card idea with your students using masking fluid, glue or crayons and watercolour paints. The set includes a printable template design. This is a great Christmas card craft project for you and your students and it’s really effective. Browse more Christmas activities.

Starting Steps to encourage Scientific Investigation Early Through Play A host of ways to encourage play-based scientific exploration in your classroom…

Fine Control – Activities and exercises for developing motor skills at EYFS 18 squeezing, pinching, twisting and hand-eye coordination activities to help children develop their dexterity and the strength of their fingers and thumbs

Meaningful Movement – Activities for ideas for promoting physical development at EYFS Tania Swift looks how to to promote key aspects of young children’s physical development, through widely known and established games and new activities devised by practitioners. The article concludes with a look at how to help pre-walkers develop movement skills.

Trickster Tales - Storytelling activities for EYFS Literacy Ideas for engaging and educating children using ‘trickster tales’, featuring the Coyote of Native American mythology, Brer Rabbit and the spider god Anansi of African mythology. Read more ideas for National Storytelling Week.

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