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You Don’t Always Need a Book to Get Children Hooked on Storytelling Even in a house with no books, there are always stories waiting to be discovered and shared, says Hayley Scott...

Planning an outstanding outdoor area for your nursery Give your children the freedom to explore a feature-packed fresh-air space and watch them flourish, says Caroline Johnson…

Why Former Children’s Laureate Julia Donaldson Prefers Acting Out Stories for Children than Just Reading Them “The best performers aren’t always the strongest readers”

The 2019 Tech For Teachers Awards Seek Excellence In EdTech The search is on once again for the very best in classroom technology...

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Icebreaker games – 5 ideas to help children settle into their new class Spice up your start-of-term routine with these five fun getting-to-know-you games and activities this September...

Why your Early Years Staff Need to Know about Children’s Nutrition and Healthy Eating If your team is lacking the skills they need to help children eat well, it’s time to invest in some CPD, says Lindsay Gilbert…

Technological Advances are Making Many Things we Teach Redundant We must anticipate the future and the profound technological changes that are changing the world, says Matthew Murray...

Processing Food, Food Packaging and Nutrition Lessons for KS1 and KS2 Science, Literacy and D&T This resource features three separate food and snack-related PowerPoint lessons: Processing food Food packaging Researching nutrition All three include a teacher’s notes PDF, and the first two include pupil sheet PDFs too.

What Educational Policy Reform is Coming Next? Westminster has been pretty quiet on education recently, but that surely can’t last for long, says Mark Dixon – so what might we be hearing next?

10 Great Primary Books for Celebrating the Big Outdoors The natural world is a place of adventure and excitement, so step out of the front door and take your class into the great unknown with these fiction-inspired activities...

The Pros and Cons of Moving your Early Years Setting to a New Premises Uprooting your setting and going in search of new premises can be a stressful experience, but it also offers the opportunity to plan your ideal learning environment, says Emma Davis…

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7 of the Best Back to School Articles for Behaviour Management Set your classroom standards early and have children stick to them for the whole year with these expert advice articles and videos...

Hyper-Accountability Makes me Glad I’m not a Classroom Teacher Any More Parents who expect an instant answer to emails are adding to teachers’ accountability woes, says The Primary Head...

Fractions lesson – Teach fractions like a pirate Ahoy there, matey! Raise the Jolly Roger and set sail for Talk Like a Pirate Day on 19 September! Why would a teacher want to talk like a pirate? Shiver me timbers – why would any sane educator not want to do that? But will it help my class learn? Avast ye scallywag and I […]

Outdated Recruitment Practice has no Place in Education Current ways of addressing the recruitment crisis are short-term at best. We need to go in a new direction, says Kevin Green...

Are Lunchtime Supervisors the Key to Changing the Healthy Eating Culture in Schools? Lunchtime supervisors and catering staff are the children’s authority on what’s healthy, how much they should eat and what is socially acceptable at lunchtime, says Jo Stimpson...

Tracking Pupil Progress Doesn’t Always Mean Using Data Now we’ve stopped allocating dubious numbers to children, we can reflect on our understanding of progress...

How Can Your School Help Students who Self Harm? Self-harm is often a sign of even deeper pain, says Sal McKeown – so what can schools do to help?

10 of the best NQT survival guide resources Starting teaching in September? Here's a selection of helpful advice, tips, lesson plans and more...

5 awesome NQT blogs to help you through your first year of teaching Starting your career in education this September? Here’s some help on what to do (and what not to do) from people who have been there and came out the other side...

Nurseries Need to Clearly Communicate Our Role in Children’s Education In the face of myriad challenges, the sector must come together to show parents what we have to offer, says June O’Sullivan…

8 Essential Habits for your Second Year of Teaching Get it right and you may be bestowed with that greatest of honours – a pupil naming their pet after you...

How Your School Can Make a Difference on Real-World Issues Our school's humble literacy project led to the government proposing a ban on plastic straws, says Rebecca Morris...

Are Robots Really Set to Replace Teachers? Sir Anthony Seldon Discusses AI and Agency “It’s the biggest thing to happen in education for 500 years”

Could Keeping Students Hydrated Really Improve Outcomes? Would putting a water cooler in every classroom improve attainment? Glen Gilchrist wasn’t going to take a professor’s word for it...

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