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How to Make the Most of Role Play in Early Years With a little planning and forethought you can create a space that will inspire your children’s imaginative play for weeks to come, says Nikky Smedley…

Angel Oak Academy – Meet the school where 11 teachers are doing funded master’s degrees “We don’t do fluffy – we do academic,” says headteacher Catherine Hewitt...

How to Make Your Nursery’s Marketing Count When you are investing valuable time in trying to attract new customers, it pays to plan, says Jacqui Burke…

Supply Teacher Feedback Form A great little form for either supply teachers or teachers preparing for their cover. It has simple headings that help teachers pick out the key information needed for a good handover between professionals, so that everyone knows what is meant to be happening and what has happened. The Feedback Form includes: Emma Middlemiss has over […]

Teachers, Try to Manage your Workload or you Will Burn Out There’s always something else to be done in teaching, says our anonymous correspondent – but if you try and do it all yourself, you’ll be heading for a fall

Improve your behaviour management by ‘playing’ a cool and calm character Imagining yourself ‘in role’ can help you to remain collected when behaviour becomes difficult, says John Coxhead...

What to do After a Failed Ofsted Inspection A failed inspection should represent the first step in a journey of improvement, says Ruth Sparkes – and that’s the message you need to share

The Government’s Refusal to Fund Free Sanitary Products for School Pupils is Shameful This decision demonstrates a lack of empathy and compassion, says Fiona Millar...

Children’s Books Need More Diverse Characters Shockingly few kids’ books feature characters of colour or with disabilities – it’s our responsibility to challenge that

11 Ways Nurseries Can Get Ready for Ofsted Don’t let silly mistakes or misconceptions wreck your hard work when the inspector comes to call…

No One Should Have to Choose Between Teaching and Parenthood It's hard enough keeping teachers in the profession as it is right now, so don't make them pick between school and home life, says Tom Starkey

How to Make your Nursery’s Website Work Harder In a competitive marketplace it’s important to do what you can to ensure your online presence stands out from the crowd…

Unhappy Parents? 5 Mistakes that Every Nursery can Avoid When communication breaks down between setting and home, queries and concerns can go unaddressed, to the detriment of your business…

The Week Junior

Review – The Week Junior Devoted to children aged 8-14, packed with fascinating stories and information, The Week Junior is a fabulous news and activity magazine that offers young readers a variety of interesting stories from here, there and everywhere. It’s a weekly publication that not only dazzles children with information and knowledge, but also entertains with engaging activities. The […]

Tactile Textures Worksheet for KS1 Science, Art and Literacy This resource asks children to collect an interesting-looking object from their garden, park or school grounds. They then place the object under their worksheet so that it fits into the box, sketch over it and answer the questions below about the object’s shape, colour and feel, and asks them to describe it. Find more resources […]

KS1 Geography Seasons Colouring and Literacy Worksheet As the seasons change, so do the colours we see around us. Colour in the pictures and, underneath each one, write the names of colours that you might see during that season. Find more resources from Staedtler Teachers’ Club at teachersclub.staedtler.co.uk

Having ADHD Makes Me a Better Teacher Primary teacher David Keyte was in denial about his diagnosis until he began working with a pupil with the same condition

What’s the fuss about editing stations? How on earth can we get children to properly check their work? This may be the answer…

Education is About so Much More than Merely Preparing Young People for Employment “In praise of useless knowledge” – Top grades are not the benchmark of a good education, so let’s encourage learning for its own sake, insists Dr Shirley Lawes...

Looking for Great Early Years CPD? Think Outside the Box Developing, retaining and motivating staff can be difficult, so when it comes to professional development it’s worth broadening your horizons…

What exactly is a ‘reasonable’ teacher workload? Read one city’s practical solution to the problem of excessive teacher workloads...

Will a Year’s Sabbatical Really Stop Teachers Leaving the Profession? A year’s sabbatical once you’ve served a decade is all very well, but a quarter of teachers don’t even make it to five years

How to Get Early Years Recruitment Right Mistakes when employing people can be costly both financially and in terms of your setting’s reputation, explains Vicky Stanton…

Tractors and Harvesting Lesson Ideas for KS1 and KS2 Science and Literacy These materials are intended to provide lesson ideas for Science and Literacy. The ideas and materials are suitable for children at KS1 and KS2 although some differentiation will be necessary for the youngest children. In particular, younger children will not be able to follow the written instructions on the pupil sheets. However, they should be […]

Happy Hens Science, D&T and Literacy Lesson Ideas for KS1 and KS2 These materials are intended to provide lesson ideas for Science, D&T and Literacy. The ideas and materials are suitable for children at KS1 and KS2 although some differentiation will be necessary for the youngest children. In particular, younger children will not be able to follow the written instructions on the pupil sheets. However, they should […]

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