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Teaching children Standard English – It’s not about speaking like The Queen! There are many ways to help children understand the difference between Standard English and other ways of speaking. Just be careful which real-life examples you share with your class!

Why Do So Many Children’s Books Kill Off The Parents? Looking through classic and modern texts for orphans can encourage children to think more deeply about whose story they are reading, explains Huw Powell

How One School Is Using Mastery In English To Make Great Progress At Rhoda Wilson’s school, a new mastery approach in English is getting great results. Here’s how it works...

Choosing Books For Children That Offer The Right Level Of Challenge Giving children texts that offer just the right level of challenge can raise attainment without damaging their confidence, says Jackson Stenner

How comics boost reading comprehension If children are word-reading but not understanding, graphic texts will help make them masters of meaning and inference...

Playdough Offers Endless Opportunities For Sensory Exploration Rolling it, pinching it, kneading it and squeezing it is just the start – there’s simply no limit to the learning potential of playdough, says Kirstine Beeley…

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7 funny and heartwarming end-of-school-year celebration videos Sign the year off in style using these hilarious school celebration videos as inspiration...

As Teacher Workload Gets More Demanding Good Will Is Eroded – So One Teacher Is Tackling It Head On "Some staff felt like second class citizens. Breaking down issues between teaching and non-teaching staff was important"

Why We Need To Stop Feeding The Data Monster "We were told that the more often we fed him the more nuanced his insights would be, and woe betide those that didn’t feed him at all."

Nursery Management – Planning For An Emergency Four simple steps to make sure your business continuity plan is in place, and that everyone is aware of it

Interviews Are Not A Game Show – Is Complex Teacher Recruitment Helping Us Make The Right Staffing Decisions? Nobody would suggest that we don’t want to be rigorous in our selection, but do meaningless activities really help us get the right candidate?

Help Children Focus – There’s A Lot You Can Do To Improve Their Attention Span The ability to concentrate and pay attention is important for future learning, so it’s vital we help children learn it early on

Green Dragon Primary – Reaping the rewards of cross-curricular learning At Green Dragon we value the things that tests don't measure, says deputy head, Lucy Barker...

A Focus On The Outdoors Has Never Been More Important, Whether It’s Unique Learning Environments Or Taking Responsibility For The Planet We must commit to nature, says Juno Hollyhock

We Provide Families With Food All Year Round, And It Doesn’t Cost Us A Penny "He said that over the holidays he hadn’t eaten anything except sandwiches"

40 Years To Close The Attainment Gap? We Cannot Wait That Long Empowering parents as their child’s first educators could be key to improving social mobility in England

New Teachers Are Being Pushed Into Leadership Roles They’re Not Ready For – With No Guidance Or Training "Less than half our teachers have more than ten years experience"

School Budget Cuts – With The Average Primary Needing To Trim Over £70k, Who Can Your School Afford To Lose? "With budgets already cut to the bone, further cuts mean cutting into the very skeleton that holds the school together"

13 Multisensory Ways To Supercharge Your Sand Play Don’t settle for the traditional buckets and spades – get kids flocking to the tray indoors and out with these creative ideas from Kirstine Beeley

School Funding – Toilet Rolls Are Not A Luxury Crowdfunding is a great alternative to fairs and discos, but it shouldn’t be a substitute for properly financed schools

A Spiralling Workload Is Taking The Heart Out Of Teaching The actual teaching side is great, but that's only about half the job, the rest is marking, planning, resourcing, meetings, paperwork...

Promising Smaller Class Sizes May Win Votes, But Without Funding It’s Unlikely To Improve Student Outcomes Do we actually have a class-size crisis, and, if so, what should we do about it?

6 Of The Best Water Play Activities For Early Years This Summer Make a splash with your children with wet and wonderful ideas for indoors and out

Children Are Facing Tests That Are Too Hard, Too Often It’s imperative that we understand how children are progressing, but this shouldn’t ever be at a detriment to a child’s wellbeing, or indeed, a teacher’s

Teachers Are Used To Putting Others’ Wellbeing First – But You And The Children Can Lose Out As A Consequence How can you expect to care for a class of students if you're sacrificing your mental state for theirs?

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