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Turn pupils into mathemagicians with these creative ideas for maths clubs Getting kids hooked on maths can sometimes be a bit of a task, but with these excellent ideas you'll always have an ace up your sleeve...

Would Pupil Premium Be Better Spent Targeting Critical Moments In Students’ Education Journeys? Last year a DFE report revealed that schools spend their near-£1,000-per-student grant on 18 different interventions on average. Do we not need clarity on the most effective ways to use this money?

Is Your School’s Sanctions System Actually Changing Behaviour, Or Just Getting Rid Of Rotten Apples? Punishments and sanctions are the only interventions that seem to be used constantly, universally and consistently without any evidence of their efficacy. It baffles me, says Dave Whitaker

Early Years Children And Parents Must See Smiling Faces From The Moment They Arrive A happy atmosphere relieves anxieties, improves emotional wellbeing and encourages communication

Cultivating Children’s Green Fingers Is Easy – Developing Gardening Skills In EYFS You can’t involve children in the creation of elements of their environment and then expect them not to touch or interact with it

Tracking Software – What To Look For, What To Avoid And What Your School Needs Feel like you're wasting time tapping pointless numbers into your tracking software? It's time to shop around

“My Dad Cried When I Refused To Eat More Than A Tomato” – My Self-Esteem Story It’s vital that we integrate self-esteem into the school curriculum – here’s why, says Elizabeth Kesses, author of The Ugly Little Girl

Business Rates: The 2017 Changes Explained This year brings further topics for day nursery owners to consider, not least the upcoming business rates revaluation

“When Recruiting Our School Governors, Only White Males Applied” Hannah Wilson’s #BAMEed pledge, and how she plans on building a diverse faculty in her school

With Rising Numbers Of Overweight Children, It’s Time To Share The Facts With Parents The key to supporting healthy homes by engaging with parents is respect and, as far as possible, a non-judgemental attitude

Teachers: Why Stress Is Really Your Friend Rethink everything you know about the physical and mental strain of work and you’ll realise that lifting this burden from your mind is a power you had all along

Don’t Beat Yourself Up Over Early Years Timetabling All great early educators aspire to create the perfect learning environment, but with the things you can’t change just do what you can

Sensory Sensations With a Spots in a Box Book Topic For KS1 If you were a guinea fowl and your plumage didn’t look quite right, what would you do? Take matters into your own beak, of course. Look at different materials, colours and patterns and experiment with[...]

Toys in Space by Mini Grey KS1 Book Topic – Getting Playful With Storytelling And Imagination Mini Grey’s metafictional tale draws young children’s attention to the playful side of storytelling and feeds their imagination with the question: where do all the lost toys go? Look at stories within stories, look at[...]

Christopher Nibble In A Tale of Dandelion Derring-Do – A Cross-Curricular Book Topic For KS1 Play with poetry, create real writing with a menu and role-play advertising for a persuasive pitch to the class. You can also become town planners for Dandeville, designing a map or building a model.

Bambert’s Book Of Missing Stories – Help children appreciate the power of reading and writing Use comprehension skills to infer character information from the illustrations, explore similes in the text, build a character description wall of Bambert with notes on what children know about him and see how stories can[...]

Tiny: The Invisible World of Microbes, A KS1 Non-Fiction Book Topic To Explore Under The Microscope Tiny: The Invisible World of Microbes brings science and art together, and author Nicola Davies introduces her subject in a friendly, respectful manner, providing hard facts in context and complex ideas in a way that[...]

Use Francesca Simon’s Do You Speak English Moon? To Explore Empathy Through Creative Writing This story of a little boy’s affinity with the moon, from Horrid Henry author Francesca Simon, opens the way to thoughtful discussions on the subject of friendship, loneliness, kindness and empathy. Create adventurous role-play scenarios,[...]

Boost Visual Literacy In KS1 With Tao Nyeu’s Wordless Picturebook Wonder Bear Get creative learning bubbling across the KS1 curriculum, with Wonder Bear by Tao Nyeu. It's ideal for developing children’s visual literacy because of its beautiful series of magical illustrations that will inspire your class to[...]

Use Scaredy Squirrel To Help KS1 Children Face Their Fears Through Creative Storywriting When the comically paranoid Scaredy Squirrel learns to face his fears, it's the perfect opportunity for children to do the same. This hilarious book by Melanie Watt lets kids talk about fears and stepping into[...]

7 funny trending teacher videos to welcome in the weekend From Star Wars Ofsted spoofs to 300's Spartans preparing to teach nursery, here are some of the best education-related comedy videos online

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Professor Alice Roberts’ education – “Great lessons spark curiosity” Professor Alice Roberts kept her options as open as possible at school – and would like today’s students to be able to do the same

‘It Takes Two’ – Good Communication Development Requires Interactions Between Parents And Children We need to spell out the fact that good communication development requires high-quality interactions between parents and children

There’s Still Time For Justine Greening To Find Her Voice, But It’s Running Out Fast We are dependent now on the government, and the Secretary of State in particular, to pull something out of the bag for us, but she is curiously and almost unnaturally silent

Lost In Space – So This Is The Science Museum, Kids…Now What? The vast and sprawling nature of this otherwise amazing institution makes it hard for pupils to create a timeline of events, so here's a guided tour that follows rockets to the moon

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