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KS4 Drama Lesson Plan – Use These Exercises To Enhance Students’ Interpretations Of Monologues Teaching monologues can feel a little like plate-spinning, with 20 to 30 students all working on a different script. Getting the students to perform a series of exercises once they have chosen and researched their monologues will enhance their interpretations.

KS3/4 MFL Lesson Plan – Use Photos To Get Students Talking In Foreign Languages Now more than ever, the ability to construct a response to unknown speaking and writing stimuli, presented in a foreign language and completed in controlled conditions, is key to success in new frameworks for assessment. With many teachers agreeing that the loss of valuable teaching and learning opportunities was the single biggest drawback to controlled […]

KS4 MFL Lesson Plan – Learn New Vocab By Helping Plan An Imaginary Wedding In this lesson plan pupils have to help make a happy couple’s wedding day extra special by using their language skills to translate well wishes from abroad from long lost friends and reminisce about days gone by through helping the best man write prompts for his speech; before finally writing their review of the big […]

Renaissance Star Assessments

Review – Renaissance Star Assessments Choosing the most appropriate and meaningful educational assessment system for your school is crucial. To be reliable, tests must harvest consistent results. You need a system that is student and teacher friendly, that meets the highest standards of evidence for consistency and validity, and demonstrates budget-friendliness. Renaissance Star Assessments ticks all the boxes – and […]

Our Practitioners Must be Prolific Wordsmiths who Immerse Children in Rich Language The richer the language children hear and acquire, the greater their success...

How Should You Teach? Like A Maverick Phil Beadle is here to explain just what that means

KS4 Maths Lesson Plan – Use Flowcharts To Set Up Rules About Iterative Operations Flowcharts are a highly visual way of communicating information and are used in this lesson to set up rules about operations that will be performed iteratively. Students are invited to explore what happens when they put different numbers into a given flowchart, and later to experiment with varying the features of the flowchart themselves. They […]

KS3/4 Music Lesson Plan – Bring Java And Bali Into Your Classroom With The Bright And Beautiful Sounds Of Indonesian Gamelan Music ‘To create most western music, we use what is known as a chromatic scale and it contains 12 different notes. However, many non-western traditions use a pentatonic scale, made up of just five different notes, and this is much more user friendly and does not lend itself to accidentally playing ‘wrong’ notes. We will use […]

KS4 MFL Lesson Plan – Improve Fluency And Confidence In Giving Effective Presentations Many KS4 MFL students suffer from a lack of confidence when it comes to speaking, and struggle to respond to questions or comments in the target language and to use it spontaneously themselves. Taking them through a series of activities leading up to a presentation to ‘sell’ a Chindōgu invention (the Japanese art of inventing […]

KS4 Geography Lesson Plan – Find Out What Students Really Know About Climate Change And How It Is Debated What do your pupils really know about climate change? This lesson is intended to get KS4 geography students thinking carefully about the subject of climate change, and how the way it is debated affects our understanding of the subject. They will recognise the importance of having a view on the most important global issue of […]

KS4 science lesson plan

KS4 science – Explore the science of Harry Potter In this skills based KS4 science lesson pupils will be able to make their own hypotheses and investigate practical scenarios in a range of different contexts. They will learn about metals and alloys and how vibrations alone can cause a solid metal structure to break. You’ll also investigate the properties of light. Students will learn […]

KS4 History Lesson Plan – Examine 18th-Century Laws And Punishment Using Primary Sources And Archive Material At first sight, the 18th century can appear to students as one of the harshest, most bloody periods of British judicial history, especially once they are shown the well-trodden ground of the list of crimes punishable by death by the end of the century. Even the name assigned to laws of this period – The […]

KS4 MFL Lesson Plan – New Year, New Language – Learn Past, Present Future Tense With Resolutions And Reflections Getting MFL pupils back into learning mode after the excitement of Christmas and the New Year can sometimes be a bit of a challenge. Asking them to think about resolutions for the coming year and perhaps also to reflect on past intentions (in your target language) is one way of providing them with a focus, […]

KS4 PSHE Lesson Plan – Let Students Make Financial Management Decisions By Putting Them In Charge Of Nations These activities help students understand that budgeting involves making decisions about a finite quantity of money. They will need to prioritise and decide spending areas and understand that spending in one area affects spending in another.

KS4 MFL Lesson Plan – Use Reading And Thinking Skills To Reflect On The Olympic Values As students get ready for the run-up to their MFL GCSEs, why not channel a little Olympic spirit to help them on their way? In this lesson plan they will learn about an inspirational Olympic hero, and describe in your target language what makes a hero and work on sport-related terms and phrases. Browse more Olympics teaching […]

Engage SEND Students In Literacy Lessons With Multisensory Storytelling This is particularly useful if you are working with children in developing an understanding of new experiences

8 Reasons To Fall In Love With Teaching Again Tom Sherrington is inviting all teachers to talk up the profession – it's surely the best job around

SEND Parents Are Experts When It Comes To Their Children, So Trusting Schools To Do A Good Job Is Hard Over the years I've discovered that other people don’t necessarily have the same sort of expectations for your child as you do

Why Football Is The Perfect Tactic For Getting Students Excited About Literacy Jim Sells explains the perfect lineup of reading, writing and the beautiful game

Last Meeting’s Minutes (Unedited) – Prom Organisation Committee Meeting Organising the award for strongest deodorant and picking a theme where decorations can be bought in the pound shop – who wouldn't want to plan Prom night?

SEND Support – Using Stickmen To Open Up Conversation With An Anxious Child Simple drawings can be the breakthrough you need to help a child feel safe, explains Adele Devine

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

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...

“Outstanding Progress Isn’t About Gimmicks” – How Hard Work Bred Success At Clacton County High Helen Mulley visits the school that topped the Essex league tables for Progress 8 in 2016, to find out what it’s getting right

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