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MFL Christmas activities PowerPoint

MFL Christmas activities – Fun festive PowerPoint As the countdown to the Christmas holidays begins, why not sprinkle some festive cheer into your lessons with this free MFL Christmas activities PowerPoint? It’s packed with engaging activities to keep students entertained and learning right up until the end of term. Whether you’re looking for class-based tasks or homework ideas, this versatile resource is […]

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Supply teaching – Benefits and how to make it work for you Thinking about supply teaching? This guide covers everything from key considerations and FAQs to the benefits of the role...

Hamlet summary resource

Hamlet summary – Short plot outline, characters, themes & setting This Hamlet summary mini-pack contains an outline explaining the story of Hamlet, plus information about the play’s main characters, major themes and setting. It’s a great reference pack for teachers and students. There’s also a narrative poem called Hamlet Rap included. This tells the whole story of Hamlet in 14 verses. Hamlet summary Shakespeare set […]

How to learn lines resource pack

How to learn lines – Bumper pack of methods and strategies It can be tricky to know how best to learn lines for a performance. There are a number of methods that you can use to help those lines to get into your head and stay there. This resource pack, all about how to learn lines, collates lots of different methods. These will – hopefully – […]

Unseen poetry GCSE lesson plans

Unseen poetry GCSE – Innovative lesson plans & SOW What’s on the unseen poetry GCSE paper? In the GCSE English Literature exam, “unseen poetry” refers to a section where students are given a poem that they have not studied beforehand. The purpose of this section is to test students’ ability to analyse and interpret poetry in an exam setting without any prior knowledge or […]

Packaging design lesson plan

Packaging design – Practical & memorable KS4 D&T lesson plan Learners will love this hands-on approach to the topic of packaging design – just don’t forget to hard-boil the eggs first… Whether you’re looking to introduce the topic of packaging in Year 10 or revise it with Year 11, this engaging and thoroughly enjoyable, hands-on session covers the six functions of packaging design in a […]

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BBC Bitesize

Sign up for BBC Bitesize’s ‘AI or real?’ end-of-term quiz On Wednesday 18 December at 2pm, BBC Bitesize are hosting a special end-of-term livestream Christmas quiz. You and your class can play along on Kahoot against schools across the UK and even get yourselves on camera on the multi-screen background! The 45-minute livestream will be hosted by CBBC star and TikToker Joe Tasker, who will […]

Algebra order of operations worksheet

Algebra order of operations – KS4 worksheet with answers This algebra order of operations worksheet for KS4 students offers a comprehensive practice tool to strengthen their understanding of simplifying expressions. The resource includes varied questions that challenge students to apply the correct order of operations consistently. Algebra order of operations worksheet In addition to simplification tasks, students need to insert brackets into eight equations […]

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Teaching as art – “Teaching is an art, not a science” A move towards evidence-based classroom practice is to be welcomed, says Gareth Sturdy – but it has its limits...

The front cover of Technology and Innovation magazine issue 11

Technology & Innovation 2024 is OUT NOW! “Do we control the technology, or does it control us?” Yes, it’s a trite question that could serve as the tagline to any number of hokey sci-fi films over the decades, but one that schools need to be sincerely asking themselves, now more than ever. In place of server rooms and complex, on-site data retrieval […]

The front cover of Teach Secondary magazine issue 13.8

Teach Secondary issue 13.8 is OUT NOW! At last, finally, there it was. During the Autumn Budget speech, the announcement from Rachel Reeves of more money. Core schools budget up by £2.3 billion. £300 million more for further education. A £1 billion uplift in funding for SEND provision (though it would later emerge that this would be coming out of that same […]

$Adding and subtracting fractions lesson plan$

Adding and subtracting fractions – KS4 lesson to make it stick Your pupils may have been taught the process of adding and subtracting fractions a dozen times or more already. However, through embedding it within a richer problem it might finally make sense… Adding and subtracting fractions is a procedure which students often find very difficult to master. This is despite sometimes having been taught it […]

KS3 reading comprehension worksheet

KS3 reading comprehension – Worksheets with questions These easy-to-use KS3 reading comprehension packs feature three sections of differentiated questions. What are the articles about? Alternative facts The first article discusses the concept of “alternative facts”. This phrase was famously introduced by Kellyanne Conway, a former senior member of the first Trump administration, during a press interview in 2017. It highlights how this […]

Illustration of four people swapping information, representing peer marking

Peer marking – Making this strategy work in primary & secondary Getting students to improve each other’s work is the Holy Grail of assessment. But you’ve got to build the right foundations...

HCF and LCM GCSE maths revision resource

HCF and LCM – GCSE 9-1 maths revision resources This HCF and LCM worksheet covers prime factorisation and finding the HCF and LCM of two (or three) numbers. It features exam-style questions that gradually increase in difficulty. These questions cover the full range of skills tested in GCSE and IGCSE for this topic. There are some problem-solving questions at the end. Detailed solutions are […]

Algebra games – Offline & online maths ideas for KS2 and up Maths is essentially all just one big puzzle book anyway, so why not have some fun?

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Curriculum sequencing – How cognitive science and careful planning boost learning Learn how to structure and sequence teaching units in a way that is most beneficial to children's learning...

Attendees at Creed Foodservice's Brain Food roundtable event

Creed Foodservice

Creed Foodservice hosts Brain Food roundtable One of the UK’s leading foodservice wholesalers, Creed Foodservice, gathered key figures within education catering last week and hosted a ‘Brain Food’ roundtable as part of its year-long campaign to shine a light on how nutrition impacts learning in secondary schools. Recent research commissioned by Creed revealed two-thirds (64%) of parents worry about their child’s […]

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FlashAcademy

Beyond words: Connecting EAL and wellbeing Wellbeing lies at the heart of education, and it’s especially crucial when it comes to English as an Additional Language (EAL). The unique challenges faced by EAL students mean that their emotional and social wellbeing is as vital as their academic progress. EAL students face unique challenges as they work to understand peers and navigate […]

Poetry analysis lesson plans

Poetry analysis – KS3 and KS4 English lesson plans KS3 poetry analysis lesson plan Use a variety of verse to keep KS3 students keen as they learn key poetry analysis skills... The aim of this lesson is to introduce students to the basic techniques for analysing poetry and hopefully, get them interested in studying it. Students will learn key skills such as the ability […]

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Strawbees

Simplify STEAM learning with Strawbees Strawbees STEAM Kits, including the Teach Secondary Awards ‘EdTech & Software’ category finalist STEAM Classroom Robotics Kit and the complementary online resource platform Strawbees Classroom, offer dynamic educational tools to empower teachers to deliver an engaging and relevant STEAM education. Using Strawbees (straws and connectors) provides hands-on learning that sparks curiosity and develops essential 21st-century […]

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Raspberry Pi Foundation

Teach creative coding with the Raspberry Pi Foundation’s Code Editor Phil Howell explains how you can get your students’ programming skills off to a flying start… 30 Second Briefing Tailored specifically to young people’s needs, the Raspberry Pi Foundation’s Code Editor helps make learning text-based programming simple and accessible for children aged nine and up. It’s safe, age-appropriate and suitable for use in the classroom […]

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Historical Association

5 reasons to try… CPD from the Historical Association History teachers keen to develop their subject knowledge will want to take a look at this affordable, yet comprehensive CPD offer… 1. Subject-specific CPD The Historical Association’s CPD is tailored to support teachers at every career stage – from early career teachers to experienced leaders – covering areas such as pedagogy, curriculum, department management, Ofsted […]

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School rules – How to get buy-in from pupils A group of teachers talk about school rules, how they have (or have not) implemented them, and how to get that all-important student buy-in...

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Safeguarding in schools – Key principles every educator should know What areas of safeguarding do you need to prioritise and what resources are there to help? Join us as we explore this vital issue...

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