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Instead of Coercing Students into your Way of Thinking, How About Trusting them to Make Sensible Decisions for Themselves? “Pomme puree with a light foam glaze? We call it mashed potato so that they can choose whether it fits into their own plans for a balanced diet”

5 of the Best KS3/4 Maths Resources and Lesson Plans for Teaching Lowest Common Multiple and Highest Common Factor LCM and HCF are areas students often confuse, so these resources will help you make sure they know their factors from their multiples and offer some engaging activities to let the lessons sink in

What’s wrong with maths GCSE? Addressing fundamental problems at the heart of the new exams Last year’s new exams had some positive aspects, says Charlie Stripp, but there are still a couple of key issues we need to look at

6 of the best KS4 English literature lesson plans Dive deep into Dickens' detailed descriptions and delight in Doyle's detective fiction with these full, and free, lesson plans for your Year 10 and 11s...

9 of the best poetry resources and lesson plans for KS3/4 English Poetry can be a tough sell to young students, but these lesson plans offer numerous techniques to get them falling in love with verse...

Best reading and writing lesson plans for KS4 English Help your Year 10 and 11 students on the path to their GCSEs with these free lesson plans

5 of the best Spelling, Punctuation and Grammar (SPaG) lesson plans for KS3/4 English 5 of the best Spelling, Punctuation and Grammar (SPaG) lesson plans for KS3/4 English...

How virtual learning classrooms help students with anxiety and other mental health issues succeed Mental health issues can cause a vicious cycle of missed classes, depression, low productivity and disengagement. EdTech may just have a possible solution...

KS4 Chemistry Lesson Plan – Engage Learners by Investigating the Science Behind Plastics Polluting the Oceans Reality check – 2.2 million tonnes of single-use plastic packaging waste was generated in 2014. In that year 842,000 tonnes was recovered and 800,000 tonnes was exported for recycling. A total of 500,000 tonnes went to China. However, China has now changed its rules vastly reducing importing plastic waste and plastic is already building up […]

KS3/4 English Lesson – Character Study of Inspector Goole in An Inspector Calls This detailed lesson looks at the significance of Inspector Goole to the play, and includes an exam question and self-assessment sheet using grades 1-9. It is one of 13 detailed lesson PowerPoints for revision of ‘An Inspector Calls’, each focusing on a different character or theme using a variety of tasks. The full scheme also […]

KS3/4 English Starter Activity – Teach Students Ambitious Writing Techniques to Hook Their Reader’s Attention This perfect writing starter activity gets students to use more-ambitious techniques to hook their reader’s attention by using evocative images and writing prompts. This is part of a bigger resource of Ten writing starters for Paper 1, Question 5. Students are given a series of pictures as a stimulus (some of the photography is taken […]

Mrs Birling quotes teaching resource

Mrs Birling quotes – KS3/4 English ‘Explode the Quote’ tasks for An Inspector Calls These Mrs Birling quotes starter activities are perfect if you’re teaching or revising An Inspector Calls. The passages to analyse are: “A rather cold woman and her husband’s social superior.” [Triumphantly] “Didn’t I tell you? I couldn’t imagine a real police inspector talking like that to us?” Students have to ‘blow up’ words and phrases […]

KS3/4 English Lesson – A Christmas Carol Lesson and Quote Analysis Tasks This lesson focuses on the opening of A Christmas Carol and Dickens’ description of Scrooge, including a starter activity getting students to look closely at the deeper meaning, rather than just looking at a quote at surface level. This is part of a larger scheme of work on this Dickens classic, and is one of […]

How a Free App Lets You Give One-to-One Verbal Feedback to Every Child Quicker and Easier “When you’re reading a child’s work to them, they can hear how excited or impressed you are”

11 of the best KS3/4 science lesson plans Get your fix of biology, chemistry and physics with these amazing free lessons for secondary...

Physics lesson plans – Best plans for KS3/4 science Explore energy, motion, forces and waves with these amazing activities including broadcasting a message into outer space, engaging in meteorology and studying sound by creating your own instruments

14 of the best chemistry lesson plans for KS3/4 science Explore everything from crystallisation to the ethics of drug testing and doping, and explore perfumes, oils, dyes and much more

7 of the Best KS3 and KS4 Science Lesson Plans for Biology Dr Joanna Rhodes takes your students through seven amazing lessons looking at humans, animals and plants

8 of the best KS4 Modern Foreign Language (MFL) lesson plans Our pick of the best MFL lessons to use with your GCSE students...

Being a Headteacher Means Making Hard Decisions – and Facing Criticism Whatever Option you Take You can’t please all of the people, all of the time – but stop the press: as a school leader, it can sometimes feel impossible to please any of ‘em, ever...

Given Up on New Year’s Resolutions Already? Here’s How Research can help you Stick to your Educational Goals It can take much longer than the 20 to 30 days often talked about as the time required to bring about the formation of a new habit. On average it's 66 days, but can take up to eight months, so stick at it

Teaching Highest Common Factors (HCF) – The Two Essential Stages Worth of Consideration Highest Common Factors HCF

Open Enrolment Means All Parents Should get the Schools they Want for their Children – So Why, 30 Years Later, is it Still not Happening? With the many ways schools in this country can 'select' types of students, it is perfectly possible to live right next door to a secondary and still not be able to get in

Teach LCM and HCF so students don’t mix up their factors and multiples in their maths GCSE LCM and HCF…or is that LCF and HCM? Help pupils wrap their heads around this commonly confused area of the KS4 curriculum

Lowest Common Multiples and Highest Common Factor Needn’t be Boring – Creative Ways to Teach LCM and HCF Multiply your possible approaches and factor in student access to make these subjects easier for them to comprehend

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