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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

What Eventing Taught Me About Teaching – How Becoming A Student Will Improve Your Pedagogical Practice Six ways you can become a better teacher by learning and developing a skill

Comparing Students’ Maths Results To Each Other Rather Than Fixed Criteria Is A Flightpath To Failure A system that ensures one in three students won’t reach the minimum accepted standards by KS4 can't be right, or fair

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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"

Careers Education – What Skills Do Students Need To Thrive In This Rapidly Changing Employment Landscape Hybrid skillsets and multiple job changes – 5 things your students can expect in adult life

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."

Mental Health & Wellbeing – Understanding Young People’s Development Doesn’t Always Match Their Age Helps You Better Support Them Discrepancies between age and typical social and emotional development can lead to any number of difficulties, including disruptive behaviour, inability to concentrate, disengagement, school refusal and escalating mental health needs

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?

As Brexit Negotiations Roll On I Have One Simple Request – Please Don’t Take Maja Away We’ve voted for Britain to leave the EU. It’s happened, whatever we think about it. But, if there’s any way to stop it, please don’t use our Maja as a bargaining chip

Data Does Have A Place In Schools – But That Doesn’t Make Updating Spreadsheets Any Easier Spreadsheets are endless boxes of mundanity that sap my very living soul

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

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