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KS1/2 History & Geography Lesson Plan – Use What’s Special About Your Local Area To Develop Cross-Curricular Skills For pupils to really understand their local area they need to use the complementary skills they have developed in both geography and history. This applies both to KS1 and KS2. In this lesson plan Ben Ballin and Alf Wilkinson have developed a local study of a village in Lincolnshire to help illustrate this thinking.

What Impact Is Lengthy Nursery Hours Having On Young Children’s Wellbeing? Richard House speaks to a practitioner concerned that children face long days, too soon...

Words Can Change The World – Discussing Global Issues And Injustice In Your Class When I asked my class to speak about how they would make the world a better place, they rose to the challenge

SEND Support – Using A Communication Book Is A Great Way To Give Children A Voice It has made such a difference to my special class, allowing us to constantly model an alternative way to comment, says Adele Devine

Early Years Months Of The Year Cards Introduce children in the early years to the months of the year with these colourful printable cards, which will support their developing understanding of the world.

How Pictures Promote Reasoning And Deepen Understanding In Maths A picture may be worth a thousand words, but it can also be valuable in a maths classroom, says Mike Askew

Why I Haven’t Quit Teaching (And You Shouldn’t Either) What's keeping expert educators in the profession? Here's what...

Are You A Procrastinator? Effective And Efficient Nursery Management Tips Do you avoid having that difficult conversation with a member of staff, instead spending time with happier colleagues? Do you leave your finances or spreadsheets unmanaged, instead occupying yourself working with children or parents?

Lexile Measures Offer Different But Complementary Information To Book Bands – So How Do They Work? How could Lexiles affect the books we choose for our primary students?

Shielding Students From Negative But Normal Feelings Like Stress Could Do More Harm Than Good Objecting to a policy or practice – including exams – on grounds of 'stress' is really a cop out, says Dr Alka Sehgal Cuthbert

What schools need to know about toilet regulations Paul Thorn breaks down the essentials of what schools ought to be aware of when installing toilet facilities

We Went To The Whole School Send Strategy Summit – Here Are 9 Things We Learned The SEN system has its issues, but collaboration will see us through – and other observations from this year's Whole School SEND Summit...

Build Young Children’s Maths Skills With Construction Play Offer children simple resources and the space in which to combine them in imaginative ways, and you will prompt countless mathematical learning opportunities, says Mary Barlow…

Headteacher In A Brand New School – The Leadership Challenge Of Hiring Teachers And Staff One of the joys – and challenges – of building a school from scratch is being able to choose staff according to your values, as Hannah Wilson explains...

If SEN Isn’t Causing A Child’s Poor Attainment, It’s Our Job To Find Out What Is Countless things can affect a child's attainment and it's our responsibility to play detective, says Nancy Gedge

How To Choose A Charity Partner For Your Nursery “We put a huge amount of thought into who we choose as our charity partner each year.”

10 Tips To Help Staff In Their First Year At A Special School New to special schools? Sarah Helton has some expert advice to help you help students

Billy and the Minpins lesson plans

Billy and the Minpins – Primary lesson plans Explore the themes of Roald Dahl’s Billy and the Minpins with these read-along resources that include extracts, literacy and art learning objectives, lesson plans and fun activity sheets. Use these resources to bring this lesser-known Dahl tale to life, with activities for imaginative drawing, spoken language skills, listening skills, nouns and adjectives, using different senses […]

KS1/2 Music Lesson Plan – Explore The History Of Caribbean Steel Pan Bands We are all aware of the impact the slave trade had on the world, but hidden among the stories of hardship, sacrifice and defiance is the fascinating history of how steel pan bands were born. By exploring the way music developed in Trinidad and Tobago, children can learn about how the lives of the Islanders […]

3 Cheap And Easy Ways To Transform Your Provision And Enthuse Early Years Children “Our mud kitchen is buzzing with excitement and learning opportunities!”

KS1/2 History Lesson Plan – Use An iPad App To Bring Famous Historical Figures To Life Much of the primary curriculum hinges around key people from the past and how they have helped to shape the world as we know it today. But while there’s no shortage of information about famous historical figures in school libraries and on the internet, this information is often consumed passively by children. To be truly […]

Resources To Help Primary Teachers Develop MFL Knowledge Afraid of French? Scared of Spanish? Don't worry – there's plenty of help out there

KS1 English Lesson Plan – Beat Writer’s Block With These Idea-Generator Activities Children often struggle to come up with a good initial idea and, as a result, become demotivated, confused and unable to write clearly and accurately for their audience and purpose. Start the children off with a visual image of a desert island, a mysterious city or dragon’s cave and their creative juices will soon begin […]

Dame Alison Peacock – The People Who Made Me The chief executive of the Chartered College of Teaching shares her list of personal heroes

KS1 Music Lesson Plan – Explore The People Who Help Us Via Singing and Music-Making People Who Help Us is a very popular theme at KS1. It embraces many subject areas – such as PSHE, literacy, numeracy, geography (where in our community do helpers live or work) and even history (people who helped us in the past, eg Florence Nightingale and Mary Seacole) – as well as forming a natural […]

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