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Conway Centres residentials

Conway Centres

Conway Centres residentials – Combine true adventure with immersive arts With over 45 years of experience, Conway Centres is the perfect location for primary schools to come together and make life-long memories. In beautiful surroundings, the centres offer courses that combine real-life outdoor adventure with immersive cultural arts, which increase achievement and inspire individuals. Whether it’s canoeing on the private dock at Anglesey with the […]

Collins

Big Cat Phonics for Little Wandle Letters and Sounds Revised Little Wandle Letters and Sounds Revised is the leading systematic, synthetic early reading programme validated by the DfE. The programme provides a consistent and highly effective approach to teaching phonics to ensure all children become successful readers. Developed by two schools with exceptional practice in Letters and Sounds – Little Sutton Primary and Wandle Learning […]

Collins

Collins Big Cat – Ensure pupils become confident, fluent readers Support every child on their journey to reading fluently with over 1,300 carefully levelled readers. Equally split between fiction and non-fiction and covering a wide variety of genres and text types, you’ll find something to inspire and engage every reader. From early phonic development to fluent reading, Collins Big Cat is a whole-school programme that […]

Young Writers

Poetry competitions for primary – Get pupils excited about writing again After a tough few years, we’ve seen a decrease in literacy attainment and children’s writing enjoyment has hit a low point. What better way to get pupils excited about writing again than penning a poem about something that inspires them? “What better way to get pupils excited about writing again than penning a poem about […]

Woman wearing poncho, expecting rain, to convey visual of a parental school trip volunteer

School trips – How to recruit parent volunteers Gordon Cairns examines that tricky task ahead of many a school trip – recruiting willing volunteer helpers…

Teaching poetry – Valerie Bloom on inspiring your pupils through language Reading poetry in my mother tongue helped me understand my identity – here's how to help your pupils value their diversity, too

Girl in lab coat on science trip

Science trips for schools – How a STEM school trip to a science centre inspired one pupil to do a medicine degree And how it could do the same for your students...

History school trips destination Stonehenge

History school trips – Help pupils develop a greater understanding of chronology Use a history school trip to explain to pupils how historical events link together

Two people forest bathing

Forest bathing – Introduce your class to nature therapy with this Japanese practice Help your class destress and reconnect with nature by building this Japanese ritual into your routine

Camping illustration representing residential trips for schools

Residential trips for schools – We need collaboration and more government funding for school trips Is a night away for every child too much to ask for, asks YHA’s Alison Stevens

Inference KS2 lesson plan

Inference KS2 – Reading between the lines lesson plan Discover what reading between the lines means in practice, and develop inference skills through investigation, says Kate Heap

Teaching grammar – how to put it in context Rote learning and drills may help (some) children pass SPaG tests – but real progress only happens when we put the content in context, argues Rachel Clarke

Ofsted deep dive – my school’s approach has staff paranoid and panicking Civil war has broken out between the teachers in my school. We are all fighting for ‘our’ subjects, and we are all going to lose...

Map skills – free geography tools, and how to get the best out of them What’s your favourite journey? Delve into spatial representations and diverse points of view, and gain essential map skills for free...

Leah Williamson – What the England footballer learnt at school Arsenal and England defender Leah Williamson looks back on the efforts her school made to help her realise her footballing ambitions...

ProgressTeaching

ProgressTeaching

Review – ProgressTeaching ProgressTeaching is founded on a simple concept: to improve teaching so that every school provides a great education. The basic ethos is built upon the idea that a school is only as good as the quality of its teaching. ProgressTeaching is designed with teacher improvement in mind and that is what makes it stand out […]

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My Nametags

My Nametags – no more lost possessions in school End lost property at your school while boosting your school’s funds. Did you know that the average child permanently loses nine items per school year? If we think about ten million school-aged children, this adds up to an eye-watering 90 million lost items every single year. Parents are having to buy replacement items for things […]

Classroom contract – free template download Use this free template to create a classroom contract between teacher and TA

Excited teenage girl carrying a suitcase, ahead of going on an international school trip

MFL trips abroad – How to expand your students’ learning horizons Sylvia Holland talks us through the ways in which schools can facilitate unforgettable, learning-rich international trips for their students

Unmet needs – are we just excusing bad behaviour? Getting kicked out of school was the wakeup call I needed. Now I’m a teacher and it’s got me questioning our view of ‘unmet needs’...

Teacher dress code – advice from a deputy head Ben Connor on dress codes for teachers, and why wearing trainers to work isn’t a hill worth dying on...

Explanation text examples for KS2

Explanation text examples – Water cycle for KS2 Use this example from education consultant Aidan Severs to help teach your class the features of an explanation text, and how to write one of their own

Primary history curriculum – how to build learning year-on-year Connect past, present and future, and help pupils build on history learning throughout primary school

Five Minute Box

Review – Ten Minute Box A little suitcase that packs a punch for bite-size but effective literacy learning… If you are looking for a systematic and individualised intervention programme for maximising learning potential that can be used alongside any phonics scheme, then Ten Minute Box offers a structured and cumulative curriculum with multisensory support second to none. This adaptable and […]

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Collins

Review – Collins Happy Handwriting Help children master this essential skill, with all the resources you need ready-made… The digitally-savvy are always having a swipe at handwriting, bemoaning it as a redundant language skill. But it is still hugely relevant, and learning to write the specific English orthographic patterns plays a critical role in composition and the generation of creative […]

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