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Well-behaved students are oft overlooked, but deserve as much recognition as more-demanding peers As teachers it's easy to ignore the pupils who give us the least grief, on the basis that they’ll just keep doing what they’re doing anyway.

Pie Corbett’s 10 secrets of reading schools Learn from the teachers who are getting it right in their classrooms...

6 Recommended Reads For KS2 Encourage your class to step into the wonderful world of stories with these brilliant titles

Primary assessment – Why constantly measuring every child in the classroom helps no one Enough with the obvious reminders and arbitrary measures, says teacher trainer Jon Berry – just let teachers get on with what they're good at...

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

A Letter To Myself As A Six-Year-Old Girl "Hug your dad, play nice with your sister, and don’t worry about being bottom of the class"

Irregular verbs – 7 of the best resources for KS1 And KS2 grammar If your children have, had or have had difficulty with irregular verbs, here are some fun resources to try to make those pesky non-conformist words stick...

STEM stars – Inspiring the engineers of the future, one wacky invention at a time Get your children to draw or explain their crazy invention, and it might just get made

Every Kind Of Child You’ll Ever Teach – From The Space Cadet To The Church Mouse “In diversity there is beauty and there is strength,” said the sublime Maya Angelou. Then again, she didn’t have to teach them all day…

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

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

Teach Grammar In 10 Minutes Well, maybe not all of it. But quick daily sessions have helped to cement Conor Heaven’s pupils’ grasp of GaPS...

Teaching children Standard English – It’s not about speaking like The Queen! There are many ways to help children understand the difference between Standard English and other ways of speaking. Just be careful which real-life examples you share with your class!

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

KS2 Book Topic: Explore Migration And Personal Histories With The Matchbox Diaries The Matchbox Diary shows how the simplest possessions can tell powerful stories about who we are and where we come from

How One School Is Using Mastery In English To Make Great Progress At Rhoda Wilson’s school, a new mastery approach in English is getting great results. Here’s how it works...

Helping Children Meet The KS2 English Standards Good drivers don’t panic or overreact when conditions get tricky, says Mark Creasy - and neither should great teachers

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...

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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"

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."

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?

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