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Found yourself as history subject coordinator after a few hours’ training? we’re here to help Teachers are expected to lead a subject such as history after maybe only six hours of specific training in it...

KS1/2 Book topic – Explore Illustrations And Imagination In Roald Dahl’s Billy & the Minpins Head into the woods with a brand new edition of Roald Dahl’s charming tale, illustrated by Quentin Blake for the first time

Fit To Dance Schools From Disney On Ice A cross-curricular teaching and learning programme supporting literacy and PE in KS1 When gazelles spring into the air, lifting all four feet off the ground simultaneously, this is called stotting or pronking. I tend to walk with a bounce and jump for joy too if I find a new resource that breaks the mould or […]

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.

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

KS2 Science Lesson Plan – Carry Out A Scientific Investigation With Real Moon Rock Use real moon samples to carry out close observations, compare and contrast materials and describe and evaluate scientific ideas. When NASA brought back samples from the Apollo space missions, it was incredibly fussy about who got them. However, the good news is that they did give some to the UK, and schools can get their […]

5 of the best chemistry resources for KS2 science Get creative with Willy Wonka's popping candy or explore moon rock with these great activities...

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...

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

KS2 Science Lesson Plan – Use The Spiderwick Chronicles Series To Learn About How Light Travels This truly motivational sequence of lessons will illuminate your whole class, and help you to rediscover your love of light in the science curriculum… Flat batteries. Bulbless torches. Scratched mirrors. For too many years the spectre of faulty resources has kept me awake at night ahead of our science topic on ‘light’. I would remain […]

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...

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

KS2 Science Lesson Plan – Explore Your Local Food Chain With Owl Pellets Use owl pellets to teach an engaging and enjoyable lesson about food chains and identification charts.

KS2 History Lesson Plan – Explore Multiculturalism in Victorian London Britain has always been a multicultural country, its port cities – where refugees, merchants and travellers first make landfall – melting pots of culture, race and religion. Henry Mayhew was a collector of information in the Victorian period and his work provides some of the most vivid examples of what life was like in the […]

KS2 Maths Resource – Multiply and Divide By 6 The White Rose Maths Hub is funded by the government and works with hundreds of primary schools. In its new scheme of learning, each of the times tables is given two distinct small steps: looking at the times table and related facts, and multiplying and dividing with the chosen number. Throughout the small steps, there […]

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

KS2 PE Lesson Plan – Let Children Discover Their Own Sporting Talents, Whether It’s Performing, Coaching, Announcing Or Organising Games teaching at Key Stage 2 is too often characterised by remedying some flaw in a pupil’s technique. We’ve all seen lessons where it’s decided that the children’s passing skills aren’t good enough, so we give them drills to rectify this fault. This is not that lesson. Instead, why not take the opposite approach? Rather […]

KS2 Geography Lesson Plan – Go Outside And Discover The Wonders of Your Local Area Your local environment is a rich resource for cross-curricular learning, whether you’re in an urban or rural location. Take time to go outside and find the extra in the ordinary.

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 […]

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