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Entering a National Competition En Masse can Improve Children’s Writing Using a creative writing contest has produced some surprising outcomes for the children at Garstang Primary School, says deputy head Suzanne Thomas...

How to be a Whistleblower Without Risking Your Career So you’ve got evidence of serious wrongdoing in your school – but can you expose it without risking your own livelihood? Absolutely, discovers Anna Blewett...

How Can you get Students to be More Open to Feedback? We all have pupils who switch off or don't take kindly to academic advice, so how do you get them to listen? Andy Griffith has some ideas...

15 of the Best Education Blog Posts you Should be Reading Today We've rounded up our most popular blog posts on Teachwire and put them all in one place, so if you happened to miss any of them make sure to give them a read...

Peer Observations Make us all Better Teachers It's easy to lose sight of good teaching practices in the maelstrom of the school year, but making time to watch your peers can help all of us be the best educators we can be, says Dan Draper...

Why ‘SEN Resources’ Can Help Everyone Schools can both boost their inclusivity and reduce their expenses by using SEN resources with the whole class, says Cleo Fatoorehchi

12 Strange Things I’ve Done as a Primary Teacher There are some things you've no doubt had to do as a teacher that you'd otherwise never have imagined doing in a thousand years. Here, Jonny Walker picks out a few of his "highlights"...

EdTech Can Improve Teaching and Learning, But More Strategic Thinking is Needed Advocates of EdTech see it as the future of education, but forcing it on schools before everyone is on board will just disenfranchise some teachers. We need a smarter way to implement it, says Gary Spracklen...

How to Write a Behaviour Plan (and Where Schools Go Wrong) Do your pupils’ behaviour reports actually serve a practical and constructive purpose? Jarlath O’Brien looks at where schools might be getting them wrong...

Using Robots to Help Absent Children to Attend Class Remotely John Galloway finds out how a Norwegian startup is giving children with long-term medical conditions a much-needed pair of eyes and ears in the classroom

Make Sure Your School is Using Teaching Assistants Effectively With research painting a mixed picture of how effective TAs are in the classroom, schools need to be clear as to what their role should be, says Kate Sarginson…

Make Sure Your School’s Practice is Dyslexia-Friendly Liz Horobin highlights what two schools have done to make dyslexia-friendly practice central to how they operate

School Policy Must Focus More on Students’ Personal Circumstances Personal circumstances have a far greater impact on academic outcomes than schooling – so why do we persist in focusing policy development on the latter, asks Fiona Millar

Can you match the Roald Dahl Invented Words and their Definitions? – Try our Quiz How well do you and your students know your gobblefunk? Give this Whoopsy-splunkers quiz a go and try not to get the answers muggled!

The Minutes from your School’s Last Healthy Eating Policy Meeting “Parents would start trebucheting £1.99 two-piece meals over the fence in protest” – Tom Starkey takes a tongue-in-cheek look at implementing healthy eating standards in schools...

Moving from Secondary to Being a Primary Head Showed Me Just how Capable 11 Year Olds Can Be “Some parents weren't very welcoming; they started a Facebook campaign and threatened to download pictures of my children and post them around the local area,” says Sophie Laing

Truths, Myths and Misconceptions About Maths Mastery Tony Staneff lifts the lid on five of the most common misconceptions around this much-discussed approach to maths…

Some classroom behaviour management strategies can humiliate children, with long-term consequences Nicole Dempsey looks at how certain classroom strategies can be more humiliating than initially thought, with regretful long-term consequences...

KS2 Science & Music Lesson Plan – Write a Piece of Music About Fossils Combine two different areas of the curriculum in this innovative percussion lesson from Abby King. Providing a broad and balanced curriculum can put school timetables under increasing amounts of pressure. With some careful planning, a cross-curricular approach can be an effective way to maximise teaching time and make the learning engaging and memorable. In this […]

How performing and singing in music helps EAL pupils Got a challenging intake of EAL pupils on your hands? It may be time to call in the chamber musicians...

Football books for kids – 15 of the best for KS1/2 children Take advantage of football fever by throwing in some footie-related reads with some of the best books available for KS1 and KS2...

What To Do When Pupil Behaviour Becomes Extreme Tracey Lawrence looks what methods and approaches teachers can draw on when dealing with cases of extreme behaviour

Between mastery and differentiation how can teachers improve learning outcomes in primary school maths? Is it actually possible to improve learning outcomes in numeracy within an inclusive, primary school general education classroom, asks Edu-Girl...

James and the Giant Peach science lesson

James and the Giant Peach KS2 science lesson – Who can make the biggest seagull splat? 500 birds make a lot of mess! Use Deborah Herridge’s Roald Dahl-inspired lesson to look at forces and pattern seeking. Poor James Trotter. Beginning with the ‘unstoppable’ charging rhinoceros that killed his parents, our hero has been at the mercy of forces throughout Roald Dahl’s story of transatlantic adventure. Perhaps it’s about time James started […]

KS2 English Book Topic – Delve into Creative Activities Inspired by Karthika Nair’s The Honey Hunter Shonu lives on an island in the Bengal delta surrounded by mangrove forests – an area known as the Sundarbans, where bees build their combs like golden palaces in the treetops. Shonu’s father is a honey collector and Shonu understands the natural laws of the forest. When indiscriminate logging disturbs the environmental balance, cyclones, floods […]

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