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Is a ‘Digital Champions’ Scheme a Great Way to Provide Learning Opportunities, or Just a Budget Version of Tech Support? “We need to be cognisant of what parents might think if their child is continually being asked to interrupt their work in order to help others”

It’s Not My Job to Diagnose Children’s Mental Health Problems “Trying to get a CAMHS referral has always been like trying to find the holy grail”

A simple geography map task exploring your local area can produce beautifully complex results "The poets were writing about how the discarded soiled mattresses were lounging like teenagers against the walls"

Avoiding teaching poetry because it’s too hard or boring, denies children a vital means of expressing themselves “We should expect that our children can let us know when they feel swallowed up by sadness or ready to pop with joy”

How to Spot Signs of Self-Harm in Students Dr Asha Patel shows you the steps to take to keep young people safe

No Jugglers, No Singing and Absolutely No Ukuleles – Unedited Minutes from the Drama Production Meeting We need an idea that requires no extravagant sets. Or sets full stop. Or props. Or costumes. Think of the budget.

How We Helped Families who Couldn’t Access Advisory Services When fewer of St Mary Cray Primary Academy’s families were able to get the help they needed, the school stepped in and found a unique solution

KS1/2 History Lesson Plan – Use A Painting To Step Into The World Of The Victorians While the Victorians might not have had TV, they certainly had narrative paintings that brought Dickensian Britain to life and caused mini-riots in art galleries. Use a painting by Ford Madox Brown to learn more about the Victorians, class differences, childhood in the past, immigration and emigration, gender roles, geography and travel.

6 Traits of Effective Teachers Which do you have already have, and which could you develop further, asks Ross Morrison McGill...

KS2 PSHE Lesson Plan – Learn About Less Fortunate Children With This Sport Relief Activity As primary pupils up and down the country join the fun and games of Sport Relief, it is important they do not forget why they are taking part and the difference that their fundraising can make to other people’s lives. Money raised through Sport Relief helps people living incredibly tough lives both here in the […]

KS2 Geography Lesson Plan – Teach Map Reading By Tapping Into Children’s Emotions With SatNav and Google Earth, finding your way around couldn’t be easier. But behind every map app is a huge set of skills – skills that are first introduced during a primary geography lesson. One of the three principle aims of the 2014 geography curriculum stresses the importance of map work as a geographical skill. […]

Make Breaktime Something to Look Forward to for Children with SEND "The school playground is a curriculum resource that has the potential to build a bridge to inclusion"

KS1/2 Computing Lesson Plan – Use Tech To Display Data In A Brand New Light There is no doubt about it, most people (particularly children) find looking at data dull. It’s not hard to get away from raw data though. You only have to watch the first ten minutes of the BBC news to see data being visualised in a variety of ways – infographics, live tweets, and immersive maps, […]

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KS2 computing lesson plan – Teach digital literacy and the importance of questioning online sources A good understanding of digital literacy needs to be at the heart of any school’s internet safety and responsible use programme. The reason for this is simple: the critical questions a child must ask to verify the accuracy of a digital source – whether it is text, an image or a movie – are the […]

KS1/2 Science Lesson Plan – Learn To Think And Question Like A Scientist Developing a talent for science starts with being nosy. ‘Doing science’, rather than just learning about scientific ideas and facts, is a matter of bringing a certain attitude to the subject (the same one, incidentally, that proves invaluable when studying most other subjects). And that attitude is curiosity, which most immediately expresses itself through noticing […]

Consistency is key with behaviour management – but applying it is easier said than done We are fallible, and children come to us from very different starting points – we are all human beings after all

Why ‘Labelling’ Pupils With SEND Can Sometimes Be Helpful For many education professionals, ‘labelling pupils’ is something to be avoided at all costs – but as Talit Khan notes, there are times when doing so can actually help…

Let’s Rethink Teacher Self-Improvement When It Comes To SEND Simon Knight discusses a new Whole School SEND initiative that aims to actively encourage self-improvement in SEND practice...

Alex Brooker’s Schooldays – “I Was A Bit Cheeky” My mum wanted to send me to a special needs school, but my dad didn’t see the need for it. I ended up going to a mainstream infant and primary school, where I was very well looked after, but it was a bit of a challenge for them. Back then I was still having operations […]

Life After Rochford – “SENCos Can At Last Have Some Certainty” Rona Tutt welcomes the government’s long-awaited response to the Rochford Review and ponders where things go from here…

KS2 PSHE lesson plan – Practise questioning, inference and justification skills The contents of a person’s wallet is all Sherlock Holmes would need to deduce their life history. Are your pupils’ enquiry skills up to the challenge? Have you ever found a lost wallet? What might the contents reveal about the owner? Such everyday experiences of losing and finding things are good starting points to promote […]

KS2 History Lesson Plan – Get An Insight Into The Life Of A Victorian Child ‘Less than spacious sleeping arrangements is only one of the discomforts ailing Victorian boy, Tom. Can your class roll up their sleeves and find a way to help him? In this big, bold history lesson dates and facts are only a part of the learning. When it comes to teaching what life was like as […]

My NQT Year Nearly Broke Me Focusing on progress at all costs leads to classes being led by diminished teachers, hanging on by their fingertips

AI Can Never Replace What a Teacher Does on a Daily Basis Replaced by robots? Not yet. No matter how cunning the algorithms, artificial intelligence will never simulate what we do, says Kev Harcombe

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If Schools Really Care about Success for Every Student, a ‘Zero-Tolerance’ Behaviour Policy isn’t the Answer “Inconveniently to some, children have rights” – All schools need to tackle indiscipline but such strict approaches are immoral, unjustified and frankly fraudulent

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