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Has Your School Got What it Takes to ‘Swim Their Best’? School Swimathon is a swimming programme for school children, encouraging them to improve technique and confidence, culminating in a challenge to swim further than ever before. The Swimathon Foundation and Swim England are helping pupils across the country to ‘Swim their Best’ in School Swimathon 2018. Participating schools will set the challenge to pupils across […]

KS2 PSHE lesson plan – Spark debate by exploring acts of heroism in sport The Olympics has produced many acts of heroism that can be used to spark debate in the primary classroom, says Jodie Williams… In this lesson plan you can inspire your children by introducing them to the noble actions of German long-jumper Lutz Long at the 1936 Olympic Games. Pupils will learn… What inspiration means Describing […]

4 fun ways to teach facts in primary school Trying to get information to stick in an engaging and interesting way? Kate Pegum reveals her tried-and-tested methods to help children retain information

KS2 History Lesson Plan – Pinpoint The Similarities And Differences Between Two Very Different Olympic Games This lesson is designed to help a KS2 class investigate similarities and differences between the Olympic Games of 1948 and those that took place in London in 2012. Browse more Olympics teaching resources.

Man on bed with head in hands, representing teacher Ian Eagleton

Ian Eagleton – “I collapsed on the driveway and sobbed” How one teacher changed the way he worked to better protect his mental health...

Larchwood Primary – On the up after a turbulent past “Please don’t aspire to be on TOWIE”, says Larchwood Primary headteacher Ryan Duff

KS2 Computing Lesson Plan – Create Your Own QR Codes And Find Creative Uses For Them ‘You may have noticed that QR codes are cropping up everywhere at the moment. The advertising industry in particular is fond of using these small, black and white squares to provide curious consumers with extra information. There’s nothing stopping you and the children from creating your own QR codes. There are many free online generators […]

Are Your Afternoon Classes Resulting in Long-Term Learning? It’s not enough to teach non-tested subjects via ‘creative experiences’ that aren't really helping students

How Long Is This Object? – Maths And Geometry Lesson Plan For KS2 Help pupils understand how size relates to quantity with Martin Saunders’ seasonally-themed measurements lesson.

Writing For A Reason – English And Literacy Lesson Plan For KS2 Give your pupils’ literacy learning some added direction and purpose with these ideas and suggestions from Kate Bradley.

Mental Health And Wellbeing – SEN Staff Have Feelings, Too Support your pupils’ wellbeing, by all means – but don’t neglect your own or that of your colleagues, advises Susanna Pinkus...

Getting the teacher-TA relationship right “Don’t speak to them as though you’re trying to explain Facebook to your great grandma”

Beware Ken Robinson’s ‘Creativity’ TED Talk – Children Need Both ‘Academic’ and ‘Artistic’ Subjects The idea that innate talents and those who are not academically talented should not be forced to study an academic curriculum is the most worrying of Robinson’s ideas

Nearly a Quarter of Teachers can’t Recall any Children’s Poets or Illustrators – We Need to Broaden our Kid Lit Knowledge “Without rich repertoires we cannot pump passion around the system,” says Teresa Cremin

Are we Having the Wrong Argument about Growth Mindset? Debating whether Carol Dweck’s work represents sound neuroscience or the latest edu-fad is rather missing the point – and the potential – argues Harley Richardson...

What Does Becoming Headteacher for the First Time Feel Like? How does it feel to step through the playground gates on your first day as school leader?

9 Ways Your Primary School can Benefit from a Partnership with a Local Secondary Get inventive when it comes to your relationship with your local secondary

10 Behaviour Management Tips to Help You Become a Classroom Leader Unlock the door to positive teacher-student relationships with Robin Launder’s no-nonsense advice...

Rhythm and Rhyme can Keep the Pleasure of Reading and Writing Alive for Every Child The music of words forms the building blocks for much of the language around us

Autumn Budget 2017 – 15 of the Funniest School Reaction GIFs and Videos The budget is here! Pay rises all round! Increased funding for all schools! Oh, wait. Nope. Apparently not

Book Scrutiny Checklists Feel like Trying to Teach in a Straitjacket I work so hard satisfying book scrutiny checklists and non-negotiables I barely have the time or energy for anything else...

Make it Easy for Parents to Give their Children’s Progress a Boost Being a parent is hard work, so Sue Fisher explains how you can help them leap the hurdles to home learning

KS2 Literacy Lesson Plan – Create Imaginative Characterisation in Poetry Writing is hard; writing poetry is even harder. You have a lot to think about: structure, rhythm, rhyme and so on. Creating scaffolds for children can help them to really concentrate on the words they are using rather than structure. In this lesson plan we are going to take the basic creative structure of a […]

Phonics isn’t just ‘baby stuff’ – It has a valuable role in KS2 too “Some people, worryingly, consider that weaker or slower-to-learn readers need ‘something different' from phonics”

17 of the funniest festive GIFs for Christmas play season in schools Preparing for your end-of-term show? Party planning for Christmas? Don't worry, we've got all your dos and don'ts GIF-wrapped for you...

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