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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 […]

An After-School Classics Club can Boost Enthusiasm for Learning Studying classics isn’t just for Private Schools – boost enthusiasm for learning with your own funded after-school club

2018 World Cup Country Factfiles – Printable PDFs for all 32 Teams This PDF resource features a country factfile of all 32 national football teams competing in the 2018 FIFA World Cup in Russia this June and July. Each country file includes the nation’s flag, its name in its native language(s), geography facts such as continent, area, population, capital city, most populous cities, major language(s), most common […]

14 Primary English Teaching Resources for Birthday Boy by David Baddiel This download includes 14 separate PDFs full of activities to complement the book Birthday Boy by David Baddiel, published by HarperCollins Children’s Books. There are comedy caption competitions, a task that gets students to draw out a scene from the book into comic-style panels, word-list challenges and many other grammar and writing tasks.

How to be an excellent primary music subject leader Here’s how to put together an action plan that will inspire those colleagues who ‘just aren’t musical’...

Why do Pupils Become Disengaged, and How Can You Stop It? Adam Riches outlines four key factors why students switch off in lessons, and ways in which you can keep them engaged and enthused about learning

Live marking – How immediate feedback helps students learn and reduces teacher workload Practice makes perfect? Only if you're practising the right things. And instant feedback will help keep students on the right path and avoid getting smacked in the face, metaphorically speaking, says Lee Simpson...

KS2 PE Lesson Plan – Host your own Four-Person Mini Tennis Tournaments for Wimbledon Pick a tennis star’s name from a hat and enjoy an exciting four-person mini tournament. For two weeks in July (2nd-15th), millions of tennis fans avidly follow the fortunes of the world’s top players. Wimbledon offers a wonderful opportunity for pupils to identify with the values on show and will motivate them to improve their […]

How to fit 6 hours of music into the primary curriculum – a week! No magic money tree, a financially deprived setting – yet this Bradford primary has seen a spectacular upswing in academic achievement

We Must Promote Reading for Pleasure at Primary School Reading for pleasure is a serious business and deserves a protected place in the busy school day, says Clare Sealy

Outstanding Special Schools – How a Therapeutic Programme and Finely Honed Teaching Approaches have Made an Impact at Meath Primary "I think we have a certain responsibility to spread what we believe is best practice and what seems to work here."

How to Use Symbols to Help Children with SEND Succeed Sometimes a simple, visual approach to communication can succeed where even the most well-chosen words will fail, says Adele Devine…

Why Play-Based Learning Should be Used for all Age Groups from Early Years to Further Education You may think secondary students are too old for fun and games in class, but elements of play can get all kinds of learners engaged, says Vicki Vincent...

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