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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 […]

KS1/2 PSHE Lesson Plan – Learn About Food Groups In This Pacy Seven-Part Lesson Splitting a lesson into seven parts helps you to maintain pace and energy and keeps children hooked from start to finish. Here’s two food related examples that demonstrate how this works in practice.

KS2 Geography Lesson Plan – Learn About Survival Via An Imaginary Emergency Situation When it comes to learning about another country, it really is very difficult to embrace its climate, locations and environments without actually going there. As a result, a lot of geography teaching becomes fact based and, ever so sadly, photocopiable. While this is in some ways inevitable, it doesn’t mean that geography lessons can’t be […]

KS2 Science Lesson Plan – Use Simple Experiments To Help Children Visualise How Sounds Are Made And Transmitted We can’t see noises as they travel through the air, so making popcorn dance on a speaker is just one of the ways you can help children visualise the science behind sounds. Children will be very familiar with the notion of making sounds and noise (as your long suffering ears will no doubt attested). But […]

KS2 MFL Lesson Plan – Use French Authentically and Purposefully by Learning About the Circus Juggling and learning a foreign language might seem like disparate skills, but both require perseverance and allow for mistakes – if you drop the ball, you just pick up where you left off. It’s an interesting metaphor to discuss with pupils but, as this lesson plan demonstrates, the connections can go far beyond this. Using […]

KS2 Maths Lesson Plan – Develop Mathematical Reasoning With A Currency Conundrum In the lesson, children explore how they would pay for different items if the only coins they had were a 3p and a 5p coin. On the face of it, it seems a really simple idea but with a bit of added sparkle, it’s also one with definite promise.

KS1/2 History Lesson Plan – Use An iPad App To Bring Famous Historical Figures To Life Much of the primary curriculum hinges around key people from the past and how they have helped to shape the world as we know it today. But while there’s no shortage of information about famous historical figures in school libraries and on the internet, this information is often consumed passively by children. To be truly […]

Resources To Help Primary Teachers Develop MFL Knowledge Afraid of French? Scared of Spanish? Don't worry – there's plenty of help out there

KS2 Music Lesson Plan – Use ‘Dance Listening’ To Shake Up Your Music Lessons This topic uses the technique of ‘dance listening’ – the process of listening to music and converting what we hear into movement. With judicious use of questioning, dance listening can give you a real insight into your pupils’ level of musical understanding, and it also gives you the chance to ‘shake up’ your music lessons.

KS2 Computing Lesson Plan – Teach Children How To Use Wikipedia As An Effective Digital Source Love it or hate it, Wikipedia is a big part of our lives and it’s certainly a big part of our online browsing experience. One of the challenges for educators using Wikipedia is trying to get students to use it appropriately and to really understand what it is and what it can do. In this […]

KS2 Science Lesson Plan – Use Chinese Whispers To Explore Evolution and Adaptation For the first time in KS2, the new curriculum asks us to think about how living things have changed over time and to recognise that living things produce offspring of the same kind but who vary and are not identical to their parents. We are also asked to identify how animals and plants have adapted […]

Dame Alison Peacock – The People Who Made Me The chief executive of the Chartered College of Teaching shares her list of personal heroes

Last Meeting’s (Unedited) Minutes – Our New Behaviour Policy It's been decided that the policy is well overdue a renewal, especially given the recent behaviour of Y9, who are starting to exhibit character traits seemingly inspired by post-apocalyptic literature and film

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