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Shakespeare School – Why you should teach Love’s Labour’s Lost Give your students a challenging, albeit entertaining linguistic workout with Shakespeare’s witty skewering of manhood, Courtly Love and hack sonnet writing…

“Staff morale improves when we don’t strive for it” Easy humour between colleagues, drinks after work – often, the best way to improve staff morale is for leaders to just get out of the way and let things happen, observes Ian Mitchell…

School trip – Type 1 diabetes school residential trip record There’s no reason that a child with Type 1 diabetes shouldn’t be able to go on a school trip. In fact, schools have a legal responsibility to support students with medical conditions so that they can enjoy the same opportunities as any other pupil. Discover more about helping a child with Type 1 diabetes on […]

School trip – Advice for reducing trip trauma School trips can sometimes feel dysregulating for children. In this PDF download, adoption support agency PAC-UK provides advice for families and schools to help children feel more comfortable about the prospect of going away, either for the day or for a residential. Find out more about adoption support agency PAC-UK and charity Family Action at […]

Paul Sinha – “School shouldn’t be a solitary journey” The comedian, broadcaster and renowned quizzer reflects on his formative years attending one of the country’s oldest public schools

Educate everyone – Can families afford your curriculum? Rachel Macfarlane looks at whether those well-meaning practices and habits intended to support economically disadvantaged students may actually be doing more harm than good...

Professional relationship – How I married my colleague Our undercover teacher explores staffroom romances, and how you can make them work...

The importance of impartiality – Why social activism and schools shouldn’t mix The value of educational impartiality is being imperilled by the determination of some practitioners to produce student activists, writes Alka Sehgal Cuthbert

Teacher workload – We can’t expect stressed-out teachers to teach well Given the heavy workloads and distressing situations that can come with the job, let’s rethink the emotional expectations made of teachers, says Billie Krstovic...

“You can’t do SEND in a silo” Rhian Williams explains how quality first teaching, combined with a team of subject specialist TAs, has helped elevate SEND provision at Henley Bank High School...

Greenshaw Learning Trust and Henley Bank High School – Managing SEND and Teaching Assistants This download contains the following four documents, as used by the Greenshaw Learning Trust and Henley Bank High School to co-ordinate its SEND provision and the roles performed by its TAs: • SEND Snapshot Concise advice for teachers on adapting lessons and instructions to best suit the needs of all learners • Principles of Intervention […]

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How one trust makes novel use of the iPads supplied to it by Sync