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The 6 essential ingredients of great English teaching in secondary school Of course you’ll give the final recipe your own, unique twist, says Andy Tharby – but get these elements right, and both progress and satisfaction should be guaranteed...

What was your worst teaching moment? …and more importantly, what did you learn from it? We asked readers to share their stories

How to Manage a Challenging Parent – The CALM Approach Fight? Flight? Freeze? Don't panic, Steph Caswell has some practical advice to help you through encounters with angry parents

LCM and HCF Loop Cards for KS3/4 Maths This download contains four sets of cards. Students choose a set and sort them into order by answering the questions. Then they try to do it faster using a different set, which has a different[...]

Santa’s Streamlining – A Lowest Common Multiple (LCM) Activity for KS3/4 Maths Santa wants no wastage this year so work out the smallest amount of each group of toys that are made in different sized batches. Andy Lutwyche is a purveyor of mathematics and a producer of[...]

Christmas maths activity

Christmas maths activities – Lowest common multiple Use these Christmas maths activities with your class this December... I am organising a Christmas party, but I don't like anything to be left over. I plan to give each guest one of each of[...]

Phineas and Ferb HCF and LCM – A KS3/4 Maths Activity Five HCF and LCM functional questions using the characters from Phineas and Ferb. All put together in a PowerPoint and including answers. Now with a link to the Phineas and Ferb theme tune! Andy Lutwyche[...]

6 ways to support students with anxiety Persistent and excessive worry can have a hugely detrimental impact on young people’s lives, learning and mental health, says John Dabell – but luckily, there are things you can do to help

Improving attendance in schools – Why attendance rewards penalise the students they’re designed to help Life is already more of a lottery for some kids than others, says Simon Pearse – and rewarding attendance with raffles just stacks the odds against them even higher...

8 of the best KS3 maths resources for teaching scale factor enlargement Make your students' understanding of ratio, proportion and rates of change improve tenfold with these activities, ideas and lesson plans

Why Are We Excluding So Many children With SEND? I take great interest in the annual release of statistics from the Department for Education on the exclusion of children from school. In the last couple of years this has become something of a depressing[...]

‘Assess’, ‘Plan’, ‘Do’, ‘Review’ Works For SEND Learners – So Why Not Try It For SEND CPD? We use a graduated approach when addressing learners’ needs, writes Michael Surr – so why not try doing the same with your SEND-related staff CPD?

When it Comes to Teaching SEND Students Literacy a Whole-School Approach is the Only Option Literacy affects everything – so involve everyone, writes Nancy Gedge

Why Your School Should Teach Mandarin – and Why Students Should Learn It It’s time we started valuing subjects for more than how well they might prepare young people for an unpredictable jobs market, argues Cara Bleiman

Giving Career Advice to Students – What you Need to Know So, out of nowhere, you’ve been allocated 'careers advice provision' as part of your job description – but where do you start? Ruth Sparkes has some pointers...

What is challenge in science and how should we approach it in schools? Rosalind Walker offers eight ways to help students delve deep into the scientific study's world of profound explanation and elegant prediction...

Prime Decomposition, HCF and LCM, for KS3/4 Maths Calculating the HCF and LCM of 2 (or more) numbers by using Prime Decomposition and Venn Diagrams. Includes some worded questions and follows on from the other Prime Decomposition lesson I have on the TES[...]

KS3 Maths Multiple Choice Starter Activity for Lowest Common Multiple 10 multiple-choice questions on lowest common multiples for KS3 maths. Ben Cooper is an Assistant SENDCO and resource creator. Find more of his resources on his website at coops-online.co.uk and on his TES page, Coops[...]

KS3 Maths Multiple Choice Starter Activity for Highest Common Factor A KS3 PowerPoint with 10 multiple-choice questions on highest common factors. Ben Cooper is an Assistant SENDCO and resource creator. Find more of his resources on his website at coops-online.co.uk and on his TES page,[...]

KS3 Maths Factors and HCF Worksheet A simple factor worksheet for KS3 maths. The starter is three sets of division questions of various difficulties, and there's an extension activity to get students looking at factors of square numbers. Resource comes as[...]

Prime Factor Decomposition – An HCF and LCM PowerPoint for KS3 Maths A KS3 PowerPoint showing prime factor decomposition and how to use this to find HCF and LCM. Ben Cooper is an Assistant SENDCO and resource creator. Find more of his resources on his website at[...]

Highest Common Factor (HCF) Treasure Hunt for KS3/4 Students are given a pair of numbers and asked to find the highest common factor. There are 10 questions in total. Comes as an editable text document and as a PDF. Find more resources from[...]

Do Teachers Have To Go On School Trips? You might not get paid to go, but there are benefits to volunteering to staff your school’s next residential

How Embedding Outdoor Learning in your Secondary School’s Ethos Benefits Students At Bohunt Education Trust, outdoors learning is embedded within the ethos, says Philip Avery – and the benefits are both profound, and measurable...

Nearly 90% Of Teachers Say They Are Teaching ‘Pointless’ Lessons To Give Students A Better Chance Of Passing National Tests Over the last year, 89% of teachers say they have taught a lesson they believe to have been of little or no educational value in order to help students pass national tests, with 43% of[...]

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