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School Attendance Rules are Letting Down Children with SEND – But it Doesn’t Have to be this Way Elizabeth Harris recounts how an ill-judged absence letter prompted her to bring a legal challenge to her LEA...

Sound On Screen – What Can Your Pupils Learn From Music In Film? Into Film picks out three movies that can help inspire your pupils to find out more about and magic and power of music...

Vic Goddard – Here Comes The Summer… ... and with the prospect of six, school-free weeks ahead, Vic Goddard has been considering his options...

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Trouble Brewing? – Restorative Approaches To Managing Behaviour Need Time, Planning And Patience Like a good cup of coffee, restorative practice requires time and patience if you don’t want to get burned, says Paul Dix...

How ‘Family Learning’ Can Improve Your Setting’s Standards Of Parental Engagement Children learn best when their parents are engaged with their education – so let’s use our resources and expertise to get them engaged, says Claire Matthes...

Festival Of Education 2016, Day 2 – Matthew Syed And Stephen Lockyer On Mindset Helen Mulley hears why schools themselves should adopt a growth mindset to learn from failures, but also how 'mindset' is becoming an empty buzzword...

Festival of Education 2016, Day 2 – Why Do We Need The CoT? And Should We Have ‘Safe Spaces’? Helen Mulley witnesses a frank discussion regarding the aims and purpose of the College of Teaching, and watches a debate on the topic of whether kids today are too sensitive...

Why Has There Been A Spike In Number Of People Applying To Become RE Teachers? Sure, there’s a teacher recruitment crisis – so why are applications for PGCE Religious Education courses on the rise? Colin Hallmark has the answer...

NUT Members Votes For Strike Action First day of discontinuous strike action over pay and working conditions scheduled for July 5th

Festival of Education 2016, Day 1 – Greenwood, Greer and Young In the second of Helen Mulley's reports from the Festival of Education, Will Greenwood talks leadership, Germaine Greer talks equality and Will Young talks language concerning the LGBT community...

Festival of Education 2016, Day 1 – Bremner Steps In Rory Bremner makes a good impression, Daisy Christoloudou takes issue with Assessment for Learning and Jarlath O’Brian decries 'fake inclusion' in the first of several reports by Helen Mulley from this year's Festival of Education...

UNISON Survey Finds School Support Staff Having To Deal With Rising Violence And Abuse More than half of TAs responding to survey report experiencing physical violence from pupils and parents over the past year

Anyone For Tennis? – Get Set For Wimbledon With These 6 Tennis Resources For Schools As the renowned lawn tennis competition gears up, here's a selection of resources to get your pupils into backhanding, volleying and smashing spirit...

Ever increasing circles – What the spiral curriculum can do for your students In the first of a new series looking at different teaching and curricular styles, Michael McGarvey considers the Spiral Curriculum...

Mind Your Language – 7 Points To Remember When Supporting Early Learners With EAL There is much that early years settings must consider when supporting children and families with EAL, says Kathy Brodie...

Systems Management – What Does It Take To Run A Successful Computing Department? Just taken over your school's computing department? Terry Freedman shares his top 10 tips for ensuring success from the start...

Sara Pascoe’s School Days: “Miss Banks Said We Shouldn’t Laugh At Other People In A Cruel Way” Comedian Sara Pascoe recalls an early lesson in telling jokes – and why, despite having no religion herself, "We should fight to protect the teaching of RE in schools"...

Who Will You Nominate In The Technology and Innovation Awards 2016? Let us know which teacher and school has inspired you most over the past year, and they could win some fantastic prizes courtesy of LEGO® Education...

How To Deal With Stress In Leadership Former headteacher James Hilton ignored the warning signs of work-related stress until it was too late. Now he helps education professionals recognise and overcome the symptoms...

Hear Me Roar – Using Outdoor Learning To Teach Resilience Are reserves of grit and resilience running low in the classroom? It’s time your class took a walk on the wild side, discovers Anna Blewett...

How forest school lessons can help autistic learners The forest school philosophy has something to offer all young people, says Gordon Cairns – but for those with an autism spectrum disorder, the impact can be especially dramatic...

Ensuring Effective Staff Retention and Succession Planning – Checklist for school leadership Checklist for senior leadership across all key stages to assess the effectiveness of a school's existing staff retention and succession planning. For more information, visit blueskyeducation.co.uk

KS3 Maths Lesson Plan – Show how Line and Rotational Symmetry are Linked by Inventing and Drawing Your Own Shapes From this page you can download the 'Shape Up' lesson plan originally published in Teach Secondary issue 1.5'Shape Up' teaches students about line and rotational symmetry and how they are related, getting them to invent[...]

KS3 Maths Lesson Plan – Develop Algebra Skills to Help Students Rearrange Equations Confidently This maths lesson plan develops pupils' algebra skills so that they can rearrange equations confidently, which is an important skill both in mathematics and other subjects like science and design and technology.... For more information[...]

KS3 Maths Lesson Plan – Use Pythagoras’ Theorem in an Investigation to Examine the Properties of Shapes From this page you can download the 'Hopping Along' lesson plan originally published in Teach Secondary issue 1.1'A Day at the C-Side' gets Pythagoras' theorem stuck in learners' minds by allowing them to discover it[...]

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