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Smart board – How to choose one & 30+ inspiring ways to use it Your smart board need not be an expensive dust catcher or over-priced projector – try experimenting with these brilliant ideas...

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Art curriculum – Does yours have the potential to offend? With some previously studied works of literature now warranting content warnings. Caroline Aldous asks whether the same might apply to visual art…

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Questioning – 20+ strategies to encourage deep thinking You might ask over a million questions over the course of your teaching career, but which types of questions are most effective?

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Wellbeing in schools – What is it and how can we support it? We need to think more deeply about we actually mean by ‘wellbeing’ and what schools can do to support it, suggests Barry Mansfield

Holocaust Memorial Day Trust – Secondary tutor time ideas The Holocaust Memorial Day Trust has designed this set of five activities for you to use in tutor times. They include short activities and discussion questions to introduce students to the genocides we remember on Holocaust Memorial Day. Students will learn about people affected by the Holocaust and genocide and explore a range of themes. […]

Lesson planning template

Lesson planning template – Editable and comprehensive This comprehensive lesson planning template is suitable for PGCE students and early career teachers. It’s also great if you’re a seasoned teacher undergoing an observation. This lesson planning template has space for you to input the following information: Subject Class/year Date Contextual information on the class (eg class size, SEN, EAL) Topic/focus of the lesson […]

Macbeth key quotes posters

Macbeth key quotes – 10 posters & worksheet for KS3/4 This download includes ten posters featuring Macbeth key quotes, plus a worksheet (in PDF and Word doc formats) with these quotes on. Students can use this worksheet to make notes on as you read through the play. Macbeth key quotes Macbeth “Upon my head they placed a fruitless crown and put a barren sceptre in […]

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Minimum service levels bill – Let’s start with policymakers If teaching staff must abide by ‘minimum service levels’, then the same ought to apply to policymakers says Melissa Benn...

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Adding surds – What students get wrong about expressions with square roots Colin Foster looks at the different ways in which surds can be combined – some of which can be difficult for students to make sense of...

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Working class – The meritocracy myth of schools Matt Bromley explains why schools are classist – and offers some thoughts on what we might be able to do about it...

Management information systems

Management information systems – Essential info for schools What are management information systems and which is the perfect one for your school? We explore how you can use a MIS to bring order to the chaos of running a school or MAT...

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Teaching to the test – Are we even teaching at all? Teaching to the test alone will do your students few favours, warns John Lawson – but some drilling can go a long way...

The DRIVE Learning & Teaching Programme Hone in the fundamentals of great classroom practice with the help of this concise learning and teaching programme

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SEND interventions – 6 ideas to ensure students aren’t left out The way to make inclusion really work within the classroom ultimately comes down to tailored interventions, advises Gary Whall...

Download your copy of Technology & Innovation now Schools have always been hugely impacted by advances in technology – but in recent years, it’s felt as though the pace and intensity of tech-driven change has reached a new pitch. From the post-COVID facilitation of widespread remote teaching, to the advent of large-scale artificial intelligence, school staff are increasingly required to carefully consider and […]

Renaissance Freckle

Is boosting maths confidence the key to student success? Discover the transformative power of Freckle in maths education… In the ever-evolving landscape of education, where maths stands as a fundamental pillar, the need for innovative tools that address the challenges faced by both students and teachers has never been more crucial. Freckle is an online maths practice tool that goes beyond traditional learning with […]

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RSHE – The backlash, the hysteria and the government review A review of how RSHE is being taught may be helpful – but not if it’s intended to achieve specific policy goals before it’s even started...

Experience AI – free secondary resources to help you teach about AI Adam Riches explores an easy and effective way to ensure students are informed about artificial intelligence It’s no secret that technology is playing an increasingly important role in education. This generation of young people is entering a fast-paced and technology-centred world. This is both in terms of the dissemination and the discovery of knowledge and […]

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Art history in schools – What to teach and how to do it Art history occupies a bigger place in the curriculum than it used to – and covering it sufficiently can be quite the challenge, says Caroline Aldous-Goodge

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Break time – The lessons students are learning Students spend their break times exploring social structures, empathy and themselves, says Charlotte Lander – but what lessons are they learning?

Reading Solutions UK

KS3 reading: “Fluency is key” Reading Solutions UK’s Ian Fitzpatrick discusses the findings of its reading white paper, which explores today’s KS3 teaching landscape What areas are examined in the ‘Challenge, impact, outcomes’ white paper and over what period? In 2022 and 2023, a quarter of students didn’t reach the expected standard in reading at KS2, meaning hundreds of thousands […]

LEGO Education

The importance of purposeful play and hands-on learning for future readiness LEGO® Education’s Dr Jenny Nash explains why embracing joyful, play-based learning experiences can benefit every student How does LEGO Education define purposeful play, and why is it particularly relevant when it comes to preparing today’s students for the future? At LEGO Education we believe that when learning is joyful, it is more meaningful, interactive, and […]

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RAAC – Lessons to learn from the school concrete crisis The ‘concrete crisis’ has shown where the priorities of successive governments really lay. What lessons can we learn from the crisis?

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Phone ban in schools – Is a government ban the answer? Gareth Sturdy weighs up the government’s decision to try and enact a blanket ban on smartphones in schools…

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SEND children – How flexible should your behaviour policy be? Nicole Dempsey shares her thoughts on how the behaviour policies in place at mixed settings can be made equally fair for students with SEND

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