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Actress Alison Steadman Struggled with Reading at School – but that Didn’t Stop her Having a Thoroughly Splendid Time Teach Secondary speaks to Alison Steadman to discover what she learnt at school

11 of the best fractions resources for secondary maths Whether it's adding and subtracting, arranging in size order or finding equivalents, help your KS3 and 4 students master fractions with these excellent resources

Instead of Coercing Students into your Way of Thinking, How About Trusting them to Make Sensible Decisions for Themselves? “Pomme puree with a light foam glaze? We call it mashed potato so that they can choose whether it fits into their own plans for a balanced diet”

5 of the Best KS3/4 Maths Resources and Lesson Plans for Teaching Lowest Common Multiple and Highest Common Factor LCM and HCF are areas students often confuse, so these resources will help you make sure they know their factors from their multiples and offer some engaging activities to let the lessons sink in

9 of the best poetry resources and lesson plans for KS3/4 English Poetry can be a tough sell to young students, but these lesson plans offer numerous techniques to get them falling in love with verse...

Best Reading and Writing Lesson Plans for KS3 English Use these resources to enthuse and inspire your secondary pupils...

5 of the best Spelling, Punctuation and Grammar (SPaG) lesson plans for KS3/4 English 5 of the best Spelling, Punctuation and Grammar (SPaG) lesson plans for KS3/4 English...

How virtual learning classrooms help students with anxiety and other mental health issues succeed Mental health issues can cause a vicious cycle of missed classes, depression, low productivity and disengagement. EdTech may just have a possible solution...

KS3 Maths Lesson Plan – Practice Geometry Skills by Working out Which Sides and Angles can go Together with ‘Five Triangles’ In this maths lesson, students are given 15 angles and 15 lengths and have to work out how they can be placed into 5 right-angled triangles. Finding triples of angles that sum to 180° is fairly easy, but sorting out the lengths is harder, and entails using sin, cos and tan as well as some […]

KS3/4 English Lesson – Character Study of Inspector Goole in An Inspector Calls This detailed lesson looks at the significance of Inspector Goole to the play, and includes an exam question and self-assessment sheet using grades 1-9. It is one of 13 detailed lesson PowerPoints for revision of ‘An Inspector Calls’, each focusing on a different character or theme using a variety of tasks. The full scheme also […]

KS3/4 English Starter Activity – Teach Students Ambitious Writing Techniques to Hook Their Reader’s Attention This perfect writing starter activity gets students to use more-ambitious techniques to hook their reader’s attention by using evocative images and writing prompts. This is part of a bigger resource of Ten writing starters for Paper 1, Question 5. Students are given a series of pictures as a stimulus (some of the photography is taken […]

Mrs Birling quotes teaching resource

Mrs Birling quotes – KS3/4 English ‘Explode the Quote’ tasks for An Inspector Calls These Mrs Birling quotes starter activities are perfect if you’re teaching or revising An Inspector Calls. The passages to analyse are: “A rather cold woman and her husband’s social superior.” [Triumphantly] “Didn’t I tell you? I couldn’t imagine a real police inspector talking like that to us?” Students have to ‘blow up’ words and phrases […]

KS3/4 English Lesson – A Christmas Carol Lesson and Quote Analysis Tasks This lesson focuses on the opening of A Christmas Carol and Dickens’ description of Scrooge, including a starter activity getting students to look closely at the deeper meaning, rather than just looking at a quote at surface level. This is part of a larger scheme of work on this Dickens classic, and is one of […]

How a Free App Lets You Give One-to-One Verbal Feedback to Every Child Quicker and Easier “When you’re reading a child’s work to them, they can hear how excited or impressed you are”

11 of the best KS3/4 science lesson plans Get your fix of biology, chemistry and physics with these amazing free lessons for secondary...

Physics lesson plans – Best plans for KS3/4 science Explore energy, motion, forces and waves with these amazing activities including broadcasting a message into outer space, engaging in meteorology and studying sound by creating your own instruments

14 of the best chemistry lesson plans for KS3/4 science Explore everything from crystallisation to the ethics of drug testing and doping, and explore perfumes, oils, dyes and much more

7 of the Best KS3 and KS4 Science Lesson Plans for Biology Dr Joanna Rhodes takes your students through seven amazing lessons looking at humans, animals and plants

Being a Headteacher Means Making Hard Decisions – and Facing Criticism Whatever Option you Take You can’t please all of the people, all of the time – but stop the press: as a school leader, it can sometimes feel impossible to please any of ‘em, ever...

Given Up on New Year’s Resolutions Already? Here’s How Research can help you Stick to your Educational Goals It can take much longer than the 20 to 30 days often talked about as the time required to bring about the formation of a new habit. On average it's 66 days, but can take up to eight months, so stick at it

Teaching Highest Common Factors (HCF) – The Two Essential Stages Worth of Consideration Highest Common Factors HCF

Open Enrolment Means All Parents Should get the Schools they Want for their Children – So Why, 30 Years Later, is it Still not Happening? With the many ways schools in this country can 'select' types of students, it is perfectly possible to live right next door to a secondary and still not be able to get in

Lowest Common Multiples and Highest Common Factor Needn’t be Boring – Creative Ways to Teach LCM and HCF Multiply your possible approaches and factor in student access to make these subjects easier for them to comprehend

4 KS3/4 Maths Problems to Help Teach Highest Common Factor (HCF) and Lowest Common Multiple (LCM) Play Product Sudoku and revel in Robotic Rotations to help your pupils get to grips with factors and multiples in a fun and engaging way

Describing a School as ‘Challenging’ Won’t Make it Easier to Work There – So Perhaps we Could Stop Doing it If people think changing the name of something makes it automatically become that description, then why don’t they call themselves Millionaire McSexypants, asks Tom Starkey

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