The message from headteachers is stark: they are unable to recruit the teachers they need to continue to drive up standards. The situation is particularly difficult for schools serving disadvantaged ...

The primary school classroom as we know it simply doesn’t work for every child. While their classmates thrive in the busy and stimulating space their teachers create, many autistic pupils struggle ...

Unless we persuade disadvantaged children to take part in the arts, we’re limiting their future opportunities, says Professor Maggie Atkinson… The debate about why the arts matter to education often ...

The relational approach was first introduced in therapy and counselling and is based on the premise that most problems in life are relational. Our problems often stem from negative experiences in ...

Solid, liquid and gas. The three states of matter provide a host of different investigations for children in KS2 to get their hands on. The lessons in this free download start with foundational ...

Imagine the scene: a child wakes up in the morning, peers out of the window, and sees it is snowing thickly outside. School is cancelled. All they want to do for the day is play. What’s important to ...

Literary Devices defines alliteration as: “A stylistic device in which a number of words, having the same first consonant sound, occur close together in a series.” Does alliteration have to use the ...

This resource provides teaching notes for Cobweb by Michael Morpurgo, aimed at KS2 teachers. What is Cobweb by Michael Morpurgo about? The story follows Cobweb, a Pembrokeshire Corgi, as he ...

Did you know that 95% of UK schools are located in areas where air pollution exceeds the World Health Organisation’s recommended limits? Or that indoor air quality can be up to five times worse than ...

It is a strategy of power to state that schools should be apolitical, without any sense of the ridiculousness of that position, to force children to sing the national anthem and memorise ‘The Charge ...

You can probably guess the most popular answer. Working from left to right incorrectly gives 8a 2 + 2a. This question tested knowledge of the order of operations just as much as it tested algebraic ...

The benefits of a structured ‘circle time’ session as a vehicle for teaching and learning with young children cannot be underestimated, especially after a year of very little social contact for many.