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.

There are three components to reading fluency: accuracy, automaticity and prosody. Accuracy provides the foundation – readers must be able to decode words on the page accurately to be in with a chance ...

It’s long been the case that a young person’s background can have a disproportionate impact on his or her educational outcomes and later life chances. Yet despite numerous promises of action among ...

The established tendency in contemporary teaching is to avoid all-silent classrooms. This is in favour of a more collegiate atmosphere where we encourage talk and discussion but carefully manage and ...

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 ...

Witness the devastating impact of poverty through the eyes of 12-year-old Will, and what it means to make an impossible choice, with Tom Percival’s powerful novel, The Wrong Shoes. The Wrong Shoes ...

Raise awareness of teacher burnout with this free ‘Wheel of Teaching’ wellbeing resource. Teaching is one of the most fulfilling careers, but it can also be exhausting. Long hours, endless paperwork ...

This concept maps approach first came about when I had come to the end of a history unit on the Anglo-Saxons. I was struggling to decide how I was going to assess what the children had learned. I ...

This is a great website that children can use independently to learn the game of chess. There are interactive lessons, videos, games and quizzes. Start by learning the names of the pieces and how to ...

As the countdown to the Christmas holidays begins, why not sprinkle some festive cheer into your lessons with this free MFL Christmas activities PowerPoint? It’s packed with engaging activities to ...

Teach Reception children about manipulating, composing and decomposing shapes with this free ten-lesson resource full of EYFS shapes activities. We’re going on a shape hunt Grab your iPads and help ...

Pupils will need to reflect on their own understanding of what an upset child looks like and then look for clues that suggest this in the text (e.g. ‘they were crying’ or ‘they couldn’t catch their ...