Advice on what schools (and parents) can do to help their Year 11 students navigate the crucial final year of their ...

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For many schools, having trust-wide support can make the process feel more manageable. At Bradford Diocesan Academies Trust (BDAT), the ability to buy at scale, centralise workload and bring schools ...

The dreaded weekly spelling test is causing serious self-esteem issues for pupils across the country. For what purpose, asks Dan ...

Add the visual elements of the character passports by choosing colours, borders, symbols, and illustrations that match each character’s personality. For example, good characters might use bright tones ...

Look at this stack of 4 cups. (If possible, have some real plastic cups in the classroom.) It’s 16 cm high. How high would a stack of 8 cups be? Why? This is a bit of a trick question. Students are ...

Steve Brace considers the framing at work when geography classes study ‘natural disasters’ – and why even the term itself is up for debate… In connecting physical and human processes, natural hazards ...

Our vision at Cragside Primary is to provide children with an education that empowers them to change the world for the better. A fundamental part of this is making sure all our pupils have access to ...

This Year 5 reading collection contains 11 weeks of planning. Use the resources to complete three lessons over the course of each week. The resource list sets out each week’s theme, and there’s a ...

The level of grammatical understanding needed rises significantly between LKS2 and UKS2. One area requiring a very strong grammatical understanding in KS2 is relative pronouns and relative clauses.

More often than not, we’ll ask students to guess the meaning of subject-specific vocabulary, or generate words for a particular idea. This often takes up a lot of time, and disadvantages those ...

In many stories – especially adventures – characters discover an exciting new place and experience a sense of wonder. When writing a fantasy setting, the only limits are those of the writer’s ...