Research has since shown that promoting and utilising active listening during peer-to-peer classroom conversations can help students feel more confident in expressing themselves. Ultimately, it can ...

Traditional debating can equip you with some useful skills – but is there a more nuanced, less adversarial way of exchanging ...

Having been diagnosed with AuDHD as an adult, Adam Dean came to see his own schooldays with a clarity that teachers may find ...

When discussing reading pedagogy, we are often struck by the number of veteran teachers who have come to believe that writing about and discussing texts are more valuable classroom activities than ...

Online experiences can be positive or negative – but also often complex and challenging for school staff to manage. It’s important to help your staff to understand, navigate and manage the emotional ...

In March 2025, the government updated its digital and technology standards. Its aim is to ensure that every school has the right foundations to deliver a smooth, safe, and effective learning ...

Face up to big feelings and develop core speech and language skills with the help of Pig, Mouse and friends, in Linzie Hunter’s joyful picturebook, What If, Pig? What if, Pig? is an absolute delight ...

Get children adding a bit of grammatical spice to their sentences with these teaching tips and KS2 adverbials resources from Laura Dobson… Adverbials are the herbs and spices in a grammatical meal.

Children are experts at making everyday inferences. Just think how many times they look out of the window, see the rain and ask you if they’ll get to go out to play today. And yet, when we ask them to ...

Are you looking for engaging Year 2 English worksheets to help your pupils develop their grammar and sentence-writing skills? This free printable bundle includes activities on verbs, compound words, ...

There is strong evidence linking young children’s spatial reasoning capability to later attainment in mathematics (Gifford, 2020). Despite this, the former government went ahead and removed shape, ...

The period between the end of my education and the start of my teaching career saw the emergence of ‘point, evidence, explain’ (PEE) paragraphs. As early as 1998, SEND and ITT specialist Margaret ...