Funding for free school meals is increasingly dropping below the cost of making them, which is impacting much more than the bottom ...

Do familiar approaches give teachers enough information about what individual pupils who struggle with reading actually need?

If you want to use John Boyne’s book and the film adaptation to teach the difficult subject of the Holocaust, we’ve picked out some of the best activities, worksheets and ideas to use in your ...

How can we go about teaching citizenship in a way that develops students to be critically informed, willing to engage and keen to participate in democracy when faced with the challenges of our times?

I love being a head of year (HoY), fraught though it is with the emotional carnage of childhood or, in my Key Stage 3 context, that vicious twilight zone of the emergent teenager. It’s difficult to ...

I’m not opposed to the story mountain. I appreciate it exemplifies narratives that rise to a high point before falling back to a conclusion. But I find the language (conflict, climax, resolution, and ...

Henry Percy, (or Hotspur, owing to his tempestuous nature and fiery temper) is the son of the Earl of Northumberland. The Percy family provided support to Henry Bolingbroke, which was crucial in ...

Traditionally, silence has been (incorrectly) seen as an indicator of focus. We all know that silence may mean compliance, but we also know that silence doesn’t necessarily mean engagement. That said, ...

Research by Weber and Mitchell identified her (and Miss Trunchbull) as part of the cultural basis for understanding the role of the teacher within the UK. It was a popular response when I posed the ...

Inclusive Mainstream Fund explained: funding amounts, inclusion principles, spending rules and inclusion strategy requirements ...

Approaches to adopt now, in order to start building an inclusion strategy that fulfils the DfE’s brief and makes learning accessible for all ...

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 ...