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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Make a splash on primary pupils' language learning with these activities, ideas, lesson plans and videos for teaching onomatopoeia in your classroom… This free writing review worksheet is an excellent ...

We decided to apply for an RE Quality Mark at my school as the culmination of a two-year curriculum change programme that saw RE transformed into ‘religion and worldviews’. We believed our ...

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 ...

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 ...

‘Low level disruption’ is no trivial matter, argues Joanna Williams - and it’s time schools woke up to the need for a better managed approach to discipline The retention crisis has been blamed on ...

I’m sure that many teachers and specialists have been asked the question ‘What is the point in Religious Education?’, but I wonder what your view is. Often there is a misunderstanding that surrounds ...

Use these Spanish games as a class activity or as warm-up exercises to get your class thinking and speaking. Because they’re so fun, your students won’t think of it as learning… Learning objective: ...

If you’re a high-ability pupil from a working class background, you aren’t going to do as well in school and in later life as a low-ability pupil from a high social class. Put another way, it’s social ...

Use an imaginary crime scene to teach children how to read, spell and use question words and question marks with this free KS1 lesson plan. Teach your KS1 students all about how question marks are are ...