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 ...

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.

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 ...

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.

From microplastics in our clothing to the science of design, there are plenty of teaching moments in a fashion show. This lesson will explore the fashion industry, guiding pupils through issues that ...

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 ...

These Year 1 English worksheets are ideal for classroom activities, independent learning or homework tasks. They provide young learners with the practice they need to build confidence in key language ...

These Year 4 maths worksheets are perfect for independent practice, homework or quick assessments in class. They provide valuable opportunities for pupils to apply their multiplication and division ...

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, ...