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 ...

If your secondary students feel like circle theorem is like putting a square peg in a round hole, help them see the point of all these angles by using a triangular one instead… This bumper circle ...

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 ...

Why teach The Girl at the Front of the Class? Help young children understand and empathise with the refugee experience with The Girl at the Front of the Class. It’s a moving picture book from Onjali Q ...

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 ...

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 ...

Artificial intelligence is changing business, culture, and learning but, like any tool, we need to learn how to use it well. This challenging unit of work for Year 6 explores what AI is and is not. It ...

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 ...

According to the Mental Health Foundation, 10% of young people self-harm. That’s two or three in every classroom, and the figures may be even higher as many of those who do self-harm do not tell ...

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.

Literary Devices defines alliteration as: “A stylistic device in which a number of words, having the same first consonant sound, occur close together in a series.” Does alliteration have to use the ...