Writing for meaning and purpose requires more than syntactical and grammatical accuracy; pupils must be aware of their ...

Advice on what schools (and parents) can do to help their Year 11 students navigate the crucial final year of their ...

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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 ...

The dreaded weekly spelling test is causing serious self-esteem issues for pupils across the country. For what purpose, asks Dan ...

For many schools, having trust-wide support can make the process feel more manageable. At Bradford Diocesan Academies Trust (BDAT), the ability to buy at scale, centralise workload and bring schools ...

‘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 ...

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 ...

Writing is a complicated process. There are so many different aspects for a child to think about – the content, the structure of the text, the construction of the sentences and phrases, and all this ...

The primary school classroom as we know it simply doesn’t work for every child. While their classmates thrive in the busy and stimulating space their teachers create, many autistic pupils struggle ...

Solid, liquid and gas. The three states of matter provide a host of different investigations for children in KS2 to get their hands on. The lessons in this free download start with foundational ...

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 ...