When is Black History Month? Black History Month takes place in October in the UK. What is Black History Month? In the UK, Black History Month is a national celebration that aims to promote and ...

Paul Dix explains how to balance the strictness needed for behavioural rules to be established, with the kindness that ensures students will want to follow them… Strict teachers in the common ...

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 pretty confident that for most of my teaching career I taught reading badly. My initial teacher training left me with scant knowledge of the science of how children actually learn to read.

What happens if you build a school but there aren’t enough students to fill it? That was the situation New Rickstones Academy found itself in several years ago. It’s one of two schools in Witham, ...

It’s long been the case that a young person’s background can have a disproportionate impact on his or her educational outcomes and later life chances. Yet despite numerous promises of action among ...

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 ...

This is a great website that children can use independently to learn the game of chess. There are interactive lessons, videos, games and quizzes. Start by learning the names of the pieces and how to ...

It’s a sunny (but very cold!) day in mid-January as I make my way through semi-rural Suffolk and down a farm track to Kedington Primary School, part of the Unity Schools Partnership. I’m here to learn ...

In September this year, the Daily Telegraph reported that “From next summer, secondary schools in which children do not learn about same-sex, transgender and bisexual couples are likely to have their ...

When you’re planning a lesson, are your first thoughts about content, resources and activities, or do you begin by thinking about learning and cognitive challenge? How often do you consider lessons ...

I suppose that the biggest challenge for any teacher is truly engaging their students. Time after time, I’ve observed incredibly talented teachers, who know their subjects inside out, fail to help ...