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Product review: Royal Society of Chemistry Online CPD Courses
Expertise is hard won; and all responsible teachers have a personal responsibility to ensure that they maintain and develop the knowledge…
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Vic Goddard – Judgement day
It’s time for the latest incarnation of the ‘Educating’ series and this time it’s Cardiff gracing our screens. Unlike when our…
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GQ reform – geography
The new specifications for GCSE geography are being introduced for first teaching in the UK in September 2016, and include a number of…
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Product review: Debating Cards
Mothers should stay at home and look after their children. Space exploration is a waste of money. There is no longer a need for public…
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BOOK REVIEWS
Six books we think you and your students will love The Buzz (David Hodgson, Crown House, £9.99) Based on NLP techniques, this is a sparky,…
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What happens in the teenage brain
As our understanding of neurobiology continues to expand, research has revealed that there are regions in the brain dedicated to social…
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Promoting and delivering the new D&T curriculum
In September 2014 a revised national curriculum for Design and Technology (D&T) came into effect for 5 to 14 year olds. Its development…
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The power of performance across the curriculum
It’s a curious dichotomy we live with when it comes to the notion of performance, I think. On the one hand it feels like every other young…
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Tom Starkey: don’t say the ‘c’ word (cover, that is…)
Nothing in a teacher’s life is so filled with unending hope and potential than the blessed free period. It represents a shining beacon of…
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Lesson Plan: KS4 Maths – The Meaning of the Mean
Many students will know how to calculate the mean: they add up all the numbers and divide by how many there are. However, it is common to…
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Lesson plan: KS4 chemistry – the science of food
A popular phrase is that chemistry is “just like cooking”. But can you learn about chemistry and cooking at the same time? Welcome…
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Lesson plan: KS3 PE – rugby for girls
England’s women’s rugby team epitomises all that the This Girl Can campaign stands for. With the current English women’s rugby team as…
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Why Hannah’s sweets made sense
As I write it’s 30 days on from the Edexcel GCSE maths exam and people are still openly trolling Hannah about her sweets on Facebook and…