For most early years and primary children, outdoor play is a regular and significant part of the school day. Early years staff understand…

Why teach this? The internationally conceived language of scientific terminology has as much vocabulary as a modern foreign language and yet…

Amid all the coverage of the forthcoming reforms to England’s GCSE system, where everything from exam grading to school league tables is…

The exam driven culture of the education system means educators are continually measuring student ability. It is therefore hardly surprising…

One of the most eye-catching statistics I read in the process of writing the Digital Skills for Tomorrow’s World report was that 47% of…

When it comes to sport in schools, certain things seems to go round in circles. Fifteen years ago, Tony Blair’s government asked school…

Curricula worldwide tend to place emphasis on mathematics, languages, and science, at the expense of design and technology. The new Design…

Why Teach This? Our modern world is full of geometrical images of various kinds. For example, the designs you see on wallpaper may involve…

KS4 science provides many opportunities for students to use and develop their mathematical skills but, as science teachers, do we currently…

In 1989, governments around the world adopted the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child. These rights embody what all children need in…

Students increasingly need to conduct research and are asked to do so across the curriculum. They live in the information age and have more…

Really Big Numbers (Richard Evans Schwartz, American Mathematical Society, paperback, £14.99) Few things fascinate children of all ages…

​Teaching and learning in the outdoors is fairly well explored and documented throughout the primary and early years curriculum. At that…