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Film Club: movies that boost literacy
Whether it’s a screening of Polanski’s Romeo and Juliet to convince a group of teenagers the Bard’s not boring, a critical analysis…
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Bringing Shakespeare to life
It may not be conclusive, but when you have stood at the Globe on a damp day to watch a performance of The Tempest and heard the tears of…
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Lesson Plan: KS4 MFL – improve creative thinking with a mystery
Creating a mystery scenario in an MFL lesson is a very effective and engaging metacognitive activity that is highly versatile and can be…
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Lesson Plan: KS3 Music – improvisation for excellence
Improvisation has played a powerful role in many of the innovative developments that have been made throughout musical history, and it is…
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Lesson Plan: KS4 science – energy and power supply
Briefly the lights flicker in the classroom. Our constant and steady power supply is something we take for granted until a storm causes…
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Lesson Plan: KS3 English – develop their powers of descriptive writing
We all know that some learners find descriptive writing very difficult; this is particularly true for those who find taking imaginative…
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Lesson Plan: KS3 Maths – Turning the Problem of Enlargement Around
Download resource here. Students can often learn to perform a procedure successfully without much understanding of what they are doing –…
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Could ereaders be the way to inspire a love of reading?
Children who read for pleasure are likely to do significantly better at school, according to new research from the Institute of Education.…
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Teaching information literacy
I recently overheard a revealing conversation take place among a group of Y9 boys. Waiting for a modern languages lesson to begin, the…
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Why it’s important to learn outside the classroom
The importance of going outside at early years settings is largely taken for granted; indeed free flow is recommended good practice…
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What’s the point of reward systems?
Should we really be giving students prizes to acknowledge anything from attendance to attainment? Angela Youngman investigates the rise…
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Using ICT for STEM
I’ve been having some conversations recently around how we could use technology to encourage innovation in STEM (Science, Technology,…
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Games based learning
Student. Such a simple word to encompass such a wealth of personalities (and provoke such a variety of reactions). But it’s not the only…