At the beginning of February, more than 400 schools up and down the country welcomed back hundreds of former students. Caterers, doctors,…

According to Feinstein and Symons in their study Attainment in Secondary School, “parenting is much more important than schooling” and…

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With reading and literacy being so fundamental in terms of accessing learning, let alone as skills for life, it is clear that this must be…

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I am fortunate enough to have an educational role with the unique backdrop of the rollercoasters and rides of THORPE PARK Resort. As you…

Never work with kids and animals, the saying goes. Yet several years ago, as a newly qualified secondary school teacher, I somehow found…

Q I have been head teacher at a small secondary school in a semi-rural location for three years. At our most recent Ofsted inspection (2015)…

Before the arrival of the Coalition Government, many schools’ ICT was managed through their Building Schools for the Future (BSF)…

Printer choice in schools is often determined by what is a good deal at the time. However, what seems like a bargain can quickly become a…

I have just returned home with a spring in my step having watched my football team play; in fact I am feeling rather warm and fuzzy. This is…

My students are definitely used to me referring to ‘idea babies’; thoughts which have not been fully formed but which appear to offer…

Providing learners with the opportunity to engage with the context and the staging of Shakespeare’s plays is fundamental to the…