We all know that social media and messaging apps are a huge part of young people’s lives. According to research from Ofcom, 70% of 12- to…

William Shakespeare may have written that “all the world’s a stage”, but sadly not everyone is getting the chance to experience live…

1. Faults and Fixes It’s important to have the correct classroom environment for peer-to-peer work to be successful. This means that there…

Imagine a world in which the only concrete experience is literally a concrete experience – where people grow up in an urban environment…

Q I am a maths teacher in a small, coastal secondary school. Our students are great, and we are blessed with really supportive families,…

When Matthew Bourne’s Swan Lake opened in November 1995 it rocked the dance world. “There was a David and Goliath feel about the…

Most schools have one: a ‘cupboard of shame’, in which languish all kinds of products and resources that were taken for a trial spin,…

In 2018, Northumbria University was awarded government funding to develop a ‘widening participation’ English project. The widening…

“Discovering #TeamEnglish on Twitter was a revelation. It’s changed almost everything about my teaching, for the better.” - Anon…

1. Life vision From the offset, it is important that each pupil considers their life vision, or ‘road map’, and the career they would…

It’s relatively easy to come up with a list of topics to cover in the computing curriculum, but a collection of terms such as Algorithms,…

Greek myths are captivating stories, replete with noble heroes, grotesque monsters and capricious gods. Much like the Marvel universe, no…

The usual picture of a student revising is head hunched over a desk littered with open books, notepad, pen and highlighters. To study…