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

Inspired by the recent discovery of new elements in the periodic table, this lesson will help your students to learn about how elements have…

Expanding brackets and collecting like terms to simplify expressions are perhaps not the most exciting of mathematical topics, but fluency…

It is a controversial topic: is the Jaffa Cake a biscuit or is it a cake? I am sure you have your own opinion; your students definitely…

We live in an age where robotics is commonplace. Robots build cars for us, carry out medical operations and can even check us into a hotel…

Sport is part of my past, present and future. It’s taken me to the most amazing places and helped me through difficult times. When Sport…

Encouraging reluctant writers to understand, value and engage with the process of writing is a familiar struggle in both primary and…

In January 2015, I found myself sitting in a room in Whitehall, a 132-page Free School application in front of me, preparing to face a…

How should schools be funded? We are generally so preoccupied with how much money we receive that the convoluted formulae determining the…

Done well, group work can boost learning, help develop a host of communication skills and enrich our students’ understanding; done badly,…

The National Literacy Trust’s recent survey of teachers, called Teachers and Literacy: Their Perceptions, Understanding, Confidence and…

Richard Wiseman, who started off as a professional magician, has a PhD in psychology and is currently Professor in the Public Understanding…

As Francis Bacon once said; ‘Great changes are easier than small ones’. In education in general and the special educational needs and…