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Sex education – what teens need to know
Embarrassing or enlightening? What is your experience of teaching SRE? Being asked to provide cover for a sex and relationships education…
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Q&A: fundraising
QI teach at a medium-sized academy school in the South East – it serves a catchment of relatively low deprivation, and we are lucky in…
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Is the school magazine dead?
In the past, school magazines were often generated by media or English departments, creating thriving extra-curricular opportunities for…
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How to deliver the new design and technology curriculum
The Design and Technology Association, of which I am Assistant Chief Executive, is very positive about the new programmes of study (PoS).…
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Getting physical education right
The Youth Sport Trust is an independent charity devoted to changing young people’s lives through sport. It is passionate about improving…
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Fiona Millar: Unnatural Selection
Last month’s local and European election results appear to have sent a shock wave through our political system. But might there be a…
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Finance advice – leasing
Over the past few years we have all read the well publicised reports on leasing scams; schools falling victim to leasing agreements have…
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David Didau: lessons I’ve learnt from lessons I’ve taught… literacy
As well-educated, literate professionals we have an instinctive grasp for how to read, write, speak and listen. Reading is an incredibly…
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Classroom Life: All Saints, Dagenham
It’s taken you twenty minutes to navigate your way around the unfamiliar, concrete jungle that is the parking lot. Stepping into the busy…
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Choosing the best print management solution
As those working in the education sector will know, a school’s printing and document management requirements are often considerable –…
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Alex Quigley: busting bad advice for new teachers
Have you ever heard the age-old teaching aphorism “don’t smile until Christmas?” If you have had the privilege of working in educating…
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A socially engaged generation
Each generation is defined by the cultural events and socio economic challenges it meets. Today’s teenagers face some very real ones: they…
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Tom Starkey: don’t plan your legacy
It’s getting to that stage in my career when a lot of the kids I taught as a fresh-faced young’un with hope in my heart and biros in my…