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​From the age of 13 I boarded at the King’s School in Canterbury. There was much about my schooling that I object to now, on all sorts…

Recent guidelines from Ofsted say schools should include an age appropriate e-safety curriculum, incorporating guidance for pupils about…

Lee Jerome examines the wider implications of a slimmed down curriculum, and the importance of putting ‘knowledge’ into context... On…

​We’ve all been there: sat through a meeting that has gone on and on and on, and thought, “if only this had been chaired better I’d…

As a new teacher, lesson planning seemed to suck up almost all of my available time and energy. Looking back over those frenetic early years…

Almost 40 years ago the then Prime Minister Jim Callaghan made a controversial speech on education. Delivered at Ruskin College in Oxford,…

It’s one of the hardest – and most essential – parts of any teacher’s job. Child protection training is always a stark reminder of…

“It’s variously known as ‘the sauna’, or ‘the prison’,” grins the first of a succession of charming, quietly confident sixth…

When it comes to lesson planning, Tom Starkey is a true artist – but in the classroom, everyone’s a critic... I’ve planned some…

During a Masters research project conducted in a successful secondary modern school, I asked a small group of students what they thought of…

My overwhelming memory of my school days is of freedom, to grow and develop as an individual and to learn to love individual subjects. It…

This is how it goes: Towards the end of the first half term of the school year, my PA, the irreplaceable Sheila, leans over the balcony and…

On one level, most teachers are publishing all the time. Every time you plonk a worksheet before your pupils, you are publishing your work…