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Classroom Life: Altrincham Grammar School for Girls
Whilst some would draw a distinction between coding and programming, for most of us any difference is academic. Coding or programming is the…
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Tom Starkey: for the love of classrooms
I feel at home in a classroom. You know where you are with them. You can dress them up, try to make them a bit prettier, maybe give them a…
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Teaching personal finance
As a country we hold personal debts of over £1.4 trillion, pay £164 million in interest every day and spend £1.5 billion a day on credit…
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Analogue Games-Based Learning
As educators consider how best to teach in a high-tech world, there is the risk of overlooking one of the most effective low-cost, low-tech…
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Alex Quigley: Making Homework Work
Is homework an unnecessary evil, or an important prerequisite for success? The jury is out. Yet year upon year, we ask our students to spend…
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Ask the expert – CPD and leadership
Q I have recently been promoted to the position of head teacher in the school where I have worked for 15 years, the last four of these as…
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What’s happening to the performing arts?
“There isn’t an education system on the planet that teaches dance every day to children the way we teach them mathematics. Why?” asks…
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How overseas trips can help learners
Every year, thousands of teachers give up their own time, not to mention significant energy and sleepless nights, to extend their pupils’…
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Safeguarding and body image issues
One in five primary school age girls say they have been on a diet. One in three adolescent boys has been on a diet to change their body…
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GCSE reform and revision
Andy Quinn is deputy head teacher at The FitzWimarc School in Rayleigh, Essex – an Ofsted outstanding mixed comprehensive school of 1350…
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GCSE reform and revision
Andy Quinn is deputy head teacher at The FitzWimarc School in Rayleigh, Essex – an Ofsted outstanding mixed comprehensive school of 1350…
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Using Wikipedia effectively in schools
The objective of Wikipedia is to serve as a compendium of public knowledge that has been collected collaboratively. Any student conducting…