How thoughtful routines, coaching and collaboration can strengthen teaching practice and improve outcomes for both staff and ...

If we truly care about teachers, we need to prepare them to do career planning with essential information on all their ...

The level of grammatical understanding needed rises significantly between LKS2 and UKS2. One area requiring a very strong grammatical understanding in KS2 is relative pronouns and relative clauses.

There are lots of ways to expand the list of significant individuals in history that you teach, without wiping out the entire ...

Unless we persuade disadvantaged children to take part in the arts, we’re limiting their future opportunities, says Professor Maggie Atkinson… The debate about why the arts matter to education often ...

Use these cross-curricular activities, inspired by Viking Boy: The Real Story by Tony Bradman, to delve into this fascinating era. The first activity involves thinking about the Viking idea of ...

This is a great website that children can use independently to learn the game of chess. There are interactive lessons, videos, games and quizzes. Start by learning the names of the pieces and how to ...

Throughout history, people have created festivals and celebrations to help alleviate the winter darkness and build a sense of togetherness. Festivals such as Diwali, Hannukah and Christmas use lights ...

In September this year, the Daily Telegraph reported that “From next summer, secondary schools in which children do not learn about same-sex, transgender and bisexual couples are likely to have their ...

Literary Devices defines alliteration as: “A stylistic device in which a number of words, having the same first consonant sound, occur close together in a series.” Does alliteration have to use the ...

‘Low level disruption’ is no trivial matter, argues Joanna Williams - and it’s time schools woke up to the need for a better managed approach to discipline The retention crisis has been blamed on ...

Looking for a fun, educational KS2 quiz or a ready-to-use activity pack that will engage your pupils? Bloomsbury Education has created this The Week Junior Ultimate Book of Puzzles and Quizzes ...