Kelly Ashley looks at different kinds of ‘reader power’ - extrinsic, social and intrinsic - and how we can fuel long-term ...

Diwali is celebrated on Tuesday 21st October 2025. What is Diwali and who celebrates Diwali? Diwali, often called the Festival of Lights, is celebrated by Hindus, Sikhs, Jains and some others around ...

There are plenty of practical ways to make a real environmental impact on your site with these sustainable building ...

I’m sure that many teachers and specialists have been asked the question ‘What is the point in Religious Education?’, but I wonder what your view is. Often there is a misunderstanding that surrounds ...

There are three components to reading fluency: accuracy, automaticity and prosody. Accuracy provides the foundation – readers must be able to decode words on the page accurately to be in with a chance ...

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 ...

Imagine the scene: a child wakes up in the morning, peers out of the window, and sees it is snowing thickly outside. School is cancelled. All they want to do for the day is play. What’s important to ...

The clarion call for many geography teachers is that, ‘Geography is everywhere!’ When I was a teacher myself, I’d often say this to encourage pupils in taking an interest in how geography can shape ...

Come one, come all, and explore real-world maths by helping pupils plan a school fair with this free KS2 budgeting lesson plan from John Bee… This lesson gives pupils a purposeful way to apply maths ...

‘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 ...

It is a strategy of power to state that schools should be apolitical, without any sense of the ridiculousness of that position, to force children to sing the national anthem and memorise ‘The Charge ...

The benefits of a structured ‘circle time’ session as a vehicle for teaching and learning with young children cannot be underestimated, especially after a year of very little social contact for many.