More than ten years have passed since the government last looked at the National Curriculum. The current Labour ...

A tennis-themed zone of proximal development example leads teacher Aaron Swan to consider how teaching within students’ ZPD ...

Explore poverty, bullying and peer pressure with this free PDF of KS2 planning based around The Wrong Shoes by Tom Percival ...

BookTrust is inviting primary schools across the UK to celebrate Pyjamarama on 22 May, a day dedicated to reading for pleasure. Thousands of children across the country – in primary schools, libraries ...

Jennifer Bell’s Magicalia series offers a vibrant world of adventure and emotion-led magic. It’s perfect for inspiring creativity and encouraging a love of reading. Based on the bestselling author’s ...

How can we go about teaching citizenship in a way that develops students to be critically informed, willing to engage and keen to participate in democracy when faced with the challenges of our times?

“Show, don’t tell” is the time-honoured exhortation we use with KS2 children when we want them to describe characters in a narrative context. But of course, it is easier said than done. The creation ...

This is a team game for helping to assess students’ knowledge confidence. Students must identify a character, object, place or event from five clues that are gradually revealed to them one at a time.

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