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18 February 2022
Effective practice in school can compensate for children who have missed out on early language opportunities at home Research makes a link between the amount and quality of conversation at home and…
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Why is it so important teachers are politically impartial? Everyone has their own views on particular subjects and issues and teachers are no different, but it is important that teachers…
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The Education Endowment Foundation (EEF) has published an updated version of their guidance report: Improving Literacy in Key Stage 2. The latest edition includes brand new models to support teachers…
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We are a challenge seeking species. We all know someone, and it might even be us who spends some of their downtime working on a crossword, doing a sudoku, a…
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Although often a subject that gets left behind in primary school, music can bring a whole new level of enjoyment and engagement to your classroom, says Vaughan Fleischfresser... A quick…
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February is LGBT+ History month with 2022 the 50th anniversary of the very first Pride March in the UK in 1972. The overall aim of LGBT+ History month is to…
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Cognitive science is the study of the mental processes that we use to learn and understand information. It is a very broad field, with many higher order processes and executive…
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Mutism, where a child or young person does not speak in certain situations, such as school, is not selective. Your learner is not making an active choice. In fact, they…
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The National Literacy Trust has teamed up with award-winning author Tom Palmer to produce free resources which can be used in the classroom or at home, to help schools commemorate Holocaust Memorial Day,…
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Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting that speaks - Plutarch Dr Virginia Bower discusses the value of poetry and how it can influence our lives in powerful and…
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Approximately 25,000 children are affected by sepsis in the UK each year. To raise awareness, the UK Sepsis Trust (UKST) has developed a bank of PSHE resources for schools so…
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It’s now very common practice for teachers to begin a lesson with some form of retrieval practice activity. This is a good, common sense idea – there’s good reason to…
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