Around the world, schools are banning phones. In fact, a survey of more than 15,000 schools found that 99.8 per cent of primary schools in England now enforce some form of restriction, often with the ...

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.

Many years ago, I took part in a maths fluency project which required some pre-assessment. I was teaching Year 2 and one task involved estimation maths; children plotting numbers on to a blank number ...

This Year 5 reading collection contains 11 weeks of planning. Use the resources to complete three lessons over the course of each week. The resource list sets out each week’s theme, and there’s a ...

ADHD UK’s Teachers & Workers in Education group meets to discuss strategies for working with pupils with ADHD. There are also virtual forums and opportunities to participate in important ADHD research ...

Lowest common multiple (LCM), also known as least common multiple, and highest common factor (HCF), also known as greatest common factor can get confusing for students, and that’s just in getting the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Why teach The Girl at the Front of the Class? Help young children understand and empathise with the refugee experience with The Girl at the Front of the Class. It’s a moving picture book from Onjali Q ...

Only winning counts! Don’t be a loser! From classrooms to boardrooms, by way of sports pitches and ballot boxes, there seems to be a widely held belief that winning is a force for good to which we ...

For the past few years, it’s been my privilege to be the senior leader with responsibility for student behaviour and attitudes and to lead the pastoral team. An important aspect of this work has ...