There are many permutations of school councils. Some are made up of students spanning all year groups, with representatives ...

In July 2025, the DfE published the Writing Framework, a landmark 150-page guidance document for primary schools in England. Following on from the Reading Framework in 2023, this non-statutory guide ...

This GCSE English creative writing booklet will help secondary students develop their skills by focusing on the technical and stylistic aspects of fiction writing. It addresses common struggles in ...

Teach about equality and diversity and combat LGBT+ prejudice before it can begin to form with these resources from Pop’n’Olly. These resources, designed by education experts, help make teaching LGBT+ ...

These Banquo quotes from Shakespeare’s Macbeth will provide students with rich insights into the themes of fate, ambition and integrity… Banquo is Macbeth’s friend. He’s a fellow captain in the ...

No. End-of-KS1 assessments have been non-statutory since the 2023–2024 academic year. Schools are not required to administer KS1 tests or submit assessment data externally. The government recommends ...

The primary resource is ideal for Year 5 and 6 pupils. It’s a self-reflection tool to help children become more aware of what they spend a lot of mental and emotional energy think about or doing. It ...

Ann Marie Christian sets out how schools can productively harness their students’ instinct to help each other via a peer ...

Is short-term education policy holding back England's schools? Isn't it a good time for a more energetic and ambitious ...

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 ...

In January 2023, the CLPE and Macmillan Children’s Books (MCB) came together in a new partnership to learn about poetry in primary schools. This began with a survey aimed at primary teachers, to gain ...

It is true that all children need boundaries to feel safe, supported, and successful. However, rigidity in defining and enforcing these boundaries can lead to automatic sanctions for types of ...