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

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

The UK government continues to explore the viability of introducing an Australia-style ban on social media use for under-16s. Didn’t prohibition teach us anything? When the United States banned ...

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 ...

Reform UK has been a fixture of the news headlines recently, but what do we know about their policies with regards to education? In a speech delivered at a private Christian college in the American ...

Why are the squashy lizards and hard-edged rectangles at war? No-one knows, but fighting continues until they’re forced to find a way to co-exist. Their solution delights just about every reader: a ...

What is past progressive tense? Sometimes the past progressive tense is known as the past continuous tense. This is probably a better term to help remember what it is referring to. Past progressive ...

Did you know that 95% of UK schools are located in areas where air pollution exceeds the World Health Organisation’s recommended limits? Or that indoor air quality can be up to five times worse than ...

In many stories – especially adventures – characters discover an exciting new place and experience a sense of wonder. When writing a fantasy setting, the only limits are those of the writer’s ...

Get children adding a bit of grammatical spice to their sentences with these teaching tips and KS2 adverbials resources from Laura Dobson… Adverbials are the herbs and spices in a grammatical meal.

What is Role on the Wall? Role on the Wall is a versatile technique that you can use across a variety of subjects, including English, drama, history, science and PSHE, to help pupils explore a ...

Use these Spanish games as a class activity or as warm-up exercises to get your class thinking and speaking. Because they’re so fun, your students won’t think of it as learning… Learning objective: ...