Everything school and trust leaders need to know about this year's Schools & Academies Shows in London and Birmingham ...

One of the most arduous tasks of any essay-based subject is that of marking. Deep marking, mandatory formal assessments, individualised feedback, student responses. These all combine to create a ...

Unreliable narrators can be a barrel of laughs, but they’re also great tools for critical thinking, says Bethany Walker… An unreliable narrator is a character who tells a story, but cannot be fully ...

For children with dyslexia, the key problem when trying to take notes concerns the way they structure and process information. Project work, comprehension exercises, and writing about events form part ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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: ...

Witness the devastating impact of poverty through the eyes of 12-year-old Will, and what it means to make an impossible choice, with Tom Percival’s powerful novel, The Wrong Shoes. The Wrong Shoes ...

Looking for an engaging way to bring Shakespeare to life in your classroom? This free download will help you tap into the power of rap to make Shakespeare more accessible, exciting and relevant for ...