The dreaded weekly spelling test is causing serious self-esteem issues for pupils across the country. For what purpose, asks Dan ...

Add the visual elements of the character passports by choosing colours, borders, symbols, and illustrations that match each character’s personality. For example, good characters might use bright tones ...

Look at this stack of 4 cups. (If possible, have some real plastic cups in the classroom.) It’s 16 cm high. How high would a stack of 8 cups be? Why? This is a bit of a trick question. Students are ...

Steve Brace considers the framing at work when geography classes study ‘natural disasters’ – and why even the term itself is up for debate… In connecting physical and human processes, natural hazards ...

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.

During the 1980s, academics focused on leadership in the United States established the ‘appreciative inquiry framework’. This sought to identify and build on strengths, rather than focus on negatives.

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 ...

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 ...

How can we go about teaching citizenship in a way that develops students to be critically informed, willing to engage and keen to participate in democracy when faced with the challenges of our times?

This resource provides teaching notes for Cobweb by Michael Morpurgo, aimed at KS2 teachers. What is Cobweb by Michael Morpurgo about? The story follows Cobweb, a Pembrokeshire Corgi, as he ...

Children are experts at making everyday inferences. Just think how many times they look out of the window, see the rain and ask you if they’ll get to go out to play today. And yet, when we ask them to ...

Solid, liquid and gas. The three states of matter provide a host of different investigations for children in KS2 to get their hands on. The lessons in this free download start with foundational ...