“Show, don’t tell” is the time-honoured exhortation we use with KS2 children when we want them to describe characters in a narrative context. But of course, it is easier said than done. The creation ...

A tennis-themed zone of proximal development example leads teacher Aaron Swan to consider how teaching within students’ ZPD is a two-way process… What is the zone of proximal development? The ‘zone of ...

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 ...

More than ten years have passed since the government last looked at the National Curriculum. The current Labour ...

How to go about teaching citizenship in a way that develops students to be critically informed and keen to participate in ...

Before handing out the balancing equations worksheets, use this extensive PowerPoint to teach pupils how to balance chemical ...

Head of history, Deborah Hayden, shares three history games that she's used successfully with both KS3 and KS4 history ...

Portals to magical places are a staple of children’s fantasy stories: Narnia, Wonderland, Neverland, Anthony Browne’s Tunnel, and so on. The point is to end up somewhere very different, but the means ...

George Webster is an actor, BAFTA-winning TV presenter and Ambassador for Mencap. George and the Mini Dragon, co-written with ...