All teachers need to develop children’s knowledge of academic literacy in different curriculum areas so that they can interpret written text. Academic literacy ...
The New Wave Federation consists of three high-performing local authority primary schools in Hackney, Inner London. Improving outcomes through academic success ...
Stephen Lane, Teacher of English, Lichfield Cathedral School
In its most recent evidence inspection framework, Ofsted has shown an increased focus on ‘personal...
This article introduces a free linguistic tool (developed in a collaborative project between University of Birmingham and the University of Nottingham and funde...
Writing about curriculum development in 1975, Lawrence Stenhouse (Stenhouse, 1975) noted that the task of educational institutions is to make ‘available to the ...
Note: The author of this article, Kelly Ashley, works as a consultant offering chargeable support, training and consultancy services to schools on a range of to...
The manner by which pretend play contributes to children’s cognitive development has gained increasing interest recently. Play provides children with opportun...
Last year, I read an article outlining the work that Helen Lewis had done around metacognition with young children. Lewis’s study followed a group of four- to s...
Tower Hamlets did not have a single student entered for A-level music in 2017–18 (Whittaker et al., 2019). It’s shocking statistics like this that reassure us t...
To provide students with the best opportunity to thrive throughout their education, the Early Years curriculum must be highly effective. The challenges experien...
As teachers, we know the importance of vocabulary for accessing and meeting the demands of an increasingly challenging secondary curriculum. One way that school...
A significant proportion of students in schools in the UK use English as an additional language (EAL). Latest figures show that EAL learners in England account ...
This article explores what an inclusive culture in the primary classroom entails, and how it can be created and sustained. Drawing on my recent work (Eaude, 201...
Touch-screen tablets and educational apps are gaining popularity in classrooms worldwide, with increasing investment by schools and governments (Tamim et al., 2...
In January 2018, the Cambridgeshire Educational Trust launched an additional revision programme. We designed and built software to send personalised daily email...
How can teachers support oracy in their classrooms?
Will Millard
Speech and communication lies at the heart of classroom practice. It is the predominant way i...
Consonant clusters (henceforth referred to as clusters) exist in English morphology and impact on how sounds blend together and how words may be segmented into ...
‘Reading is boring’ – a comment that I have heard numerous times from a variety of students, and a concept that I find incredibly difficult to compreh...
‘Beyond the curriculum’ – trainee teachers’ models of knowledge
Sam Twiselton
This article discusses how pedagogical knowledge can be conceptualised within IT...
The study and teaching of modern history can rely heavily on the use of multimedia. Video is now commonplace in education and more accessible than ever before t...