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 ...

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 ...

In 2021, The Harris Federation took over East London Science School – a free school that had been placed into special measures by Ofsted. Re-founded as Harris Science Academy East London, staff at the ...

When discussing reading pedagogy, we are often struck by the number of veteran teachers who have come to believe that writing about and discussing texts are more valuable classroom activities than ...

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 ...

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.

Young people today are increasingly disconnected from nature. They’re spending more time indoors, and less time enjoying being outside. This can affect their wellbeing and limit their understanding of ...

Face up to big feelings and develop core speech and language skills with the help of Pig, Mouse and friends, in Linzie Hunter’s joyful picturebook, What If, Pig? What if, Pig? is an absolute delight ...