Morning Challenge provides fun and engaging daily educational resources for primary-aged students, helping you save valuable time. All the resources are designed for full-screen viewing on an ...

In Revolting Rhymes, Roald Dahl takes much loved fairy tales – many originally written to warn children of the dangers of disobedience – and gleefully subverts their underlying message, with hilarious ...

What is cognitive load theory? Cognitive load theory is based around the idea that our working memory can only deal with a limited amount of information at any one time. It focuses on the significance ...

There are three components to reading fluency: accuracy, automaticity and prosody. Accuracy provides the foundation – readers must be able to decode words on the page accurately to be in with a chance ...

I’m pretty confident that for most of my teaching career I taught reading badly. My initial teacher training left me with scant knowledge of the science of how children actually learn to read.

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?

The benefits of a structured ‘circle time’ session as a vehicle for teaching and learning with young children cannot be underestimated, especially after a year of very little social contact for many.

It is true that all children need boundaries to feel safe, supported, and successful. However, rigidity in defining and enforcing these boundaries can lead to automatic sanctions for types of ...

To reduce prejudice, we must first be honest with ourselves about our potential for prejudice. Mindfulness programmes can reduce stress and enable us to develop authentic, less reactive relationships ...

When you’re planning a lesson, are your first thoughts about content, resources and activities, or do you begin by thinking about learning and cognitive challenge? How often do you consider lessons ...

Primary art consultant, teacher and author with over 20 years' experience The chilly winter days have us reaching for hats, gloves and scarves in preparation for the icy air, snow at breaktimes, and ...