Online safety film competition Online safety charity Childnet International is challenging young people aged seven to 18 to create a short film to educate their peers about staying safe online.
Air pollution More than four in 10 children living in urban areas (43 per cent) are concerned about the levels of air pollution near their school, a survey has shown.
Heritage Schools Around 120,000 school children are to benefit from a £1.6 million investment to continue the Heritage Schools programme.
MFL Schemes of Work – Free trial Sponsored ?La Jolie Ronde’s award-winning key stage 2 Scheme of Work contains everything you need to help implement your policy for teaching a foreign language.
A very Healthy Enterprise: ‘Nothing has been as successful’ Sponsored Drive up “5-a-day” with a child-led healthy tuck shop. Healthy tuck shops are popping up nationwide, delivering far-reaching benefits.
Language scheme perfect for non-specialists Sponsored La Jolie Ronde’s acclaimed scheme of work contains everything you need to help plan and implement your policy for teaching a foreign language in one go.
Primary school resources: March 2018 A round up of some of the resources and resource news from Headteacher Update's March 2018 edition...
Symposium to share impact of Royal Shakespeare Company’s approach to teaching Shakespeare Sponsored New research from the University of Warwick shows that using the Royal Shakespeare Company’s approach to studying Shakespeare can significantly improve student language acquisition and skills – with some schools reporting better SATS and GCSE English scores as a result.
The ROGO index A new measure of children’s reading at age 11 has been launched alongside resources and research-based advice for schools and parents.
Primary school resources: January 2018 January's round-up of primary news and resources includes the relaunch of the Leadership Equality & Diversity Fund, a literacy challenge, writing competition and new BBC esafety resource
World’s largest chess competition Sponsored The Delancey UK Schools’ Chess Challenge has run every year for the last 22 years and has grown into the world’s largest chess competition
Key stage 2 enterprise initiatives Sponsored Give your key stage 2 pupils responsibility for a Healthy Tuck Shop or Stationery Shop and see how they thrive.
Premier League Writing Stars The Premier League Writing Stars competition offers schools the chance to harness the power of football to transform your pupils’ poetry writing. Jonathan Douglas explains more
Ideas and resources for Anti-Bullying Week 2017 How can we make the most of Anti-Bullying Week in schools, including this year’s primary-focused Odd Socks Day initiative? Martha Evans explains more and offers some ideas for primary schools
Key stage 2 maths resource offers practical lesson advice Guidance to help key stage 2 and 3 teachers address some of the most common misconceptions in maths has been published by the Education Endowment Foundation.
A perfect performance platform Unistage is fun and easy-to-assemble, which allows you to create a perfect performance platform that is portable, modular, safe and quiet to use.
Road safety resources A new THINK! road safety campaign has been launched following a recent survey finding that two-thirds of children receive fewer than two hours of road safety education in their whole time at school.
The Big Vote Primary pupils are being invited to participate in The Big Vote to determine the issue of greatest concern to our nation’s children.
The Practical Pre-School Awards Guide 2017 The best primary school and early years resources have once again been recognised in the Practical Pre-School Awards 2017, run in conjunction with Primary Teacher Update.
Into Film Festival 2017 The annual Into Film Festival takes place in November with 3,000 free screenings and events. It is the world’s largest film education festival. Sam Wilson looks at what’s on this year
SEND, oracy & literacy resources A new set of SEND resources is being published, while research into the effectiveness of oracy and literacy interventions has also been released
Tapestry extends to include key stages 1 and 2 Sponsored The Early Years Foundation Stage Forum (FSF) is proud to announce that Tapestry (conceived, delivered, refined and watched over by the FSF) now includes progress monitoring and tracking throughout key stages 1 and 2.
'All Different, All Equal' - Anti-Bullying Week 2017 Discrimination in schools is still a real challenge. Embracing Anti-Bullying Week 2017 and celebrating difference can be an antidote to intolerance, says Martha Evans.
CUPPA growth mindset competition A recent Headteacher Update competition to win free copies of the growth mindset publication The Amazing Journey Of CUPPA – His Quest to Find the Five Secrets of the Confident Mindset has closed and the winners have been unveiled.
