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Teaching and Learning

Teaching and learning is crucial to the success of a primary school. Our best practice articles and case studies focus on how school leaders can support their teachers to sustain high quality teaching and learning.

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Mount Everest inspiration

Two British explorers are aiming to connect with more than one million students aged six to 16 via live stream from the slopes of Mount Everest.

Red Nose Day 2017

Red Nose Day is back on Friday, March 24, and Comic Relief has launched its resources and education packs to help schools with their planning.

The Into Film Festival: The world’s biggest free film and education event for schools

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Last November, 415,000 students and their teachers, across the UK, participated in the world’s largest free film and education event, the Into Film Festival. This year’s festival, taking place from 9th-25th November, is expected to be even bigger and better than ever before.

Theatre of Law project opens up the legal system

Primary schools from across London are being asked to sign up to this year’s Theatre of Law project.

Into Film Festival 2016

The Into Film Festival takes place from November 9 to 25 with more than 3,000 free screenings for schools as well as a host of workshops and other activities. Key themes this year include diversity, wellbeing and anti-bullying. Festival artistic director Sam Wilson explains more

Creating an outdoor extension of the classroom

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At Educational Play Environments we understand that play is a fundamental element in improving a child’s development and understanding of the world.

At a glance: Latest primary resources

Pupil Premium best practice, a toolkit to help migrant families understand UK education, film resources and asthma training are among the latest free primary school resources to be released

Pupils Profit

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Enterprising year 5 pupils at St Michael’s CE Primary School in Wandsworth are running two very useful businesses in their school – a Healthy Tuck Shop and a Stationery Shop.

Complete comprehension using fiction and non-fiction texts

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The Comprehension Box can help you in your classroom today, assisting you to teach 12 comprehension strategies including inference, finding information, fact and opinion through fiction and non-fiction texts.

Selected resources: From science to football and literacy

Among the resources featured in Headteacher Update in June were a literacy resource for the European football championships, a e-safety resource and computing CPD

The Crunch is here!

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The Crunch is a year of exciting activities, experiences and discussions about our food, our health and our planet.

The Unistage Show and Tell Classroom

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Unistage Show and Tell Classroom resource is a new and exciting modular stage designed especially for the early years/primary school classroom.

Electricity: Going Totally Unplugged

Could you last a day in school with no electricity? Head Tom Parkin introduces his school’s ‘No Electricity Days’, which teach children to value energy resources and reduce carbon footprints. He is now after other schools to join the initiative...

How many minutes can your class read for in one week?

Reading is a crucial element to a child’s success and overall wellbeing – one that we can’t underestimate. Yet a quarter of all children leave primary education without reading well.

Roadwise

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With more than 45 children injured on the road every day in the UK, what can teachers do to help every child in the school be safer and wiser on the road?

Solardome

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As a headteacher you know that learning outside the classroom is recognised as important for the personal, social and emotional development of children. But how can you best deliver it? Solardome Industries’ range of outdoor classrooms could be your answer.

Walk to School Week

This year’s Walk to School Week takes place from May 16 to 20. Kathryn Shaw looks at how schools might get involved, including the School Route Audits

Careers advice in primary schools

The free Primary Futures programme offers a way to discuss skills and deliver careers advice with primary pupils. Steve Iredale explains more

Supporting computer science teaching

Free computer science resources are available for primary teachers to help them with aspects of the computing curriculum and boost their confidence in teaching this new subject.

Free health education resources

e-Bug is a collection of free health education resources for teachers and school-aged children operated by Public Health England

Refugee crisis resources

Free resources on the refugee crisis are available through the charity ActionAid UK.

Pupil Pipeline Challenge

Schools across the UK are encouraged to get involved in the Pupil Pipeline Challenge between May 23 and 27.

My Next Fairtrade Adventure

An education resource exploring climate change and its impact on farmers in developing nations has been produced by the Fairtrade Foundation for key stages 2 and 3.

Ideas and resources for Safer Internet Day 2016

Schools are being given a range of ideas to help promote the positive side of the internet, while giving students the skills to handle the potential risks.

Mathletics helps Birmingham primary to win National Pupil Premium Award

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National winners of the primary category of the 2015 Pupil Premium Awards, Parkfield Community School in Birmingham has been using the Mathletics digital maths resource from 3P Learning as part of its strategy to close the gap. Assistant headteacher, maths lead and specialist leader in education, ...

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