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Speech and Language in Crisis: Why UK Schools Are Struggling and How to Help Teaching & Learning

Speech and Language in Crisis: Why UK Schools Are Struggling and How to Help

UK schools face a speech and language crisis, with rising unmet needs. Why it’s worsening, and how schools and resources can help.

Suzy Barrett Updated on December 10, 2025

The Importance of Reading for Pleasure: Why It Matters for Children’s Learning Teaching & Learning

The Importance of Reading for Pleasure: Why It Matters for Children’s Learning

Reading for pleasure is in decline—yet it boosts attainment, empathy, and wellbeing. Here’s why it matters and how schools can reignite the habit.

Suzy Barrett Updated on December 8, 2025

Tips for Parents: 10 ways to Help With Homework Teaching & Learning

Tips for Parents: 10 ways to Help With Homework

Helping with homework builds responsibility, confidence, and stronger parent-child bonds. Here are 10 practical ways to support learning at home.

Brad Holmes Updated on December 8, 2025

Preventing cyberbullying in school Teaching & Learning

Preventing cyberbullying in school

Cyberbullying harms students’ wellbeing and learning. Here’s how schools can tackle it with education, policies, reporting systems, and parent collaboration.

Brad Holmes Updated on December 8, 2025

The Role of Learning Assessment in Personalised Education Teaching & Learning

The Role of Learning Assessment in Personalised Education

Education’s ultimate goal is to foster understanding, cultivate skills, and promote personal and academic growth. Integral to this process is the Assessment of Learning. Different assessment techniques, including formative and summative assessments, allow educators to gauge student comprehension and progress. Yet, beyond these traditional methods, there are other valuable tools to optimise the assessment process. … Continued

Brad Holmes Updated on December 8, 2025

Managing Behaviour in the Classroom: 9 Proven Strategies for Teachers Teaching & Learning

Managing Behaviour in the Classroom: 9 Proven Strategies for Teachers

Discover nine proven classroom behaviour strategies that create calm, focused lessons and support positive learning environments.

Brad Holmes Updated on December 10, 2025

Supporting Children in a SEN School: A Comprehensive Guide Teaching & Learning

Supporting Children in a SEN School: A Comprehensive Guide

Special Educational Needs (SEN) schools provide tailored support for children with physical, cognitive, emotional, or social challenges. With specialist staff and resources, they go beyond mainstream provision by helping pupils build on strengths, overcome barriers, and stay engaged in learning. The HM Government Green Paper review on SEND highlighted serious shortcomings across the system. It … Continued

Brad Holmes Updated on December 8, 2025

Why Handwriting Practice is still important in a digital age Teaching & Learning

Why Handwriting Practice is still important in a digital age

Government research shows it’s the lowest-performing subject in Key Stages 1 and 2, with a clear gender gap: girls consistently outperform boys. Even before the pandemic, many children—especially boys—were leaving primary school without meeting expected levels in writing and reading. According to the National Literacy Trust, by the age of 11, more boys than girls … Continued

Brad Holmes Updated on December 8, 2025

How Colour Affects Learning: Boosting Memory, Attention, and Engagement? Teaching & Learning

How Colour Affects Learning: Boosting Memory, Attention, and Engagement?

Discover how colour shapes learning, improves focus, memory and mood in classrooms. Practical tips to choose hues that energise and support students.

Suzy Barrett Updated on December 10, 2025

Are School Reward Systems The Key To Academic Achievement? Teaching & Learning

Are School Reward Systems The Key To Academic Achievement?

School reward systems are a crucial tool for managing behaviour in the classroom, actively promoting school values, and teaching children the difference between right and wrong. These systems are largely grounded in the theories of behaviourism and social learning, which posit that providing rewards for good behaviour will eventually lead children to exhibit such behaviour … Continued

Suzy Barrett Updated on December 10, 2025

Reading Records and Literacy Guides Teaching & Learning

Reading Records and Literacy Guides

Developing reading abilities during Key Stage 1 is not just a component of the National Curriculum, but also a foundational pillar in a child’s academic journey. The advantages of reading extend beyond the mere expansion of vocabulary and enhancement of spelling skills. In fact, numerous studies and documents highlight the profound and multifaceted benefits of … Continued

Brad Holmes Updated on December 8, 2025

Growth Mindset Quotes for Every Week of the Year Teaching & Learning

Growth Mindset Quotes for Every Week of the Year

Find inspiring growth mindset quotes to motivate students, staff and school leaders. Quotes to spark positive change and build resilience in learning.

Brad Holmes Updated on December 10, 2025

9 Study Tips – Backed By Science Teaching & Learning

9 Study Tips – Backed By Science

Studying is an art, one that demands tailored approaches based on individual learning styles. Yet, amidst the diversity, certain scientifically-backed techniques rise above the rest, promising optimal learning outcomes. These “study tips” have become a focal keyword in academic circles, as both educators and students seek strategies that guarantee effective learning. Harnessing these evidence-based methods, … Continued

Brad Holmes Updated on December 10, 2025

The Growth Mindset in Education Teaching & Learning

The Growth Mindset in Education

Success at school depends on more than natural ability. It is shaped by the way pupils think about learning. Psychologist Carol Dweck’s research explains the difference between a fixed mindset, where intelligence is seen as something unchangeable, and a growth mindset, where improvement comes through effort and effective strategies. Pupils who develop a growth mindset … Continued

Brad Holmes Updated on December 8, 2025

Verbal Feedback in Schools: An Overview Of A Live Marking Strategy Teaching & Learning

Verbal Feedback in Schools: An Overview Of A Live Marking Strategy

In the ever-evolving landscape of education, methods of feedback and assessment have always been pivotal topics of discussion. Marking, as a cornerstone of this dialogue, presents a unique challenge, shaped and reshaped by myriad interpretations across schools and educators. Within this spectrum, verbal feedback emerges as a significant component, often overshadowed but undeniably crucial. This … Continued

Brad Holmes Updated on December 8, 2025

10 Ways To Improve Your Home-School Communication Teaching & Learning

10 Ways To Improve Your Home-School Communication

Ten practical ways schools can strengthen home-school communication and boost parental engagement in student learning.

Brad Holmes Updated on December 8, 2025

10 Things You Didn’t Learn On Your PGCE Teaching & Learning

10 Things You Didn’t Learn On Your PGCE

Uncover 10 key lessons PGCE courses don’t teach. Honest insights for new teachers on classroom realities, planning pitfalls and practical skills schools expect.

Brad Holmes Updated on December 8, 2025

Teaching The Pixar Story Structure Teaching & Learning

Teaching The Pixar Story Structure

The Pixar story structure has become one of the most influential and beloved approaches to storytelling in modern cinema. While most of us grow up learning the traditional model of a beginning, middle, and end – a framework that’s taught in classrooms and used in countless books and plays – Pixar found a way to … Continued

Brad Holmes Updated on December 10, 2025

10 Points to Consider When Writing Creatively Teaching & Learning

10 Points to Consider When Writing Creatively

Explore essential tips, strategies, and tools to build confidence, spark ideas, and support students on their creative writing journey.

Brad Holmes Updated on December 8, 2025

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