This pack is designed to encourage students to read and respond to Murder Most Unladylike – the first in a series of mystery novels by author Robin Stevens. It offers opportunities for students to ...

Imagine the scene: a child wakes up in the morning, peers out of the window, and sees it is snowing thickly outside. School is cancelled. All they want to do for the day is play. What’s important to ...

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’s long been the case that a young person’s background can have a disproportionate impact on his or her educational outcomes and later life chances. Yet despite numerous promises of action among ...

In many stories – especially adventures – characters discover an exciting new place and experience a sense of wonder. When writing a fantasy setting, the only limits are those of the writer’s ...

The established tendency in contemporary teaching is to avoid all-silent classrooms. This is in favour of a more collegiate atmosphere where we encourage talk and discussion but carefully manage and ...

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 ...

This resource provides teaching notes for Cobweb by Michael Morpurgo, aimed at KS2 teachers. What is Cobweb by Michael Morpurgo about? The story follows Cobweb, a Pembrokeshire Corgi, as he ...

It is a strategy of power to state that schools should be apolitical, without any sense of the ridiculousness of that position, to force children to sing the national anthem and memorise ‘The Charge ...

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 ...

As the countdown to the Christmas holidays begins, why not sprinkle some festive cheer into your lessons with this free MFL Christmas activities PowerPoint? It’s packed with engaging activities to ...

The story of Major (a given name, rather than a military rank) Booth, a professional cricketer from Pudsey in West Yorkshire, is a gateway to themes of national and global significance – for example, ...