Rhythm, humour and politics of verse give young people a voice, says poet. Making it optional at GCSE is a mistake I was a bit of a troublemaker in secondary school. I got sent to “time out” for busying myself with trying to make my peers laugh. I got detention Read more…
Exclusive: from schools to policing, 50 people share their experiences of growing up in the UK In their own words: the voices behind the UK’s anti-racism rallies Mapped: how George Floyd’s death sparked a wave of UK protests Following the resurgence of the Black Lives Matter movement in the UK Read more…
From the omission of the black Tudors to the absence of empire, data reveals how GCSE history is taught In Britain, one focus of the Black Lives Matter movement has been how we tell the history of the country. Beyond the protests about statues, young people have been campaigning against Read more…
As they take to the streets and tear down statues, younger generations who have educated themselves are exposing how whitewashed the national curriculum is What was invisible yesterday is today suddenly clear and obvious. In the space of just two weeks, forms of structural racism that black people and their Read more…
Campaigners are collecting support for open letter and want to meet education secretary Pressure is mounting on the government to review the national curriculum and make the teaching of black history mandatory for all pupils in schools in England. Campaigners are collecting signatures for an open letter to be sent this Read more…
How much support should you give your pupils for creative writing tasks? Supporting pupils with creative writing tasks is something of a balancing act. Too much support and it affects pupils’ creativity. Too little support and it affects pupils’ writing. To add to this, each pupil is likely to need Read more…
The emergency should not be taught just in science, but in history, the arts and food tech too Pupils draft their own climate bill as anxiety grows over lack of guidance for schools There were toddlers in prams, babies in carriers, wrapped up against the cold, young children clutching placards Read more…
The Boost Creative Writing series of books teaches the Programmes of Study for writing composition in the 2014 National Curriculum for England. The activities provide additional reinforcement of key skills for slower learners. We all know that SEN pupils and slower learners need extra support to help them to become Read more…
Take advantage of these free activity materials from the Grammar and Punctuation Series Pack Year 1: Nouns are names Year 2: Noisy verbs Year 3: Preposition opposites Year 4: The Problem of ‘me’ or ‘I’ Year 5: Hyphens Year 6 Words that help your writing Request your free worksheets The Grammar and Punctuation Series Pack contains six photocopiable Read more…
Urgent Appeal We have an abundance of problems, so many in fact that we have three entire books full of them and desperately need your primary school pupils to help us to solve them! Multiplication strategies They are problems of a mathematical nature which is why we are contacting you Read more…