Boosting Existing Lessons
Right now, if you’re a teacher, you probably have a set of lesson plans or schemes of work or curriculum targets or ideas with which are...
What's Wrong with Education Today?
What’s wrong with education today is probably easy to sum up. Education breaks down whenever its definition of a ‘student’ is incorrect....
Children and Issues
Particularly as children get older, some subjects arise that need to be tackled properly and confidently in order to avoid trouble later....
Getting to Grips with the Exams
Teenagers entering their final years of schooling are often confronted with statements outlining the extreme importance of doing well at...
The Ideal Scene for Reading
The ideal scene for reading at school would be to have, at the end of Key Stage Three, all children • reading voluminously in a wide...
Keeping Support Going
It’s all very well starting off on the right foot with children and teenagers, getting communication flowing, setting up spaces,...
Bringing Up A Teenager
Bringing up a teenager in the family can be tricky. You want to love, protect and nurture them while at the same time encouraging them to...
5 Tips to Help Children with Reading
Elsewhere we’ve written about helping children to read. This is so important and such a building block for future success, that these...
A Reading Programme That Succeeds
The Hudson Expanded Adventure Reading Tournament (H.E.A.R.T.) is a groundbreaking programme for the extension and improvement of reading...
7 Steps To Creating Lessons That Work
There are many ways of creating lessons, and many ways of thinking about creating lessons. Some are more workable than others. Here is a...