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Try these practical, evidence‑informed strategies at school to help pupils with Down Syndrome to learn alongside their peers ...

This free, printable hexagonal concept map template is a versatile and visually engaging tool that you can use to help students explore connections between ideas. Unlike traditional linear mind maps ...

Unless we persuade disadvantaged children to take part in the arts, we’re limiting their future opportunities, says Professor Maggie Atkinson… The debate about why the arts matter to education often ...

It is true that all children need boundaries to feel safe, supported, and successful. However, rigidity in defining and enforcing these boundaries can lead to automatic sanctions for types of ...

If you’re a high-ability pupil from a working class background, you aren’t going to do as well in school and in later life as a low-ability pupil from a high social class. Put another way, it’s social ...

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 ...

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 ...

Morecambe and Wise. French and Saunders. Taylor and Clough. Or for the more contemporary-minded, Mitchell and Webb. There have been many famous double acts whose complimentary talents and skills made ...

You can probably guess the most popular answer. Working from left to right incorrectly gives 8a 2 + 2a. This question tested knowledge of the order of operations just as much as it tested algebraic ...

PE teaching in schools is unlike that of any other subject on the National Curriculum. Allow me to explain. Once you’re qualified to teach, let’s say, geography, you’ll enter the teaching profession ...