Vocabulary – Cathedrals of Words
Jill Carter encourages teachers and students to spend time exploring and broadening vocabulary. Vocabulary is power. And, like a lot of power, it is hard won and easily lost. Students’ vocabulary is...
View Article5 key ways to help students thrive at KS3
This month we’re welcoming Tony Weston and José Antonio García Sánchez, Languages leads and authors of ¡Claro! KS3 Spanish . We love to hear what you would add to this list? Mi clase es tu clase...
View ArticleA Whole School Vision: Mastering Inspire Maths in Advocate Schools
‘Inspire Maths is future proofing both our children and our curriculum’ – Maths Teacher at St Thomas’ C of E Primary School St Thomas’ C of E Primary School became an Advocate School for Inspire Maths...
View ArticleAn update on speaking like a Geographer
Over a year ago, in a previous post for this blog , I wrote about my focus of encouraging students of ALL ages to ‘Speak Like A Geographer’. This was in light of having previously restricted this focus...
View ArticleBringing real people of faith into your classroom, by Julie Haigh
RE is a living subject; it lives in the people and concepts and practices that exist in this country and beyond, and in order for our students to fully engage in what RE is all about, they need to...
View ArticleHow to Encourage and Track Student Progression in RE, by Robert Bowie
As an RE teacher trainer, I often visit schools and observe lessons, and what I find is that at the heart of all good learning is making sure that each lesson enables students to make progress. That...
View ArticleHow to Encourage RE Students to Reflect, by Robert Bowie
In Religious Education, we look to encourage students to develop by giving them time to ask their own questions, and evaluate the different answers offered by faiths to the questions they are...
View ArticleHow Living Faiths supports non-specialists teaching RE, by Janet Dyson
For non-specialists teaching RE, there are a number of challenges, the greatest being how to cope with the extensive body of subject knowledge needed to teach and assess RE confidently and well. I’m...
View ArticleGlamorous Grammar
Jill Carter dispels the popular myth that grammar is boring and explains why she thinks it should be revered by teachers and students alike. In the years I have spent around teaching, one of the...
View ArticleCurriculum issues in Science
Reading through the Ofsted Education Inspection Framework (EIF) [1] it’s clear that there are some implications for Science departments and teachers that need to be considered. In this blog I’ll...
View Article5 fun things to do with grammar on lockdown – Martha O’Dell
While the lockdown could potentially be a perfect time to brush up on grammar, worksheets can be rather dry and uninspiring. Try these activities with lower KS3 to get them engaging with grammar. 1....
View ArticleCatapult: re-engaging, inspiring and motivating your students
For almost 6 months students have lived a range of experiences, positive and negative, during the lockdown period. English is not a linear subject and is taught by building upon what is already...
View ArticleVotes for Women Timeline
This month marks Women’s History Month, as part of our celebrations we want to share this interactive timeline which shows some of the key dates and events which contributed to women gaining the right...
View ArticleVocabulary Teaching: Giving Students a Voice
‘Cultured…Engaged…Informed’. This vision strapline underpins everything we do in my English Department. Vocabulary teaching, naturally, plays an important role in fulfilling this vision. When we spoke...
View ArticleHow to introduce a new KS3 class reader
I don’t know about you, but I look forward to introducing a new class reader with the various classes I teach. There’s something about the opportunity to share great literature with young people and...
View ArticleAn insight into writing a novel by the author of Boy, Everywhere A. M. Dassu
Boy, Everywhere is a story of survival, of family, of bravery. It looks at the refugee crisis from a new perspective, and through Sami’s eyes shows that we are all one cruel twist of fate away from...
View ArticleQ&A from Preparing to teach the new Religious Education Curriculum Directory...
A message from Andy Lewis, Series Editor of Source to Summit: “Thank you to everyone who attended the RED webinar on 28th June. I tried to answer many questions as they came through on the day – but it...
View ArticleHow to Encourage RE Students to Reflect, by Robert Bowie
In Religious Education, we look to encourage students to develop by giving them time to ask their own questions, and evaluate the different answers offered by faiths to the questions they are...
View ArticleWhy quadratics?
One of the biggest ‘why oh why’ questions in secondary school mathematics is the purpose of studying quadratic equations because ‘I am never going to need them in everyday life’. This irritating...
View ArticleDrop everything and read (DEAR)
While most know it as ‘DEAR time’, I would be inclined to refer to this Literacy initiative as Role Modelling Reading. The focus is on getting the students to read. However, my belief is that it is...
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