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During a Masters research project conducted in a successful secondary modern school, I asked a small group of students what they thought of…

My overwhelming memory of my school days is of freedom, to grow and develop as an individual and to learn to love individual subjects. It…

This is how it goes: Towards the end of the first half term of the school year, my PA, the irreplaceable Sheila, leans over the balcony and…

On one level, most teachers are publishing all the time. Every time you plonk a worksheet before your pupils, you are publishing your work…

Bright Futures Educational Trust was set up in 2011 to offer a quality education that opens up real choices for young people across the…

Michael Gove has presented, and continues to present, a thorny issue for any left-leaning educator determined his feet should stay connected…

The pupils are excited. Thrilled even; joyously demonstrating that thirst for learning we are all being told so eloquently is central to…

The North Halifax Grammar School is a selective co-educational state school of just under 1150 students. The school admits 155 students in…

​Does ability come from nature or nurture? If you’ve thought about this before then you’ve probably already made up your mind and…

Educationally speaking, the answer is yes - because this app has been designed to help secondary pupils with a collection of tools to…

Providing accurate data and upto- the minute interpretation of pupil information is the foundation for target-setting and an indicator for…

WAS WWII A SUBJECT THAT INTERESTED YOU AS A YOUNG PERSON? I grew up in the 1970s, when WWII was still very much in people’s minds. My own…

​Just add popcornThree films that could get young people thinking differently about war In the twentieth century alone over 160 million…