Children’s mental health has come increasingly into focus in recent years and into much sharper focus as a result of the impact of the pandemic. However, there is surprisingly little agreement as to what we mean by mental health and emotional well-being across Education, Health and Social Care. Read more

In her sixth, and final, blog, Ruth Lue-Quee explores how we can support the wellbeing of staff , so that we have happy, healthy staff ready to support pupils. Read more

Neil McAvoy, Deputy Headteacher and Physical Education, School Sport and Physical Activity (PESSPA) Director at Clavering Primary School, shares how his school have embedded the teaching of Fundamental Movement Skills within their PE curriculum. Read more

Explore our 6 top tips to help you get planned, prepared and ready for taking learning outdoors! Read more

Philippa Youlden shares her advice and top tips for injecting something new and imaginative into your gymnastics lessons. Read more

Are you looking for effective and affordable strategies to support children with EBD? Emotional and behavioural difficulties can severely limit children from accessing the right educational opportunities, as well as being extremely difficult to manage in a class of thirty children. Teachers and teaching assistants need a bank of effective options to draw from to support both children’s learning and their mental health and emotional wellbeing. Read more

In her third blog, Ruth Lue-Quee, shares her strategies for ways to support children with the goal being that eventually children will be able to support themselves and self-regulate their emotions. Read more

In the third blog in this series, Lucy Marcovitch shares her advice and top tips for PSHE lesson planning. Read more

Planning your school sports day? Here are five ideas, to help you get started. Read more

What do you think of when you hear the name ‘Titanic’? A picture of an impressive-looking ship? A scene from the Oscar-winning film? A tragedy? Celine Dion singing ‘My heart Will Go On’? Read more

Without observation and questions there is no science, and without science there is no progression in our understanding of how everything around us works. Over thousands of years, as our ability to communicate has improved, so our questioning has improved. If we want this trend to continue, we need to encourage our young people to ask questions and teach them how to turn their questions into scientific enquiries, so they can find the answers and ask more questions. Read more

In part 2 of this blog, Ben Ballin shares his advice and experience on implementing and measuring the impact of your Geography curriculum. Read more

Spring into Spring with this engaging collection of activities! Read more

Caroline Alliston shares her advice on teaching Climate Change and some essential resources that will help. Read more

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