KS3

Students discussing RSE

Why we should all be talking about RSE

Jo Fliski From 2020 it will be compulsory for all secondary schools to teach both relationship education and sex education and for primary schools to be teaching relationships to young people. The National Survey of Sexual Attitudes found that young people, and young woman especially, who learn about sex and… Read More

Knowing Religion: Why study Christianity?

Knowing Religion is a new series of nine Key Stage 3 RE textbooks. ‘Christianity’ is published as part of the KS3 Knowing Religion series. In this blog, we discuss the Christianity textbook with Series Editor and author of Islam, Christianity and Biblical Literacy, Robert Orme. There is no shortage… Read More

Preparing for GCSE RS? Learn about the Bible

Knowing Religion is a new series of nine Key Stage 3 RE textbooks out this month. In this blog, we discuss the books with Series Editor and author of Islam, Christianity and Biblical Literacy, Robert Orme. Towards the end of my first year of teaching, as my Year 11… Read More

GCSE RS: Responding to new challenges

Knowing Religion is a new series of nine Key Stage 3 RE textbooks. In this blog, we discuss the books with Series Editor and author of Islam, Christianity and Biblical Literacy, Robert Orme. The new GCSE RS specifications first examined in 2018 offer teachers an exciting opportunity to… Read More

Why Knowing Religion?

Knowing Religion is a new series of nine Key Stage 3 RE textbooks out this month. In this blog, we discuss the books with Series Editor and author of Islam, Christianity and Biblical Literacy, Robert Orme. Read More

We’re in here for the long haul

One of the issues that’s exercising quite a few minds in science education at the moment is how to cover the content in the new GCSE specifications in the time available. Many people are, very understandably, flipping through not only the amount but thinking about the depth of the material… Read More
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Creating enthusiasm for reading: mini book clubs

How do you solve the problem of reading for pleasure? Drop everything and read? Books in bags? Form-time reading?  Reading lesson? Reading ambassadors? Get caught reading?  There is, of course, no one magic answer and it will be the combined impact of a number of these strategies (and many more)… Read More

Pig-heart Boy: A strong classroom read

Work by Malorie Blackman never disappoints. Pig-heart Boy engages the reader from the first page. The first person narrative draws us into the world of thirteen-year-old Cameron Kelsey who has a serious heart condition, which means he will die unless a suitable donor is found. There are no human donors… Read More

Keeping It Real

Science fiction stories work best when they are rooted in reality. That may sound like a strange thing to say, but, if you examine the best sci-fi tales out there, you’re likely to discover that the ones that seem almost plausible are often the most memorable. Read More

Writing Rooney

By Alan Gibbons Writing the Read On biography of Wayne Rooney, Being Rooney, was a labour of love. I started supporting Manchester United in the 1967–8 season when City tipped us to the title by one point, but we became the first English… Read More