Jo Heathcote is a teacher, coach, former AQA principal examiner for GCSE English/English Language...
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Anti-bullying: is it enough?
As we approach another Anti-Bullying Week, I question whether anti-bullying is still the most...
Education beyond the pandemic
Time for a rebalancing of the attainment-inclusion axis at the heart of our schooling...
Capturing the lessons of lockdown
Why professional reflection and educational research are as important as curriculum catch-up Tony...
Designing Shakespeare: teaching ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’
One of the core difficulties when teaching Shakespeare is taking it off the printed page –...
Nobel Prize for Chemistry 2020: The Genetic Scissors
The 2020 Nobel Prize for Chemistry has, for the first time, been shared by two female scientists...
Connecting with unseen poetry
Any examination is a contained and isolating space, the examinee on their own, having to rely on...
Examining Covid-19 through a sociological gaze
As a Sociology teacher living and working through the COVID-19 pandemic, I have been fascinated by...
Creative approaches to teaching The War of the Worlds
Over 120 years ago Wells’ science fiction novel The War of the Worlds (1898) presented Victorian...
Free ‘safe’ music resources for Primary School Music Teachers (Key Stage 1) from My First Piano books by Karen Marshall
Click here for a pack of eight paper resources for Key Stage 1 music activities that comply with...