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How the leadership, staff and students of a struggling school in East London were able to enact a dramatic turnaround… www.teachwire.net/news/harris-...
Harris Science Academy East London – A dramatic turnaround
How the leadership, staff and students of Harris Science Academy East London were able to enact a dramatic turnaround...
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November 11, 2025 at 11:07 AM
How the leadership, staff and students of a struggling school in East London were able to enact a dramatic turnaround… www.teachwire.net/news/harris-...
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November 10, 2025 at 10:01 AM
Huge congratulations to Richard Bustin! 🎉 His book #WhatAreWeTeaching? was highly commended in the 'Curriculum Improvement' category at the @teachsecondary.bsky.social Awards.
Transform your curriculum with #powerfulknowledge & a #capabilities approach with Richard's essential book: buff.ly/9NfUe0v
Transform your curriculum with #powerfulknowledge & a #capabilities approach with Richard's essential book: buff.ly/9NfUe0v
We're celebrating the very best in education resources with this year's #TeachAwards winners! Browse our flipbook to see all of this year's winners and get inspiration for your classroom… cdn.teachwire.net/e-mag/Teach-...
November 10, 2025 at 1:49 PM
We're celebrating the very best in education resources with this year's #TeachAwards winners! Browse our flipbook to see all of this year's winners and get inspiration for your classroom… cdn.teachwire.net/e-mag/Teach-...
This KS4 persuasive writing lesson combines a variety of tasks that get students exploring difficult moral issues while also developing their understanding of how writers manipulate language and why it's essential to support opinions with evidence...
Persuasive writing examples – KS4 moral issues lesson plan
This persuasive writing examples lesson plan gets students exploring difficult moral issues while learning how writers manipulate language
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November 7, 2025 at 7:29 PM
This KS4 persuasive writing lesson combines a variety of tasks that get students exploring difficult moral issues while also developing their understanding of how writers manipulate language and why it's essential to support opinions with evidence...
Is 50% off a better deal than 50% extra free? This KS3 percentage change lesson helps students get to grips with the issues surrounding percentage change…
Percentage change KS3 – Maths lesson plan
Use this percentage change KS3 lesson to explore what happens to an amount of money when it undergoes a percentage increase or decrease
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November 6, 2025 at 7:29 AM
Is 50% off a better deal than 50% extra free? This KS3 percentage change lesson helps students get to grips with the issues surrounding percentage change…
This print-ready reading strategies PDF details six classroom strategies, and assorted associated activities, that Lodge Park Academy in Corby uses to improve standards of cross-curricular literacy…
Reading strategies – Cross-curricular clasroom ideas
This reading strategies document contains six whole-school strategies for improving students' engagement with reading and literacy outcomes
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November 5, 2025 at 7:29 PM
This print-ready reading strategies PDF details six classroom strategies, and assorted associated activities, that Lodge Park Academy in Corby uses to improve standards of cross-curricular literacy…
This KS3 creative writing lesson uses inspiring images and sticky notes to get learners producing some truly creative writing. The collaborative nature of the lesson means they learn from and inspire each other...
Creative writing KS3 – Images & sticky notes lesson plan
This creative writing KS3 lesson uses inspiring images and sticky notes to get learners producing some truly creative writing
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November 4, 2025 at 7:29 AM
This KS3 creative writing lesson uses inspiring images and sticky notes to get learners producing some truly creative writing. The collaborative nature of the lesson means they learn from and inspire each other...
Students will really enjoy the excitement of breaking out the black and yellow crime scene investigation tape and putting on disposable paper suits with this KS3 crime scene forensics lesson plan…
Crime scene lesson plan – Let students be forensic scientists
Students will enjoy breaking out the black and yellow crime scene investigation tape for this KS3 crime scene lesson plan...
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November 3, 2025 at 8:29 PM
Students will really enjoy the excitement of breaking out the black and yellow crime scene investigation tape and putting on disposable paper suits with this KS3 crime scene forensics lesson plan…
This free KS3 lesson uses inspiring images and sticky notes to get learners producing some truly creative writing…
Creative writing KS3 – Images & sticky notes lesson plan
This creative writing KS3 lesson uses inspiring images and sticky notes to get learners producing some truly creative writing
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October 31, 2025 at 7:29 PM
This free KS3 lesson uses inspiring images and sticky notes to get learners producing some truly creative writing…
Students need to ‘do’ to ‘understand’, regardless of the subject. This free 'components of fitness' GCSE PE lesson looks at how you can practically teach a ‘theory’ element of PE qualifications…
Components of fitness GCSE PE – Practical lesson plan
This components of fitness GCSE PE lesson looks at how you can practically teach a ‘theory’ element of PE qualifications...
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October 30, 2025 at 7:29 AM
Students need to ‘do’ to ‘understand’, regardless of the subject. This free 'components of fitness' GCSE PE lesson looks at how you can practically teach a ‘theory’ element of PE qualifications…
This free download includes ten posters featuring key quotes from Macbeth, plus a worksheet…
Macbeth key quotes – 10 posters & worksheet for KS3/4
This download includes ten posters featuring Macbeth key quotes, plus a worksheet (in PDF and Word doc formats) with these quotes on
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October 29, 2025 at 7:29 PM
This free download includes ten posters featuring key quotes from Macbeth, plus a worksheet…
Ask KS3 students to identify language and presentational features that support meaning in non-fiction text with this free newspaper layout lesson plan…
Newspaper layout KS3 – Boost understanding of non-fiction writing
The focus of this newspaper layout KS3 lesson is to infer/deduce from the text to show how the target audience is addressed
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October 28, 2025 at 7:29 AM
Ask KS3 students to identify language and presentational features that support meaning in non-fiction text with this free newspaper layout lesson plan…
These free Mrs Birling quotes starter activities are perfect if you’re teaching or revising An Inspector Calls. Students have to ‘blow up’ words and phrases from key quotations into smaller pieces and analyse them…
Mrs Birling quotes – KS3/4 English 'Explode the Quote' tasks for An Inspector Calls
These Mrs Birling quotes starter activities are perfect if you're teaching or revising An Inspector Calls in your KS3/4 English lesson
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October 27, 2025 at 8:29 PM
These free Mrs Birling quotes starter activities are perfect if you’re teaching or revising An Inspector Calls. Students have to ‘blow up’ words and phrases from key quotations into smaller pieces and analyse them…
In this maths lesson, students will make up and decode cryptic messages using bearings. Each word is coded as a journey from one letter to the next on a spiral grid of letters…
Bearings maths – KS4 coded messages lesson plan
In this bearings maths lesson by Colin Foster, your KS4 students will make up and decode cryptic messages using bearings
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October 24, 2025 at 6:29 PM
In this maths lesson, students will make up and decode cryptic messages using bearings. Each word is coded as a journey from one letter to the next on a spiral grid of letters…
This free language analysis worksheet encourages GCSE English Language students to focus on close analysis at word level. It’s also a good revision of key grammatical terminology…
Analysing language – GCSE English worksheet
This analysing language worksheet activity encourages GCSE English Language students to focus on close analysis at word level...
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October 23, 2025 at 6:29 AM
This free language analysis worksheet encourages GCSE English Language students to focus on close analysis at word level. It’s also a good revision of key grammatical terminology…
This free 11-page KS3 fitness booklet takes students through various fitness exercises, activities and challenges for them to record their results and think about things like why we warm up…
PE worksheets KS3 – Fitness booklet
This 11-page PE worksheets KS3 fitness booklet takes students through various fitness exercises for them to record their results...
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October 22, 2025 at 6:29 PM
This free 11-page KS3 fitness booklet takes students through various fitness exercises, activities and challenges for them to record their results and think about things like why we warm up…
Encourage teenagers to do what they do best: complain – albeit in the form of a sophisticated, engaging, witty and highly persuasive protest worthy of a grade 9…
Persuasive writing GCSE – Letter of complaint lesson plan
Utilise teenagers’ natural skill-sets to turn them into masters of persuasive writing with this persuasive writing GCSE lesson plan...
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October 21, 2025 at 6:29 AM
Encourage teenagers to do what they do best: complain – albeit in the form of a sophisticated, engaging, witty and highly persuasive protest worthy of a grade 9…
This Gothic setting description lesson plan encourages KS3 students to take their creative writing to a whole new level…
Gothic setting description – KS3 English lesson plan
This gothic setting description lesson plan will encourage students to take their creative writing to a whole new level...
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October 20, 2025 at 7:29 PM
This Gothic setting description lesson plan encourages KS3 students to take their creative writing to a whole new level…
By establishing partnerships within the creative industries, schools can reimagine their careers education in powerful ways | via Julie Green
Creative industry jobs – Making film pathways more accessible
By establishing partnerships within the creative industries, schools can reimagine the way they talk to pupils about different kinds of jobs
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October 17, 2025 at 6:29 PM
By establishing partnerships within the creative industries, schools can reimagine their careers education in powerful ways | via Julie Green
The range of online revision tools and resources available for students is only getting bigger – so how can teachers help them separate the helpful wheat from the counterproductive chaff? | via Rebecca Leek
Revision tools – Which online resources are actually helpful?
The range of online revision tools available is only getting bigger – so how can we separate the wheat from the chaff?
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October 16, 2025 at 6:29 AM
The range of online revision tools and resources available for students is only getting bigger – so how can teachers help them separate the helpful wheat from the counterproductive chaff? | via Rebecca Leek
From green roofs to solar panels, there are plenty of practical ways to make a real environmental impact on your site… | via Ethan Morris
Sustainable building – What are the benefits for schools?
There are plenty of practical ways to make a real environmental impact on your site with these sustainable building ideas...
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October 15, 2025 at 6:29 PM
From green roofs to solar panels, there are plenty of practical ways to make a real environmental impact on your site… | via Ethan Morris
How should we respond to the prospect of our classes including not just young people, but potential voters, too? | via Karl Sankey
UK voting age 16 – How should teachers respond?
Labour has pledged to lower the voting age to 16 in the UK. What does this mean for teachers? Karl Sankey investigates...
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October 14, 2025 at 6:29 AM
How should we respond to the prospect of our classes including not just young people, but potential voters, too? | via Karl Sankey
How should we teach coding in an AI world? | via Rob Wraith
AI coding – How should we teach coding in an AI world?
Rob Wraith looks at whether the rise of AI should prompt us to reconsider our approach to the teaching of coding – and if so, how...
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October 13, 2025 at 7:29 PM
How should we teach coding in an AI world? | via Rob Wraith
@stevebracegeog.bsky.social considers the framing at work when geography classes study ‘natural disasters’ – and why even the term itself is up for debate…
Geography and natural hazards – How should you frame them?
Explore natural hazards in geography, their human impacts, and how vulnerability, risk, and preparedness shape disasters locally and globally
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October 10, 2025 at 6:29 PM
@stevebracegeog.bsky.social considers the framing at work when geography classes study ‘natural disasters’ – and why even the term itself is up for debate…
Practical ways you can help your school reduce its carbon footprint – and why you deserve more support to make it happen… | via Georgina Beard & Elena Longthorn www.teachwire.net/news/schools... @teachthefuture.bsky.social @eco-schools.bsky.social
Schools and sustainability – How to start making a change
What you can do to improve your school's sustainability, and why teachers deserve more support to take those steps…
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October 9, 2025 at 6:29 AM
Practical ways you can help your school reduce its carbon footprint – and why you deserve more support to make it happen… | via Georgina Beard & Elena Longthorn www.teachwire.net/news/schools... @teachthefuture.bsky.social @eco-schools.bsky.social