The level of grammatical understanding needed rises significantly between LKS2 and UKS2. One area requiring a very strong grammatical understanding in KS2 is relative pronouns and relative clauses.

There are three components to reading fluency: accuracy, automaticity and prosody. Accuracy provides the foundation – readers must be able to decode words on the page accurately to be in with a chance ...

Imagine the scene: a child wakes up in the morning, peers out of the window, and sees it is snowing thickly outside. School is cancelled. All they want to do for the day is play. What’s important to ...

It is true that all children need boundaries to feel safe, supported, and successful. However, rigidity in defining and enforcing these boundaries can lead to automatic sanctions for types of ...

It’s a sunny (but very cold!) day in mid-January as I make my way through semi-rural Suffolk and down a farm track to Kedington Primary School, part of the Unity Schools Partnership. I’m here to learn ...

Witness the devastating impact of poverty through the eyes of 12-year-old Will, and what it means to make an impossible choice, with Tom Percival’s powerful novel, The Wrong Shoes. The Wrong Shoes ...

Why teach The Girl at the Front of the Class? Help young children understand and empathise with the refugee experience with The Girl at the Front of the Class. It’s a moving picture book from Onjali Q ...

‘Low level disruption’ is no trivial matter, argues Joanna Williams - and it’s time schools woke up to the need for a better managed approach to discipline The retention crisis has been blamed on ...

This engaging KS2 instruction writing resource is perfect if you’re looking to bring a little creativity to your literacy lessons. Designed to cover key areas of the English curriculum, it provides a ...

Observations are a vital part of trying to understand children’s interests, motivations to learn and thinking processes. The EYFS requires practitioners to make observations, but it doesn’t specify ...

How did our pupils end up racing ‘cars’ down a hill as part of one of their Year 6 DT projects? Well, here’s how it all began… The first line of the national curriculum for DT states that ‘Design and ...

These Year 1 English worksheets are ideal for classroom activities, independent learning or homework tasks. They provide young learners with the practice they need to build confidence in key language ...