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Five stunning National Trust gardens to visit this spring

Five stunning National Trust gardens to visit this spring

What better time of year than to experience some of the finest and wildest National Trust gardens in the UK? Our pick of five beautiful outdoor spaces to visit are sure to dazzle and rejuvenate even the sleepiest of...

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Exploring Childhood in Hard Times

‘If we can only preserve ourselves from growing up, we shall never grow old and the young may love us to the last,’ declared Dickens. This call to protect the magic and wonder of childhood concluded his New Year’s Day...

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School trips for Sociology

School trips for Sociology

A common question I hear from many teachers is about where to go on school trips for Sociology students as sadly much of the feedback in the past has been that days out away from school were either not...

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Spreading a musical virus

Spreading a musical virus

Karen Marshall, co-author of the Get Set! Piano series and How to Teach Instrumental and Singing Lessons – 100 Inspiring Ideas, shares her advice for encouraging children to teach themselves daily through musical games in the playground.  Spreading a...

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Do atlases still have a place in the modern secondary classroom?

Do atlases still have a place in the modern secondary classroom?

Geography departments within secondary schools across the UK rely on printed atlases for many different areas across the curriculum.

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Using a Bilingual Dictionary: Hints & Tips

Using a Bilingual Dictionary: Hints & Tips

Using a dictionary is a skill that students can improve with practice and by following some basic guidelines. Here we have tried to focus on the areas that will help students to make most effective use of their bilingual dictionary:

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Secondary History- Old Newspapers- they’re only good for wrapping up fish and chips, right?

Secondary History- Old Newspapers- they’re only good for wrapping up fish and chips, right?

Many of us have used adverts from old newspapers to illustrate various aspects of history – early C20th adverts for, for example, Fry’s Chocolate or Palmolive Soap suggest both continuity and change, but why not use some of the stories too?...

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Secondary English – Imaginative Writing

Secondary English – Imaginative Writing

We all know that the burden of marking and assessment is particularly heavy if you’re an English teacher. And yet one of the things that keeps us going can be those little moments of frisson when we read something that...

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Secondary History – The White Slave Trade

We all teach about the triangular slave trade, but how many of us teach about the White Slave Trade?

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Primary – Literacy Activities for Dickens

Primary – Literacy Activities for Dickens

Charles Dickens early career was as a journalist and like journalists throughout history, he had to work to a deadline. At a certain time of day the newspaper had to be printed, no matter what or it wouldn’t be out...

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Secondary English – Post-it Power and Pupil Voice!

Secondary English – Post-it Power and Pupil Voice!

I love a Post It. I’ll admit it. I also get to do the stationery order (oh the joys!) so I order the boring yellow ones but also all the hearts, thumbs up, cars and smiley faces. These are hoarded...

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Secondary History – Hyperinflation

Secondary History – Hyperinflation

‘In August 1923, the dollar reached a million Mark.’ -Hyperinflation through Defying Hitler

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