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.

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This resource provides teaching notes for Cobweb by Michael Morpurgo, aimed at KS2 teachers. What is Cobweb by Michael Morpurgo about? The story follows Cobweb, a Pembrokeshire Corgi, as he ...

Exams, marking, reports… oh, plus everything else you usually do the rest of the year too. You’ve probably got plenty on your plate at the moment, without planning complicated end of term activities.

For children, critical thinking is a skill that we can introduce to encourage lateral thinking and build pupils’ confidence. Being able to think critically helps children develop their own opinions ...

This free PDF features three lessons of Reception PE games, based around the weather, the garden and farm animals. The sample lessons are from the Physical Activity Adventure Pack (PAAP). This is a ...

If we want to address the harms wrought by misogyny and toxic masculinity, we need to fully involve men and boys in the conversation, says Natasha Devon… For a couple of weeks in spring 2024, one ...

The primary school classroom as we know it simply doesn’t work for every child. While their classmates thrive in the busy and stimulating space their teachers create, many autistic pupils struggle ...

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 ...

These creative writing ideas and examples will help pupils use compelling language to keep the reader on the edge of their seat… Peer inside the mind of a professional author and help KS2 pupils ...

Pride Month is all about celebrating LGBTQ+ culture as well as looking back on the struggles and rights violations that LGBTQ+ people have faced, and still face today. It’s a vital topic, with only 58 ...

Coined in the 1960s by British researcher and educator Andrew Wilkinson, ‘oracy’ describes the ability to express yourself fluently in speech. Over the decades, its role in education has become better ...