Why Good Habits Should Start Young!
Having problems getting children into essential healthy habits like cleaning teeth, hand-washing, being respectful, a positive mindset or making healthy choices? Tina from Life’s Little Bugs has some help.
Kindness, a quality often under estimated
In her latest blog, Gemma writes about her experience in schools and the culture of kindness. Kindness is something that we often take for granted and it’s power underestimated, especially in the school environment.
Mr VCOP
In this piece, Nadine talks about not being cautious when tweaking well known techniques and instead confidently make something relevant to the class that you’re working with. In this case, the superhero – Mr VCOP
Be the Change You Want to See
This Mental Health Awareness Day be aware of just how strong and valuable you are! Cate Knight shares a time that she flourished in school.
Running – My Story
After not really doing anything active and having a stressful job, Nick Sermon decided to take on Couch to 5K. Since smashing it and numerous marathons, he encourages us all to give it a go.
Presentation Skills for Leaders
‘I write this having just sat through yet another ‘death by Powerpoint’ experience where the presenter simply read through the numerous bullets on their overloaded slides.’
Robert Lilley explains Garr Reynolds’ 7 ways to improve our slides and presentations in order to achieve ‘Presentation Zen’.
This Morning did not Start Exactly as I had Planned
After her car broke down, Rebecca Clarke began wondering why some students are still studying the regular curriculum when it will never prepare them for their future job.
Where to find help and support for Primary Science
Have you been scrolling and scrolling looking for ideas for your science lesson? There can be 1000’s of ideas out there. In her first, #NexEdBlog, Dr Jo shares where she heads to for inspiration.
I emailed Gavin Williamson…
Following on from Carol’s blog on the new GCSE’s, she went along to an event where Angela Rayner, Shadow Secretary of State for Education, had been invited. She wanted to find out if there was any hope there…
Effective Planning Via Vocabulary
Planning a piece of writing for pupils, no matter their age or ability can often be time consuming and difficult process, that very often, doesn’t tend to help make them any more ready to begin a piece writing or any more confident about crafting it effective beyond the opening – Andrew Jennings.