Teachwire

09/05/2025

We live in a world of Snapchat and Instagram, where students are constantly seeking ‘likes’ and aspiring to emulate the latest celebrity trend. This KS3 drama lesson plan addresses this ‘culture’ and also develops pupils’ understanding of what is possible within a devised piece of drama beyond naturalism... https://bit.ly/4iLwrNV

Take students on a dramatic journey into the world of fame and celebrity culture with this KS3 drama lesson plan...

08/05/2025

Download this audit tool to identify gaps and areas for development in your history curriculum. There are two spider diagrams with suggested history themes and topic areas. These will help you self-assess your existing knowledge in the context of curriculum development... https://bit.ly/4cUYjOs

Download this audit tool to identify gaps in your history curriculum. There are two spider diagrams with suggested topic areas...

07/05/2025

How to use Role on the Wall in a variety of ways to explore and develop characters with your class (plus a free template)… https://bit.ly/4jLbtzI

Use this free template and teaching ideas to help you use Role on the Wall to explore and develop characters with your class...

07/05/2025

🏆 Gain recognition for your educational resources! Enter the Teach Awards 2025 and showcase your innovations to over 250,000 education professionals... https://bit.ly/3JDOl6r

06/05/2025

Celebrate Empathy Day next month with these brilliant resources and ideas from fellow teachers… https://bit.ly/4b9OhYe EmpathyLab

Celebrate Empathy Day 2025 this June with these brilliant resources, ideas, downloads and lesson plans from fellow teachers...

02/05/2025

This free poster from the Moor House Research and Training Institute is a vital download for any teacher looking to better support learners with developmental language disorder symptoms.

The resource highlights the key signs that a pupil may be struggling with DLD – from difficulties with following instructions, understanding grammar and vocabulary, to challenges with class discussions and social interaction... https://bit.ly/4iF0ozt

This free poster is a vital download for any teacher looking to better support learners with developmental language disorder symptoms...

01/05/2025

Use these Spanish games as a class activity or as warm-up exercises to get your class thinking and speaking. Because they’re so fun, your students won’t think of it as learning… https://bit.ly/3YRkKy5

Use these Spanish games as a class activity or as warm-up exercises to get your class thinking and speaking...

30/04/2025

Whatever your thoughts and feelings are about SATs, and tests in general, naturally you’ll want your pupils to do as well as possible, without causing them any stress or worry along the way.

We’ve picked out a selection of resources that can help consolidate children’s learning and prepare them for KS2 SATs, without making it feel like a big, dark educational cloud is looming on the horizon… https://bit.ly/4iBn7fs

How to prepare pupils for this year's SATs and make sure they get the scores they deserve – with free and recommended resources to assist you

29/04/2025

“Show, don’t tell” is the time-honoured exhortation we use with KS2 children when we want them to describe characters in a narrative context. But of course, it is easier said than done.

The creation and description of a strong, determined main character is an excellent way of teaching and encouraging these techniques. This is because strength and determination are so readily shown in actions.

Great authors will also hint at a character’s anxieties and yearnings, because these make protagonists’ robust behaviours more impressive, as they ‘feel the fear and do it anyway’.

This resource pack will help you guide KS2 children through the process of analysing a scene of characterful drama from Eve Wersocki Morris’ gripping novel Clem Fatale Has Been Betrayed. You’ll select techniques that they can employ to develop and describe a strong, determined character in a scene of their own... https://bit.ly/4lGyjud

This resource pack analyses a dramatic scene from Clem Fatale Has Been Betrayed and will help KS2 pupils describe their own characters

25/04/2025

Support students with SEND and create a truly inclusive learning environment in your school with these practical steps… https://bit.ly/4cOBYSO

Support the needs of students with SEND in your school with these practical inclusion ideas, suitable for both primary and secondary

24/04/2025

The government’s sweeping review of the curriculum and assessment system is making waves – and rightly so, but what will the changes mean for teachers? https://bit.ly/3E7Laot

What should teachers expect from the curriculum and assessment review? Teacher Toby Marshall investigates...

23/04/2025

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 explores numerous themes, all with a level of authenticity: poverty, bullying, peer pressure and the endless battle to fit in.

This book, alongside the activities suggested in the included PDF, can provide opportunities for conversations to take place in classrooms that will help to reduce the levels of shame and embarrassment around poverty that many children feel... https://bit.ly/3EB5gaF

Explore poverty, bullying and peer pressure with this free PDF of KS2 planning based around The Wrong Shoes by Tom Percival