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SEND, Inclusion & Wellbeing
Supporting every pupil and every member of staff: SEND and inclusion, pastoral care, safeguarding, tutor time, teacher wellbeing and workload.
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17 Ways Teachers Can Take Stock After the First Full Week of Teaching in September
The first full week back in September tells you a lot. You begin to see which routines are working, which classes need a different…
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17 Ways to Actually Switch Off From School When You Get Home
You leave the classroom. You leave the building. But sometimes your head stays at school. The lesson that went badly. The email you need…
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17 Things Primary Schools Should Know About 1decision
PSHE can be one of the most important parts of the primary curriculum, but it is not always the easiest to plan or teach.…
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17 Reasons Teachers Are Especially Vulnerable to Becoming ‘Twitchy’ Around Tech
Teaching was already a job built around interruption long before email, Teams and smartphones arrived. You are answering questions, watching behaviour, changing explanations, dealing…
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17 Realistic Ways Teachers Can Spend Less Time Staring at a Screen
Teaching now involves a huge amount of screen time. Emails, Teams, registers, data systems, lesson planning, reports, PowerPoints, online homework and safeguarding systems all…
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17 Ways to Stop School Stealing Your Last Weekend Before Term Starts
The weekend before teaching starts properly can disappear very quickly. You open the laptop to “just sort Monday” and suddenly you are making seating…
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17 Ways to Feel Less Overwhelmed After INSET Days
You arrive at INSET feeling reasonably organised and leave with six new priorities, three policy changes, a pile of notes and several things you…
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17 Ways to Stop Reinventing the Wheel When Planning Lessons
Good lesson planning is not about producing something new every time you teach. It is about choosing the right material, adapting it intelligently and…
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Are Laptops Good for Secondary School Pupils with ADHD?
Laptops are now common in secondary schools, but for pupils with ADHD they can be both helpful and distracting. Used carefully, they can support…
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17 Icebreakers for a New Tutor Group
A new tutor group can feel awkward at first, especially when pupils do not know each other well. The best icebreakers are quick, easy…
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How the National Theatre Supports SEND and SEMH Schools: 17 Opportunities and Resources for Teachers
The National Theatre offers performances, workshops, digital resources and tailored support for SEND and SEMH schools. Its dedicated programme is designed to help more…
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17 No-Prep Tutor Time Activities for a Years 7–11 Vertical Tutor Group
Some tutor time activities look great on a pastoral calendar and then die the moment you try them with an actual tutor group. Vertical…
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17 Practical Ways to Support Pupils with ADHD in the Classroom
ADHD is sometimes reduced to a simple description: a pupil who cannot sit still, talks too much or becomes distracted. In reality, attention deficit…
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Mark Smarter, Not Longer: 17 Ways to Reduce Marking Without Reducing Feedback
Marking can quietly take over a teacher’s evenings. A set of 30 books may contain several pages of work in each one. A test…
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17 Ways David Allen’s Getting Things Done Can Help Secondary School Teachers
A teacher’s workload is not difficult only because there is too much to do. It is difficult because so many tasks arrive unexpectedly. A…
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17 Things Schools Need to Know About the New RSE Guidance for September 2026
Updated statutory guidance for Relationships Education, Relationships and Sex Education and Health Education comes into force in England on 1 September 2026. The revised…
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17 Ways Teachers Can Apply Daniel Chidiac’s Stop Letting Everything Affect You to School Life
Teaching can be emotionally difficult in ways that are not always visible. A brief email can occupy your thoughts for an entire evening. One…