Can you solve these tricky riddles from over 1000 years ago? | BBC Bitesize
Maths, plants, astronomy and much more – how well will you do? Can you solve these tricky riddles from over 1000 years ago? | BBC Bitesize
Gender and STEM Achievement
A recent UK report suggested that there was a chronic shortfall of STEM specialists at technician and graduate levels of some 200,000 individuals. Ironically, it was suggested that such a … Continue reading
Are you grammatically gormless or a punctuation perfectionist?
An entertaining quiz to illustrate the trickiest of punctuation elements – the apostrophe. Take the quiz here: Are you grammatically gormless or a punctuation perfectionist? | BBC Radio 4
The Soft Skills Misnomer: Key Skills
For many years the term ‘soft skills’ has been used as a catch all phrase for all those skills that nobody takes primary responsibility for in the curriculum. Unfortunately such … Continue reading
Boosting Executive Function in Teenagers
The teenage years bring a certain amount of hormonal mayhem to young people at the very time that they are required to exercise more responsibility for organising their lives. The … Continue reading
Peace and harmony in the Middle East
Sue and I don’t usually consider the Learning Renaissance blog as a suitable vehicle for posts of a political nature but recent events in the Middle East have given us … Continue reading
Virtual Teaching Practices to Bring Back to the Classroom | Edutopia
Remote teaching prompted teachers to find new ways to reach kids and build a feeling of community, and some of those will be well worth keeping. We take notes about what we … Continue reading
Children read more challenging books in lockdowns | The Guardian
A new report on reading habits of more than one million children also finds they read longer books, particularly during school closures. The annual What Kids Are Reading report from … Continue reading
You’re Dead To Me – Five powerful women in history you need to know about | BBC Sounds
Discover the history podcast for people who don’t like history… and those who do. Greg Jenner brings together the best names in comedy and history to learn and laugh about … Continue reading
Recovering from lockdown: Five tips to boost your child’s vocabulary
There is growing evidence that the lockdown has had an impact on young children’s language skills, according to research seen exclusively by BBC News. Assistant head teacher Victoria Day is … Continue reading
The School Mission Statement…
The school mission statement…. a bold outline of the key drivers of the school culture… or is it? Much depends on who contributed and how it is written. If it … Continue reading
Emotional Intelligence Mapping
An interesting schema of Emotional Intelligence which echoes the London Tube Map… Find out more here, including a deeper delve into the Stress Line: Emotional Intelligence Mapping | Stress Line … Continue reading
Teens, tech and mental health: Oxford study finds no link | BBC News
There remains “little association” between technology use and mental-health problems, a study of more than 430,000 10 to 15-year-olds suggests. The Oxford Internet Institute compared TV viewing, social-media and device … Continue reading
What the government’s report on race gets wrong about the education system | The Conversation
In focusing on the socio-economic roots of underachievement, the UK government is side-stepping how institutional racism impacts on learning. Schools have a vital role to play in undoing this. Read … Continue reading
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