All Year Round Assemblies

This unique collection of over 50 assemblies focuses on special days in the school year.

Assemblies Across Faiths

Help your pupils to learn about, and learn from, different faiths, with these assembly resources written by Gerald Haigh. This brand new book includes material drawn from six major faiths and aims to reinforce learning from religion.

Christian Assemblies I

Whether or not your school has a dominant religious character, the statutory requirements are such that collective worship must be of a broadly Christian character, ie. reflecting the broad traditions of Christian belief. These acts of worship have been produced with this in mind and provide you with a resource that you can draw on when you need to. Edited by Jan Thompson.

Christian Assemblies II

Following the success of the bestselling title Christian Assemblies, Christian Assemblies II has been written to provide you with easy-to-use resources that you can pick off the shelf and deliver to the whole school or to smaller groups with the minimum of preparation.

Curriculum Briefing Vol 2 No 3: Vocational curriculum: Making it work

Under the 14-19 reforms, vocational education is being given more weight in the curriculum. Whether you have already introduced some vocational courses, or are starting from scratch, this issue of Curriculum Briefing has been written to help schools' vocational programmes go from strength to strength

Curriculum Briefing Vol 2 No1: Achieving effective assessment for learning

What is assessment for learning all about and how can these concepts be applied to everyday classroom practice to trigger real improvements in your pupils' learning curve? Questions like these are constantly on the minds of curriculum managers and school leaders that it can often feel as though you are tip-toeing on a mine-field of uncertainty

Curriculum Briefing Vol 3 No 1: Positive classroom behaviour

This issue of Curriculum Briefing focuses on developing systems and support structures to help your teaching staff implement effective behaviour management skills in practice

Curriculum Briefing Vol 3 No 2: Improving teaching and learning with ICT

Inclusion and personalised learning continue to be two prominent concerns for school leaders and curriculum managers. The question is, how can you apply elements of good practice that will successfully tackle these two issues in your school? Effective information and communications technology (ICT) can be one answer

Curriculum Briefing Vol 3 No 3: Tutoring to improve learning

The issue of Curriculum Briefing – Tutoring to improve learning will provide you with all you need to use tutoring effectively to raise standards throughout your school

Curriculum Briefing Vol 4 No 1: Enterprising learning: ready for the workplace

As far as employers are concerned, far too few schools are adequately preparing students for the world of work. With enterprise education as a compulsory subject on your curriculum, schools have to take this aspect of provision more seriously. But what does providing an enterprise curriculum involve in practice?

Curriculum Briefing: Assessment for learning: Targeting success

As a curriculum manager or headteacher, you will need to ensure your school’s assessment for learning approach is a permanent and central part of everyday classroom practice throughout your school

Gifted & Talented Coordinator's Handbook

This NEW second edition handbook for Gifted and Talented (G&T)Coordinators, edited by Brin Best, Sophie Craven and Jane West, is the first of its kind. It will explain what is expected of schools and G&T coordinators and provides guidance on every aspect of your work and role.

Making the most of SIMS.net - Assessment for Learning

This straight-forward guide by Anthony Powell will help you to monitor and evaluate performance, showing you how you can exploit the power of SIMS to assist with this task and support school improvement and assessment for learning.

Matching Teaching to Learning

Matching Teaching to Learning by John Beresford will help you to identify and address the learning styles of the pupils you teach. This essential publication explains the mapping techniques used to record students’ learning preferences. This book describes what many schools now regard as an essential part of their process of self-review.

Strategies for Learning

Tackle barriers to learning with this brand new resource by Margaret Sutherland and Colin Sutherland – providing your students with a range of skills that can boost and strengthen their learning.

The Cross-Curriculum

The Cross-Curriculum, edited by Kit Field, is designed to support subject leaders in the organisation of learning in relation to cross-curricular matters. By focusing on cross-curricular matters, subject leaders are likely to improve the performance of pupils in their own subject area, as well as contribute to the broad education of the learner.

Thinking Skills Through Science

The series of science activities by Sue Duncan, Don McNiven and Chris Savory in Thinking Skills Through Science are appropriate for Key Stage 3, but they can be adapted for older or younger pupils across the whole range of abilities.

Thinking Through History

This book is written for teachers who have ambition. It was certainly written by teachers with an ambition - that pupils should be challenged to think, as they enjoy this different approach to History and learn from it.

Thinking Through Mathematics

Teaching mathematics to children can be difficult, especially with the current climate of failing mathematics grades, due to candidates being "required now have to exhibit a degree of familiarity with a much wider but shallower curriculum" (Reform 2006).

Thinking Through Modern Foreign Languages

Thinking Through Modern Foreign Languages is a hugely important new publication which helps teachers and pupils make sense of what goes on in the languages classroom. Teaching thinking is definitely not 'teach, test, tick'; rather it provides strategies that challenge and motivate pupils, that put enjoyment and intellectual stimulation into teaching and learning.

Thinking Through Primary Teaching

Developing children's thinking and understanding of their own learning is a key factor in effective primary teaching. By encouraging your pupils to think about their learning, you will help them to grow into effective learners. So how can you achieve this successfully? Thinking Through Primary Teaching by Steve Higgins with Viv Baumfield can help.

Thinking Through Religious Education

Thinking Through Religious Education is developed and written by practising teachers. Its practical strategies with numerous exemplars enable teachers throughout the secondary school (Y7-Y13) to create exciting, memorable and challenging RE lessons. A teacher resource, it addresses both the teaching and learning of RE and ways in which teachers can promote effective learning. The quote from the pupil above is not an isolated example of such a mature response after being in a teaching thinking classroom.

Thinking Through School - Evaluation Pack

This award-winning publication by Anne de A Echevarria and David Leat helps schools, teachers and pupils move onto a more sophisticated level of thinking skills. Read on to find out how this amazing new title can help you and your pupils.

Into Teaching

Become the teacher that every pupil remembers – for all the right reasons.

“Invaluable! The best spend I’ve ever made! It’s like having your subject tutor there to ask those all important questions and to keep you on target. Into Teaching definitely keeps the stress levels down! It’s getting me through my first few weeks as a teacher. The fact it is easily categorised means it is a good resource for clarification. It prepares me for what is to come, stops me feeling overwhelmed and lets me plan ahead, especially on teaching practice as you don’t have the support of your peers there.”
Jenna Stevens, PGCE Student

Curriculum Briefing

Curriculum Briefing is your guide to implementing change, cross-curriculum management and introducing new teaching and learning strategies. It is edited by Angela Dewsbury.

Curriculum Management Update

Each month Curriculum Management Update brings you news, analysis, insight and practical guidance - edited by Angela Dewsbury.

Learning and Teaching Update

Many schools now have teaching and learning coordinators and teaching and learning groups who are tasked with keeping ahead of developments and to facilitate innovation, enquiry and evaluation into teaching and learning across the school. If you’re one of the many professionals faced with this task, you will be interested in Learning & Teaching Update, edited by Dr David Leat and Dr Kate Wall.

PE & Sport Today

PE & Sport Today inspires readers and enhances professional development, as well as providing innovative ideas and invaluable support to everyone who is involved with the teaching of PE and sport.

Teaching & Learning

Children learn better when they are excited and engaged. Visual images, video footage, animations and sound bites all stimulate the mind and senses, making children vigilant participants in the learning process. This is the central idea behind Teaching & Learning.

All You Need For Christmas

Christmas is a busy time of year for primary schools, so finding time to look for new activities is not easy. All you need for Christmas is practical, accessible, easy to use and, above all, helpful. This material will help you through the Christmas school period this year, next year and for many years to come. All you need for Christmas is an essential resource, providing a comprehensive range of new ideas including:

Teaching Assistant's Resource Pack

The Teaching Assistant's Resource Pack provides a complete guide to working with and managing teaching assistants in your school.

Thinking Through School - Evaluation Pack

This award-winning publication by Anne de A Echevarria and David Leat helps schools, teachers and pupils move onto a more sophisticated level of thinking skills. Read on to find out how this amazing new title can help you and your pupils.