Publications - Teaching and Learning

Teach to Inspire Boys

Author: Chris Ford

Are the boys in your school, your class or in the groups that come to you for support achieving less well than you think they should? Teach to Inspire Boys offers practical advice on how to inspire your male pupils at school

Creative and Philosophical Thinking in Primary Schools

Author: Marie Huxtable, Rosalind Hurford & Joy Mounter

Creative and Philosophical Thinking in Primary Schools shows how creative and philosophical thinking can be developed in the everyday classroom. This practical book helps you find better ways to help your children grow educationally

Off the Premises Handbook

Author: Caroline Stagg, Anthony Thomas, Peter Smith and Chris Warn

Need help with planning and executing school trips? The Off the Premises Handbook will help you to run well-planned, efficiently managed, interesting and safe events away from school, that will have a lasting impact on your students

Thinking Skills in the Primary Classroom

Author: Matt Revill

Thinking Skills in the Primary Classroom by Matt Revill will help teachers to apply thinking skills strategies to maths, literacy and science. This is a new collection of more than 60 exciting activities with accompanying resources

Enriching Modern Foreign Languages

Author: John Senior and Sarah Philo

Enriching Modern Foreign Languages, aimed at Key Stages 3 and 4, is a collection of over 100 brand new enrichment and extension activities that encourage confident use of modern foreign languages in secondary schools and beyond

Enriching Primary Science

Author: John Senior and Angela Tuff

Enriching Primary Science is a collection of new activities that will provide science enrichment for primary children, in particular extending learning for the gifted and talented child

The Thoughtful Learner

Author: Toby Quibell

The Thoughtful Learner is a course for pupils in Key Stage 2 that helps learners begin to understand how they learn and how to improve their skills as learners

Engaging Parents Toolkit

Author: Julie McGrane

The Engaging Parents Toolkit aims to help you to raise achievement in school through better communication with parents, by focusing on the type of parental involvement that has been proven to impact on pupil achievement the most; talking at home

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 read more

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? read more

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 read more

Thinking Through Mathematics

Author: Sally Taverner & David Wright

Thinking Through Mathematics for secondary schools provides teachers of mathematics with a number of thinking skills activities which develop both generic thinking strategies and more specialised mathematical thinking

Learning Languages Through Fairy Tales

Author: Sheila Cartwright and Louise Harty

Teaching and learning primary languages can be easy and fun with Learning Languages Through Fairy Tales, whether you are an experienced linguist or have limited language skills

Christian Assemblies II

Author: Jan Thompson

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. read more

Curriculum Briefing Vol 3 No 1: Positive classroom behaviour

Author: Angela Dewsbury

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

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 read more

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 read more

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 read more

Early Years Handbook

Author: Pat Brunton and Linda Thornton

Early Years Handbook provides a complete guide to establishing and running high quality, sustainable early years provision which provides good outcomes for children and meets the needs of parents and carers

More Favourite Assemblies Key Stage 2

Author: Edited by Gerald Haigh

Bringing you the best from the Primary Assembly File plus more new assemblies in one handy book! Edited by Gerald Haigh.

Assemblies Across Faiths

Author: Gerald Haigh and Jane West

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

Strategies for Learning

Author: Margaret Sutherland and Colin Sutherland

Tackle barriers to learning and equip your students with a range of skills that can boost and strengthen their learning!

Learning and Teaching Update

Author: Edited by Dr David Leat & Dr Kate Wall

Many schools now have teaching and learning coordinators and teaching and learning groups who are tasked with keeping ahead of developments and to facilitate teaching and learning across their school. Those professionals will find Learning & Teaching Update invaluable

Thinking Through School - Evaluation Pack

Author: Anne de A Echevarria and David Leat

"Winner, BESA Educational Resources Book Award 2007"

Thinking Through School tackles a completely new way of learning, by helping schools, teachers and pupils move onto a more sophisticated level of thinking skills and creative learning

Making the most of SIMS.net - Assessment for Learning

Author: Anthony Powell

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.

The Cross-Curriculum

Author: Edited by Kit Field

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.

Curriculum Briefing

Author: Edited by Angela Dewsbury

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

Gifted & Talented Coordinator's Handbook

Author: Edited by Brin Best, Sophie Craven and Jane West

This 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

All Year Round Assemblies

Author: PFP

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

Christian Assemblies I

Author: Edited by Jan Thompson

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.

Teaching Assistant's Resource Pack

Author: PFP

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

Curriculum Management Update

Author: Edited by Angela Dewsbury

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

Thinking Skills Through Science

Author: Sue Duncan, Don McNiven & Chris Savory

Thinking Skills Through Science combines the teaching of thinking skills and subject specific understanding. It consists of a series of science activities appropriate for key stage 3, which can also be adapted for older or younger pupils across a whole range of abilities

Thinking Through English

Author: Marie Butterworth & Maryssa O'Connor

Thinking Through English aims to help teachers create exciting and memorable English lessons, by teaching critical thinking skills and encouraging independent creative thinking

Thinking Through History

Author: Peter Fisher and Ian Wilkinson

Thinking Through History promotes effective learning of history through the use of Thinking Skills. It's aim is to challenge pupils by calling on their critical thinking skills, as they enjoy a different approach to history and learn from it

Thinking Through Primary Teaching

Author: Steve Higgins and Viv Baumfield

Thinking Through Primary Teaching will help you to develop your pupils' thinking skills with regards to their own learning. Achieving this successfully will help you to raise the academic standards in your primary class, and in the process, aid your pupils in becoming more effective learners

Thinking Through Religious Education

Author: Vivienne Baumfield

Thinking Through Religious Education is developed and written by practicing teachers. Its practical strategies with numerous exemplars enable teachers throughout the secondary school to create exciting, memorable and challenging RE lessons

Thinking Through Modern Foreign Languages

Author: Mei Lin & Cheryl Mackay

The aim of Thinking Through Modern Foreign Languages is to provide thinking strategies that challenge and motivate pupils when teaching languages, and to stimulate thinking skills; moving away from 'teach, test, tick' methods in the languages classroom

All You Need For Christmas

Author: Edited by David Day

To immediately access over 200 pages of Christmas school activities, download this PDF now and you can start to plan your Christmas lessons as soon as you like