A third of primary pupils ‘will fail new tests’: Almost 200,000 children will be told they are not prepared for secondary school after exams are introduced in 2016 .
I was visiting a school a few days ago and at lunchtime noticed that there was a football club being held. The coach was from a commercial company and he came with all the equipment and the club ran for about 40 minutes.
Golden time in Primary schools – what is it, when is it and how does it operate?
Parents evenings are an integral part of the school calendar – will happen a couple of times each year and something you will have to get used to.
So how should you approach a Parents evening and what sort of things will happen?
In this second of our articles we look at RESIDENTIAL TRIPS for Primary children and how to organise and run these.
School trips are a great opportunity to get out of the school environment and to experience a huge array of new and exciting learning situations – some directly linked to the curriculum and some not.
Let me start by saying that this does not happen very often – but it does occur and can occur and it helps if you know how to approach the situation.
Do you read to your class….do you read to your class every day or do you read to your class at all?
If you have never done so, then try giving your class a general knowledge quiz – no not with curriculum questions, rather with questions regarding the world about them.
I was in a school the other day and as I walked about I noticed a teacher sticking photographs into a very nice art ring bound book. The photographs were a record of some practical art that the class had done and were accompanied by brief descriptions of what was happening.