🚨 Great Teaching, Unpacked 📹 Our new 4-part documentary series: 👀 Ep 1: Harnessing Attention 👩‍🏫 Ep 2: Teaching Behaviour 🏆 Ep 3: Securing Success 🤝 Ep 4: Embedding Development Watch it for free: steplab.co/film Attend the online premiere: bit.ly/4gdx9lO

🇬🇧 As a school, we had a brilliant time marking the celebration of the 80th anniversary of VE Day. We marked the occasion with an assembly led by Year 6, followed by a fantastic whole school party and finally a cake sale after school. 🇬🇧 #VEDay80

Teachers are amazing!

📍 Manor Way Primary Academy – 13km into Day 2 and we’re loving the Manor Way spirit! Amazing to see pupils lining the route and cheering us in 💛 #WATaRun

Free kids meals 💜

On Thursday, Year 3 visited the Black Country Living Museum. We explored the mines, took a ride on a vintage bus, watched a film at the cinema, and experienced a Victorian school lesson!

Members! We're wishing you the very best of luck with the Phonics screening check! Here are our training team’s last-minute tips for success. 🍀Remind your children to spot the digraph, sound talk and blend. 🍀Do some additional shuffle times with your most wobbly children.

All modelled writing MUST be done LIVE with a pen in your hand either on a visualiser, the board, the flip chart or a tablet cast to your big screen. A thread 🧵👇

How do you use AI in the classroom? Interested to hear for children benefit as well as reducing teacher workload!

If you could recommend one book for a teacher to read for CPD, what would it be?

This is so fascinating! Important longitudinal study on Key Stage 2 results and earnings. A MUST READ - Higher KS2 attainment is associated with higher lifetime earnings - Higher scores in Maths impact earnings more than English - Benefits from doing better in KS2 English

SoundsWrite + Kinetic Letters in Reception = 👌

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Love this idea! ❤️

It's home, again.

Feeling proud! 😊🎶

🍁 Members! Kick-start the new term with our fantastic Autumn CPD! We’ve got 37 live sessions running from September, all included in your school’s membership, with no extra cost. Browse the full training calendar now in the Ongoing CPD area of the website and dive in!

Here at the Children’s Bookshop we’re reminiscing about our most cherished Ahlberg books after the sad news about Allan passing away. Sanchita loves Funny Bones, Steven loves Cops and Robbers, and Meena loves Each Peach, Pear, Plum. What are your favourites?

Strategies to support Dyslexia - H. Aird

I might have taught it… But have my pupils got it? There's a joke about two men in a bar. One says to his friend ‘I’ve taught my dog to speak French.’ ‘Really?’ says his mate, ‘let’s hear him then.’ ‘I said I taught him, I didn’t say he’d learnt it’ comes the response. /1