In January 2022 I will be working with schools both locally and nationally as an education consultant. You can visit my new website at www...

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My latest for TES - nothing flashy, only a simple reminder of the most basic of teacher assessment techniques. https://www.tes.com/news/5-id...

As the 18 th of December drew closer, the fear inside me grew: what if we had to send a bubble, or more than one, home in those last few da...

  Having a bit of a laugh with students can actually be a great behaviour management technique in and of itself.  If we’re honest, many beha...

Ofsted published a new report about the impact of Covid-19on education and here’s what you know: kids are back in nappies, they eat food wi...

This COVID has certainly put a spanner in a few works; one such spanner being year 6 open evenings at secondary schools.  A parent of a year...

It's a fairly well accepted concept that a teacher is so many more things than a teacher - that a teacher puts on many different hats ev...

The idea of routines in the classroom might be a bit of a turn-off for some, but they aren’t about creating robot children who don’t thin...

Time in a primary classroom is at a premium: there are so many things to try to fit in. Even under the umbrella of English there is handw...

Once upon a time there was a spreadsheet and on that spreadsheet there was lots of interesting pupil data. Very helpfully, the spreadsh...

My new year 5 team and I sat down to plan together for the first time last week. Our class novel is Cosmic by Frank Cottrell-Boyce and th...

Tania Unsworth, author of the wonderful The Girl Who Thought Her Mother Was A Mermaid describes the process she goes through when writing ...

In March, Damian Hinds announced that the DfE were going to implement measures to reduce teacher workload in an attempt to head off t...

So far, I’ve successfully taught two of my three daughters to ride a two-wheeled pedal bike. While I learned to cycle the traditional wa...

Valentine’s Day 14th February 2018 brought KS1 teachers not one but two lovely treats: the teacher assessment frameworks for the 2017/18 a...

“I left school at 14 and look at me now: I’m a millionaire!” “I didn’t get anything higher than a C in my GCSEs but now I’m a celebrate...

https://www.tes.com/news/school-news/breaking-views/job-hunting-how-do-you-know-if-youre-ready-move-schools Scouring job adverts, visiting...

Hello and welcome to another blog post on thatboycanteach.blogspot.com, the blog that has done for teachers ' what being hit repeatedl...

When you looked round your school how did you know it was the one for you?  What were the tell-tale signs that it was going to be a good p...