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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...

Recovery. We’ve been hearing a lot of talk about recovery with regards to the curriculum we teach when schools can eventually reopen to ...

"Enjoyment and engagement of learning can, and should be, intrinsic: the act of learning is enjoyable and engaging, providing that yo...

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...

I remember very clearly when my love affair with Jane Austen began. It was the summer between fifth and sixth year of high school, when I ...

Actually '7 Ways To Choose Artists, Artworks and Artistic Movements For Your Primary Curriculum' would have been a more accurate tit...

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...

Anyone who has ever taught primary maths will, most likely at many points, have asked themselves, ‘Why on earth did they do it like that?...

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 ...

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

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...