The level of grammatical understanding needed rises significantly between LKS2 and UKS2. One area requiring a very strong grammatical understanding in KS2 is relative pronouns and relative clauses.

For experiences that are the exception rather than the norm, school trips manage to have an outsized impact on students. It varies by school and individual, of course, but let’s assume, as a rough ...

Witness the devastating impact of poverty through the eyes of 12-year-old Will, and what it means to make an impossible choice, with Tom Percival’s powerful novel, The Wrong Shoes. The Wrong Shoes ...

“Show, don’t tell” is the time-honoured exhortation we use with KS2 children when we want them to describe characters in a narrative context. But of course, it is easier said than done. The creation ...

A tennis-themed zone of proximal development example leads teacher Aaron Swan to consider how teaching within students’ ZPD is a two-way process… What is the zone of proximal development? The ‘zone of ...

This Gothic writing KS2 resource introduces students to Gothic fiction through Goth Girl and the Ghost of a Mouse by Chris Riddell. The resource comprises five units, each of which includes a unit ...

Why is inclusion in schools more important than ever? As the number of young people receiving diagnoses for additional needs has increased exponentially, mainstream schools have become increasingly ...