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The year 3 pupils at Park End Primary School in Middlesbrough are a bit of a rowdy bunch. Headteacher Julia Rodwell describes them as “a complex and difficult group”. Put them in front of a chess set though, and silence descends. “The first time I saw them playing...
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June 26, 2017 Loknath Das
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More than £18,000 has been donated after Pullman offered to name a character in new book to raise funds for victims of the Grenfell Tower fire Author Philip Pullman will name one of the characters of his new book after a teenage victim of the Grenfell Tower fire,...
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June 26, 2017 Loknath Das
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You’ll be hard pressed to find a class of 30 angels in any school – but variety, as they say, is the spice of life. Here’s one teacher on how to deal with *those* students The Sulker The sulker will crease up their face and their bottom lip...
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June 24, 2017 Loknath Das
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Primary science lessons might not have the biggest budget behind them, but that doesn’t mean you can’t find ways to bring concepts to life for children, says one primary teacher Science should be every child’s favourite subject. When else can you get incredibly messy, follow “what happens if…”...
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June 22, 2017 Loknath Das
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The blood stains on the classroom walls couldn’t be washed away following the Taliban attack on the middle school in Postak Bazaar village in Afghanistan. ‘We had to chip it away from the wall with an axe,’ a school official told Human Rights Watch. But the blood...
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June 20, 2017 Loknath Das
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A trust that ran schools in Kent and Sussex ran up more than £1m in debts, an accountant’s report has revealed. Lilac Sky Academy Trust used funds meant for schools to pay for drinks at a party and breached compliance rules, according to its annual accounts. The government...
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June 16, 2017 Loknath Das
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