The synthesis of knowledge is a high-level skill that we now expect our students to undertake confidently and effectively. But what is meant by this statement? Synthesis is an ability to combine different pieces of information to arrive at a conclusion or solution. In order for a student to success

The Max Maths and Science resources provide opportunities for parents to help their children at home. Students are supported with mathematical and scientific learning which includes the language of these subjects. The home learning journal is designed to enhance the learning in Max Science and Max

Projects have many uses in education. Planning and setting project-based learning experiences that are at the precise time in a child’s learning incorporates many valuable aspects of learning methods and strategies. Project based learning lends itself perfectly to blended learning. Students can use

I recently bought a new smart phone. My 4-year-old godson picked it up and within seconds he was doing things with it that I didn’t think was possible. The point is that children adapt quickly to digital technology and enjoy learning using any aspect of it. The digital resources that are available

If you ever watched a young child pick up a smart phone for the first time, you will know how confident they are and how much they enjoy technology. The point is that children adapt quickly to digital technology and enjoy learning using any aspect of it. Children are destined to belong to a digital

Creative Writing to enhance readingReading provides great scaffolding for learning to write but writing also helps students to further develop their reading skills. It exposes learners to the letter shapes and to spell or write words, they need to sound them out. Remember, our brain is not wired to

Investigations and practicals are always popular with students and are essential to skill our future scientists. Unfortunately, they can be time consuming and expensive, the two things teachers are always short of. I would like to share my top tips for practical’s in science.When planning a practic

To start this blog, I will ask you to search online ‘pictures of children learning in a classroom’. How many of the pictures show a teacher at the front of a class directing learning? How many show children learning without an adult? Why does the teacher have to be centre stage? Traditionally lesso

Phonics, what’s all the fuss about?Learning to read is essential for a child’s learning journey. Without the ability to read fluently, children cannot move on to the ‘reading to learn’ stage. In our modern society a huge amount of information is online and often in English. Helping children to deve

Many schools are enthusiastically adopting Bar Models as a problem-solving tool in mathematics. They are very popular in Asian schools and increasingly so in the UK. And with good reason. The bar is a very versatile problem-solving tool, but it needs to be introduced carefully.The first thing to sa