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Help students to genuinely enjoy studying Shakespeare by celebrating the beauty (and humour!) of the bard’s language and his mastery of stagecraft. We share some of our favourite resources for teachers teaching any Shakespeare play, as well as some fun classroom resources and games for KS3-5 students. 

Since Russian forces entered Ukraine on 24 February 2022, you will no doubt have heard children in your class talking about the crisis.  

This page offers advice to help you address children's concerns plus information from reliable sources to help you to answer their questions.

Whether you're reading, writing or performing poems, our poetry collection makes poetry accessible for even your youngest learners.

Here you'll find a summary of some of our most engaging activities to support children in writing their own poems to mark World Poetry Day.

It is not unheard of for Shakespeare's work to be dismissed as too hard, boring or outdated for children. However, his plays are full of magic, intrigue, comedy and insults: themes that are generally right up children's street!

With Shakespeare's birthday on the 23rd of the month, April seems like a good month to explore resources to make his work accessible to our younger learners. 

Sheena Newland, Languages Subject Advisor at Pearson, explores the difficulties involved in achieving gender neutrality in grammatically gendered languages and shares her advice and teaching resources on how to be inclusive of all genders in modern foreign language teaching.

Do students - or the wider population - have an understanding of relative sizes of large numbers? What's the difference between a million and a billion anyway? We explore some of the ways you can make Maths topical and enjoy big numbers in your classroom.

Victoria Walker is an assistant headteacher and English teacher. She shares some ideas for how best to introduce Gothic literature to your students, at any key stage.

Speech and language experts Emela Milne and Victoria Honeybourne share their advice for empowering students with knowledge of prefixes and suffixes as part of their vocabulary learning.

Sue Cowley is an experienced teacher and trainer who has written a number of best-selling books on classroom management. Here she shares her practical tips and teaching strategies for effective differentiation.

Mike Gershon, a leading CPD trainer and writer, explores how we can help our students to develop a growth mindset.