International Schools Blog

Children thrive when they feel like part of a close-knit community. In a supportive environment, they’re better able to focus on studying and working well alongside their peers. However, sometimes it can be challenging to break down the barriers between different classes, ages, and friendship circles. Developing a community-building policy can help to bring students together.

Science provides learners with ways to understand the world in which they will grow up. What takes place in a science lesson is intended to be a smaller-scale version of what takes place in the scientific community worldwide. 

Learning how to spell is key to literacy. Discover how to teach spelling to primary students with nine engaging and effective strategies.

Learn how you can prepare your students for exam season, with revision tips and techniques to help them cope with exam stress.

Incorporating life skills into the classroom enables students to reach their highest potential and interact positively with their environment.

The early years of a child’s schooling can have a huge impact on their success in later years. If we want to help children develop into competent, well-rounded citizens who are prepared for whatever the future may hold, we need to get their education off to the best start.

The National Curriculum for Computing in England might be nearly ten years old but the subject matter is constantly changing with new computing terms and programming languages, so it’s important that teachers are kept up-to-date with changes and what these might look like in the classroom. With specialist Computing teachers not found within most schools, especially at a primary level, teaching Computing can often be feared by teachers.

Part of the post-pandemic educational debate focused on summer holidays. Some politicians suggested reducing the summer break to help learner catch up on lost learning, but other educational experts argued that both learners and teachers need a long summer break to recharge their batteries.

One of the major challenges for teachers and school leaders is how to meet the challenge of the Computing curriculum, especially at Primary and Lower Secondary and provide a rounded, thought provoking and engaging curriculum for students to help prepare them for the world ahead and inspire more to take computing-based courses at Key Stage 4 and beyond.

Mastery is not a new approach. In fact, the concept was first introduced in 1968 by American psychologist Benjamin Bloom with his idea that if learners don’t get something the first time, then teach them again and in different ways until they do. Teaching for mastery in maths is fundamental to the UK government’s education reforms and was reflected in the 2014 English national curriculum for mathematics. The National Centre for Excellence in the Teaching Mathematics (NCETM) and the Department for England (DfE) have all endorsed this evidence-based approach which is inspired by some of the leading performers in mathematics education, including Shanghai and Singapore.