International Schools Blog

Executive function skills are the key to life-long success. Empower students between 5 to 17 with our practical guide to executive function skills by age.

Here are seven strategies that you can use in the classroom to help your students learn how to disagree respectfully with one another.

Find out how to tackle misogyny in your school with these five practical steps.

Learn about the benefits of the British education system and see if it's the right choice for your child.

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

We all understand how icebreakers and first-day activities can help to get to know learners better but is there is more to it?

This article looks at the best age for children to start school, according to research and a comparison of the school starting age in different countries around the world.

It’s the start of a new school year, which means that teachers have a whole new set of parents to get to know. Most schools have two parents’ evenings each year: the first, in the first term, and then a second in the final term. Your first parents’ evening is an opportunity to get to know your students’ families, set up an open dialogue and start building a positive relationship. After all, when parents and teachers work together as partners, you’re setting your students up to succeed!

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.

The five-day work week has been standard since the start of the 20th century – but the idea of a four-day week isn’t entirely new. It has been around since the 1930s, when it was offered as a possible solution to unemployment during the Great Depression.