Changes to the admissions code will not solve the inherent unsuitability of expectations on children in the early years.
Academic rigor, journalistic flair
Articles on Primary school
Displaying 81 - 100 of 110 articles
New research shows that children who develop bad behaviour towards the end of primary school, fall behind the most.
Unless young children are totally immersed in a foreign language, they actually learn it better when they’re a bit older.
Can you and should you stop free thought? Not in primary school.
Training teachers to make science lessons more practical, creative and challenging benefits their students.
New research has raised concerns that teachers are biased against certain pupils based on their gender, ethnic group or family income.
Compulsory maths and science in years 11 and 12 will have a lasting benefit, but we need to boost the skills of teachers and start teaching science even earlier.
If we want students to be well prepared for the 21st century, then we should be teaching coding in school.
Schools are complying with the letter of the law when it comes to admissions. But is the system working?
Careers advice for primary school children helps bust stereotypes and boost aspirations.
Natural light, temperature and good air quality all help create a ‘clever classroom’.
Playfulness is frowned upon in secondary school. It shouldn’t be.
Ed Miliband’s pledge that Labour, if elected, would limit school classes for five, six and seven-year-olds to 30 pupils reignites a core question about how best to spend money to improve education. In…
From September 2016, within five weeks of starting primary school, all children in England will receive an assessment that will stay on their record. But we have been here before and it didn’t work. The…
Is there a poem buried deep in the recesses of your memory? Earlier this month, on the UK’s National Poetry Day, we launched a nationwide poetry survey inviting people to tell us a poem they know by heart…
Why are pupils from disadvantaged families more often found studying in poorly performing schools? Is it the choices their parents make, or are they not able to get into better ones? Perhaps families are…
Poor nutrition is a primary cause behind the rising cost of health care in many developed countries. Although pupils have good knowledge of what is healthy and what is not, that does not always translate…
Teaching children to read with phonics has been a central plank of recent “Govian” education policy. A new set of statistics shows that 74% of children in the first year of primary school now meet the…
The streaming of children at primary school by their ability is actually widening the achievement gap between low and high-attaining pupils. Our research has shown that streaming in primary school leads…
We should be concerned about our children’s diets. In 2011, nearly 10% of four to five-year-olds in the UK were classified as obese. By the time they leave primary school, nearly 20% of children are obese…
Top contributors
-
Lecturer in Education, Swansea University
-
Professor of Education, Sheffield Institute of Education, Sheffield Hallam University
-
Professor of Education and Head of the School of Education, University of Sheffield
-
PhD student, UCL
-
Senior Lecturer in Teacher Education, Leeds Beckett University
-
Research Officer, Swansea University
-
Professor in Public Health Data Science, Swansea University
-
Researcher in Child Health and Well-being, Swansea University
-
Lecturer, School of Education and Arts, Australian Catholic University
-
Associate Professor in early Childhood Education and Community, University of Canberra
-
Senior Lecturer in Education Studies, Australian Catholic University
-
Professor Emeritus, Swinburne University of Technology
-
Senior Fellow, National Centre for Indigenous Studies, Australian National University
-
Professor, Faculty of Education and Arts, Australian Catholic University
-
Associate Professor, School of Education, University of Southern Queensland
