Curriculum

Oracy shouldn’t just be a tick-box exercise, says this primary teacher, who explains how incorporating approaches from acting can help pupils with literacy

Open letter with nearly 100 signatories calls for a ‘more diverse range’ of drafters to write the new national curriculum, warning there is a risk of ‘narrow’ content

The renewed Ofsted framework refers to foundational knowledge. What is it, and how can schools demonstrate that they are providing it?

A trust leader explains how a playground conversation about Amazon led to the introduction of fictional currency that helps to teach children about handling money

A series of well-intentioned reforms has led to a system that prioritises exam results over deep thinking, says Alice Whitby – but it’s not too late to reverse this

The national curriculum fails to emphasise the importance of the ability to reason about quantities, says Louise Matthews, who explores how it can be taught

Citizenship education is to become mandatory in primary schools. But how realistic is it to expect schools to fit a subject ranging from law to finances and media literacy into an already-busy timetable?

Modest growth at Higher level offers hope amid ongoing concerns about declining popularity of languages

Education experts giving evidence to an MPs’ inquiry into the decline in children reading for pleasure make four recommendations to address the problem

The Council of International Schools’ executive director talks exclusively to Tes about the need for international schools to diversify their leaders, staff and curricula – and the threat that ‘nationalistic measures’ pose

Leaders call for the government to set out targeted action amid fears that girls are being overlooked in the drive to improve white working-class pupils’ outcomes

A quarter of parents avoid reading to their children because they lack belief in their own ability, finds Parentkind poll, as schools contend with ‘weaker language foundations’