19 videos

Ideas taking shape

Groups are now ready to start preparing written bids which need to reflect their reasoning.

Questioning and no hands up

A deputy head teacher talks about the impact of no hands up as a technique for involving all students in classroom di...

Learning intentions, success criteria and makin...

The fundamental importance of sharing learning intentions and developing success criteria with the learners are empha...

Opening doors and inviting children through

Mick Waters talks about developing children with growth mindsets and avoiding the pressures of the education system t...

Encouraging Risk-taking

A primary teacher (and member of the school's senior leadership team) reflects on the significance of sharing with ch...

Rubber Chicken

This Drama lesson started with video of sixth-formers acting as if young children.

New Forest School

KS2 children are involved in the real tasks of designing and making a new Forest School as the original site is becom...

Fairness Photo-line

Groups of children are given the same set of photographs and asked to collaborate in ranking them in order of 'fairne...

Smoke Alarm

The teacher introduces the idea of a smoke-alarm, and the designing and making task.

Cooking Pot

Using a very effective cooking pot analogy, the teacher encourages children to devise and make some sort of alarm by ...

Fundamentals of assessment for learning

Paul Black talks about the fundamental features of assessment for learning, building pupils' understanding of the pur...

Warm Ups

A mixed-ability group of boys continue to discuss their drama lesson with the teacher.

Trial and Error

Boys from this mixed-ability drama group consider aspects of the lesson.

Celebrating the Environment

Jenny Doyle, at the time Worcestershire's Forest School Co-ordinator and a key figure nationally in the Forest School...

Forest School Opportunities

Jenny Doyle, at the time Worcestershire's Forest School Co-ordinator and a key figure nationally in the Forest School...

Learning Dispositions

An Early Years teacher reflects on her school's curriculum and shared emphasis on dispositions for learning such as t...

Making Pots

A visiting professional potter is working on his wheel with Nursery children.

Supporting the play-based approach

A principal tells us of his support for a play based approach in EYFS as long as it has the right expertise behind it.

Building skills across the curriculum

Students and a PE teacher reflect on how skills practised in Performing Arts subjects transfer to many subjects, illu...