Thinking skills

29 videos

What are the benefits of studying whole books?

The benefits of working with whole books through the school year are illustrated in group work where pupils explore t...

Puppet Screen

Following a visit to their Forest School, primary children plan and make puppets using twigs and other natural materi...

The Pirates' Problem

Boys are engaged in role-play in the pirate ship outside the classroom.

Developing Metacognition

A primary teacher (and member of the school's senior leadership team) reflects on the importance of children's awaren...

Balloon Making

Following the story-starter, children are presented with the challenge of individually inventing and making a device ...

Testing Balloons

Following a story-starter, children have explored ways of helping the Very Lazy Ladybird to fly.

Sorting Twigs

As part of their preparation for visits to Forest School, these children are learning to sort twigs into categories b...

Badger Holes

These children discover new badger holes and footprints as they walk through the woodland on their way to Forest Scho...

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...

Family Learning

A group of parents meet for a family learning session run by a teacher.

Parents supporting schools (but might be called...

A primary deputy headteacher responds to two prompts.

Reviewing the Morning

Nursery children meet to reflect on their morning's achievements.

Our Own Museum

Following a visit to the local museum, these nursery children have planned and set up their own museum in the role-pl...

Sharing Information

Pupils continue to think about how their learning was supported in the introductory lesson on Atoms.

Learning Outcomes

An Early Years teacher defines learning outcomes.

Encouraging Engagement

An Early Years teacher is asked how she encourages pupils' engagement.

Learning Dispositions

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

Help Opportunities

Children in the top set are working on group presentations to showcase their first year of French.

Activities

The children are engaged in a range of planned activities relating to their chosen topic 'pirates'.

Clouds and Fish

Introducing the morning's activities on pirates to her mixed YR/Y1 class, the teacher reminds the children of their r...

Bag of Pictures

After the morning's activities have been introduced, the teacher develops questions about what pirates have on their ...

Involving Parents

Teachers from Nursery and Reception classes reflect on ways to encourage parents to be involved in their children's l...

Encouraging Ownership

A primary teacher (and member of the school's senior leadership team) reflects on the significance of helping childre...

Script Development

Four girls are reading through and annotating their script before performing it.

Decision-making

The teacher outlines a French lesson in which children revisit their first year's work by putting together (and later...

How can you promote in-depth exploration of text?

Having studied a whole book (The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas) through the year, pupils show how they have developed sk...

Building skills across the curriculum

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