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Test Time Tips - KS2 SATs

With tests playing a big part in school life, Ofqual's exam expert George Turnbull shares some practical tips with teachers on how to handle KS2 SATs, before, during and after the big day. Primary teachers need to know the ins and outs of the KS2 tests, Turnball gives advice on how to manage yourself and your pupils in the run…

KS3 Antarctica - Geography Teachers in the Freezer

Explore the geology of glaciers and learn about the challenges of field work in extreme climates as a group of intrepid teachers go on a four-week expedition to Antarctica. The first half of this programme looks at glaciers, using case studies of glaciers in both Norway and the South Pole. It also looks in more detail at Antarctica…

Extended Schools

Under the Labour government's Every Child Matters (ECM) agenda, by 2010 all primary and secondary schools are expected to offer extended services outside normal school hours. Find out more in this whole-school video. This video follows the headteacher and newly appointed extended school co-ordinator at Cheviot Junior School…

Extended School

By 2010, the Government wants to see all schools providing an additional range of extended services. In this programme, we look at an example of such provision already demonstrated by Gospel Oak School in north London. The Government's description of extended services includes on-site childcare from 8am to 6pm, outings, parenting…

Extended Schools - Penryn College

A look at some of the inspirational initiatives on offer as part of the extended schools programme at Penryn College in Cornwall. As the final bell of the day sounds at Penryn, it signals the end of one part of the school day but the beginning of the next. Students here are able to take advantage of a wealth of after-school activites,…

Extended Schools - Jesse Boot Primary School

A look at some of the extended services on offer at Jesse Boot Primary School in Nottingham. Though the school runs over 200 after-school clubs for its 500 pupils, it also has a special focus in promoting the emotional and physical well-being of the community it serves. We visit the school's health suite to watch the prescribing…

Primary Extended Schools - Opening Doors

Broadheath Primary School in Altrincham, Manchester, is Trafford's first full service extended school, gaining its status in April 2004. Through the vision of headteacher Jan Shaughnessy they have employed two dedicated full time staff; Nicola Body, the extended schools manager and Vicki Cropper, the childcare coordinator. Between…

MFL - Implementing the Group Talk Initiative and Other Strategies

A look at the strategies that the MFL department at Wildern School in Southampton have implemented to improve GCSE results. The MFL staff explain the practices they have employed, which have resulted in improved MFL GCSEs since 2002. Group Talk is an award-winning scheme, which encourages pupils to practice their speaking skills…

First Steps towards your Vision

New headteacher Hazel Burnie is determined to enrich the extended services available at her school and enlists educational coach Niki Thomas to help her accomplish this. Hazel has been headteacher at St Alfege with St Peter's CofE School in Greenwich for just four weeks and has set herself the goal of achieving high quality…

Hurricane House

Teacher Annette Jankowski is determined to turn a succession of hurricanes in Florida into something positive for Surfside Elementary School. Annette attends a teachers' workshop run by a local TV station, inspiring her to begin an ambitious project on weather with the 3rd Grade science unit. The project's tasks include…

Bayley in the USA

A dynamic headteacher in North Carolina faces major challenges despite working minor miracles at her troubled school. Behaviour management expert John Bayley spends a week discovering the issues at Olympic High School. When Pam Espinoza took over seven years ago the school was in crisis. Results and behaviour were the worst in…

Gender in the USA - Collins Middle School, Salem

At Collins Middle School in Salem, Massachusetts, teachers are debating revisions to Title IX, the US law that prohibits sex discrimination in federally funded schools. Discussion amongst the 110 staff at Collins is intense. Headteacher Mary Manning believes that pupils would benefit from studying in some single-sex classes in the…

The USA - Global Citizenship post 9/11

This comparative CPD resource for primary and secondary teachers reveals a US school district's pioneering approach to inspiring students to learn about foreign affairs, with innovative global citizenship lessons. Herricks School District, in New York State, has led the way in changing citizenship practice in the wake of the…

Classroom Management

Clare Hewitt, a former air hostess and supermarket manager, now teaches modern foreign languages at Parkside school near Bradford. This programme charts her progress over her first term of teaching and takes a detailed look at how Clare is tackling classroom management. Clare has set working with low-ability groups as one of her…

Fidgeting

In this pedagogy resource, behaviour expert John Bayley identifies classroom-management strategies for working with generic students who perennially create problems in the classroom, even for the most talented of teachers. The video looks at two classes of lively Year 7s from separate north London Schools. The problem is that these…

Secondary Special Needs - Inclusion and Autism

Four boys on the autistic spectrum are observed during their school day to see how their individual needs are met by both mainstream and specialist staff. As autism is a developmental disorder, not a learning disability, the majority of secondary age children with a diagnosis attend mainstream schools. Difficulties relating to autism…

Challenging Behaviour

The state of school behaviour in Britain is the focus of this whole-school video for primary and secondary headteachers and teaching staff. Hear from five headteachers about their approaches to tackling the problem. Changing social attitudes have blurred the distinction between childhood and adolescence, says Geoff Moss, an Assertive…

Believe in Yourself

One of the most challenging aspects of effective classroom communication is displaying confidence in order to earn the attention and respect of pupils, says behaviour management expert John Bayley in this pedagogy resource. John observes and provides practical advice to the head of science, Brian Dalton, at Foulstone School near…

Girl Talk

Behaviour expert John Bayley advises a Year 10 maths teacher who feels powerless to discourage two chatty girls who constantly seek her attention. See John's advice in this classroom-management resource for teachers. Nicola Lamb's anxiety is compounded by an acute self-perception: she fears that having been a teacher for…

Behaviour

Jonathan Dimbleby chairs a timely debate about behaviour in our schools. The programme is part of Teachers TV's Behaviour Matters week. Disrespect among children and young people may always have been part of our social fabric, but this debate examines whether the behavioural problems that are being witnessed in schools today…

Too Much Talk

Behaviour expert John Bayley helps a newly qualified teacher (NQT) learn the crucial techniques required to manage pupils, in this practical pedagogy resource. John puts Key Stage 3/4 NQT John Fuentes through his paces. He records John at work in the classroom, reviewing his progress and helping him develop essential classroom-management…

Managing SATs - Primary - Testing Times: Adding Value at North Primary

In 2005, North Primary in Southall, west London, achieved Key Stage 2 SAT results that placed the school in the top ten of the national value added tables. Ninety-eight per cent of the children at North Primary speak English as an additional language and their headteacher Jasmindha Grewal has developed a determined approach to maintain…

Managing SATs - Primary - Testing Times: Adding Value at Manor Primary

The children at Manor Primary in Wolverhampton are below the national average in base-line assessment when they enter the school. Despite this, Manor Primary topped the national value added tables in 2005 with 100 per cent of its pupils reaching level 4 in maths and science. In this programme, we see the varied ways in which the…

Collaborative Purchasing

A school bursar shows how collaborative purchasing makes her budget stretch further, and goes through the platforms and organisations she uses to do this. Business manager Sue Simkiss from Queen Mary's School, Walsall, visits Sue Heath, bursar at Haydonleigh Primary School in Swindon to see just how she uses collaborative purchasing…