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Parents communicating with Early Years settings
Parents explain how all types of communication are important.

Releasing the butterflies commentary
Practitioner Emma reflects on the clip "Releasing the Butterflies'.

Opening a new bilingual school
Hints and tips from a school that opened as a new bilingual school and has proved to be successful.

Data: the impact of the bilingual approach
True bilingualism is a learning marathon, not a sprint. We see how data shows this.

Planning the curriculum in a bilingual international school
Consistent planning, to deliver the same skills and structured programmes concurrentl,y maximises the learning potent...

Developing a bilingual school- the role of phonics
Illustrated by the same year 2 class in their English and Vietnamese phonics lesson teachers explain how phonics aid ...

Bilingual education- Making a great start: EYFS
Two EYFS practitioners, one English first language and one Vietnamese first language illustrate their bilingual appro...

Improving Writing 3: Mentoring Improvement in Writing
An extended conversation to improve writing standards between a first grade pupil and his teaching assistant.

Creating Number Stories as a Solution Strategy in Math(s)
Children practise explaining solution strategies to an addition number story.

Learning About Fractions Using IT 2
Two children are using the app 'Slice Fractions'. The game helps visualise a whole or equal shares promoting a concep...

IT Integration in the Classroom 2
The shift in a school to the total integration of IT into subject teaching is further examined.

Parents and bilingual education
A principal and a parent make the case for bilingual education which encourages global perspectives but not at the ex...

Developing bilingual learners through one curriculum area
A biligual primary class is seen during integrated topic work, language and cultural support is both planned for and ...

A differentiated approach to assisting bilingual language learners
Vietnamese children join a bilingual school with a wide variation in their English skills, we see how all are supported.

What makes our bilingual school different?
Senior teachers define how bilingual international schools enabe local perspective and global citizenship.

Improving Writing 1: Vivid Verbs
This first grade teacher introduces a class on the carpet to superior, more vivid verbs.

Exploring Non-Standard Measurements Using IT 1
Joaquim uses non-standard tools to measure the length of different school supplies.

Learning About Fractions Using IT 3
Two children are using the app 'Slice Fractions'. The game helps visualise a whole or equal shares promoting a concep...

Integrating Technology Throughout The Curriculum
An IT teacher explains how she enhances Math(s) teaching in grade 8 in this school in Mexico.

IT integration in First Grade: Fractions
An IT teacher and a first grade teacher delivering Math(s) explain how planning and teaching together enables deeper ...

IT Integration in First Grade: iPad Basics and Non-Standard Mea...
The simultaneous teaching of IT and Math(s) is illustrated as children work independently in non-standard measurement.

Equally valuing local and western staff
In a bilingual international school, local and western staff complement one another, we see how each are chosen and r...

Developing a bilingual school through translanguaging
Unpacking how the translanguaging strategy supports children's bilingual learning.

Exploring Non-Standard Measurements Using IT 2
Children use non-standard tools to measure the length of different school supplies.

Learning About Fractions Using IT 1
Joaquim is using the app 'Slice Fractions'. The game helps visualise a whole or equal shares promoting a conceptual u...

IT Integration in First Grade: Reflecting on Learning
A Math(s) and IT teacher reflect on the advantages of recording children's voices and written explanations 'live' as ...

Response to Intervention Meeting
An RTI coach explains how pupils become more successful by teachers observing their work.

Student Support Team - The SST
Tailoring individual academic experiences, noting areas for opportunity, listening to concerns, sharing strategy base...

The School That Knows Itself: Purpose and Direction
Ensuring that mission and vision are visible in classrooms and their effects inspire students can be measured is seen...

The School That Knows Itself- Being Ambitious
The academic director and principal of a 5-16 school vision the next five years.

IT Safety in School
IT Safety considerations are considered by The Director of Technology at a 5-16 school in Mexico.

Using the Personalised Learning Plan
We watch as a teacher interviews students working on their next challenging targets using their personalised learning...

8th Grade Reflecting on the Personal Learning Plan
8th grade students reflect on improving their learning through the use of their Personal Learning Plan.

Language Arts
Raising standards in literacy has benefitted from the Language Arts approach at this school in Mexico.

EYFS - developing writing
This clip is a commentary of how writing develops which works well with the clip "Tomi Writing'.

Middle School Math Data Meeting
Sharing data with students and translating targets to student centred language is enabling students to set their own ...

Observation, planning and ensuring development
A principal explains how skilled observation at EYFS drives next steps of development.

Planning in the moment
Trainee pracitioner, Jillian, explains that genuine interest from the children is essential.

The School That Knows Itself: Data
We see how diverse data, used daily by pupils, administrators and teachers is enabling challenge in learning for ever...

Parents and Early Years
A head of EYFS explains how evolving an EYFS unit needs to have parents on board.

Developing an Early Years Unit
A Head of EYFS reveals what shaped the philosophy of a new EYFS unit.

Supporting a specialist EYFS team
A principal talks his support for the expertise of a specialist EYFS team.

Language and culture
A Head of EYFS talks about English as the professional language of her setting.

Heritage language and home culture
A Head of EYFS describes how she celebrates children's heritage and home language.

Releasing the butterflies
Both years in EYFS have been nurturing butterflies and today, they are to be released.

Representing ideas through design and technology
Dolf constructs a model responding to a stimulus about fresh fruit.

Observing themed play
The clip follows a complete morning of largely independent free flow activity part way through the theme pirates.

Working scientifically: "We've done it"
There is a moment of complete delight as these learning partners construct their successful circuit.

Making relationships
Children are constructing a framework to suspend artefacts collected at Forest School.

Characteristics of effective learning
This teacher talks about the characteristics, playing and exploring, active learning and creating and thinking critic...

Learning through Forest School
Jenny Doyle talks about some of the principles common to all Forest School experiences.

Forest School as an enabling environment
Jenny Doyle, a key figure nationally in the Forest School movement, reflects on children�s engagement in, and excitem...

Our own museum
Following a visit to the local museum, these nursery children are planning and setting up their own museum in the rol...

Performing better dances
Year 3 children are working on a desert theme inspired by an Egyptians theme.

Fundamentals of assessment for learning
Paul Black talks about the fundamental features of assessment for learning.

Negotiating success criteria
Paul Black talks about the importance of negotiating success criteria with pupils.

Understanding the big picture
Pupils need to understand how day-to-day learning fits into the bigger picture.

Inducting pupils into peer assessment
Pupils need to be inducted into peer assessment for it to operate effectively.

Teachers rethinking their roles
Paul Black speaks about the challenges for teachers in assessment for learning.

Nurturing pupils' engagement with learning
Paul Black talks about how learning and motivation can be fostered in the classroom.

Characteristics of the AfL classroom
Paul Black talks about interactions, dialogue and noise levels in the 'assessment for learning' classroom.

The school context for promoting AfL
Paul Black talks about these opportunities for teachers to interact and share practice.

Formative feedback versus marks and grades
Paul Black talks about the importance of feedback to pupils.

French vocabulary starters
In this primary school, a range of activities are used to make learning a foreign language enjoyable and fun.

Engaging in conversations
Building on whole class and group work earlier in the lesson, the children use the French to which they have been int...

Supporting in French
A class teacher, who supports French being taught to her class, talks about her role and experiences.

Incorporating French into the school day
A class teacher talks about how French is incorporated into the wider curriculum.

Games broadening vocabulary in foriegn languages
Children use an activity, in which they step on coloured cards in sequence, to revise the names of colours in German.

Broadening vocabulary in foriegn languages
We see year 6 pupils being taught new vocabulary through a fun game developing their ability to understand the new wo...

Improving pronounciation in foriegn languages
This teacher uses French immersively to start her lesson with year 3.

Singing French number names
This brief clip shows pupils being taught to listen attentively to a spoekn foreign language, also joining in and res...

Raising standards for lower achieving pupils
Patricia Broadfoot reveals how formative assessment raises GCSE standards by, on average, two grades.

Knowing where they are going
Patricia Broadfoot discusses the importance of setting learning objectives.

Feedback and classroom dialogue
Patricia Broadfoot talks the problems with marks and grades, about how feedback must give pointers for improvement in...

Giving students the language of assessment
Patricia Broadfoot describes this can help students become autonomous learners.

Self and peer assessment
Patricia Broadfoot talks about developing students' skills of self criticism.

Getting the best from all learners
Patricia Broadfoot talks about the impact that assessment for learning can have for lower attainers including boys, g...

The potential of assessment for learning
Evidence shows there's no other educational innovation that has such power to raise standards.

Design: Smoke Alarm
Encouraging thinking skills and growth mindset, this sequence links a design and make acivity to a whoe term class pr...

Design: choosing resources
Prior to a design and make activity to make as smoke alarm, the teachers shows the class possible resoucres.

Design and make
Very efffective learning partners engage in a design and make exercise to create a smoke alarm.

Assessment and planning cycle
Two practitioners meet to review the outcomes of an earlier activity provoked by a forest school visit.

Observing animals in the local environment
These children are observing minibeasts in the school grounds.

Being Imaginative in the Forest
Using the catalyst of forest school, children are encouraged to be imaginative.

Fairness Photo-line
Groups of children are given the same set of photographs and asked to rank them in order of 'fairness'.

Fieldwork in the school grounds
Children make decisions and evaluate their designs for a forest school.

Listening, talking and observing to understand the world
On discovering badger holes, children make observations about their nocturnal life.

Being Imaginative
Children in this primary school are using an outdoor area close to the school as the stimulus and setting for their p...

Project Planning with Staff
Nursery staff meet to finalise details of the forthcoming visit to the local museum.

Sorting Twigs
These children are sorting twigs into categories by measuring them against the thickness of a little finger.

Learning from mistakes
Less focussed on outcomes than process, this teacher believes that learning from mistakes helps to build resilience a...

Developing Metacognition
A primary teacher notes the usefulness of mini-plenaries and learning partners.

Mathematics: Assessing meaure
Having provided opportunties for her nursery class to improve their skills in measuring, this teacher has designed a ...

PSED: The Pirates Problem
Boys are making a pirate ship and need to solve a problem, how will they stop intruders?

Expressive arts and design: The Telescope
A boy is making a telescope, as part of a series of pirate-related activities.

Communication and language, rich language environments
A 'ride' on a train made from cardboard boxes inspires communication, mathematical and musical activity.

Communication and language through an arts activity
Children make puppets from natural materials and create stories around their projected images.

Developing language through an arts activity
Children are decorating sticks making a musical instrument.

Inspiring Communication and Language
A visit to the local museum prompts a whole range of high quality language.

Using games to assist foreign language learning
In this clip, Year 3 children take part in a series of activities to learn the names of colours in French.

Seeing the whole child as a learner
Why don't we assess across a broad curriculum and acknowledge that learning is complex and uneven?

Continuity in children's learning - laying the crazy paving
What is the starting point in planning learning?

What does outstanding learning look like?
Mick Waters discusses what you would see in a learning walk around a successful school.

What can school leaders influence?
What are the elements of the school that leadership can influence?

What is the place of rote learning?
Mick Waters considers the place of rote learning in education and its strengths and limitations.

Narrow v broad based curriculum
Governors and headteachers have to balance the needs of testing and having a broad based curriculum.

School improvement through lesson observation
A deputy head talks about the power of on-going monitoring through lesson observation to set challenging targets for ...

Improving writing composition, vocabulary and punctuation
Talk partners are used to develop pupils' understanding of how reading helps the development of writing skills and vi...

Writing composition - classroom discussion to plan writing to i...
This teacher is interested in improving standards in writing composition.

Writing composition - classroom discussion to plan writing to i...
This teacher is interested in improving standards in writing composition.

Linking reading comprehension to writing composition
This work is within the context of a whole-book curriculum focus (The Boy on the Striped Pyjamas) throughout the year.

Reading Comprehension, making comparisons within and across books
Using pictures as prompts, pupils show their developing understanding of the characters and themes of a book (The Boy...

Reading Comprehension, checking pupils understand what they read
Pupils working in a group are exploring the similarities and differences between the two main characters in "The Boy ...

Promoting higher standards in Reading Comprehension
Pupils have studied a whole book throughout the year.

Reading Comprehension. Checking Understanding and preparing for...
Pupils have been studying The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas throughout the year.

How do you promote ambition pupils in their reading and writing?
This is an inspirational discussion around many aspects of the tested elements of reading and writing. A hidden gem.

Studying whole books - what are the pupils' perspectives?
Pupils discuss what it means to study a whole book.

How do you develop pupils' understanding of success criteria fo...
Success criteria can be difficult to express for the skills involved in writing.

How do you develop pupils' understanding of success criteria fo...
Pupils reflect on success criteria for writing.

How can pupils be introduced to success criteria? _ an example ...
A teacher leads pupils in exploring the success criteria.

How should teachers evaluate and plan towards a whole book appr...
Teachers assess the impact of whole books.

Delivering whole books in the curriculum
We hear about the implications of whole books for pupils and teachers.