How are British children responding to the emerging themes and issues in their writing? When OUP was asked if we’d like to be the language expert for a ‘pop up’ 500 Words: Black Lives Matter children’s writing competition, we didn’t hesitate for a moment. OUP has been the language partner to 500 Words since 2012, […]
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Coronavirus is the 2020 Oxford Children’s Word of the Year! 2020 marks the 10th anniversary of BBC Radio 2 Breakfast Show and Chris Evans’ 500 Words short story competition, and saw more than 134,000 children submit entries, hitting the millionth story milestone! As part of ongoing language and lexical research, the Oxford Children’s Dictionaries & […]
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Beth Kerr is Group Wellbeing Director at Cognita, offers advice on how to make the promotion of wellbeing in school communities a collective responsibility.
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Wellbeing experts outline some practical ways for teachers to learn new skills and strategies to improve their resilience and adaption during challenging times.
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Over the past weeks and months, we’ve all had to adapt to uncertainty, and being flexible has become a necessity for schools, pupils and parents alike – and you’re all doing an amazing job! Now that you’ve had the chance to try out new approaches inside and outside of the classroom, it’s a good point […]
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Psychology A Level teacher, examiner and text book author, Rachel Moody discusses her experience of teaching research methods during Covid and how she even benefited from the flexible, consultation-style teaching brought on by remote learning.
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If you’re new to the role of literacy lead, or just have an interest in approaching Literacy across the school I’d strongly advise beginning your journey with vocabulary – I have written two blogs on this (links below). It makes sense that before students can access texts, we teach them how to access words, and […]
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Bethany Woollacott discusses her research on Mathematics textbook design and shares her favourite features in the Oxford Revise series.
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This September, for the first time in many years, I found myself leading a department with non-specialist teachers delivering Year 7 geography. I know from speaking to others that this is a position that many geography departments find themselves in year after year and so I recognise how rare my experience has been if this […]
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Louise Aukland examines the current evidence surrounding wellbeing in young children and offers advice to help teachers embed wellbeing support into their lessons.
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Looking after the mental health of ourselves and our children is more important than ever. Mindfulness – our ability to be alert in the present moment – is a recognised and credible set of skills, and an approach to life that can support our mental health. A recent research study at the University of Oxford explores the links […]
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“…there are also unknown unknowns – the ones we don’t know we don’t know…” (United States Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, 2002) The Latin origin of the word revision suggests the student must “look again”. Sadly, we know that just ‘looking’ at work again is of little use. However, I’d go further – the whole concept […]
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