This document from the Department of Education looks at how teachers at schools in the White Horse Federation lead by example to encourage good behaviour and academic achievement. The resource explores strategies including teacher induction on behaviour, language skills and celebrating diversity, as part of the...

The Nuffield National Curriculum Mathematics stage five book, for those students following an higher GCSE course, was split into the same three sections as the previous stages’ books. Each section was divided into chapters giving relevant information and presented activities to do and questions to answer.

Nuffield National Curriculum Mathematics stage four books were intended for those students working at level seven and followed an intermediate GCSE course.

As with previous stages, there are three books, each one covering an attainment target but also incorporating using and applying mathematics.

The...

Stage one of Nuffield National Curriculum Mathematics consists of three books one each for Number and algebra...

These level six books from Nuffield National Curriculum Mathematics, on Number and algeb...

Stage two of Nuffield National Curriculum Mathematics consists of three books at level five, one each for Number and algebra...

Tommy gained an interest in engineering while helping out in his grandfather’s workshop. After studying at college he did...

This excel file deals with the four operations on positive and negative numbers giving practice at a variety of calculations. The first four interactive sheet give sets of numbers to change into and from standard form. The powers of 10 may be positive or negative. The next interactive sheets deal with finding the...

Annually the publication of GCSE and A level examination results prompts public interest in the standards of those examinations. In 1996, Lord Dearing in his Review of Qualifications for 16–19 Year Olds made several recommendations to ensure that "there is a basis and...

This resource is a compilation of reports by the Qualifications and Curriculum Authority (QCA) and Ofqual reviewing standards over time in science subjects at GCSE and A levels.

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This report, jointly published by the School Curriculum and Assessment Authority (SCAA) and Ofsted under the chairmanship of Ron Dearing, presents the findings of an investigation into whether standards in GCSE and A level examinations were maintained in the period up to 1995. The improving examination grades...

This report, published by Ofsted in 1998, of a review of standards in design and technology teaching showed a positive picture with many improvements since the 1995 revision of the curriculum and programmes of study. Standards were found to be generally higher with improving standards to teaching and levels of...

This collection includes some activities for primary and secondary aged pupils which could be linked to Star Wars day.  

There are several activities looking at exoplanets and the search for alien life elsewhere in the Universe, which could be used to challenge the scientific validity of the film series....

This resource, from the Royal Observatory Greenwich, is a beautifully animated video giving a short overview of the life cycle of stars, but crucially how, from Earth, we can observe the different phases of star evolution by plotting all the...