You may have heard of unstructured play; it’s also commonly called free play, and it’s something that’s important for your child to experience in order to develop their cognitive and physical abilities. The rules for unstructured play are simple: there aren’t any.
Here’s our Comprehensive and Easy Guide to Phonics and the Year 1 Phonics Screening Check for NQTs & parents.
Teaching new material to students that haven’t grasped the fundamentals is a recipe for disaster. Yet that was what traditional teaching methods almost always encountered. This blog describes what a maths mastery approach is and the 7 essential features of teaching using a maths mastery approach.
We are delighted to announce that Emile has been shortlisted for a GESS 2020 Award!
It’s a fantastic recognition of the impact Emile is having on children around the world.
The apostrophe is a punctuation mark that is often misused.
It is one of the common grammatical mistakes that irritates people on Facebook and Twitter, and that parents love to highlight if a teacher gets wrong!
Table of Contents Multiplying Fractions: How to Do Them & How to Teach Them Easily Fractions is one of those subject areas that takes time and hard work to grasp.
Table of Contents Determiners: What are they? Determiners are scattered across almost every sentence and many of us are blissfully unaware of it. Determiners are words placed in front of
10 Teacher Personalities You Meet in Every School. Here’s our humorous list of 10 Teacher Personalities you meet in every school. Do you recognise yourself or your colleagues? The Rookie
Table of Contents What is a Conjunction? A conjunction is a part of speech that is used to connect words, phrases, clauses, or sentences. They can be one word or
What is the the Times Table Speed Test? Our times table speed test mimics the Department for Education’s new Year 4 Multiplication Table Check (MTC). The MTC is an online check (there
Teaching adverbials can be tricky. For one thing there are so many similar terms: adverb, adverbial clauses, fronted adverbials & adverbial phrases. Another thing is that the requirement to teach
This is a copy of a blog about Subitizing by and with the kind permission of Ian Addison. More of the Ian’s blogs can be read here: http://ianaddison.net/subitizing-resources/ You may not
The excellent Mr Hunt from Tottington primary School trialled Emile with his class and made this video unprompted! https://emile-education.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/Tottington-primary-school-spelling-app.mp4 About Mr Hunt Mr Hunt is a primary school teacher at
The Bett Awards are a celebration of the inspiring creativity and innovation that can be found throughout technology for education. The awards form an integral part of Bett each year, the world’s leading showcase
“Reduce teacher workload by taking a different approach to homework.” Charlie Liu argues here that homework can be more effective and dramatically reduce teacher workload if a few changes in
We were delighted to find out that our Emile Blog has been listed as one of the Top 10 Teacher blogs to follow! We work hard to Blog regularly and
We like making teachers’ lives easier. And with this in mind we have created a load of MTC resources ahead of the new test coming in June. A FREE online
This is a copy of a blog by and with the kind permission of The Teaching Booth. More of the Teaching Booth’s blogs can be read here: https://theteachingbooth.wordpress.com/blog/ Two or three
We are delighted to announce that for the second year running we have been shortlisted for Edtech Company of the Year by UK Business Tech. The UK Business Tech Awards
We’ve pulled out the below vocabulary from the maths national curriculum. We hope you find it useful! We’ll be doing this for other years in the coming weeks. Download
This is a copy of a blog by and with the kind permission of Robbie Burns. More of Robbie’s blogs can be read here: https://howthenshouldweteach.wordpress.com/ Stretching over three decades,
Click here to Download the Infographic Please feel free to share our Infographic as long as you include a link to our website – https://emile-education.com Letter for Parents Explaining the
Following a surge in demand, Emile is traveling the country demonstrating the best online resource for primary schools and secondary schools. Below are just a few of the events we
National Curriculum Levels were brought for primary schools in 2014. In Years 2 and 6, children take SATs exams and given a “level” in Reading, Writing and Maths. It takes
Most children begin to learn to spell a few words at home before they enter school. And while being able to spell is not necessarily a reflection of a child’s
Multiplication Tables Check (MTC) Letter for Parents Below is a suggested letter that can be sent out to parents describing and reassuring them about the Year 4 Multiplication Tables Check.
We were delighted to find out that Numeracy Intervention with Emile has been shortlisted as SEND product of the year by Teach Secondary in their inaugural awards. Every issue of
Teaching angles can be challenging with students seeming to grasp the idea one day and then lose it the next day. Below are a few activities I use to keep
What Makes a Good Classroom Display? With students and teachers spending approximately 35 hours a week in the classroom, it makes sense to make it a comfortable and encouraging place
What is the Year 7 Literacy and Numeracy Catch-Up Premium? The Year 7 Literacy and Numeracy Catch-up Premium gives schools additional funding to support Year 7 pupils who did not
We run online demos daily for teachers throughout the year. They are a great way to see Emile in action and see if it’s right for your tutor group, school or MAT.