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Emile news

Coronavirus – A Guide for Primary School Leaders

This Guide is meant for Primary School leaders to help make sure they, their staff and their students are prepared for potential school closures. Schools should take their lead from Public Health England and the Department for Education.

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Awards

The Edtech 50 – 2020

The Edtech 50 was launched in 2018 by the effervescent Ty Goddard. It is a fantastic publication that highlights the best in Edtech (including Emile)!

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Awards

Educate North Awards 2020: Emile has been Shortlisted!

On April 23rd, 2020, representatives of the North’s leading University, Higher Education, FE and Sixth Form insititutions will come together to celebrate the winners of the Educate North Awards, picked by a panel of academics, business people and experts from across the UK.

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Emile news

GESS Dubai 2020

We are exhibiting at GESS Dubai 2020 this week. Come and see how Emile is impacting learning outcomes for schools!

Prepositions
SPaG

How to Teach Prepositions and Some Class Activities

Prepositions are words governing, and usually preceding, a noun or pronoun and expressing a relation to another word or element in the clause. But to make your pupils understand the idea, explain to them that prepositions are words which link nouns, pronouns and phrases to other words in a sentence.

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Tips and Tricks

The Importance of Unstructured Play in Your Child’s Life

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.

Maths mastery approach
Numeracy

The 7 Essential Features of Every Maths Mastery Approach

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.

GESS 2020 Awards
Awards

Emile Shortlisted for a GESS 2020 Award!

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.

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SPaG

Apostrophes for Primary School Teachers

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!

determiners
SPaG

Determiners for Teachers, Parents and Learners

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

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Tips and Tricks

Teacher Personalities You Meet in Every School!

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

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Numeracy

Times Table Speed Test – Free for Your School

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

Subitizing Resources
Numeracy

Subitizing Resources

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

tottington primary school
Emile news

Emile Review by Mr Hunt – Teaching from the Front Line –

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

Bett Finalist 2020
Awards

BETT Awards Finalist

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

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Tips and Tricks

Reduce Teacher Workload by Banning Homework

“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

Year 1 Maths Vocab Word Cloud
Numeracy

Maths Vocab for Year 1

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

Tips and Tricks

Assessment Frameworks & Levels

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

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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.

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