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Compulsory Cooking Lessons for 7-14 year olds?
After his calamitous attempt to introduce the English Baccalaureate Michael Gove has moved on to another ambitious educational reform: rolling out compulsory cooking less...
Are ‘Company’s that Care’ Really a Dying Breed?
Business people we ain’t. Two little lost creatives in a world of marketing, advertising , social media and databases....
How to Make a Pizza Box Storyboard
Although using a pizza box as a storyboard seems like a strange idea, it is actually quite ingenious....
Revisiting Some Old Early Years Activities: Classic Classroom Games
Last weekend I was having a look through the attic and I came across a primary school activity book from 1969 called Come Out To Play by Kamps and Tjoelker. Although some...
ELHQ Recent Resources: A Look At Some Of Our Recent Resources
Our designers have been working very hard lately and we have added a lot of new resources to the site, ranging from posters featuring well-known mnemonic devices to Beebo...
Reading Music the Easy Way
There are many reasons why you are introduced to different activities as a child. Sometimes it’s because everyone in your family is very interested in a particular spor...
The Genius of Children in Role-Play
I, like millions of other people, have got a smartphone. In many ways it has changed my working life: I can respond to emails when they arrive, I can receive and respond...
Music and Maths: A Winning Combination
I used to teach multiplication tables by getting people to sing them out loud. The five times table fitted very nicely to Greensleeves I seem to remember so I was intrigu...
Becoming A Talking Book: Celebrating World Book Day
I once had the idea of becoming a Talking Book. In my fantasy I’d live in a library, the librarians would look after me and visitors would come over to talk to me...
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