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Engaging ideas to encourage children to explore and connect with nature.

There are so many fantastic books to support the teaching of science. Here are five which are among my current favourites.

Jane Andrews and Charlotte Jackson discusses linking science and English for impact: developing standards of writing and science across the school.

Charlotte Jackson, teaching and learning adviser for science, reflects on why children do not need to be writing up full investigations.

It’s that time of year again, and whilst many children’s priorities may not be those of computational thinking skills and creative ICT, there are plenty of fun, seasonal computing activities we can run in class.

The National Centre for Computing Education (NCCE) is a DfE funded organisation that aims to support the teaching of computing in primary and secondary schools across England. Through a range of online and face-to-face CPD and support from local area computing hub schools, the NCCE is working to increase teacher confidence in computing and drive up participation and attainment in GCSE and A Level computer science.

Whilst not essential in primary schools, exploring the basics of a text-based programming language can help solidify children's understanding of programming principles, as well as gain some experience of 'real' coding. In this blog post we look at three easy ways to access text-based programming for beginners.

As I mentioned in a recent blog post about apps for programming, we are rather spoilt for choice in the number of learn-to-code tools that are available today.

It seems that a new app for programming or teaching children to code appears every week, and we are rather spoilt for choice these days.

The BBC Micro:Bit is the small (very small – smaller than a credit card) computer being distributed to every year 7 child in the country as part of a BBC initiative to help get children coding.