The PlanBee Blog

So... you’re probably all busy getting ready to go back to work and wondering what back to school essential jobs you should be doing. Are you feeling like you have missed something off your list? Have you prepared all you can for the coming academic year?

Here is the playdough recipe I have used for over ten years. It is easy to follow and makes excellent playdough.

You’re an ECT. You’re fired up and ready to knock this teaching thing out of the park. You’re loving the job (mostly) and keen to learn everything you can. Yet in your enthusiasm, your ECT work-life balance has become well and truly unbalanced, what can you do...?

Many primary teachers feel overwhelmed when it comes to teaching the brief curriculum statements and objectives Geography National Curriculum. To help you get started, we’ve compiled some of our favourite hands-on Geography lesson ideas to inspire you. 

For a number of reasons which are now becoming increasingly apparent, we, as educators, are concerned about the world that the children we teach will inherit. So what can schools do to teach children about these world issues?

Primary school teachers may well have heard the term ‘mastery learning’ being discussed and debated in educational circles for some time now.  But what exactly is it, and is it worth paying attention to?

As well as making teaching resources that save you time, we’ve got a few ideas about how to get the rest of your To Do List, Done. Here is Part 1 of our special series on How to Prioritise so you can finish your day with a smile!

Deciding to give gifts to your class at Christmas can be a tricky decision. To help our primary teachers, at PlanBee we have come up with a list of festive present ideas that work really well for primary school children across all ages. These won’t take too much time to create and they won’t break the bank either!

The new National Curriculum (which we pore over obsessively at the Hive) is great, but providing depth and enrichment beyond this is something that we felt shouldn’t be ignored...