The ELHQ Blog

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Road Safety Week

  Today marks the third day of Road Safety Week and the theme of this year’s campaign is GO20, which is quite simply urging drivers to travel more slowly around sc...

Hints and tips to prevent bullying in your class

  With this week being Anti-Bullying Week I thought it might be a good idea to look through all the information and guidelines coming out from all the charities and...

Bullying in schools: a new approach

  Today is the third day of Anti-Bullying Week and once again the discussion of how to prevent bullying in our schools has hit the headlines again. A story I was par...

Teach in Kent Facebook Competition

In a bid to raise awareness of the benefits of teaching in ‘the Garden of England’ Kent County Council has just launched a rather quirky and innovative Facebook compe...

Halloween teaching resources & decorations

Halloween is just around the corner so I thought I’d draw everyone’s attention to our collection of Halloween themed resources located in the celebrations and festiva...

Ks1 & Ks2 class cooking sessions

What a very busy but fantastic week I have just had.  I spent almost the whole week cooking with the amazing children at Reepham Primary School in Norfolk.  In the run...

A Story Of Diwali – The Festival Of Light

  It’s just under a month until Diwali, and if you’re starting to think about planning your lessons and gathering resources then you might want to take a look at...

Dyslexia Teaching Resources

This week is Dyslexia Awareness Week and so we decided to create a few resources aimed at helping people who confuse certain letters and numbers. They were designed by ou...

Dealing with Noisy Children: How to Lower the Noise Level in Your House

Children are one of the greatest joys in life, and one of the most beautiful miracles of life. However, these little wonders are often too loud, too happy – they are yo...