They can be compulsory (such as the elements needed to complete a fair test) or they might be things you could include (for example, the possible aspects needed to write an effective setting description).

If I’d averaged one and a half questions per minute, they couldn’t have required too much in the way of deep thinking to come up with an answer!

No hands

Learning logs

Plan it! Ask the children to draw a plan of their bedroom or their whole home.

Exchange questioning

Dr Rogers said that in all relationships, personal or professional, there are three things we need to do: be congruent (genuine) be empathetic show respect.

By sharing your learning objectives with the children, and by being explicit with them on what you will be looking for in order to know whether they’ve achieved it, you will have this one cracked!

choose a topic that children have already done some work on. Each group should come up with a ‘teaching pack’ of activities and resources which they prepare to show to an invited audience – parents, for example. They then have to use their resource to ‘teach’ what they have learned.