Guides
Free, practical guides written by a teacher and school leader with thirty years in classrooms — no sign-up required. Each one ends with a genuinely free sample you can use straight away.
For teachers
Getting Ready for Statutory Citizenship 2028
What the statutory entitlement means for primary and secondary schools, what to audit this year, and how to build coverage without a specialist department.
Read the guide →Oracy Across the Curriculum: A Practical Starting Point
Why oracy is moving to the centre of the curriculum, what good spoken-language teaching looks like beyond English, and how to start in every subject.
Read the guide →The Catholic RSHE Statutory Update, Explained
How to meet the updated statutory RSHE guidance while staying faithful to Catholic teaching — dual compliance without writing two schemes.
Read the guide →Teaching to the Religious Education Directory: A KS3 Guide
What the Directory asks of Catholic secondary RE, the planning traps to avoid, and what theologically serious, teachable lessons look like.
Read the guide →Teaching Cambridge Global Perspectives: A Guide for International Schools
The six skills, the Challenge structure, the facilitator role — and how to resource the Cambridge pathway's flagship course realistically.
Read the guide →Character Education at KS2 That Goes Beyond the Assembly
Why values assemblies don't change behaviour, and what a taught, virtues-based programme looks like in real KS2 lessons.
Read the guide →Building a PSHE & Wellbeing Curriculum That Isn't a Worksheet Drawer
Progression from Year 3 to Year 9, statutory coverage you can evidence, and lessons non-specialist tutors can teach safely and well.
Read the guide →For parents
How to Teach Character at Home: A Parent's Guide
Character isn't only caught — it can be taught at the kitchen table. What the research actually says, and how to start with one virtue and one practice a week.
Read the guide →Tantrums Without Punishment: A Parent's Guide to the Toddler Storm
Tantrums are weather, not war. What's actually happening mid-meltdown, the lighthouse response that calms without caving, and when to ask for help.
Read the guide →School-Ready Without Flashcards
Thirty years of first mornings at a school door: the readiness list that isn't reading — feelings that recover, turns, help asked for — and why it's a packing list, not an exam.
Read the guide →When Your Teenager Stops Talking
Why teenagers go quiet, why surveillance makes it worse, and the three levers that actually reopen the conversation.
Read the guide →Screens Without the Shouting: A Calm Guide from 2 to 18
What current UK guidance actually says at every age, the load-bearing hours to guard, and the reporting promise that matters more than any filter.
Read the guide →Pocket Money to Payslips: Money and Character from 5 to 18
The staged handover that builds a money-competent adult — jars, cheap mistakes, the monthly budget, the payslip ritual — with the boundaries that keep it kind.
Read the guide →Gentle Hands: When Toddlers Hit, Bite and Snatch
Hitting at two is equipment, not character. The three-move response — stop, tend, redo — and why shame teaches nothing.
Read the guide →When Your Child Lies: The Honesty Economy Every Home Runs
The first lie is a milestone, punishment teaches better lying, and making the truth cheap keeps them telling you things at four, nine and sixteen.
Read the guide →Raising a Confident Child Without Pushing
Confidence is a track record, not a feeling — the ladder method, the rescue reflex, and 'scared and brave at the same time'.
Read the guide →Referee or Coach? What Sibling Fights Are Actually For
The first relationships lab: when to stay out, how to step in without a tribunal, and the repair that beats forced apologies.
Read the guide →Vaping, Drinking and the Talk That Actually Works
Scare tactics fail and silence teaches. Four registers that work — straight facts, owned values, engineering, and the safety floor.
Read the guide →Homework Without the War
From supervisor to scaffolder: the two rescues to resist, the coaching questions, and the revision methods that actually work.
Read the guide →Jobs, Not Chores: Why Being Needed Builds Children
Small children are desperate to be useful — real jobs from two to eighteen, and why to skip the reward charts.
Read the guide →Raising Grateful Children in an Age of More
Gratitude is noticing, not manners — the rituals that build it, wanting without shame, and the entitlement antidote: contact.
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