Free Thinking

Best Behaviour for Primary Schools is our innovative new video training programme to help schools embed relational practice to improve behaviour, relationships and outcomes. Find out more here.

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Best Behaviour for Secondary Schools is our innovative new video training programme to help schools embed relational practice to improve behaviour, relationships and outcomes. Find out more here.

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What did we find when we visited the St Ebbe's Primary School in Oxford and its inspirational headteacher, Tina Farr? Here are our Six Quick Things...

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From his best-selling book Essential Motivation in the Classroom, here are Ian Gilbert's five powerful 'Wish List' questions designed to help students think about what they could go on to do if they could go on to do anything.

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If you're a MAT, here are twelve reasons why a relationship with Independent Thinking can guarantee you the best CPD in the country and save you money in the process.

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With the new English PSHE curriculum needing to cover loss and bereavement by the time children leave Primary school, here is a reminder of our suggestions about what to do when one of your children or students loses a parent. As they inevitably will...

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Associate and former SAS major, Floyd Woodrow MBE DCM shares his suggestions for how we can reassure children and young people in worrying times of conflict and war.

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When it comes to behaviour, motivation, attendance and achievement in schools, there is more to it than carrots and sticks. Ian Gilbert explains more.

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Tier Blundell went from permanent exclusion to a PRU to Oxford University. He is now on a mission to help schools understand the impact of exclusion and whether it is the best long-term strategy. We asked him for the questions schools could ask before permanently excluding a child.

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To improve their thinking, improve your questioning. Here are 32 questions to push you and your students beyond the game of 'Guess what's in the teachers head'!