This episode offers practical insights for teachers on how best we can support our high-attaining students in the secondary school classroom.

Our panel discusses the language we use when referring to this cohort of students and how we might define what "high-attaining" means.

We then move on to outline a number of classroom strategies for teachers to help them teach and support these learners as well as some common mistakes to avoid.

We discuss how we can create a culture of scholarly ambition in our classrooms and approach the curriculum challenges faced by high-attaining students. We also offer tips for making a success of extension activities.

We ask, too, how we can help learners to become increasingly independent and to stay motivated and engaged – even in the face of challenges and set-backs.

The panel includes an English and a maths specialist but many of the strategies discussed apply across the curriculum.

In this episode we offer practical tips and ideas for how teachers can support the communication skills of students as they make the step-up to the year 7 classroom and key stage 3 study.

An experienced panel – including a speech and language therapist – discuss how we can help those students who struggle with communication needs, including oracy and vocabulary.

We consider the increase in academic rigour that students transitioning into year 7 encounter, including increasingly complex language and vocabulary.

We then outline some adaptive teaching techniques as well as tips for developing oracy and speaking skills, vocabulary and academic language, and literacy and reading skills – with lots of ideas for the year 7 classroom.

We also explore general lesson planning and teaching tips that support SLCN in the secondary classroom with examples of practice from our guests' schools. And we talk briefly about effective interventions to support these learners.

This episode has been supported by our friends at Speech and Language Link. Visit www.speechandlanguage.link

This episode talks everything supply teaching – with practical advice for schools on how to enable your supply teachers to excel as well as a range of tips for supply teachers themselves.

In the first half of our discussion, our expert panel focus on how secondary schools can set their supply teachers up for success, including what must be in place before they arrive at the gate and top tips for how to support them during the placement.

We discuss behaviour management and support, how to share key documents and information effectively, organising lesson plans and resources, and common mistakes we should avoid at all costs.

Then in the second half of the discussion we offer tips and advice for our army of supply teachers who keep our schools running every day.

We look at how to prepare for your placements, key questions to ask the host school, tip tips for your first day and beyond, what to do if things go wrong or if resources or lesson plans are not available, and some common mistakes to avoid.

We round off the podcast with a range of practical tips that can be implemented – by schools and supply teachers – tomorrow.