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The Importance of Sensory classrooms.

The absolute highlight of my brief stint of Headship was creating a sensory room called 'The SparkleBox'. It had always been a passion of mine to look at how different children needed extra support or resources to help them and to create a specific multi-sensory room...

Letters to our favourite teachers!

"A teacher effects eternity; he can never tell where his influence will stop" - Henry Adams. Leaving the teaching profession after 29 years was an incredibly hard decision to take and I have no regrets about working in the 5 schools I worked in over those years. I had...

Life after Headship: Introducing The Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT) into schools GUEST BLOG

This year, I was reunited with my favourite teacher, who inspired me to write at 16 and has inspired me to write again. So here we are, I have written the first letter to thank her for the influence she had on me. Q: What were the biggest...

Meet Cyril the Squirrel! – Guest Blog

Vicki has been a teacher for 33 years and takes a friend to school with her. Every now and then she will send us a video of her furry friend in the classroom with her, so we decided to ask her about how Cyril helps her in the classroom. I have used Cyril the squirrel...

A Day in the Life of an ECT: Start at the beginning

Tiegan started her first teaching job this September after completing a B'Ed at University of Derby. I had the privilege of being her 2nd year mentor and am very proud of her burgeoning career. She has agreed to share her experience of her first year. Read on to see...

Setting up eye-catching learning spaces: Guest Blog

"Education is the art of assisting discovery." — Mark Van Doren I believe the classroom environment is like a “silent teacher.” When it’s thoughtfully set up, it sparks curiosity, encourages independence and makes children feel excited about learning....

Sticks and Stones…

"Sticks and stones may break my bones but words will never hurt me"... mmm... don't think so! Something happened to change a wide-eyed, confident, fun-loving girl with pigtails into a self-doubting, anxious teenager whose most dreaded part of the week was...

Giving children and ourselves a clean slate!

Any teacher will identify with the first day in a new class and those pristine exercise books where the first page lay pure and inviting, asking to be used, knowledge, freedom of speech or creativity soon to be etched on its pages. I’m still a sucker for a new...

Let’s Go Fly a Kite! Finding joy in playing – screen free!

“The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which means never losing your enthusiasm.” Aldous Huxley. What space do we leave in our adult lives for chances to feel true, unadulterated...

Interview with Adrian Farmer on The Old School House.

Adrian Farmer (Heritage Co-ordinator for the Derwent Valley Mills World Heritage Site), met with some of the ‘Claire’s School Solutions’ team recently to talk about the history of the Old School House on Green Lane. We were also keen to show him our plans for the...

The History of The Old School House, Green Lane, Belper – We’re moving! Follow along with our renovation journey!

So, we have some exciting news! We are moving! We have recently acquired the beautiful building, The Old School House in Belper, as our new offices! The Old School House is a perfect fit for our business, and we are very excited about this new chapter! The building...

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