Pupil outcome: I can make predictions about the character of Sherlock Holmes using clues. Key learning points: - Using clues to predict is a key skill in helping us understand more about a character - Predicting could mean using images...

Pupil outcome: I can answer a range of comprehension questions on 'Princess Sophia Duleep Singh: My Story'. Key learning points: - Suffragettes were campaigning for the right for women to vote; this was something that was not permitted...

Pupil outcome: I can summarise a writer's viewpoint. Key learning points: - Key information can be used to make predictions and draw conclusions before you read a text. - Skimming and scanning can be a useful strategy for finding the key...

Pupil outcome: I can make precise inferences about characters and explain quotations in detail. Key learning points: - Magical-realist texts have a real world setting in which magic happens. - Use the first read of an unseen extract to...

Cosmologist Justin Khoury, University of Pennsylvania, describes the enormous disparity between the observation and theoretical prediction of the vaccuum energy, commonly regarded as the worst failure of theoretical physics, and...

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In 1976, Stephen Hawing proposed that Black Holes, do something impossible according to the laws of quantum mechanics. They destroy information. This is a paradox because information should be conserved in the...

A new statistical study of planets found by a technique called gravitational microlensing suggests that Neptune-mass worlds are likely the most common type of planet to form in the icy outer realms of planetary...

Dark energy is different than dark matter. They are both labeled dark because we don’t know what they are. Dark matter does not absorb, reflect or emit any light. It is inferred to exist only because of its...