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Early Years A3 Alphabet Poster This fun A3 alphabet poster is just the thing to encourage developing literacy skills – display it on your classroom wall as a boost to letter recognition.

“My Child Just Won’t Read” – Strategies For Reluctant Readers If it looks like your offspring would rather do anything other than pick up a book, Kenny Pieper has some advice that could change things…

5 Surprising Things Children Learn On School Trips Some parents not keen on PTA funds being used to support educational visits and residentials? Perhaps Elaine Skates can persuade everyone to get on board…

PTA Guide To Festive Celebration Ideas The Autumn term is full of opportunities for celebration and excitement – Lucy Jones has some suggestions to help your PTA make the most of them.

10 educational apps that parents, teachers and students will love Turn ‘screen time’ into an educational opportunity with these essential downloads… ’21st-century teaching and learning”, as journalists like to call what our kids are doing in the classroom these days, can look very different from when we were at school. However, one of the best things about modern education is the way that technology is […]

KS1 Book Topic: Explore Family Conflict And The Power Of Imagination With Secret Tree Fort “I have a secret tree fort, and you’re not invited!” In this true-to-life, warm and appealing picturebook, two siblings have contrasting views about what they should do outside. “Play with me,” begs the younger one, but the older girl just wants to read. “Fine!” says the little one, eventually. The glories of this fort are […]

KS1/2 History & Geography Lesson Plan – Use What’s Special About Your Local Area To Develop Cross-Curricular Skills For pupils to really understand their local area they need to use the complementary skills they have developed in both geography and history. This applies both to KS1 and KS2. In this lesson plan Ben Ballin and Alf Wilkinson have developed a local study of a village in Lincolnshire to help illustrate this thinking.

Early Years Months Of The Year Cards Introduce children in the early years to the months of the year with these colourful printable cards, which will support their developing understanding of the world.

Billy and the Minpins lesson plans

Billy and the Minpins – Primary lesson plans Explore the themes of Roald Dahl’s Billy and the Minpins with these read-along resources that include extracts, literacy and art learning objectives, lesson plans and fun activity sheets. Use these resources to bring this lesser-known Dahl tale to life, with activities for imaginative drawing, spoken language skills, listening skills, nouns and adjectives, using different senses […]

KS1/2 Music Lesson Plan – Explore The History Of Caribbean Steel Pan Bands We are all aware of the impact the slave trade had on the world, but hidden among the stories of hardship, sacrifice and defiance is the fascinating history of how steel pan bands were born. By exploring the way music developed in Trinidad and Tobago, children can learn about how the lives of the Islanders […]

KS1/2 History Lesson Plan – Use An iPad App To Bring Famous Historical Figures To Life Much of the primary curriculum hinges around key people from the past and how they have helped to shape the world as we know it today. But while there’s no shortage of information about famous historical figures in school libraries and on the internet, this information is often consumed passively by children. To be truly […]

KS1 English Lesson Plan – Beat Writer’s Block With These Idea-Generator Activities Children often struggle to come up with a good initial idea and, as a result, become demotivated, confused and unable to write clearly and accurately for their audience and purpose. Start the children off with a visual image of a desert island, a mysterious city or dragon’s cave and their creative juices will soon begin […]

KS1 Music Lesson Plan – Explore The People Who Help Us Via Singing and Music-Making People Who Help Us is a very popular theme at KS1. It embraces many subject areas – such as PSHE, literacy, numeracy, geography (where in our community do helpers live or work) and even history (people who helped us in the past, eg Florence Nightingale and Mary Seacole) – as well as forming a natural […]

KS1/2 Art & Design Lesson Plan – Draw From Life To Create Sporting Sketchbooks Armed with a sketchbook, children have the freedom to let loose their imagination and experiment with artistic techniques – not to mention a visual aid to problem-solving in any subject. This sporting sketchbook project provides the perfect opportunity. As the activities in this article demonstrate, the rhythms, energy and movement of bodies engaged in sport […]

Large Tracing Letters For Early Years and KS1 Large tracing letters for children in early years and Key Stage 1, supporting mark making and early writing. Includes all 26 letters of the alphabet plus common double consonant phonemes and consonant digraphs to aid phonics learning.

KS1 Science Lesson Plan – Go Outside And Learn About Hibernation And Shelters Join us as we investigate hibernation, shelters and rainfall with a little bit of winter science.

KS1 Science Lesson Plan – Go On A Bug Hunt To Teach Data Handling In Investigations, Including Variables, Graphs And Charts This lesson aims to revive that cross-curricular marriage between mathematics and science by exploring some ideas for creative uses of data.

KS1 Maths Lesson Plan – Learn To Solve Problems And Work Systematically By Comparing Different Kinds Of Daffodils There’s much maths to be found in nature, so why not bring the colours of spring into your classroom with this mathematics investigation using daffodils? The lesson is suitable for pupils in Y1 or Y2 and is meant to be a hands-on activity that will engage all your learners. The investigation is easily differentiated so […]

KS1/2 Art And Design Lesson Plan – Help Children Get To Know Each Other With A Collaborative Art Project Beginning a new school year and confronted with a class of 30 lively, confident children, it’s sometimes easy for teachers to overlook the fact that many of them don’t actually know each other – which would seem, at the very least, to be something of a missed opportunity. Apart from the friendships that never get […]

KS1/2 Art & Design Lesson Plan – Learn What Makes An Effective Composition In Paintings And Drawings As children progress through primary school they sometimes complain that their drawings and paintings don’t ‘look right’ – although they often find it hard to work out why. Frequently, the problem is one of composition: the way the different elements of an image have been put together to form a whole. One common problem is […]

KS1/2 History Lesson Plan – Use QR Codes To Point Children To Relevant Sources QR codes can be used to support and extend learning in the primary classroom. In this KS2 history lesson, QR codes are used to inspire children in a quick and rather curious fashion. Groups of pupils are given a collection of mystery artefacts to which QR codes have been attached. Each code directs children to […]

KS1/2 Art & Design Lesson Plan – Use Basic Computer Programs To Create Geometric Patterns In this lesson, children will create digital images inspired by geometric patterns in two related activities. The first can be completed by less experienced children and makes use of the most basic of ‘paint’ programs, while the second is designed to challenge older children to experiment with more complex compositions and patterns.

First Steps – Human Rights Lesson Plans for 3-5 Year Olds from Amnesty UK This resource is designed to support teachers to introduce Human Rights to children aged 3-5. It’s the perfect starting point to engage children in discussion and raise awareness of their own rights in a fun and interactive way. In First Steps there are five themed lesson plans each focusing on relevant articles proclaimed in the […]

A Penny For Your Thoughts – KS1/KS2 Lesson Plan For Teaching Currency To Learners With SEND Teach one of the most vital life skills there is – how to handle money – in a way that’s engaging and well-suited to learners with SEND, with the help of this lesson plan by Kate Bradley.

A Picnic Ripe For Learning – KS1 Lesson Plan To Support Vocabulary, Communication And Reasoning In this cross-curricular lesson, pupils use conversations about their favourite fruit as a springboard for considering how different fruits compare with one another and the various connections that can be made between them.

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