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Buying Your First Nursery Can Be An Expensive And Time-Consuming Process, So It Pays To Be Prepared The days of acquiring a nursery with a 100% business mortgage are long gone, says Courteney Donaldson

Use Charlie and the Chocolate Factory to help kids find evidence in texts to support their answers Hold a class debate on whether or not too much TV is bad for you. Give out cards with the opinions children will have to represent. What would happen if we got rid of book all together? This English lesson is great for speaking and listening, and helping children to understand arguments from other people’s […]

Use this Charlie and the Chocolate Factory lesson plan to examine good and bad behaviour What kinds of good and bad behaviour exist in your school? How do the children respond to these situations? How should they? Use the scenrio cards resource in this KS1 and KS2 lesson plan to present children with challenging situations. Ask them what would be a good response, and what would be a bad one.

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory lesson plan

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory lesson – Fun activities and resources This Charlie and the Chocolate Factory lesson plan pack contains six full lessons, covering various elements from both the English and PSHE curriculum. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory lesson resources There are plenty of activities and ready-made resources to suit KS2 (and some for KS1), together with extracts from the text. What children will learn […]

BFG Topic: devise exciting plots and help children reflect on their goals with this creative lesson Use the activities and worksheets to help children mix up and create their own BFG dreams. Develop their English skills while you’re at it and ask KS1 and KS2 children to think about their personal dreams and aspirations.

Colour & Write Sheets: Story Time – Worksheet For KS1 English 15-page PDF containing sheets with colour-in illustrations and lines for writing based on fifteen different story ideas, including ‘Under the sea’, ‘The magic castle’, ‘The friendly dinosaur’, ‘My magic flying machine’ and others.

Colour & Write Sheets: Celebrations – Worksheet For KS1 English 8-page PDF containing four illustrations themed around ‘celebrations’ (Chinese New Year, Halloween, Christmas, Easter) for pupils to colour in, alongside printed lines for them to write on.

Panda Fun – Multiplication Activity Sheet For KS1 Maths Familiarise your pupils with the basics of the two times table by having them work out the total number of ears sported by up to 12 pandas. Download our times tables worksheets bumper pack and browse more times tables activities.

Toe Tappin’ Tunes – Lesson Plan For KS1 Music Sue Nicholls shows how a traditional fairy story can form the basis of a lesson rich with possibilities for creative expression, including singing, rapping and coming up with sound effects.

How Many Fours – Multiplication Game Resource For KS1 Maths An activity sheet with instructions and a game grid for two players. Both take it in turns to work out how many 4s (or potentially 2s) are needed to make a series of different numbers and place a counter on the grid if they’re correct. The first player to form a ‘Connect 4’-style horizontal, vertical […]

Dominoes – Multiplication Game Resource For KS1 Maths A single sheet containing a set of 13 ‘domino pairs’. Once cut out and distributed among your pupils, will they be able to match the ‘number dominoes’ – all multiples of 10 up to 120 – with the corresponding ‘multiplication sum’ dominoes? Find 10 more free multiplication game resources for KS1/2 here.

Blumps – Multiplication Activity Sheet For KS1 Maths Introduce your upper KS1 pupils to the unusual 5-eyed, 3-armed, single-legged creature known as the ‘blump’. Using their multiplication skills, can they work out how many eyes, arms and legs there will be when up to 10 blumps get together…? Find 10 more free multiplication game resources for KS1/2 here.

Wobbly Wellyfish – Multiplication Activity Sheet For KS1 Maths Can your pupils pick out all the numbered ‘wellyfish’ that belong in the two times table? Browse more times tables activities.

Colour & Write Sheets: Tudor – Worksheet For KS1 English 2-page PDF containing two Tudor-themed illustrations – a typical Tudor-era building and a picture depicting Henry VIII – for pupils to colour in, alongside printed lines for them to write on.

Colour & Write Sheets: Seasons – Worksheet For KS1 English 4-page PDF containing four illustrations themed around the seasons for colouring in, alongside printed lines for pupils to write on.

Colour & Write Sheets: Egyptian History – Worksheet For KS1 English 4-page PDF containing three illustrations themed around Egyptian history for pupils to colour in, alongside printed lines for them to write on.

Colour & Write Sheets: Days Out – Worksheet For KS1 English 5-page PDF containing four illustrations themed around ‘days out’ (beach scenes, fairgrounds) for pupils to colour in, alongside printed lines for them to write on.

Colour & Write Sheets: Nature – Worksheet For KS1 English 4-page PDF containing three nature-themed illustrations for colouring in and printed lines for pupils to write on.

Colour & Write Sheets: Creative Art – Worksheet For KS1 English 7-page PDF containing seven illustrations with a ‘creative art’ theme for pupils to colour in, alongside printed lines for them to write on.

Growth mindset lessons plan

Growth mindset lessons – KS1 thinking skills plan with Charlie & Lola If you can begin growth mindset lessons from the moment children start school, you’ll never hear pupils complain of a lesson being ‘too hard’ ever again. Carol Dweck’s theory of mindsets is one of the most powerful tools teachers have for developing independent, confident and life-long learners. According to Dweck, a professor of psychology at […]

A Minute Of Madness – Lesson Plan For KS1 Music That moment when the children first get their hands on the instruments at the start of a music lesson typically sounds like a chaotic cacophony. Don’t try to shut it down, suggests Chris Fenton – if channeled appropriately, that natural enthusiasm and curiosity can give way to some sweet music thereafter…

Hatching Plans – Eggs-Themed Lesson Plan For KS1 Nutrition And PE Eggs can be a useful aid to teaching pupils about the importance of good nutrition – and as Jim Levin shows, they can also help impart some valuable lessons about body movement…

Learning Goals – World Cup-Themed Lesson Plan For KS1 And KS2 Geography And Science Use Brazil’s hosting of the 2014 World Cup as a jumping off point to explore the country’s natural sights and features, followed by an investigation into the physical forces at play in a game of blow football

Singapore Maths? The UK Can Still Teach 2016’s PISA Chart Toppers A Thing Or Two "In Singapore, we've always given the best teachers to the highest-achieving classes because we are trying to get the best results"

Get With The Program – Programming Lesson Plan For KS1 Computing If you’re wary about teaching years 1 and 2 algorithms, programming and debugging under current KS1 computing curriculum, don’t be – as Emma Goto explains, it’s easier than you think…

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