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This free resource pack guides KS2 children through the process of analysing a fantasy setting in Jenny McLachlan’s Dragon ...
This free activity pack for Great Big Green Week helps primary pupils understand climate change in a meaningful, ...
This engaging activities pack for Insect Week helps primary pupils find out about minibeasts through fun, hands-on ...
Filling those vital teacher posts within shortage subjects can seem like an impossible task. However, there are ways and means of covering the lessons you need to cover without compromising the ...
Recently, I was visiting a primary school in Birmingham to work with some Y2 children. The headteacher looked in to check that we had everything we needed. “I’ll pop my head around the door later,” ...
There are three components to reading fluency: accuracy, automaticity and prosody. Accuracy provides the foundation – readers must be able to decode words on the page accurately to be in with a chance ...
Literary Devices defines alliteration as: “A stylistic device in which a number of words, having the same first consonant sound, occur close together in a series.” Does alliteration have to use the ...
One of the best classroom experiences is when every child is buzzing with excitement, totally engaged in their task. A memorable example of this is guitar design; it is an utter joy to teach. The ...
While many of us know about differentiation in teaching, adaptive teaching strategies can allow you to take things a step further and fix some of the problems that differentiation can cause. While ...
The benefits of a structured ‘circle time’ session as a vehicle for teaching and learning with young children cannot be underestimated, especially after a year of very little social contact for many.
It’s a sunny (but very cold!) day in mid-January as I make my way through semi-rural Suffolk and down a farm track to Kedington Primary School, part of the Unity Schools Partnership. I’m here to learn ...