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Classroom teaching ideas and lesson planning advice to support busy primary school teachers in Key Stages One and Two and the Foundation Stage. Discover a fantastic range of primary resources to excite and inspire pupils on different topics and themes.

  • Easter Garden

    Easter Garden

    Build a garden area in the school grounds to display some artwork of eggs, crosses and flowers to celebrate Easter

  • Easter Party

    Easter Party

    Develop art and design skills and techniques by producing different models and artwork to celebrate Easter with family and friends

  • Easter Gospels

    Easter Gospels

    Use art and design and literacy skills to understand and illustrate the sequence of events surrounding the Easter story

  • Giant Paintings

    Giant Paintings

    Develop teamwork and co-operation skills by getting the class to work together to produce a giant example of a painting by a significant artist

  • Lent Temptations

    Lent Temptations

    Use the period between Shrove Tuesday and Easter to introduce the class to a range of themes illustrating what happened to Jesus when he was tempted by devil in the desert

  • Pancake Party

    Pancake Party

    Investigate the meaning behind Shrove Tuesday and celebrate pancakes in different curriculum subjects and lessons

  • Pancake Recipes

    Pancake Recipes

    Demonstrate grasp and understanding of different skills cross the curriculum by creating pancake recipes to celebrate Shrove Tuesday

  • Class Games

    Class Games

    Devise a number of games for the class to play to reinforce their understanding of different skills that are needed when working in a range of curriculum subjects

  • Love Hearts

    Love Hearts

    Develop literacy and fine motor skills by baking and decorating biscuits with special messages to give to someone on Valentine’s Day

  • Sport Data

    Sport Data

    Research, organise and present data and information from a sports competition to develop maths skills in statistics

  • Maths Recovery

    Maths Recovery

    Support progress and development in maths and plug any attainment gaps and weak understanding of concepts

  • Curriculum Catch-up

    Curriculum Catch-up

    Identify attainment gaps within the class and plan supporting literacy and numeracy lessons and interventions

  • Right Angles

    Right Angles

    Identify, measure and compare some examples of right angles that can be seen in different shapes, objects and locations

  • Clock Times

    Clock Times

    Identify and record different times on analogue clock faces to minutes and use Roman Numerals to show the timing and duration of events

  • Contractions Word Sums

    Contractions Word Sums

    Practise building and contracting groups of different words using apostrophes to replace the omitted letters in each word pair

  • Fraction Halves

    Fraction Halves

    Identify and record fractions that are halves of different shapes, quantities and numbers using concrete equipment and diagrams to model calculations