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Teaching Ideas
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.
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Christmas Celebrations
Develop and refine skills in a range of curriculum subjects when celebrating and enjoying the festive season
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Christmas Market
Invite other pupils and parents into the classroom to purchase food snacks, cards and decorations made by the class for Christmas
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Nativity Play
Organise and rehearse a performance of the nativity story from the Bible for a special Christmas assembly
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Christmas Baubles
Select and shape a range of materials to produce different ornaments to display on a family Christmas tree
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Maths Recovery
Support progress and development in maths and plug any attainment gaps and weak understanding of concepts
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Topic Tree
Demonstrate prior understanding of a new classroom topic and identify questions for further research
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Curriculum Catch-up
Identify attainment gaps within the class and plan supporting literacy and numeracy lessons and interventions
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School Fireworks
Produce a mock firework display using art, music and computing skills for the whole school to enjoy in an assembly
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Autumn Watch
Observe and record how the natural landscape around the school is changing during the autumn season
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School Energy
Create posters to display around the school illustrating instructions to follow when conserving energy usage
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Home Maths
Encourage and support development and engagement in maths when working at home with parents and siblings
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Story Jigsaws
Practise combining and sequencing narrative events from different story genres to invent and share new stories
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Money Division
Model and record how to divide a selection of money amounts by different numbers with quotients using remainders
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Money Division Tens
Practise selecting and dividing a range of different money amounts by ten with matching remainders in the number quotients
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Traditional Fables
Explore and model the events and characters that feature in traditional tales written as fables to teach the reader a moral lesson
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The Dove and the Ant
Plan and write a story with animals as the central characters based on a fable read by the class which is used to teach the reader a moral lesson about life