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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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Easter Gospels
Use art and design and literacy skills to understand and illustrate the sequence of events surrounding the Easter story
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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
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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
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Pancake Party
Investigate the meaning behind Shrove Tuesday and celebrate pancakes in different curriculum subjects and lessons
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Pancake Recipes
Demonstrate grasp and understanding of different skills cross the curriculum by creating pancake recipes to celebrate Shrove Tuesday
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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
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Love Hearts
Develop literacy and fine motor skills by baking and decorating biscuits with special messages to give to someone on Valentine’s Day
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Sport Data
Research, organise and present data and information from a sports competition to develop maths skills in statistics
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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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Curriculum Catch-up
Identify attainment gaps within the class and plan supporting literacy and numeracy lessons and interventions
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Learning Zones
Create different learning zones around the classroom to support development across a range of curriculum areas
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Book Corner
Build a book corner in the classroom to support and encourage reading of different fiction genres and non-fiction texts
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World Explorers
Practise composing and publishing recounts describing voyages and expeditions to different locations around the world
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Story Library
Identify features of different narrative genres to plan and write a story to match the content and structure of one type of writing
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Space Flight
Change and adapt the sequence of events in a narrative story about a journey that happens in a fantasy world
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Farm Graphs
Identify and illustrate how to organise information related to different farm topics on a block graph using questions to query the presented data