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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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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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Topic Wall
Use a classroom display to map understanding, development and progression in a cross-curriculum topic
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Spooky Classroom
Practise and develop art and design skills when working with different materials to decorate the classroom to celebrate Halloween
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Halloween Party Food
Design and make a range of food snacks and cocktail drinks that could be served at a family Halloween party
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Story Plays
Develop and strengthen drama and oral skills by performing plays to illustrate the narrative sequence in favourite stories
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Class Marking
Use classroom marking to support assessment and progress of pupil development in different curriculum subjects and skills
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Local History
Develop cross-curricular skills by exploring the history and location of different buildings found in the local area
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Home Science
Develop practical and investigative skills in science using different features and parts of a family home
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Outdoor Maths
Practise and refine number, geometry, measurement and statistics skills in maths when working outside of the classroom
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Total Eclipse
Use a total eclipse of the Sun to develop understanding about light and shadow and the Earth’s position in space
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Garden Measurements
Measure, compare and convert different lengths, masses and capacities found around the school grounds
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Shape Areas
Identify and model how to find the areas of different shapes by multiplying measured widths and lengths using standard methods of calculation
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School Happenings
Investigate how to compose and publish recounts to describe and illustrate some of the special things that can happen in a school
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Capacity Fractions
Identify and record the matching capacities of different sized bottles when using fractions to describe and compare how much liquid each bottle can hold
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Nursery Rhyming Poems
Investigate and record the sequence of events, settings and characters that feature in some different nursery rhyme poems