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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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Lesson Differentiation
Plan how to use lesson differentiation to support and promote educational progress for different ability levels
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Homework
Select and plan a range of homework activities to develop and refine skills in all curriculum subject areas
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Life Skills
Learn and develop essential skills that the pupils can use in all aspects of their lives now and in the future
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Early Morning Work
Develop and practise a range of skills in all curriculum areas as preparation for the start of each school day
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Reading Recovery
Support, promote and develop good reading habits and skills progression for all pupils in the class
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Whole Class Guided Reading
Develop and promote literacy skills when reading texts with the whole class using a variety of fiction and non-fiction genres
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Classroom Music
Use different pieces and styles of music to harmonise and develop learning and organisation in the classroom
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Prayers for Peace
Compose individual and group prayers to reflect on different ways of resolving conflicts relating to either personal or global issues
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World Worries
Develop and implement a number of techniques to understand and react to unsettling and troubling events in the world
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Lesson Puzzles
Create engaging and exciting lessons by devising a series of puzzles to match different learning objectives for a range of curriculum subjects
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Current Events
Develop skills in all curriculum areas by harnessing interest in events currently happening around the world
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Surviving Wet Playtimes
Keep the class happy and unstressed when stuck in the classroom on days with wet playtimes
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Money Division Fours
Practise selecting and dividing a range of different money amounts by four with matching remainders in the number quotients
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Money Division Threes
Practise selecting and dividing a range of different money amounts by three with matching remainders in the number quotients
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Dice Doubles
Identify, count and record the matching doubles for different numbers to twenty when playing some paired games using dice to generate questions
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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