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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.

  • Story Reverses

    Story Reverses

    Develop understanding of the narrative structure of fictional stories by sequencing and writing stories in reverse

  • Country Support

    Country Support

    Understand the events of a natural disaster and how the school community can provide support to families affected

  • Love and Understanding

    Love and Understanding

    Develop and demonstrate love and understanding for the world community at a local, national and global level

  • School Trips

    School Trips

    Prepare for and manage a school trip to support curriculum learning in different subjects and topics

  • School Library

    School Library

    Practise a range of skills in using the school library to access information to support learning across the curriculum

  • Green Steps

    Green Steps

    Identify and record some of the personal steps that can be taken to protect and preserve the planet for future generations

  • Class Newspapers

    Class Newspapers

    Identify and illustrate how to structure and format reports using journalistic writing to publish newspapers about things happening in the school

  • Story Journal

    Story Journal

    Plan and write a story using different narrative techniques, identify the meanings of homonyms and practise extending sentences using commas

  • City Signs

    City Signs

    Practise and refine skills in formatting and editing text in word processed documents to make different signs suitable for a range of locations in a city

  • Family Homes

    Family Homes

    Identify and record how to sequence and compose sets of instructions for families to follow when completing different jobs at home