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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.

  • Developing Reading

    Developing Reading

    Support and develop reading skills to enable access to a range of fiction, non-fiction and poetry texts across all curriculum subjects

  • Community Links

    Community Links

    Explore how to establish and build strong links in the local community to support learning across the curriculum

  • Listening Skills

    Listening Skills

    Develop and refine listening skills to enable pupils to participate effectively in classroom discussions and presentations

  • Spelling Support

    Spelling Support

    Support progress and development in spelling to enable pupils to become fluent and proficient writers across a range of writing genres

  • Times Tables

    Times Tables

    Learn and recall all of the times tables facts to support mastery of a range of number calculations

  • 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

  • Rounding Hundreds

    Rounding Hundreds

    Explain and model how to round some different numbers to the nearest hundred based on the place values of the digits in each number

  • Rounding Tens

    Rounding Tens

    Identify and record how to round some different numbers to the nearest ten based on the place values of the digits in each number

  • Counting Back

    Counting Back

    Practise using the number technique of counting back to solve and complete a range of abstract and contextual subtraction calculations

  • Mother Nature

    Mother Nature

    Explore how mother nature can provide nourishment, protection and support to all living things in different habitats and environments