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Exciting grammar
Is it really possible to make English grammar exciting, fun, enjoyable, and varied? By and large, English grammar tends to get a bad press.
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Get cooking – safely
How do we keep children safe as they get cooking with sharp cooking implements? We have 8 short videos showing different skills needed to keep safe in the kitchen.
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For the gifted and talented
More able children are as varied in their individual attributes as everyone else in the class, and so a wide range of approaches and activities is needed.
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Two factors to raise reading comprehension skills
It is vital that children are given passages to read that they can both understand and enjoy – that are appropriate, engaging, varied and grab their attention.
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A comprehensive French resource with cross-curricular links
Introduce French to young children through rhymes, songs and activities with a resource which integrates easily into your lesson plans.
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Teaching division to beginners
We often assess our children’s understanding by using worksheets. In this worksheet the children are asked to share objects evenly to practise division.
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From Outstanding, is the only way to go down?
Would your school benefit from Mentoring Mondays to support colleagues to develop their practice or how about a simple way of tracking children’s progress?
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Using the Two-spoon Method in Cooking
Kate Morris and Sally Brown, authors of Get Cooking in the Classroom, have created a great video to help teach children the two-spoon method.
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Il fait du vent – il y a du vent…
Nowadays ‘il y a du vent’ has become so common that even French people feel that ‘il fait du vent’ sounds odd. Rest assured though – it is perfectly correct.
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Replacements for bread tags – the problems of being an educational publisher
Do you remember them? Those plastic tags that used to be used to seal loaves of sliced bread? They have great potential as a maths manipulative.
