Tag / KS2
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La Chandeleur, Pancake Day: free French teaching resource
Do your pupils know that France has already had ‘Pancake day’ on 2nd February? Do they know why it is celebrated then?
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Why do we enjoy singing and dancing?
… because it creates an emotional response. Did you manage to join Catherine Cantin and Joe Dale with their webinar on Singing and Dancing in the Primary MFL Classroom? If you were…
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Art lessons promote creativity – obviously
Painting as a class activity promotes reflection, self-criticism, visual-spatial abilities, and the willingness to evaluate, improve and experiment.
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Why use songs and actions to teach languages?
Many of us who listen to popular music find that although we have never tried to learn the lyrics, we can in fact recall them for a large number of such songs.
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We don’t all learn how to spell the same way
There is nothing wrong with remembering how to spell “could” by using the memory jogger “could old unicorns like doughnuts?”
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Just imagine!
How can you inspire children to try different approaches and ideas to writing? There’s a very old Chinese story about a young boy who is given a paintbrush. The boy is told…
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There’s some weird rules out there
In terms of clarity of speech and writing, grammatical rules need to be understood and used, but it is not easy to stop and give the children pause for thought.
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Get a Grip!
One of the reasons that grammar is so important is that the way we speak is related to the way we think.
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What’s been happening at Brilliant Publications? (13 October 2022)
Today is ‘National Train Your Brain Day’ in the United States. I thought it was a fun thing to celebrate. What do you like to do to stimulate your brain?
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What’s been happening at Brilliant Publications? (29 September 2022)
Do we live up to our mission statement? Yesterday I was lucky enough to get out of the office to attend the Independent Publishers Guild’s Autumn Conference.
