Progression Guides - Bundle of 14 - School-wide digital licence
Buy our bundle of all 14 Progression Guides (School-wide digital licence) and save over £750. History, Geography, SMSC, Writing, Reading, Maths Vocabulary, Music, RE, Computing, PSHE, PE, Design & Technology, Art & Design, and Science. These progression guides give you clear examples of what each skill looks like for every year group, with useful examples of vocabulary. Fully aligned with the latest objectives and expectations of the Primary National Curriculum, they will support the curriculum development and implementation under the new Ofsted Framework.
Progression Guides - Bundle of 4 - School-wide digital licence
Choose any 4 Progression Guides as a school-wide digital licence from our collection of 14. These progression guides give you clear examples of what each skill looks like for every year group, with useful examples of vocabulary. Fully aligned with the latest objectives and expectations of the Primary National Curriculum, they will support the curriculum development and implementation under the new Ofsted Framework.
A Guide To Mathematical Vocabulary - R-Y6 - Digital PDF school-wide licence
Now available as a downloadable PDF, licensed for use across your school ... Our highly acclaimed Guide to Mathematical Vocabulary provides teachers with a clear framework for planning. Written by current practitioners, for current practitioners, this document is fully aligned with the objectives and expectations of the Primary National Curriculum.
A Guide to Progression in Art & Design - Digital PDF school-wide licence
This skills and vocabulary progression guide from TT Education is aimed at ensuring teachers have clarity and consistency in how they help pupils learn about Art & Design. We have taken the National Curriculum for Art & Design and, having applied our experiences and understanding of learning and progression, provided you with a guide that will help structure learning effectively.
A Guide to Progression in Computing - Digital PDF school-wide licence
This skills and vocabulary progression guide from TT Education is aimed at ensuring teachers have clarity and consistency in how they help pupils learn about computing. We have taken the National Curriculum for Computing and, having applied our experiences and understanding of learning and progression, provided you with a guide that will help structure learning effectively.
A Guide to Progression in Design & Technology - Digital PDF school-wide licence
This skills and vocabulary progression guide from TT Education is aimed at ensuring teachers have clarity and consistency in how they help pupils learn about Design & Technology. We have taken the National Curriculum for Design & Technology and, having applied our experiences and understanding of learning and progression, provided you with a guide that will help structure learning effectively.
A Guide To Progression in Geography - Digital PDF school-wide licence
This skills and vocabulary progression guide from TT Education is aimed at ensuring teachers have clarity and consistency in how they help pupils learn how to be geographers. We have taken the National Curriculum for Geography and, having applied our experiences and understanding of learning and progression, provided you with a guide that will help structure learning effectively.
A Guide To Progression in History - Digital PDF school-wide licence
This skills and vocabulary progression guide from TT Education is aimed at ensuring teachers have clarity and consistency in how they help pupils learn about history. We have taken the National Curriculum for history and, having applied our experiences and understanding of learning and progression, provided you with a guide that will help structure learning effectively.
A Guide to Progression in Music - Digital PDF school-wide licence
This skills and vocabulary progression guide from TT Education is aimed at ensuring teachers have clarity and consistency in how they help pupils learn about music. We have taken the National Curriculum for Computing and, having applied our experiences and understanding of learning and progression, provided you with a guide that will help structure learning effectively.
A Guide to Progression in PE - Digital PDF school-wide licence
This skills and vocabulary progression guide from TT Education is aimed at ensuring teachers have clarity and consistency in how they help pupils learn about PE. We have taken the National Curriculum for PE and, having applied our experiences and understanding of learning and progression, provided you with a guide that will help structure learning effectively.
A Guide to Progression in PSHE - Digital PDF school-wide licence
This skills and vocabulary progression guide from TT Education is aimed at ensuring teachers have clarity and consistency in how they help pupils learn about PSHE. We have taken the National Curriculum for PSHE and, having applied our experiences and understanding of learning and progression, provided you with a guide that will help structure learning effectively.
A Guide to Progression in Religious Education - Digital PDF School-wide licence
This skills and vocabulary progression guide from TT Education is aimed at ensuring teachers have clarity and consistency in how they help pupils learn about Religious Education. We have applied our experiences and understanding of learning and progression in R.E. to provide you with a guide that will help structure learning effectively.
A Guide To Progression in SMSC - Digital PDF school-wide licence
This skills and vocabulary progression guide from TT Education takes the Ofsted guidance for SMSC and, having applied our experiences and understanding of learning and progression, provided you with a guide that will help structure learning effectively.
A Guide to Reading Progression - Digital PDF school-wide licence
This skills and vocabulary progression guide from TT Education provides teachers with a clear framework for planning. Written by current practitioners, for current practitioners, this document is fully aligned with the objectives and expectations of the Primary National Curriculum.
A Guide to Writing Progression - Digital PDF school-wide licence
This skills and vocabulary progression guide from TT Education provides teachers with a clear framework for planning. Written by current practitioners, for current practitioners, this document is fully aligned with the objectives and expectations of the Primary National Curriculum.
Fun with Non-Fiction: Model Texts from Reception to Year 6
Fun with Non-Fiction is an inspiring collection of tailor-made model texts and teaching tips for every primary school year group. Designed to be funny, informative and engaging, with each text containing age-appropriate vocabulary, punctuation and grammar (based on the latest National Curriculum requirements), this book with put the fun back into non-fiction lessons.
Fun with Poetry: Model Texts for KS2
Fun with Poetry is an inspiring and exciting collection of tailor-made, ready-analysed poetry for all Key Stage Two classes. Within these pages, not only will you find clear analysis and teaching tips for each of our hand-selected classic poems, but you will also find ten brand new poems for each year group. Poetry has never been this accessible, not only for the children, but also for you. So why not let us help you put the fun back into teaching poetry?
Lexisaurus
Lexisaurus is a cross between a game and a thesaurus! Expand your vocabulary by discussing, sorting, using and applying a range of similar words.
Fun With Spelling
Fun with Spelling is the quick fire spelling game with infinite variations! Suitable for whole classes, teams or individuals and adaptable to anyone’s spelling requirements, this game will put the fun back into learning spelling!
Fun With Calculating
Fun with Calculating is the quick fire maths game with infinite applications! Suitable for whole classes, teams or individuals and adaptable to anyone’s maths requirements, this game will put the fun back into maths!
Mrs. P: Mathematical Reasoning Sentence Prompts
Mrs. P is your cardboard teacher. She will help you verbalise your mathematical reasoning in order to explain how you worked out your answers. Each card has a sentence written on it, with blanks for the children to fill in. Using these prompts, children can push their thinking forward and explain how they are attempting to solve a mathematical puzzle. It will enable them to draw on previous knowledge and extrapolate from the number facts known.
Discovery Dog and Naughty Nora
Discovery Dog and Naughty Nora are your classroom explorer buddies! Discovery Dog, the adult sized puppet, is loveable and shaggy, whereas Naughty Nora, the child-sized puppet, is cheeky and sleek. Together they can go on maths adventures to discover the real-world application of number problems. Or perhaps they could go home with the children at the weekend and inspire some fabulous report or diary writing – it’s up to you! An absolute bargain for teachers of any year group.
Descriptosaurus
Now available with a CD-ROM for classroom use, Descriptosaurus is the first book for creative writing that is a thematic expansion of a dictionary and a thesaurus. This book provides children with a comprehensive resource with which to expand their descriptive vocabulary, experiment with language and sentence structure and build narratives.
The Lost Happy Endings
In the tradition of classic fairy tales for children, Carol Ann Duffy and Jane Ray have created a truly compelling, surprising and beautiful story for children of all ages. What would happen if we lost the happy endings to stories – imagine the tears at bedtime! A fantastic and magical tale about what happens when, one night, a wicked witch steals the happy endings to bedtime stories. It is up to Jub, the keeper of the happy endings, to save the day and ensure sweet dreams everywhere in this lyrical story about storytelling.
The Mysteries of Harris Burdick
Fourteen black-and-white drawings, each accompanied by a title and a caption, entice the reader to make up his or her own story. A beautifully detailed and fascinatingly imaginative book. Each picture has one bizarre detail, which gives an oddly Gothic spin to the book. Weirdly wonderful, this is an inspiring mystery.
Maths Concept Cartoons
Concept Cartoons have been thoroughly researched in classrooms around the world. Simple cartoon-style drawings present learners with their own misconceptions and generate discussion and argument. They are remarkably easy to use in the classroom as a part of normal teaching. The ideas children come up with will leave you amazed and them inspired.
English Concept Cartoons
Concept Cartoons have been thoroughly researched in classrooms around the world. Simple cartoon-style drawings present learners with their own misconceptions and generate discussion and argument. They are remarkably easy to use in the classroom as a part of normal teaching.
365 Penguins
What would you do if a penguin arrived through the post every morning for a year? This is the novel problem facing the family in Jean-Luc Fromental and Joelle Jollivet's fabulously funny story.
50 Fantastic Ideas for Maths Outdoors
Outdoor learning is not just about taking what we do indoors and moving it outside. It involves unique and exciting equipment and experiences. Designed to be used as a dip in dip out collection of easy to use ideas for EYFS and KS1, this book shows how exciting outdoor learning can be developed on even the smallest of budgets.
A Guide To Progression in Science - Digital PDF school-wide licence
This skills and vocabulary progression guide from TT Education provides teachers with a clear framework for planning Science lessons. Written by current practitioners, for current practitioners, this document is fully aligned with the objectives and expectations of the Primary National Curriculum.
A Really Short History of Nearly Everything
A worldwide bestseller, Bill Bryson's 'A Short History of Nearly Everything' is now available in a version designed specifically for (Key Stage 2) children. Fantastically interesting, readable and amusing, this non-fiction book will educate as well as entertain.
Appletters
Appletters is the addictive game for early readers that helps to develop reading and spelling skills, enhance strategic thinking, encourage co-operation, promote turn-taking and improve concentration.
Art and Design Pupil Perception Survey
If we are serious about improving teaching and learning, we must try to find out what our children think. Part of a wide-ranging series of pupil perception surveys, this resource focuses on art and design.
Bales for Schools
This is a primary-friendly version of the famous Bales Interaction Model, much used in the corporate world to improve the quality of talk in meetings. Our version can be used as an explicit tool to teach children how to ‘talk in a group’.
Bananagrams
Bananagrams is a fast and frantic race against time (and your opponent) to build your own crossword grid. Suitable for KS2, this game can be played individually or in groups of up to eight, promoting spelling, reading and vocabulary development. The best bit is – it’s fun!
Beyond The Core Games Summary
TT Education is famous for its active, gamified approach to learning. This resource lists some of our favourite games and activities for high-quality learning and development in the foundation subjects, RE and PSHE.
Body Language Approaches
How do you deal with an angry parent or staff member? This resource provides two body language analyses that will help diffuse a confrontational situation.
Booklist of Wordless Books
Books without words are a fantastic resource for a range of skills and contexts, whether that's inference and deduction in an English lesson, or promoting learning in other subjects, or even supporting pupil wellbeing. This resouce has more than 30 suggestions for chidlren of all ages.
Christianity Family Tree
Do you get your Anglicans mixed up with your Anabaptists? Struggle to remember the difference between Smith and Zwingli? Then this simple diagram and notes are for you.
Chunking Example
TT Education's "chunking" approach is one of the best ways to engage children with a text, and link their reading with their writing. This resource shows an example of how it can be done.
Clown
A beautiful story told through the illustrations of the incomparable Quentin Blake, 'Clown' is a wonderful way to spark the imagination of children of all ages. There is no text to accompany the images - no words at all - which means that children must invent the story themselves. For younger children, a chance to find their way through story structure and playing with language. For older children, a chance to write a wonderfully detailed story, with the gorgeous images as their inspiration.
Coaching GROW Model
Coaching is a powerful way to empower staff to lead their own professional development, rather than to rely on their superiors to map improvements out for them. This resource is a template for the GROW model in coaching conversations.
Codebreaking Frequency Challenge
Are you a spy in the making? This enjoyable activity gets children to use their mathematical skills to decipher a hidden code.
Coding Challenge
Are you a spy in the making? This enjoyable activity gets children to use their mathematical skills to decipher a hidden code.
Common Pitfalls in Maths
Children often arrive at school with mathematical misconceptions; these can sometimes be easy to diagnose, but they can sometimes be quite subtle misunderstandings that don't have an impact until many years later. This resource lists some of the most common pitfalls and suggests ways to unpick them.
Computing Pupil Perception Survey
If we are serious about improving teaching and learning, we must try to find out what our children think. Part of a wide-ranging series of pupil perception surveys, this resource focuses on computing.
Cool Maths
Some fun facts about maths, designed to help children remember interesting number facts and translate this to their maths attainment. Interesting, readable and educational, this will switch children on to maths in a brand new way!
Email Chain for Formality
One of the key requirements for writing at KS2 is a clear understanding of tone, formality and register. This sample text is a superb way to model this to your children.
Evaluative Statements Card Sort
The Path to Success tells us that children retain information better if they practise and repeat. These cards allow you to scaffold the evaluative process for them, repeatedly, so they can start to internalise the kinds of statements and language in this tricky area of reading comprehension.
Experiment Planner
How do you model the scientific method to children? Use this powerpoint to talk through each stage of the experimental process, following a well-designed and clear progression that makes the process powerfully explicit.
Feedback Outlines
Subject and middle leadership is particularly important in the current OFSTED Inspection Framework, and communication is key. This resource provides guidance on how to feedback on lesson observations and book scrutinies.
Finding Maths in Music
Why aren't there eight notes in an octave? Why is there no zero in dance? How is pitch related to fractions? Find the answers to these questions - and more - in this short introduction to some of the bizarre maths you can find in music.
Flotsam
In this beautifully illustrated, wordless picture book, a boy goes to the beach to collect anything floating that has been washed ashore. Nobody expects what happens next…
Fruitominoes
For EYFS or EAL children, the easily recognizable fruit and color patterns make Fruitominoes much simpler to play than classic dominoes, while keeping their focus on the numbers.
Geography Glossary
Ever wondered what the difference is between a gulley and a ravine? Struggle to remember the difference between a stack and a stump? This glossary defines more than 150 terms in simple but helpful language that will help you deliver outstanding geography lessons.
Geography Pupil Perception Survey
If we are serious about improving teaching and learning, we must try to find out what our children think. Part of a wide-ranging series of pupil perception surveys, this resource focuses on geography.
Get Them Talking - Get Them Writing
Alistair Bryce-Clegg’s fantastically readable and practical book helps teacher focus on how to improve children’s understanding of the mechanics of writing and how to plan engaging activities.
Grammar Booklist (Full)
Quality experiences should underpin every learning opportunity, but this can sometimes be harder to plan in grammar. This fabulous resource has an extensive list grammar examples in a range of real literature.
Grammar Booklist (Short)
Quality experiences should underpin every learning opportunity, but this can sometimes be harder to plan in grammar. This resource lists some of our favourite examples of notable grammar in real literature.
Grammar Games
How can you make grammar fun? This resource has a handful of our favourite grammar games to help spice up any SPaG lesson!
Grammar Lesson Plan
What does an outstanding grammar lesson look like? This sample lesson plan is full of ideas on how we should be planning for this important curriculum area.
Grammar Pupil Perception Survey
If we are serious about improving teaching and learning, we must try to find out what our children think. Part of a wide-ranging series of pupil perception surveys, this resource focuses on grammar.
History Pupil Perception Survey
If we are serious about improving teaching and learning, we must try to find out what our children think. Part of a wide-ranging series of pupil perception surveys, this resource focuses on history.
How to Live Forever
A beautifully illustrated story about a boy who lives in a library, How to Live Forever will captivate children's hearts and stimulate their imaginations.
How to use the Graffiti Wall
The Graffiti Wall is one of our favourite pedagogical approaches and can be used in any subject, for any age. Read this instruction sheet to find out what it is, and how you can use it to improve engagement and learning in your classroom.
Improving Non-Fiction Writing KS2
With such a fantastic range of ideas and activities to choose from, this is a wonderful resource to help with planning lessons or a series of lessons to really inspire children to progress in their non-fiction writing.
Jubious Phlizz
Description skills made fun! This is a humorous poem that you can read to your children, and ask them to draw the creature they hear described.
Languages Pupil Perception Survey
If we are serious about improving teaching and learning, we must try to find out what our children think. Part of a wide-ranging series of pupil perception surveys, this resource focuses on languages / MFL.
Learning Journey Example
TT Education's award-winning Path to Success model is guaranteed to help you create engaging and effective learning sequences in any subject. But what does it look like in a specific area? This resource takes you through all the stages of the model in the context of writing.
Lego for Maths
Lego is a versatile and engaging way to 'play' with maths; it can even be a child-led way to demonstrate understanding or develop mathematical reasoning. This resource has eleven ideas to get you started on your Lego maths journey!
Likes Dislikes Grid
Do you struggle to get some children to write book reviews? Try this burden-light evaluation grid to encourage them to share their thoughts and ideas.
Little Kids' First Big Book of Space
Featuring fun, short entries about planets, stars, galaxies, and more, this charming book is perfect for reading aloud or for beginning readers to enjoy by themselves.
Maths Games
How can you make maths more fun and engaging? This resource has a handful of our favourite maths games to help spice up any Numeracy lesson!
Maths Pupil Perception Survey
If we are serious about improving teaching and learning, we must try to find out what our children think. Part of a wide-ranging series of pupil perception surveys, this resource focuses on maths.
Maths Question Stems
Children often thrive when they're allowed to work things out for themselves, but sometimes things are too open-ended so they're not sure where to start! This resource gives you a range of questions stems to help you focus, support and challenge your pupils.
Maths Story (Y1): Double Trouble
A story for developing mathematics, focused on doubling small numbers.
Maths Story (Y1): Gareth's Garden
A story for developing mathematics, providing a context for investigating measure.
Maths Story (Y1): Lisa's Pizzas
A story for developing mathematics, focusing on fractions and multiplication (including doubling).
Maths Story (Y1): Sophie and the Shapes
A story for developing mathematics, focusing on common 2D and 3D shapes.
Maths Story (Y1): Tom Tells the Time
A story for developing mathematics, focusing on time words and how to read an analogue clock.
Maths Story (Y2): Charlie and the Boxes
A story for developing mathematics, focusing on counting in multiples of two, three and five.
Maths Story (Y4): Army Angles
A story for developing mathematics, focusing on acute, obtuse and reflex angles.
Maths Story (Y4): Dave the Dragon
A story for developing mathematics, focusing on acute, obtuse and other angle types.
Maths Story (Y4): Magic Maths
A story for developing mathematics, focusing on efficient mental methods of addition.
Maths Story Booklist
Stories are a fantastic context for developing mathematics. This booklist lists more than 170 entries, covering all ages, with explicit or implicit mathematical content.
Measurement Matching Cards
Improve your children's measurement 'awareness' with this useful matching-up resource.
Middle Leaders Manual
Subject and middle leadership is particularly important in the current Ofsted Inspection Framework. This extensive resource provides guidance and advice on the full range of middle leadership responsibilities.
Model Text (fiction, Y1-2): Baby Badger Adventure
TT Education's award-winning Path to Success model is guaranteed to help you create engaging and effective learning sequences. A powerful tool within this is the model text - a carefully-written piece that is just beyond the children's own writing level, and which they can read, analyse, discuss and imitate to push their writing forwards. This particular text is aimed at children in KS1.
Model Text (fiction, Y1-2): Dragon for Tea
TT Education's award-winning Path to Success model is guaranteed to help you create engaging and effective learning sequences. A powerful tool within this is the model text - a carefully-written piece that is just beyond the children's own writing level, and which they can read, analyse, discuss and imitate to push their writing forwards. This particular text is aimed at children in KS1.
Model Text (fiction, Y2-3): Boring Day
TT Education's award-winning Path to Success model is guaranteed to help you create engaging and effective learning sequences. A powerful tool within this is the model text - a carefully-written piece that is just beyond the children's own writing level, and which they can read, analyse, discuss and imitate to push their writing forwards. This particular text is aimed at children in Y2-3.
Model Text (Fiction, Y3): Snailsworth's Story
TT Education's award-winning Path to Success model is guaranteed to help you create engaging and effective learning sequences. A powerful tool within this is the model text - a carefully-written piece that is just beyond the children's own writing level, and which they can read, analyse, discuss and imitate to push their writing forwards. This particular text is aimed at children in lower KS2.
Model Text (fiction, Y3): The Beast
TT Education's award-winning Path to Success model is guaranteed to help you create engaging and effective learning sequences. A powerful tool within this is the model text - a carefully-written piece that is just beyond the children's own writing level, and which they can read, analyse, discuss and imitate to push their writing forwards. This particular text is aimed at children in Y3.
Model Text (fiction, Y3-4): Cat Detectives
TT Education's award-winning Path to Success model is guaranteed to help you create engaging and effective learning sequences. A powerful tool within this is the model text - a carefully-written piece that is just beyond the children's own writing level, and which they can read, analyse, discuss and imitate to push their writing forwards. This particular text is aimed at children in lower KS2
Model Text (fiction, Y3-4): Golden Train
TT Education's award-winning Path to Success model is guaranteed to help you create engaging and effective learning sequences. A powerful tool within this is the model text - a carefully-written piece that is just beyond the children's own writing level, and which they can read, analyse, discuss and imitate to push their writing forwards. This particular text is aimed at children in Y3-4.
Model Text (fiction, Y3-4): Roman Soldier
TT Education's award-winning Path to Success model is guaranteed to help you create engaging and effective learning sequences. A powerful tool within this is the model text - a carefully-written piece that is just beyond the children's own writing level, and which they can read, analyse, discuss and imitate to push their writing forwards. This particular text is aimed at children in Y3-4.
Model Text (fiction, Y3-4): The Visitor
TT Education's award-winning Path to Success model is guaranteed to help you create engaging and effective learning sequences. A powerful tool within this is the model text - a carefully-written piece that is just beyond the children's own writing level, and which they can read, analyse, discuss and imitate to push their writing forwards. This particular text is aimed at children in lower KS2.
Model Text (fiction, Y4): Moving House
TT Education's award-winning Path to Success model is guaranteed to help you create engaging and effective learning sequences. A powerful tool within this is the model text - a carefully-written piece that is just beyond the children's own writing level, and which they can read, analyse, discuss and imitate to push their writing forwards. This particular text is aimed at children in Y4.
Model Text (fiction, Y4): Pretty Vain
TT Education's award-winning Path to Success model is guaranteed to help you create engaging and effective learning sequences. A powerful tool within this is the model text - a carefully-written piece that is just beyond the children's own writing level, and which they can read, analyse, discuss and imitate to push their writing forwards. This particular text is aimed at children in Y4.
Model Text (fiction, Y4-5): Aunt Mabel's Spooky House
TT Education's award-winning Path to Success model is guaranteed to help you create engaging and effective learning sequences. A powerful tool within this is the model text - a carefully-written piece that is just beyond the children's own writing level, and which they can read, analyse, discuss and imitate to push their writing forwards. This particular text is aimed at children in Y4-5.
Model Text (fiction, Y4-5): Red Eyes
TT Education's award-winning Path to Success model is guaranteed to help you create engaging and effective learning sequences. A powerful tool within this is the model text - a carefully-written piece that is just beyond the children's own writing level, and which they can read, analyse, discuss and imitate to push their writing forwards. This particular text is aimed at children in Y4-5.
Model Text (fiction, Y5): Robert and the Aliens
TT Education's award-winning Path to Success model is guaranteed to help you create engaging and effective learning sequences. A powerful tool within this is the model text - a carefully-written piece that is just beyond the children's own writing level, and which they can read, analyse, discuss and imitate to push their writing forwards. This particular text is aimed at children in upper KS2.
Model Text (fiction, Y5): The Forest
TT Education's award-winning Path to Success model is guaranteed to help you create engaging and effective learning sequences. A powerful tool within this is the model text - a carefully-written piece that is just beyond the children's own writing level, and which they can read, analyse, discuss and imitate to push their writing forwards. This particular text is aimed at children in upper KS2.
Model Text (fiction, Y5-6): Knight's Tailor
TT Education's award-winning Path to Success model is guaranteed to help you create engaging and effective learning sequences. A powerful tool within this is the model text - a carefully-written piece that is just beyond the children's own writing level, and which they can read, analyse, discuss and imitate to push their writing forwards. This particular text is an extended one and is aimed at children in Y5-6.
Model Text (fiction, Y5-6): Little Green Plane
TT Education's award-winning Path to Success model is guaranteed to help you create engaging and effective learning sequences. A powerful tool within this is the model text - a carefully-written piece that is just beyond the children's own writing level, and which they can read, analyse, discuss and imitate to push their writing forwards. This particular text is aimed at children in upper KS2.
Model Text (fiction, Y5-6): Macbeth
TT Education's award-winning Path to Success model is guaranteed to help you create engaging and effective learning sequences. A powerful tool within this is the model text - a carefully-written piece that is just beyond the children's own writing level, and which they can read, analyse, discuss and imitate to push their writing forwards. This particular text is aimed at children in upper KS2.
Morphemic Approaches
Morphology has been described as the way to narrow the gap for disadvantaged children. We often teach children how these grammatical units work - for instance in spelling - but not what they mean. This resource suggests ways to teach morphemic knowledge explicitly, close the achievement gap, and above all have fun while doing it!
Mother Tongue
Only Bill Bryson could make a book about the English language so entertaining. With his boundless enthusiasm and restless eye for the absurd, this is his astonishing tour of English.
Music Pupil Perception Survey
If we are serious about improving teaching and learning, we must try to find out what our children think. Part of a wide-ranging series of pupil perception surveys, this resource focuses on music.
Newspaper Challenge
Are you a journalist in the making? This enjoyable activity gets children to use their mathematical skills to create a profit-making newspaper.
Orchard Estate Maths Puzzle
Patrick the Postman is in a bit of a fix! Can you help him by using your mathematical reasoning skills to work out which house belongs to which family?
Outdoor Curriculum Ideas
Fresh air is good for the soul, but it's also good for learning. This resource has dozens of learning ideas for all curriculum areas, from Year 1 right up to Year 6.
Oxford Junior Illustrated Dictionary
With over 10,000 entries, beautifully illustrated with drawings or photographs, these dictionaries are colourful, clear and accessible, featuring simple, easy-to-read numbered meanings.
Oxford Phonics Spelling Dictionary
This unique dictionary makes it easy to explain how ‘sun’ and ‘Cinderella’ both start with the ‘s’ sound and how ‘dance’ has the same ‘s’ sound at the end, while ‘egg’ and ‘eat’ start with the same letter but different sounds.
Pairs in Pears
With a variety of different games based on the four complete sets of alphabet tiles in Pairs in Pears, this is a flexible, versatile resource. Children can play the games in pairs, they can build words individually or they can work in larger groups. The games can be used to boost weaker pupils, stretch the more able or deepen understanding and develop fluency with spelling and reading.
Payday
Payday is the quick-fire, real-world game of investment, profit and loss that will have children really using their maths skills in a fun and competitive way. Payday is the ideal resource for upper Key Stage 2 teachers wanting to give their children an idea of how money really works. What better way to learn to manage money than by practising it in a fun, engaging manner?
PE Pupil Perception Survey
If we are serious about improving teaching and learning, we must try to find out what our children think. This resource is one of our wide-ranging series of pupil perception surveys, focusing on physical education (P.E.)
Perfect Partners Card Sort
Develop your children's cultural capital by using these cards of famous characters from literature.
Phonics Guide for KS2 Spelling
We know that children do well when they can investigate learning for themselves. For spelling this requires older children to discuss spellings, using the phonics terms and concepts that they have probably long-since forgotten. This can also be true for the upper KS2 class teacher! This guide will bring your phonics knowledge back up to scratch, help you support those spelling investigations, and dramatically improve spelling outcomes.
Progression Guides - Bundle of 10 - School-wide digital licence
Buy our bundle of 10 Progression Guides (School-wide digital licence) and save over £500. History, Geography, SMSC, Writing, Reading, Maths Vocabulary, Music, RE, Computing, & Science. These progression guides give you clear examples of what each skill looks like for every year group, with useful examples of vocabulary. Fully aligned with the latest objectives and expectations of the Primary National Curriculum, they will support the curriculum development and implementation under the new Ofsted Framework.
Promoting Reading for Pleasure in the Primary School
Drawing on the author’s own research project in order to identify good practice in promoting reading for enjoyment, the book presents specific activities which teachers can use to develop their own whole school and classroom practice, enabling them to put the fun back into reading. This book includes examples of planning from schools where successful reading cultures have been not only created, but also sustained.
PSHE Pupil Perception Survey
If we are serious about improving teaching and learning, we must try to find out what our children think. This resource is one of our wide-ranging series of pupil perception surveys, focusing on personal, social, health and economic education (PSHE).
Question Cards
Questioning is an important part of any teacher's skillset, but if we're not careful we can fall into bad habits of using only simplistic, 'closed' questions in the classroom. This simple set of evaluative cards allow you to reflect on your own questioning, or support your colleagues by auditing theirs.
Questioning Strategies
Skilled teachers know that children learn best when they work together, and when they're free to talk and reason. One of the best ways we can support this is to hone our questioning skills, and this resource gives you a range of advice on how to do this.
RE Pupil Perception Survey
If we are serious about improving teaching and learning, we must try to find out what our children think. Part of a wide-ranging series of pupil perception surveys, this resource focuses on religious education (R.E.)
Reading Games
How can you increase engagement in comprehension? This resource has a handful of our favourite games to improve outcomes in any reading session.
Reading Pupil Perception Survey
If we are serious about improving teaching and learning, we must try to find out what our children think. Part of a wide-ranging series of pupil perception surveys, this resource focuses on reading.
Reversed Letters Reading Exercise
This text is written in mirror-letters: it's the perfect way to put yourself in the shoes of a child who struggles with decoding. Increase empathy with your children and improve your pedagogy as a result.
Science Concept Cartoons
Concept Cartoons have been thoroughly researched in classrooms around the world. Simple cartoon-style drawings present learners with their own misconceptions and generate discussion and argument. They are remarkably easy to use in the classroom as a part of normal teaching. Concept Cartoons are quick, simple and effective. They are designed to intrigue, provoke discussion and stimulate thinking. Concept Cartoons make concepts problematic and provide an engaging stimulus for learning. Every Concept Cartoon is guaranteed to provoke ferocious discussion and leave children wanting to find out more! The ideas children come up with will leave you amazed and them inspired.
Science Concept Cartoons (Set 1)
Concept Cartoons are quick, simple and effective. They are designed to intrigue, provoke discussion and stimulate thinking. Concept Cartoons make concepts problematic and provide an engaging stimulus for learning. Every Concept Cartoon is guaranteed to provoke ferocious discussion and leave children wanting to find out more! The ideas children come up with will leave you amazed and them inspired.
Science Games
How can you make science more fun and engaging? This resource has a handful of our favourite games to help spice up any science lesson!
Science Pupil Perception Survey
If we are serious about improving teaching and learning, we must try to find out what our children think. Part of a wide-ranging series of pupil perception surveys, this resource focuses on science.
SMSC Pupil Perception Survey
If we are serious about improving teaching and learning, we must try to find out what our children think. Part of a wide-ranging series of pupil perception surveys, this resource focuses on spiritual, moral, social and cultural development (SMSC).
Spelling Games
How can you make spelling fun? This resource has a handful of our favourite spelling games to help spice up any SPaG lesson!
Spelling Games (Extended)
How can you make spelling fun? This resource has more than 100 of our favourite spelling games, tips and approaches to help spice up any SPaG lesson - and take spelling into other lessons too!
Spelling Pupil Perception Survey
If we are serious about improving teaching and learning, we must try to find out what our children think. This resource is one of our wide-ranging series of pupil perception surveys, focusing on spelling.
Story Cubes: Actions
Create tales filled with action with these Rory's Story Cubes, perfect to use on their own or mixed with other Story Cubes. Each picture in this pack represents a commonly used verb. Just roll the cubes and use the tiny images to spark your imagination…
Story Cubes: Clues
Perfect on its own or used as an extension pack, this set of story cubes comprises three cubes, which can be used to craft tales of intrigue, thrills and mystery! Just roll the cubes and use the tiny images to spark your imagination...
Story Cubes: Enchanted
Perfect on its own or used as an extension pack, this set of story cubes comprises three cubes, which can create fantastic and enchanting fairy tales! Just roll the cubes and use the tiny images to spark your imagination…
Story Cubes: Original
With 9 cubes, 54 images and over 10 million possible combos, just roll the cubes, begin with “Once upon a time …” and let the images spark your imagination. Just roll the cubes and use the tiny images to spark your imagination…
Story Cubes: Prehistoria
Perfect on its own or used as an extension pack, this set of story cubes comprises three cubes, which can create exciting prehistoric tales of dinosaurs and cavemen! Just roll the cubes and use the tiny images to spark your imagination…
Story Cubes: Voyages
Create tales of epic adventure with these Rory's Story Cubes, perfect to use on their own or mixed with other Story Cubes. Just roll the cubes and use the tiny images to spark your imagination...
Teacher Knowledge Audit
Where are your colleagues' strengths and weaknesses in the teaching of mathematics? Use this auditing document to improve your leadership priorities.
Teaching Grammar, Punctuation and Spelling Through Drama
Over 70 clearly described and ready-to-use activities, covering each of the rules that children are expected to know and use in the SATs during Year 6. Through acting out parts of speech, letter strings and punctuation, children will internalise the language and absorb ideas, skills and understanding. They will be able to draw on this stored knowledge and use it wherever they need it in the future – when they are being tested – but, more importantly, in their own writing.
Tell Me: Children Reading and Talk with The Reading Environment
“Tell Me” offers practical information about book talking in the classroom, explaining some of the processes and outlining the ground rules developed by teachers and others who work with children and books. “The Reading Environment” describes, with many practical examples, the surroundings and attitudes that support children’s encounters with books in school, enabling them to become thoughtful, willing readers. Together, they provide a clear and helpful explanation of the ways in which teachers can help children become thoughtful, discursive, engaged readers.
Think of an Eel
The pictures in this book are so beautiful, perhaps you could use them as a stimulus for creative writing. Equally, you could use the idea of combining information with story to ask the children to create their own information-story on the topic they have been studying. A really beautiful and stimulating resource, there are lots of lovely ways to use this fantastic book.
Tooth Fairy Sequencing and Summary
Use this text for some great KS2 sequencing and summary work.
Twisted Hundred Square
When we vary the way that maths is represented, children's understanding is pushed to a higher level. This resource allows children to combine the best of two representations: the hundred square and the traditional number line.
Variation in Hundred Squares
When we vary the way that maths is represented, children's understanding is pushed to a higher level. This resource provides 12 different arrangements of the traditional Hundred Square, to ensure conceptual understanding rather than simple procedural fluency.
Variation in Shapes
When we vary the way that maths is represented, children's understanding is pushed to a higher level. These photocopiable 2D shapes come in various sizes, orientation and regularity, to ensure conceptual understanding rather than just procedural fluency.
Visual Approaches to Teaching Writing: Multimodal Literacy 5-11
Children’s experience of texts is no longer limited to words on printed pages – their reading and writing worlds are formed in multimodal ways. This book is a practical guide for teachers in making sense of multimodal approaches to teaching writing.
Wellbeing for Leaders
81% of teachers say they've considered quitting the profession; one in three give up within five years of qualification. This resource summarises the main strategies for leaders to foster better relationships, improve morale, and lessen your staff's workload.
Wellbeing for Staff
81% of teachers say they've considered quitting the profession; one in three give up within five years of qualification. This resource summarises our "twelve point plan" for teachers to take control of their wellbeing.
Wellbeing Games for Children
There are nearly 200 calls to CAMHS every day - more than half from primary aged children - and the numbers are going up. This resource provides you with a range of strategies to help your children's wellbeing.
What are Homophones and Homonyms
Homophones, homographs, homonyms, synonyms. They can be confusing for teachers, let alone for the children, but the concepts they describe are really useful in teaching and learning. This brief guide is a must-have reference for all teachers of spelling.
Writing Games
How can you make writing more fun and engaging? This resource has a handful of our favourite writing games to help spice up any English lesson!
Writing Lesson Plan
What does outstanding literacy provision look like? This sample long-term plan shows how we should be planning for writing and reading coverage from YN to Y6.
Writing Pupil Perception Survey
If we are serious about improving teaching and learning, we must try to find out what our children think. This resource is one of our wide-ranging series of pupil perception surveys, focusing on writing.
Y6 Maths Treasure Hunt - Emerging
With this fun, printable resource, children can solve a mystery by using their maths knowledge.
Y6 Maths Treasure Hunt - Exceeding
With this fun, printable resource, children can solve a mystery by using their maths knowledge.
Y6 Maths Treasure Hunt - Expected
With this fun, printable resource, children can solve a mystery by using their maths knowledge.