Social and emotional skills are a vital part of children's development, and the classroom can be a key space for supporting their emotional growth. Between worry, navigating friendships, self-expression and self-esteem, teachers often need to support children's mental health and help them find tools to process their emotions in positive ways. The ......
Teaching Children Age 7-11 about Friendship, Family and Respectful Relat
Everything you need to help teach the children in your classroom about relationships education can be found in this activity book. Understanding how relationships work is integral to development of all children. From exploring the concept of 'family' to looking at the complexities of friendship, this inclusive teaching and learning resource is ......
An engaging book that identifies creative, fun and easy ways to explore STEAM (science, technology, engineering, arts and maths) subjects using the colours of the rainbow to inspire and enthuse young learners.
Strengthening Emotional Resiliency in Children Through Art
Covering the fundamental principles of art therapy informed activities, this easy-to-use resource delves into the importance and usefulness of art in early childhood development to heal trauma. Full of practical activities, techniques and downloadable lesson plans, this resource is ready for use in your educational and therapeutic environments.
Constructive Conversations on Race, Identity, and Justice
The Mindful Classroom: Constructive Conversations on Race, Identity, and Justice helps teachers and discussion facilitators practice and teach mindfulness and movement techniques that can deeply enhance conversations about race, identity, and social justice, furthering social justice efforts at their most basic stage-person to person-from the ......
A whole school approach to contemporary dynamic assessment with easy-to-implement classroom strategies. Functional downloadable resources including checklists, goal ladders, rating scales and more paired with simple theory and framework helps you turn your classroom and school into a dynamic one to improve how children learn.
See One. Do One. Teach One provides a series of 12 engaging lessons for GCSE English pupils, with a particular focus on CCEA specification. The lessons have been created for pupils of all abilities and are based on tried and tested methods within a classroom setting. Pupils learn through direct observation of each task. Each lesson will act as a ......
This comic is a key resource in helping children aged 8-13 to understand restorative justice and prepare for a restorative meeting. The comic also features a resource section for teachers, explaining more about restorative practices and how they can be used in schools to foster respect and emotional literacy among students.
Promoting Race Equality and Tackling Racism in Schools
Racism must be confronted in schools as it is during these formative years that young people develop their value systems. More Than Words is a practical tool to do just that. For educators -- teachers, senior leaders, governors and support staff -- it aims to help them look beyond fire-fighting racist incidents to create long-term systemic ......
A compendium of subject knowledge, resources and pedagogy
Ready to Teach: A Christmas Carol brings together the deep subject knowledge, resources and classroom strategies needed to teach Dickens's most famous Christmas story, as well as the pedagogical theory behind why these ideas work, helping teachers to deliver a knowledge-rich curriculum with impact.
An evidence-informed guide to help quality assure the reading curriculum
'Pupil Book Study: Reading' provides evidence-led structures to shine a light on the true impact of a school's reading provision. Building on the global success of the original Pupil Book Study frameworks, this guide translates these principles into practice to support leaders and teachers to evaluate their reading curriculum.
Activity Toolkit for Working with Young People Aged 11+
The go-to RSHE resource for schools, including lesson activities, ideas and worksheets for use with children aged 11+. Covers all essential topics under the relationships, sex and health education curriculum.
Relationships and Sex Education (RSE) Activities for 11-19 year olds
Essential guidance for adults teaching groups of teens about relationships & sex, this updated resource offers interactive activities/lesson plans that aid discussion around online pornography & its impact on healthy relationships & body image. Plus downloadable theory on RSE in faith schools/special schools and template forms.
Games to develop social skills, teamwork, balance and coordination
Thisis a collection of 232 tried and tested games to play with children and groups of all ages. This is a companion to the Waldorf Games Handbook for the EarlyYears (2020). It is a thoroughly updated second edition of the classic, Games Children Play (1996) with new games added, by popular demand
Improving achievement and learning engagement by using classroom assessm
The book is full of simple, practical, formative assessment techniques and strategies, based on real classroom practices, repeated across the range of ages and abilities at secondary levels, in a variety of schools, that have been repeatedly shown to significantly improve examination results, and student involvement in lessons.
This book provides you with practical, easy-to-implement classroom ideas and strategies for teaching and leading MFL in a primary school and will support you to prepare for MFL Ofsted 'deep dives'. Includes practical ideas provided, from curriculum design, long, medium and short term planning with real examples in French and Spanish.
Creative Activities and Stories to Explore Emotions and Mental Health
This collection of monster-themed stories and activities will help children to understand and articulate tricky emotions, such as worry, sadness, anger, jealousy and more. It can be used individually or in a group setting, and includes a guide for adults with explanations, further activities and resources for more support.
In Teaching Secondary Science: A Complete Guide, Adam Boxer breaks down the complex art of teaching science into its component parts, providing a concrete and comprehensive set of evidence-informed steps to nurturing brilliant science students. Adam hopes that you finds this book interesting, but his main aim is for you to find it useful.