Good Friday
Find out about the history, meaning, traditions and customs of Good Friday and why it is known as Good Friday.
The Literacy Shed
The Literacy Shed is home to a wealth of visual resources with teaching ideas suitable for use in the primary classroom. There are some fabulous animations to use as stimulus for writing.
Make a Snake Mobile
We show you how to make a simple snake mobile. This activity fits in well with a Chinese New Year topic as the snake is one of the zodiac animals.
News for Your Classroom
A wonderful site with news stories for children and young people. It is American but it has global stories which could be used as information texts in literacy lessons.
Farming Videos
Farming videos which show how food such as wheat, fruit, vegetables and poultry is produced. Useful teaching aids at harvest time.
CBeebies Nursery Rhymes
A collection of nursery rhymes from the BBC such as The Wheels on the Bus, Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star, Old MacDonald Had a Farm and more.
UK Space Education Office
Quality resources to improve the teaching of STEM subjects in schools and inspire children through enrichment activities using space as a context for teaching. From ESERO UK, the UK space education office.
Fraction Fiddle
A fraction game where you need to meet orders in a cake shop. Match customer orders written as fractions to cakes that have been cut into segments.
Fairground Fractions
A tutorial which explains how we add fractions with the same denominator within a whole one. This lends itself well as a demonstration tool on an interactive whiteboard.
Artistic Angles
A tutorial which explains different types of angles, their names and how the size of angles can be worked out, such as on a straight line.
