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22-Feb-15

Full of the Joys of Spring?

Are you full of the joys of spring? Well maybe not if you are back at school tomorrow after half-term. However, spring is just round the corner and if you're planning a topic on the spring season then our comprehensive All about Spring topic may be just the thing you're looking for.

19-Feb-15

It's Chinese New Year of the Goat!

Happy Chinese New Year to all those celebrating today! It's now the Year of the Goat (Sheep or Ram), which is the eighth animal in the Chinese Zodiac cycle.

18-Feb-15

Number Rack - Free on the Web and iPad

A cracking teaching resource that we've added to our search engine recently is Number Rack. It's available either on the web or as a free app on iPad and iPhone.

12-Feb-15

Free Mini-book Templates for Lapbooks

Following our recent popular post suggesting lapbooks for topic work we've created additional mini-book templates which you are welcome to download below for free.

09-Feb-15

Chinese Dragon Game

Have you seen our tablet friendly Chinese Dragon Game which involves ordering and sequencing numbers and that we designed especially with Chinese New Year in mind?

07-Feb-15

How to Inspire Young Scientists

We love The Royal Institution's science site called ExperRimental and it's just one of the latest additions to our search engine. It has fabulous short films of science experiments for children. Just the thing to spark an interest in science in youngsters.

03-Feb-15

DK Findout! Looks Fabulous

We are delighted to have added a link in our search engine to a fabulous children's online encyclopaedia called 'DKfindout!' from DK (formerly Dorling Kindersley). The good news is that it is free!

02-Feb-15

New Teaching Resources for Chinese New Year

We've been busy making additions to our Chinese New Year pages for 2015.

01-Feb-15

An End to the Mountain of Paperwork?

Ask any teacher what the worst things about the job are, and our guess is that the mountain paperwork that you accumulate over time, will be on the list. We think help may be at hand...

30-Jan-15

Learn a Language for Free with Duolingo

We think Duolingo is a fabulous free languages site. So if you fancy learning a language, and there are a growing number to choose from, how about joining 50 million people around the world who have been doing just that with Duolingo?