Creative writing activity to use poetry skills and complete the fun activity sheet. The poem for primary school children focuses on Santa Claus and the magic of following your ambition to think about how you can use your skills and work in a job you love. When I am big, I want to be… First, read the poem, then add your own final verse/s. When you are completing the poems try and write in a similar style and use descriptive language. All activity sheets and supporting resources are free to download, and all the documents are fully editable, so you can tailor them to your students’ and your schools’ needs. The activity sheet includes teacher notes, guidance, useful web links, and links (where appropriate) to the national curriculum in each of the four devolved UK nations; England, Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales. Oh ho ho, and please do share your finished poems with us @IETeducation! #SantaLovesSTEM. If you enjoy activities like this, why not try to write a poem about space or the ocean too.

Decorating a classroom door with a book theme World Book Day is an annual event where people come together to celebrate and promote books and reading. This resource was inspired by World Book Day and supports the development of literacy by creating a decorated door that will inspire learners to find out more about books. When passing through the door, learners could imagine that they are exiting their normal reality into the reality created in that literature. The decorated door could be produced by a teacher or teaching assistant; however, here the learners themselves will design and create the displays. Activity info, teachers’ notes and curriculum links In this activity learners will identify a favourite book and use this as inspiration to design a decorated door. This links reading in English, the design process in Design & Technology and the use of art skills to produce the design. This activity could be used as a main lesson activity, to support learners’ engagement in literacy. It could also be used as a learner-led means of generating class/door displays. All activity sheets and supporting resources are free to download and are fully editable, so you can tailor them to your students’ and your schools’ needs. And please do share your learning highlights and final creations with us on social media @IETeducation or send them via email to IETEducation@theiet.org to be featured in our online gallery. Tools/resources required These will depend upon the designs, but could include: Paper and/or card, writing and colouring implements, lining paper etc. Access to an image bank, either printed out or electronic with access to a colour printer. Scissors and glue sticks. Sticky tack. A selection of books for inspiration. The activity sheet includes teacher notes, guidance, useful web links, and links (where appropriate) to the national curriculum in each of the four devolved UK nations; England, Northern Ireland, Scotland, and Wales.

Learners can make their own storytelling kit using the word cards provided and then extend their story by adding their own words and creating illustrations for their stories. Word cards can be a great way to help build learners’ vocabulary – giving them cards with words to read, understand and put into a sentence, or providing them with blank cards to add their own words and imagery to use as visual aids upon recall. Activity info, teachers’ notes and curriculum links In this activity learners will learn about sentence structure and storytelling. Learners will make their own storytelling kit using a range of word cards that use nouns, verbs, adverbs, adjectives and conjunctions and use these to create stories. This activity could be used as a main lesson activity, to teach learners about the use of words and their spelling. It could also support verbal construction of sentences. All activity sheets and supporting resources are free to download and are fully editable, so you can tailor them to your students’ and your schools’ needs. And please do share your learning highlights and final creations with us on social media @IETeducation or send them via email to IETEducation@theiet.org to be featured in our online gallery. Tools/resources required Glue sticks Thin card Scissors The activity sheet includes teacher notes, guidance, useful web links, and links (where appropriate) to the national curriculum in each of the four devolved UK nations; England, Northern Ireland, Scotland, and Wales.