Basic study of living things including classification.

Learn about different sorts of homes. introduces pupils to different types of homes. Pupils look at and explore a variety of homes such as a house, a flat, a caravan and a bungalow, and talk about what sort of home they live in. Pupils also look at house numbers and complete sorting and matching games involving numbers 1-9. Learning objectives: to talk about home and where they live to begin to identify different sorts of houses and homes to begin to recognise numbers and begin to match number to sign

This unit focuses on the opening of a suspense story. The children read the opening then identify the different forms of figurative speech that have been used to add effect. Personification, metaphors and similes are explained and examples shown. Children then go on to write the opening of their own suspense story using a picture of haunted house as stimulus.

A game testing children's addition and subtraction skills, reinforcing key food safety messages.

This interactive activity provides opportunities for the exploration of structure in musical composition. It features a character called Dewi the Dragon. The activity teaches pupils how the order of sounds in a sequence may be changed to create different compositions. Pupils are asked to create their own sequences using instrument sounds they have selected and are then asked to perform these sequences. Pupils are able to use pictorial resources to help them sequence their musical ideas.

Out There is a project that celebrates the extraordinary and the obvious and maximises one of the most valuable resources: your own doorstep. Venturing beyond the school gate, stepping out into the outside world, learning professionals guide the children around their square mile, listening, watching and experiencing the world around them. What’s that? What is it for? Who lives there? ……… many questions that can lead to discovery and knowledge about the children’s own locality and their experience of it.

Find facts about the Earth, the moon and the solar system.

This resources pack introduces pupils to the idea of repeating patterns of an ABAB design, and then to an AABAAB design. Pupils look at colour patterns, shape patterns and picture patterns using Welsh emblems. They have the opportunity to finish off patterns which have been started using colours, shapes and pictures. Pupils create their own colour patterns using a worksheet of different shapes. Desirable outcomes: recognise and recreate simple patterns, recognise and name colours and recognise and name simple shapes.

Whiteboard resources developing estimation, counting measuring and mathematical vocabulary

A comprehensive set of teaching plans and interactive resources using a thematic approach to skills based learning The unit is designed to be flexible to the teacher’s needs. Use the whole unit, following the plans or take individual activities to blend with your own resources based on healthy living.

The following activities will allow non-specialists to introduce digital video editing using the DMC cameras. The lessons give staff and pupils easy to follow guidelines to allow them to produce an advert. Pupils will learn the skills of non-linear report writing and editing for a purpose. This can be taught across the curriculum and is an ideal opportunity for implimenting ICT as a key skill.

This thinking skill based resource introduces pupils to a Welsh town suffering from a build up of rubbish. Mirroring actual events happening now around the world pupils can debate the opinions of the townspeople, consider the impact of waste on the environment and evaluate the possible effects of these problems in their own areas. This resource covers aspects of the Consumption and Waste, Natural Environment and Choices and Decisions themes in ESDGC.

A series of PowerPoint games covering the key objectives from the 4 Programmes of Study. Each game could be used for assessment at the end of a unit

A range of art videos and interactive activities based on the work of Alison Mercer. The pack looks closely at colours and fruit and includes an interactive activity that allow pupils to create a wax resist painting. With thanks to UWIC Press for permission to use the Let's Look videos http://www.uwicpress.co.uk/primary-design-c-8.html

A series of resources looking at aspects of 'Our Bodies'

A term's lesson plans that includes photograph resources worksheets and interactive white-board activities for Early Years and for Key Stage 1. Activities that support children in comparing and contrasting places and features beyond their local area ,namely Wales and Lesotho. Both units of work address several elements of the Global Dimension themes and Foundation Phase Learning Aims.

This resource is an extract from a larger National Museum Wales project that allows pupils to become a virtual marine scientist and explore the Bristol Channel The main activity here explores food chains and relationships in the channel, incorporating an interactive activity with a supporting lesson plan, worksheets, photos and videos. The full CD based resource contains four more interactive activities with lesson plans and additional resources, all available in English and Welsh.

Learn about the parts of a flower understanding of the plant life cycle.

This is a second series of 10 Classroom Ensembles, which can be used during Key Stage 2 . Each ensemble contains at least 4 differentiated parts •a Piano part (two hands) •Glockenspiel (treble clef) •untuned Percussion in each ensemble. Instrumental resources in each school vary and the teacher is given complete freedom to modify which instrument plays the various parts.

The two activities in this lesson are designed to illustrate to pupils the main features of structures using sheet materials. The first activity shows the names of the main parts of a model house. The second enables teachers to show pupils how to join sheet materials simply. Teachers should introduce, explain and discuss the following words and concepts with pupils: door, window, floor, chimney, wall, stairs and roof. Both activities show a complete model first and teachers should discuss with pupils how to disassemble and then reassemble the product.