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We create outstanding learning experiences that engage and excite children in their schoolwork and make teachers' lives easier by saving them precious time, enabling a better work/life balance.
We are committed to promoting creative thinking, cross curricula learning, emotional intelligence and mindfulness to children of all ages. The future is here.
Complete lesson with extension activities and follow on work suggestions. Highly creative and engaging - getting to know you - type lesson but with a fun twist your class will love. Enables assessment of writing, creativity and artistic ability whilst also finding out about your class in a way that is enjoyable and accessible for all. Suitable for all ages as long as they can write! Suitable for first days, new beginnings or even with an established class.
Complete lesson with worksheets, discussions, planning, peer-assessment, artwork and a few ideas for follow up work. Designed to meet the new 2014 English curriculum objectives and enable detailed thinking, discussion, planning and writing. Differentiated planning sheets mean it's suitable for everyone from Year 6 to more able Year 2's! includes optional paragraph planning sheet and extension work for early finishers.
Keep your class calm and relaxed with this end of term art activity. Blow up to A3 for even more fun - why not play some relaxation music in the background twit-twoo whilst they colour...
Image taken from the colouring book called with permission from copyright owner.
Complete lesson with extension activities and follow on work suggestions. Highly creative and engaging 'getting to know you' type lesson but with a fun twist your class will love.
Enables assessment of writing, creativity and artistic ability whilst also finding out about your class in a way that is enjoyable and accessible for all. Suitable for all ages as long as they can write!
The challenge is...Can you colour this page in and make sure you NEVER have the same 2 colours next to each other? Of course they can, but it does require some thought and take some time to complete :) You can also just let your class colour in any way they want to for a super abstract piece of art.
Suitable for ages 4 - 104 so why not get your pencils out and have a colour yourself? Blow the page up to A3 for an even longer lesson!
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“Creativity is as important now in education as literacy and we should treat it with the same status.” Sir Ken Robinson - TED Talk.
This is a 2 page free sample of the premium resource and physical book of the same name available from the TES. Download, print and enjoy! Why not blow it up to A3 for an extra big creative challenge!
Full Resource Description and Concept...
This book has been designed to stimulate a wealth of creative thought processes in children of all ages and key stages, whilst also being engaging and highly enjoyable to complete. Designed in the style of our calming mindfulness colouring books but with influences from the "anti-colouring" books also.
Contains 41 thought-provoking activities and fun artistic challenges that progressively get more creatively challenging as the book progresses, plus a bonus challenge that is not available in the physical book (which is available from Amazon) plus Teachers' notes and a children's introduction that is full of creativity enhancing ideas.
Uses include: for a golden time group, wet play or lunch activities, after school clubs, SEN interventions, gifted and talented pupils (as the creative potential is open ended), starters, art lessons, time filling, explicit creativity enhancing lessons (think Edward de Bono) or just incredibly useful to have "up your sleeve" as a highly educational set of printable activities that requires deeper thinking than "just" colouring in.
Single user license. All images licensed under CC0 1.0 Universal (CC0 1.0) Public Domain Dedication. Text Copyright tftf. Physical version of the book available from amazon.co.uk
I found this Christmas Decoration and thought lots of teachers and children would benefit from this great activity so in the spirit of Christmas I shared it. Cut out and stick together to make a Christmas ornament - You could add different pictures, make it A3 or print onto card if you can.
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3 FREE Worksheet based activities taken from our premium resource entitled Rugby World Cup 2015 Cross-Curricula Learning Pack - 35 Activities Plus Bonus Lessons
This pack contains:
A Rugby World Cup Maths Based Activity/Worksheet
A Rugby World Cup Creative Art Based Activity and
A Rugby World Cup Geography/Independent Learning Based Activity.
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A selection of quality Space and Earth display titles to be printed and used as titles for display boards or whatever you want!
Sheets come in A4, 2 x A4 and a selection of individual letters whose colours match the theme or topic.
Lots of other space resources are available from the TES by tftf.
All images sourced from openclipart.org or owned by tftf.
WAS £1 - This Phonics Set 2 igh Sound EYFS Phonics & KS1 Phonics lesson used to be a Premium Resource costing £1 and is now free for a limited time.
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This complete lesson teaches children all about the igh sound. A thought provoking starter is followed by a teaching input including a video link and a variety of fun and interactive activities that make the learning fun and memorable for the children.
The included worksheet is engaging and can be completed with or without writing ability. A final plenary-style game is suggested as well as an actual plenary that consolidates the learning, resulting in a flexible, engaging lesson full of variety. Suitable for an introduction lesson, revision lesson or as a resource for an intervention group - useful to have up your sleeve to present the learning in a different way.
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This complete 6 lesson unit comes with an editable medium term plan plus 6 separate lesson packs. Everything you need for a half term's worth of engaging and original PSHE work to do with building relationships.
Children will learn all about the skills involved in making and maintaining friendships via a series of memorable lessons which blend elements of writing, art, philosophy, drama and SEAL to create life skills that will serve the short term benefit of improving relationships, and the long term benefit of providing skills and knowledge that will last a lifetime and continually reap rewards.
The unit contains video links, for some lessons; full colour highly engaging friendship monsters, for some lessons; and plenty of open-ended philosophical questioning and discussion prompts throughout.
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In this lesson children will learn all about Mayan written language, their hieroglyphics, glyphs and logograms.
After an engaging multimedia teaching input, they will explain their understanding of the objective and go on to draw comparisons with how we communicate in the 21st Century.
This is then followed by an activity that enables the children to design their own logograms/hieroglyphics in a Mayan style.
Complete 1hr lesson (could run to 90 mins) including...
- PowerPoint: starter activity, teaching input (with web resource and video links) and a plenary activity.
- Worksheet pack with two worksheets plus extension activity for any early finishers.
- Teachers' notes.
YouTube links are provided for videos but a website is provided for a video converter if your school doesn't have access.
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These 10 worksheets all have short stories (c.100 words each) with the full stops missing. Designed for repeated practice to help children who find it hard to accurately add full stops to their writing, whatever age or key stage whilst also improving reading comprehension skills and the ability to check their work for errors.
Stories contain full colour images and are designed to be interesting to children and spark discussion regarding where a full stop goes and how the end of a sentence is identified.
Extension would be to check, peer assess and add capital letters or to continue the story with accurate sentence boundary demarcation. All images sourced from openclipart.com
This beautiful lesson uses cute cartoon 'monsters' to engage children and teach them about what exactly makes a good friend and what behaviours friends don't like. Children will also develop: their awareness of how their actions affect others, their social and empathy skills and become more self-aware of their choices and the consequences that follow. This is all packaged in a fun and non-threatening way allowing children to be more receptive to the learning. Circle time or Q&A questions are included along with a suggested plenary activity. Designed for KS2 but suitable for KS1 as long as they can read and write.
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If you are interested in something that is a different yet meaningful cross-curricula learning experience with elements of: wonder, awe, descriptive writing, poetry, philosophy, science, nature, geography, team work, art, appreciation of nature and so much more, then this is for you.
This lesson is called the magical lesson of wonder because that is the desired outcome. A cynic may think that this is just observing nature through microscopes but it is so much more than that in part due to the fascinating web resource used for the lesson and the inspirational writing that is produced by all the children who participate.
Suitable for any age or KS (but designed for KS2 or KS1) as the element of wonder and magic is something that never tires.
You will need microscopes or magnifying glass (USB microscopes ideally) and access to objects from nature or a selection you provide.
Other teachers have used this for their performance management observations and got outstanding too - just read the reviews! This is a hidden gem of TES that is beyond conventional categorisation - so why not treat your class to it today?
Turn down the lights, roll down the blinds, play the music and begin the magical lesson of wonder.
Engaging, fun and challenging complete SPaG lesson that teaches how to add possessive apostrophes to singular nouns. For example: the girl's name.
Children learn about apostrophes and the different ways of adding apostrophes to show possession. They then work through 4 activities designed to develop their understanding using different skills. They identify, create and explain, with the more able going on to a challenging extension activity.
There is also a fun activity in there too that your class will love. Self/peer-assessment plenary is also included to really help cement the learning in their minds and potentially make marking easier for you too.
Aimed at KS1, but can be used for KS2 and SEN or EAL children. Teachers' notes and answers included plus simplified activity sheet for further differentiation.
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Making grammar/writing fun and engaging! Adaptable game and activity based worksheet (with differentiation element) all about sentence openers.
Variable length: Could keep your class busy with engaging learning for up to 1 hour. Fits easily into planning or just handy to have up your sleeve.
can be:
- a main lesson learning activity
- revision
- shortened for plenaries or starters
- used to fill any space in the school day
- used for intervention work
Multiple skills are used by children when playing the games including: creative thinking, dictionary skills, handwriting, memory, creating stories and sentence writing.
Suitable for Year 3 - 6 and support work for KS3 (more able Year 2 children would also be able to play).
All images sourced from openclipart.com
Making grammar/writing fun and engaging! Adaptable game and activity based worksheet (with differentiation element) all about learning and using ambitious vocabulary.
Variable length: Could keep your class busy with engaging learning for up to 1 hour. Fits easily into planning or just handy to have up your sleeve.
can be:
- a main lesson learning activity
- revision
- shortened for plenaries or starters
- used to fill any space in the school day
- used for intervention work
Multiple skills are used by children when playing the games including: creative thinking, dictionary skills, handwriting, memory, creating stories and sentence writing.
Suitable for Year 3 - 6 and support work for KS3 (more able Year 2 children would also be able to play).
All images sourced from openclipart.com
Engaging, fun and challenging complete lesson that teaches and rehearses demarcating sentences with question marks, exclamation marks and full stops. Children learn about each punctuation mark and the importance of adding punctuation at the end of sentences, identifying which punctuation to use. They then work through 4 activities designed to develop their understanding using different skills. They identify, create and explain, with the more able going on to a challenging extension activity. There is also a fun activity in there too that your class will love. Self/peer-assessment plenary is also included to really help cement the learning in their minds and potentially make marking easier for you too. Aimed at KS1, but can be used for KS2 and SEN or EAL children. Teachers' notes and answers included.
This beautiful lesson could also be used for a meaningful and special assembly by making minor edits to the PowerPoint.
Designed to fit with "good to be me" style units but can be used for many areas of PSHE/SEAL as the lesson teaches how to develop self-esteem whilst also maintaining emotional balance by being aware of and identifying areas of personal development.
All made memorable through an innovative teaching and learning approach that could help children maintain positive self-esteem for the rest of their lives.
Suitable for all ages but designed for KS2 (ages 7-11).
Contains PowerPoint with two part starter, complete teaching input, BBC video link and plenary plus 2 worksheet based activities.
Lesson length 1 hour.
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