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We are committed to promoting creative thinking, cross curricula learning, emotional intelligence and mindfulness to children of all ages. The future is here.
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.
This delightful 20 page colouring book contains fun, cute and wholesome colouring pictures of all the things Key Stage 1 children love, with each picture having the perfect level of detail and challenge for children in KS1.
The book has been designed to have a mixture of images that traditionally appeal to either girls or boys and a wide selection of pictures that will be enjoyed by everybody - who wouldn't like to colour an ice lolly collage or a big bowl of ice-cream sundae?
Incredibly versatile and useful to "have up your sleeve", as any of the pictures can be blown up to A3 (or bigger) for pair or group work using a wide range of art materials - this doesn't just have to be a regular colouring book!
Perfect for art lessons, golden time, wet break, lunch clubs, rewards, time fillers, competitions, story telling visual prompts...
All images either copyright owned by The Future teacher Foundation or licensed through Creative Commons C.0.
Designed to be adaptable and flexible in length to suit your needs, this challenging yet engaging mini-project contains 11 separate & complete activities for your class to undertake that result in them creating a new band or music group.
Packed with learning, creativity and the demonstration of acquired skills, the project is designed to keep your class occupied and learning for an entire day, with minimal input from you, but could even be extended over a longer period of time.
The project is audience and purpose driven with children engaging in research, independent learning, planning, journalistic writing, speaking and listening, art édesign and creative problem solving activities.
Designed for pairs or 3’s in upper KS2, and to provide engagement and challenge for even the brightest members of the class whilst being accessible to all. Suitable also for KS3 and higher ability Y4.
All images either sourced from openclipart.org or owned by tftf.
“Creativity is as important now in education as literacy and we should treat it with the same status.” Sir Ken Robinson - TED Talk.
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
Designed to be adaptable and flexible in length to suit your needs, this challenging yet engaging mini-project contains 12 separate and complete activities for your class to undertake that result in them creating a new charity.
Packed with learning, creativity and the demonstration of acquired skills, the project is designed to keep your class occupied and learning for an entire day, with minimal input from you, but could even be extended over a longer period of time.
The project is audience and purpose driven with children engaging in research, independent learning, planning, persuasive writing, speaking and listening, art, design and creative problem solving activities.
Designed for pairs or 3’s in upper KS2, and to provide engagement and challenge for even the brightest members of the class whilst being accessible to all. Suitable also for KS3 and higher ability Y4.
All images either sourced from openclipart.org or owned by tftf.
Complete lesson with easy to understand instructions and photocopiable mask templates. Simple everyday art resources are used creatively to create awesome masks your class will love, that are great for display or to inspire and compliment cross-curricula drama and writing. Starter, teaching input and reflective self-evaluation plenary worksheets are all included, plus an optional writing activity for early finishers. Included PowerPoint teaches children about Stone Age hair and hygiene, putting the lesson within an easily understandable historical context. Part of a 6 lesson complete unit of Stone Age art and design/DT available to buy from the TES.
Designed to be adaptable and flexible in length to suit your needs, this challenging yet engaging mini-project contains 13 separate and complete activities (12 largely worksheet based 1 presentation) for your class to undertake that result in them designing a new Hollywood film.
Packed with learning, creativity and the demonstration of acquired skills, the project is designed to keep your class occupied and learning for an entire day, with minimal input from you, but could even be extended over a longer period of time.
The project is audience and purpose driven with children engaging in research, independent learning, planning, persuasive writing, speaking and listening, art, design and creative problem solving activities.
Designed for pairs or 3’s in upper KS2, and to provide engagement and challenge for even the brightest members of the class whilst being accessible to all. Suitable also for KS3 and higher ability Y4.
All images from openclipart.org
Your Halloween planning is now done, with this spooky Halloween themed pack of fun, engaging learning and activities all inspired by, and linked to, Halloween.
This resource comes in 3 separate PDF booklets containing a total of 25 worksheets/activities that are professionally presented and full of age-appropriate Halloween activities.
PDF booklets include:
- (Our Favourite!) Halloween Creative Thinking Activity Book: 10 pages of stunning activities that your class will love, that have been designed to make children think creatively and imaginatively. A stunning resource to develop creative and artistic abilities and inspire thinking, writing, collaboration and discussion. We recommend getting your class to write about what they have drawn - of course, if they are able to!
- Halloween Colouring Book: 10 colouring pages based on Halloween - great for anytime but why not blow them up to A3, pair the children up, pick an art technique and let them create stunning, huge pictures for display?
- Halloween handwriting practice - 5 A4 sheets to help learn basic letter formation and the spelling of Halloween topic words, complete with cute pictures on top of each sheet - multiple words are used on each sheet.
This is without a doubt one of our most stylish, creative and engaging packs yet, full of engaging learning that we know your class will love - we hope you enjoy it.
All images sourced via Creative Commons CCO 1.0 Universal License
6 complete lessons for a whole year of creative, engaging and inspiring writing moderation stimuli that can be used for whole school assessment or for individual year groups.
The stimuli are truly accessible, fun and enjoyable, inspiring high-quality and high-quantity writing for you to assess.
Each lesson comes with a complete and detailed PowerPoint introduction that can be adapted to fit your needs.
Each lesson also comes with all worksheets, teachers' notes and a creative activity for early finishers.
The detailed planning sheets allow children to spend time exploring and developing their own ideas before committing to writing - resulting in a higher quality of written English.
All images either copyright The Future Teacher Foundation or released through Creative Commons C.0
*Digital Education Version of the Global Bestselling Original: Mindfulness Colouring Book for Children*
40 pages of mindful colouring activities for your class. Works well with SEN children or simply as a calming behaviour management activity or incentive to motivate your class.
Focusing on geometric shapes, optical illusions and other mathematical patterns, this book is suitable for girls and boys and very powerful when combined with our relaxation music, which is also available from the TES. Both resources can also be bought in a pack together.
NEW! Mindfulness Colouring Book for Children 2 now also available from the TES.
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This fun and engaging 30 page colouring book contains modern, wholesome colouring pictures of all the things boys love to colour, with each picture having a suitable level of detail, interest and challenge to match a wide range of ages.
Incredibly versatile and useful to "have up your sleeve", as any of the pictures can be blown up to A3 (or bigger) for pair or group work using a wide range of art materials - this doesn't just have to be a regular colouring book!
Many uses: Perfect for SEN, behaviour management, art lessons, golden time, wet break, lunch clubs, rewards, time fillers, competitions, story telling visual prompts...
Example pictures include: sports and players, airplanes, cars, pizza, guitars, aliens, monsters, UFO, toys, cool clothes, dinosaur, food, animals and modern technology/gadgets, to name but a few!
All images licensed through Creative Commons C.0.
Following on from the global #1 bestselling success of its predecessor, The Future Teacher Foundation present 41 new pages of mindful colouring activities for your class, with the most stylish set of images to date, PLUS full, child-friendly instructions for a fantastic calming activity that promotes mindfulness.
The colouring pages work well with SEN children or simply as a calming behaviour management activity or incentive to motivate your class.
Focusing on enjoyable shapes, images and other mathematical and abstract patterns to colour, this book is suitable for girls and boys and very powerful when combined with our relaxation music, which is also available from the TES. Both resources can also be bought in a pack together.
All images sourced via creative commons 1.0. Mindfulness activity text copyright The Future Teacher Foundation 2015.
***50% OFF*** This unique bundle of multimedia resources is designed to help develop thinking skills across in children of all ages.
Contains 80 pages of activities & 2 x MP3 audios that will develop creative thinking skills, mindfulness, imagination, visualisation, relaxation and much more.
Creative thinking can be hard to develop in children. The first 40 page eBook will provide you with a plentiful supply of activities that stimulate those creative juices and specific cognitive thought processes. All activities can be printed and taught easily and also include artistic elements suitable for pair or independent work.
The 2nd 40 page eBook contains a wide variety of relaxing, calming and tranquil colouring pages of professional quality which children will love to colour as they have been specifically designed for children providing the right amount of detail and interest.
The final component of the bundle is a professionally produced relaxation music and guided mindfulness relaxation visualisation exercise for children that comes in MP3 audio form. Both MP3s will easily play on your computer, tablet or MP3 player/iPod.
Grab yourself this unique, innovative and thought provoking bundle of engaging resources today, bought to you by The Future Teacher.
* Contains 3 Bonus Writing Lessons Worth £1 Each That Can Last a Day If You Want!*
Take a week or more off planning with this spooky blockbuster pack of incredibly engaging, cross-curricula learning all inspired by and based upon Halloween.
Contains 4 separate PDF booklets that are well organised, professionally presented and designed to meet the new 2014 curriculum objectives as well as 3 separate inspiring writing lessons that can each last a whole day if required.
PDF booklets include:
- Halloween English and Writing Pack : Designed to inspire writing across a range of genres with 7 "lesson-long" fun yet challenging tasks and prompts that will engage your class in their learning. You can choose which genre to apply each lesson/activity to, to match your class' current learning or ability. Also contains 3 Halloween writing frames.
- Halloween Cross-Curricula Topic Pack: Contains worksheets for lessons based upon science, history, independent learning, internet research, art and design, writing, small group presentations, maths (multiplication, division and data handling/presentation), team work and a special party planning lesson involving many different skills and tasks.
- (Our Favourite!) Halloween Creative Thinking Activity Book: 15 pages of stunning activities that your class will love, that have been designed to make children think creatively and imaginatively. A stunning resource to develop creative and artistic abilities and inspire writing, collaboration and discussion.
- Halloween Colouring Book: 10 colouring pages based on Halloween - great for anytime but why not blow them up to A3, pair the children up, pick an art technique and let them create stunning, huge pictures for display?
* 3 x spooky bonus writing lessons - Create Your Own Monster, Robot and Alien writing lessons each selling for £1 separately and each containing separate: PowerPoint, Worksheets and Teachers' Notes.
This is without a doubt one of our most stylish, creative and engaging packs yet, full of deeply engaging learning - we hope you enjoy it.
All images sourced via Creative Commons CCO 1.0 Universal License
3 x colouring books of beautiful colourable images specifically created to appeal to children in the EYFS and can be printed time and time again!
Inspirational, cute, and with the just the right level of detail for EYFS children.
Over 60 images than can be used not just for colouring, but for a wide variety of purposes and learning including: enlarged mixed media art work, story telling inspiration, speaking and listening, continuing from the edge of the page, painting etc...
With this you will always have a wide selection of images to use every day to inspire your little learners' creativity :)
All images either released through creative commons CC 1.0 or owned by The Future Teacher Foundation.
This complete 6 lesson unit comes with an editable medium term plan plus 6 separate individually created lesson packs, each one with its own PowerPoint presentation. Everything you need for a half term's worth of art is here that matches perfectly with a local area study or a nature/woodland/habitat topic. Children will build sculptures, take photographs, paint, use sketchbooks, draw with a variety of mediums and stimuli and use a wide range of materials that are commonly found in schools or easily accessible. There is also a lesson where children get to experiment and create completely original pieces of art from their imagination. Every lesson has cross-curricula elements including: reading comprehension, writing and DT, plus they all come with a reflective self-evaluation sheet, everything is designed to perfectly compliment the new 2014 curriculum and the lessons will work with any age group but are designed for KS2.
7 lesson unit including an editable MTP plus 7 separate lesson packs. Everything you need for a half term's worth of engaging and original art and DT is here, matching perfectly with any Space or planet Earth topic and the 2014 curriculum.
We have endeavoured to use: new, unconventional, creative and modern ideas that will really engage children, but also use familiar materials for teachers that are common to all schools or easy to obtain. Children will build, discuss, design, plan, create and evaluate throughout, as they construct 3D models and 2D art including the unit's culmination: a study of the Earth's structure leading onto a lesson full of experimentation, creativity, challenge and purpose.
Every lesson has cross-curricula elements including: reading comprehension, writing, geography and science plus a reflective self-evaluation sheet. This whole unit is easy to teach, rewarding and will provide many items that children will treasure for a long time. Adaptable for KS1
Save over 64% with this huge bundle of engaging, creative and cross-curricula learning all based around a local area study from The Future Teacher Foundation.
This bundle will compliment and enhance your teaching and learning, and has been put together to allow you lots of flexibility in how you teach - enabling you to adapt resources to suit your class' specific needs.
Contains
- a full 6 lesson art/creative unit
- 4 writing lessons that can EACH be stretched out for a few days if you like ;)
- 2 awesome, complete project-based learning packs containing nearly 25 worksheets between them.
This bundle has such a wide variety of learning opportunities and skills for children to learn and develop that add a new, modern twist on studying a local area including but not limited to: art & design, writing, speaking & listening, group work, research, creative thinking, self & peer assessment and PSHE to name but a few!
This bundle will really add some fun, engaging and creative flair to your local area study topic or learning.
All images either released through creative commons CC 1.0 or owned by The Future Teacher Foundation.
This 6 lesson unit comes with an editable MTP plus 6 separate lesson packs. We have endeavoured to use: new, unconventional, creative and modern ideas that will really engage children, but also use familiar materials for teachers that are common to all schools or easy to obtain.
Children will build, discuss, design, plan, create and evaluate throughout, as they construct 3D models including a flint axe, a mask and a Stone Age cave. 2D art includes an impressive Skara Brae scene and a lesson full of experimentation involving studying animal fur. Every lesson has some cross-curricula elements including: reading comprehension, writing, and of course history plus they all come with a custom reflective self-evaluation sheet, all designed to perfectly compliment the new 2014 curriculum.
This whole unit is easy to teach, rewarding and will provide many items that children will treasure for a long time. Adaptable for KS1.
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If you are teaching Stone Age to Iron Age then this versatile bundle will slot easily into your planning and provide you with a wealth of engaging, creative and cross-curricular resources that your class will love!
Includes a bestselling and top-rated complete 6 lesson Art and DT unit plus a rich variety of other cross-curricular resources.
All images either copyright owned by tftf or licensed through Creative Commons C.O
12 complete lesson packs containing everything you need to begin the teaching of ancient civilizations.
Each lesson will last for a few hours at least! This will provide you with a vast amount of independent learning that your class will thank you for as contained within are some truly engaging learning experiences.
Civilizations covered include Ancient Sumer, Ancient Greece, Ancient Egypt and The Shang Dynasty of Ancient China.