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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.
This fantastic, fun, challenging, cross-curricula lesson is packed with learning and has elements of: computing, history, writing and speaking and listening, built into a lesson centred around independent learning and research. Children will be using and applying the historical learning they acquire creatively, as they work through the challenges of the lesson. An optional competitive element, combined with the fun of potentially becoming a Time Detective (and earning a Time Detective badge) create added motivation and increased engagement towards the learning. Children research in a holistic way building up a bigger picture of life the time period and then present their creations providing you with an assessment opportunity and a chance to decide the winners. The lesson ideal for either the beginning, middle or end of a history topic or unit. Can be done in an hour but better over two, contains starter and plenary. Made for KS2 but accessible to more able KS1 and less able KS3
This fantastic, fun, challenging, cross-curricula lesson is packed with learning and has elements of: computing, history, writing and speaking and listening, built into a lesson centred around independent learning and research. Children will be using and applying the historical learning they acquire creatively, as they work through the challenges of the lesson. An optional competitive element, combined with the fun of potentially becoming a Time Detective (and earning a Time Detective badge) create added motivation and increased engagement towards the learning. Children research in a holistic way building up a bigger picture of life the time period and then present their creations providing you with an assessment opportunity and a chance to decide the winners. The lesson ideal for either the beginning, middle or end of a history topic or unit. Can be done in an hour but better over two, contains starter and plenary. Made for KS2 but accessible to more able KS1 and less able KS3
Complete lesson with starter, teaching input and peer-assessment based plenary all on the included PowerPoint. Children discuss, plan and then create writing based upon an inspiring, historical story starter writing prompt. The planning sheet asks thought provoking questions ensuring an original, well thought out piece of cross-curricula writing that is full of their own ideas. Other writing genres can also be applied to the plan. Suitable for big writing, creative writing, assessment, moderation or just a regular English lesson. There is also a creative drawing sheet included and lined writing sheet. Variable length: can be done in 1 hr or extended to nearer 2 hrs if required. Children will also practice empathy skills and have the opportunity to demonstrate their historical knowledge.
Designed to be adaptable and flexible in length to suit your needs, this challenging yet engaging mini-project contains 11 separate and complete (mostly worksheet based) activities for your class to undertake that result in them designing their own website.
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 or linked to a topic as part of your MTP (1 or 2 worksheets a lesson).
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 KS2, and to provide engagement and challenge for even the brightest members of the class whilst being accessible to all. Suitable also for KS3.
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We love this resource! 15 pages of engaging and fun 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.
Enlarge them to A3 or bigger and get your class to collaborate together creatively too. You can then get them to write about what they have done and explain the creative decisions they had to make.
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* 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.
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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.
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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).
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*SAVE 33% - Contains OVER 100 Pages!*
This bundle contains a rich variety of inspiring learning experiences specifically designed to excite and engage boys with their writing.
Engagement = Motivation = Better Quality Writing :)
A range of key skills that often hinder boys' progress with their writing are addressed in this bundle plus a wide range of stimuli material that is guaranteed to spark their interest into producing some writing that they can be proud of.
You will never be short of teaching materials with this bundle as many of the individual resources take at least a whole day to complete!!!
Many lessons and resources combine artistic elements or offer art/drawing-based routes into engaging boys with writing.
If you are doing intervention work, SEN groups or 1-1, are the English or writing co-ordinator, a leader or simply know that the boys in your class need a bit of a boost with their writing then this bundle could be just what you need to add a bit of spark.
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*64% OFF* This huge bundle of resources includes 18 of our most popular and bestselling resources and lessons: potentially weeks of learning!
Treat your class or school to a a massive amount of truly engaging, creative and cross-curricular learning suitable to match any topic, unit or learning to do with:
- Planet Earth
- Our World
- Living Things
- Earth and Space
Each resource contains many cross-curricular elements, and subjects covered include: English, Science, geography, creative writing, reading, art, DT, sculpture, drawing, I.T & computing, poetry and much, much more all designed to match the "new" National Curriculum in England and Wales.
Your class will learn and develop such a wide variety of skills with this pack and all in an incredibly engaging and creative way that they will never forget.
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SAVE 36% - Hours of engaging, cross-curricula learning for your class containing dozens of Mayan activities
7 separate lesson packs plus an assortment of other useful Mayan related activities and sheets
Contains:
- Chichen Itza Art lesson (up to 3 lessons)
- Create your own Mayan creative/big writing stimuli (up to 3 lessons)
- Mayan scary day creative/big writing stimuli lesson (2 hours)
- Mayan Time Detectives (holistic research-2 hours)
- Mayan Time Detectives clothing and possessions (2 hours)
- Mayan calendars 1-2hrs
- Mayan hieroglyphics 1hr-90mins
- Mini-Mayan colouring book
- 2 word search activities + answers
- Mayan bordered writing and blank pages
Lessons come with full teachers' notes (except Mayan calendars) and everything you need to teach the lesson
See individual listings on the TES for more information, or view our full range of over 188 Gold Standard TES Resources https://www.tes.com/teaching-resources/shop/TheFutureTeacherFoundation
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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.
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This beautifully illustrated 24 page colouring book contains lovely, wholesome colouring pictures of all the things Key Stage 1 girls love, with each picture having the perfect level of detail and challenge for children in KS1.
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...
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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.
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Designed so that you are never stuck for another idea for a primary art lesson ever again in your career - and at a massive discount!
Everything is ready-to-teach and super easy for any teacher, and all the activities and lessons will be loved by any primary age children.
Lessons cover a wide range of topics, skills and materials which means that they can be taught at any time of a school year or easily adapted to meet your planning, topic or learning focus.
Buy with confidence from a bestselling TES Gold Tiered Author
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***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.
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.
If you are looking for creative writing resources and prompts then look no further as these wonderful lessons have been designed to inspire the most reluctant of writers!
This huge bundle contains all of the creative writing topics created by bestselling TES authors, The Future Teacher Foundation.
The unique planning sheets contained mean children have the time and opportunity to fully develop their ideas before writing, making the actual writing process alot easier - this technique has since been copied many times as it is so effective for creative writing.
Every resource can be applied to any writing genre or style that you want, and each lessons comes with a PowerPoint, starter, plenary, planning worksheets, creative activities, teachers'notes and much more, meaning that each lesson can last for a whole day or more, if you want it to.
At The Future Teacher Foundation, we take creativity very seriously (well, in a fun way!) and you can find many more resources which inspire and develop creative thinking by clicking this link to view our complete range of bestselling resources..
This useful KS1 Writing Resources Bundle has been created to provide you with a wide variety of resources that will help little learners to improve their writing.
Created by bestselling TES authors, The Future Teacher Foundation, the bundle includes: handwriting practice, SPaG lessons, creative writing prompt lessons and even a colouring book which can be used to inspire writing.
If you are looking to engage and inspire your little writers with some unique and fun KS1 writing resources then look no further - buy this bundle today!
KS2 SPaG Resources Bundle is designed to make this often dry area of learning engaging and inspiring for KS2 children and teachers!
Bought to you by bestselling TES authors, The Future Teacher Foundation, this huge bundle contains a wide variety of complete lessons and resources providing superb value.
