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The Future Teacher Foundation

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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.

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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.
End of Term MEGA Bundle. Creative, Cross-Curricular & Fun!
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End of Term MEGA Bundle. Creative, Cross-Curricular & Fun!

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Treat yourself and your class to easily 2 weeks of ready prepared learning, lessons and activities - everything you need is included! Bundle saves 68% of separate selling price. If you think that the end of terms or school years should be a bit more fun, creative, cross-curricular and practical, yet still packed with awesome learning that meets the UK national curriculum, then we have the perfect bundle for you! This huge bundle of complete lessons, projects and worksheets contains some of our most beloved resources including the type of special lessons that your class will never forget, and that are sadly being marginalised in today's data and detail obsessed education system. Creativity, imagination, thinking skills, using and applying knowledge, art, performance, team work, speaking and listening and much, much more are all on the agenda with this terrific bundle, but all wrapped up in "conventional" English, maths and topic based activities but with the added bonus of being seriously fun and engaging for children in KS2 or KS3. Step 1.Take a good look through all of the resources that are included in this bundle. Step 2. Buy the bundle and then put your feet up knowing that weeks worth of planning and preparing have been done for you by bestselling primary resource authors The Future Teacher Foundation. Happy holidays!!! :)
Thinking Skills - Creativity, Mindfulness & Imagination Bundle
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Thinking Skills - Creativity, Mindfulness & Imagination Bundle

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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.
Mindfulness for Children Bundle  66% off. Worksheets, Activities, Relaxation Music, Colouring + More
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Mindfulness for Children Bundle 66% off. Worksheets, Activities, Relaxation Music, Colouring + More

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NOW PRICE REDUCED by 66% previously £30 - Mindfulness for Children - is a HUGE resource that can be used for any children aged 5 -13 (price reduced to enable accessibility for all). The product contains a wide variety of worksheets, activities, relaxation music for children, audio and colouring that are all designed to encourage the development of mindfulness in children aged between 5 - 13+. Product contains: Mindful Activities for Children eBook – Fun, re-usable activities written in child-friendly language that encourage mindfulness and emotional intelligence, many of which can be completed independently. Suggestions for classroom use can be found on the contents page including worksheets suitable for homework. 5 Track Relaxation Music for Children Mp3 Album + a Continuous Mp3 Mix of the Album – Created to appeal to children using child-friendly sounds and musical forms designed to subconsciously relax and calm. Comes with listening and visualisation exercises that can be found in the Mindful Activities for Children eBook. Guided Mindfulness Meditation Mp3 Audio – Relaxing spoken word, mindfulness and visualisation audio, set to relaxation music. Mindfulness Colouring eBook for Children – The #1 Mindfulness Colouring Book for Children in the World. Mindfulness Colouring eBook for Children 2 – Beautiful, calming colouring pages that can be used over-and-over again. All components of the pack are designed to work together and be used in conjunction with each other for a well-balanced approach to mindful development. This product also encourages children to develop a wide range of other skills that will benefit them now and in their future lives including: empathy, emotional intelligence, calming down skills, social skills, listening, meditation, breathing techniques and gratitude. Some of the activities are related to common issues children face when in school, allowing them the time and space to understand and then develop and implement their own mindful strategies for coping with the difficulties of school life. All images either copyright owned by The Future Teacher Foundation 2016, licensed via Creative Commons 1.0 or sourced via ShutterStock and used with full permission for this product. All Relaxation Music for Children is Copyright owned by The Future Teacher Foundation 2016. All colouring books and The Mindful Activities for Children eBook are the intellectual property of The Future Teacher Foundation 2016. You are purchasing a single user version of this product that cannot be copied or distributed and can only be used for your class and personal use.
Project Based Learning (PBL) Creative and Cross-Curricular - Engaging, Practical and Super Fun
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Project Based Learning (PBL) Creative and Cross-Curricular - Engaging, Practical and Super Fun

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*Save 33% off the separate selling price! * Perfect for past SATs learning in Y6 This Bundle Contains 67 separate worksheets with many, many activities across 6 separate highly creative, project based learning packs. Each pack is incredibly engaging for children and so easy to teach, as they have been designed for independent learning - simply print and teach (let your class get on with it!) The packs can be completed in one whole day as a group or pair project, or stretched out for as long as you want - there are so many options for how you teach with these engaging cross-curricular packs. Perfect for stretching your class' brains out in wonderful and creative new directions with real-life practical tasks. The Future Teacher Foundation are advocates of Project Based Learning (PBL), Cross-Curricular Learning, Independent Learning and Engagement-Based Learning - all of which are included in this bundle (along with a whole host of other thinking, writing and learning opportunities). All images either released through creative commons CC 1.0 or owned by The Future Teacher Foundation.
Local Area Study Cross-Curricula and Creative  Learning Bundle for KS2
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Local Area Study Cross-Curricula and Creative Learning Bundle for KS2

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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. All images either released through creative commons CC 1.0 or owned by The Future Teacher Foundation.
Well Being & Mental Health Pack for Primary Pupils. Calming, PSHE, SEAL Mindfulness Bundle SAVE 25%
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Well Being & Mental Health Pack for Primary Pupils. Calming, PSHE, SEAL Mindfulness Bundle SAVE 25%

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Save 25% off the separate selling price by purchasing this huge bundle of primary age resources that will reap benefits for you and your classes for years to come. Teach essential life skills that also create a harmonious classroom with a 6 unit friendship skills complete unit plus further complete lessons on empathy, coping with anger and self-esteem including identifying areas of development. Bundle also contains both of our popular Mindfulness Colouring Books for Children (one of which has been recommended by the TES Resource team with a 5 star rating - and the other is easily just as good if not better!) over 80 pages of professional, stylish and calming colouring. These books go hand-in-hand with our professionally produced guided meditation relaxation audio which is also included. Get your class to close their eyes as they are taken on a spoken word guided visualisation journey set to relaxation music - perefct for calming a class after break time or any other over-excitement. Relaxation audio also included by itself. The final product is a personal favourite of ours entitled Mindfulness Colouring and Creativty Book for Children. Taking inspiration from the anti-colouring books but focusing on enhancing and developing specific creative thinking abilities in children of all ages with fun artistic challenges that your class will love. Hours upon hours of engaging, creative, calming and beautiful learning that will last a lifetime for your class. All images either soured via CCO 1.0 Universal license, from openclipart.org or owned by tftf. Music licensed by creator for this product. Spoken word and resources copyright tftf.
Mindfulness Colouring and Creativity Book for Children: Free Sample: Golden Time After School Club
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Mindfulness Colouring and Creativity Book for Children: Free Sample: Golden Time After School Club

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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
Mindfulness Colouring Book for Children 2 - Includes Mindfulness Activity for Children
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Mindfulness Colouring Book for Children 2 - Includes Mindfulness Activity for Children

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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.
Mindfulness for Children - Calming Guided Mindfulness Meditation Visualisation + Relaxation Music
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Mindfulness for Children - Calming Guided Mindfulness Meditation Visualisation + Relaxation Music

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Designed to calm your class and improve concentration, learning and behaviour. Contains - Professionally produced 6 minute guided mindfulness/meditation visualization MP3 audio (320 kbps) - designed to calm children and refocus their minds ready for learning. Great before maths or after a wet break time! - 6 minute (music only) relaxation MP3 audio (320 kbps) These powerful tools are only just beginning to be utilised in the primary school classroom. Be amongst the first to introduce audio as a teaching resource to improve learning, mindfulness and behaviour. Music licensed from copyright owner for this product. Spoken word copyright tftf.
Mindfulness for Children. Calming Behaviour Management, Meditation, 2x MP3 Audio + 40 Page Book
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Mindfulness for Children. Calming Behaviour Management, Meditation, 2x MP3 Audio + 40 Page Book

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***NOW JUST £1***Designed to calm your class and improve concentration, learning and behaviour. Contains - Professionally produced 6 minute guided mindfulness/meditation visualization MP3 audio (320 kbps) - designed to calm children and refocus their minds ready for learning. Great before maths or after a wet break time! - 40 page mindfulness colouring book for children. Ready to print. - 6 minute (music only) relaxation MP3 audio (320 kbps) This product has been refined over a number of years and is tried and tested to calm children down and get them in the right frame of mind for learning. Also improves creativity, contentment, ability to focus and progress. This could be your secret weapon for teaching! Perfect for SEN and suitable for ages 5-11+ All images sourced via creative commons 1.0. Music licensed from copyright owner for this product. Spoken word copyright tftf.
KS2 PSHE SEAL Lesson (or Assembly) Good to Be Me: Self Esteem and Being Balanced
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KS2 PSHE SEAL Lesson (or Assembly) Good to Be Me: Self Esteem and Being Balanced

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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. All images either sourced from openclipart.org or owned by tftf.
Mini-Project 12 Activities: Design a New Charity. Cross-Curricula Engaging Challenging
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Mini-Project 12 Activities: Design a New Charity. Cross-Curricula Engaging Challenging

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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.
KS2 PSHE Friendship Skills Complete PSHE SEAL 6 Lesson Unit: Creative and Cross-Curricula
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KS2 PSHE Friendship Skills Complete PSHE SEAL 6 Lesson Unit: Creative and Cross-Curricula

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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. Find more PSHE, SEAL and Mindfulness Resources at our TES shop https://www.tes.com/teaching-resources/shop/TheFutureTeacherFoundation Please don't forget to keep up to date with our education and teaching resources news by joining nearly 3000 of your fellow educators in "LIKING" our Facebook page too :) https://www.facebook.com/thefutureteacherfoundation All images either owned by tftf or released through Creative Commons C.O
Friendship Skills KS2 PSHE & SEAL Complete Lesson: End of Unit
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Friendship Skills KS2 PSHE & SEAL Complete Lesson: End of Unit

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This lesson is designed to be used at the end of a unit of work all about friendship skills (which is also available as a complete package from this site). Contains starter, plenary and 3 gorgeous activities that could potentially change the lives of the children in your class as they reflect on and demonstrate their knowledge. Perfect for transitioners and Year 6's needing a boost before they go to new schools.
Friendship Skills - Engaging & Potentially Beautiful KS2 PSHE and SEAL Complete Lesson
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Friendship Skills - Engaging & Potentially Beautiful KS2 PSHE and SEAL Complete Lesson

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Children will learn how to maintain friendships when circumstances change. Starter, plenary, learning activity introductions, linked videos and questioning all included on the PowerPoint. Main learning activity involves children writing to each other in a way that could be treasured for a very long time by the children - creating a memorable and magical lesson full of very useful learning for their future lives.
Friendship Skills, Philosophy and Drama all in one KS2 Complete PSHE and SEAL Lesson
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Friendship Skills, Philosophy and Drama all in one KS2 Complete PSHE and SEAL Lesson

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This intriguing lesson is designed to stimulate deep thought and discussion, exploring the issues of our choices, our nature and the idea of taking responsibility for our actions. Children are introduced to the idea of the moment of choice and see how they can make better choices with their friendships and in social situations. Contains philosophical questions in response to a video stimuli that will spark intriguing discussions. These discussions lead on to a creative drama activity that explores the idea of making the right choice. Complete lesson with starter, plenary, learning activities, questions and resources all included.
Friendship & Social Skills KS2 SEAL and PSHE Complete Lesson
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Friendship & Social Skills KS2 SEAL and PSHE Complete Lesson

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This complete lesson comes with starter, teaching input, bbc video links, questions, discussions, learning activity introduction, extension work and plenary all on the PowerPoint. This is an easy to teach yet engaging and deeply thought provoking lesson that even includes open-ended philosophical questions for your class to ponder (these are optional). Children learn all about what is really important in friendships and how to keep a friendship then demonstrate their learning by blending English skills with their knowledge of the objective, before solving a problem requiring creative thinking for the extension work.
Coping with Anger - KS1 or KS2 Complete Lesson for SEAL & PSHE with Cross-Curricula Elements
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Coping with Anger - KS1 or KS2 Complete Lesson for SEAL & PSHE with Cross-Curricula Elements

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Lots of discussion and 3 engaging videos help to make these vital life skills accessible to all children. Children will first define anger, understand triggers and then learn techniques for controlling their anger. Starter, input and plenary all included on the PowerPoint and the lesson comes with 2 creative, fun learning activities. Especially great for SEN or if your class are having difficulty with social and emotional issues or just for promoting emotional intelligence.
FriendShip Skills: What Makes a Good Friend & Friendship Wrong Choices KS1 KS2 PSHE & SEAL Lesson
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FriendShip Skills: What Makes a Good Friend & Friendship Wrong Choices KS1 KS2 PSHE & SEAL Lesson

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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.