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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.
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
Mindfulness Colouring Book for Children - Calm, Refocus and Motivate your Class
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Mindfulness Colouring Book for Children - Calm, Refocus and Motivate your Class

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*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. All images sourced via creative commons 1.0.
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.
KS2 English KS2 Literacy: Boys Writing Bundle - Engage and Inspire KS2 Boys to Write & Learn
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KS2 English KS2 Literacy: Boys Writing Bundle - Engage and Inspire KS2 Boys to Write & Learn

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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. All images either copyright owned by The Future Teacher Foundation or licensed through Creative Commons C.0
First Day Back: Holiday/Weekend Recount + Extras
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First Day Back: Holiday/Weekend Recount + Extras

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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.
Year 5 Indicating Degrees of Possibility Using Modal Verbs. KS2 Modal Verbs Lesson
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Year 5 Indicating Degrees of Possibility Using Modal Verbs. KS2 Modal Verbs Lesson

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This bestselling resource on Indicating Degrees of Possibility Using Modal Verbs has been purchased and downloaded over 300 times! This is a fantastic complete lesson pack with everything you need to simply print and teach. Designed to meet the new 2014 curriculum, this engaging yet challenging complete lesson comes with: starter activity, fun and thorough lesson input and 2 fun plenary activities to choose from (a game and peer-assessment) all on the included PowerPoint. The enjoyable yet challenging learning activities have 3 levels of differentiation and are simply explained in the full teachers' notes, which also include answers for peer-assessment. This fantastic lesson teaches children what modal verbs are and how to use them in writing and has been created with enjoyment and challenge in equal measures. A brilliant way to easily teach a difficult learning objective. If you enjoyed this Year 5 Indicating Degrees of Possibility Using Modal Verbs lesson, we have a full range of over 188 engaging, creative and cross-curricular teaching resources that can be viewed by copying and pasting this link into your internet browser 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
The Key Stage 1 Colouring Book for Girls and Boys
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The Key Stage 1 Colouring Book for Girls and Boys

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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.
KS1 and KS2 Boys' Colouring Book - KS1 Art - KS2 Art
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KS1 and KS2 Boys' Colouring Book - KS1 Art - KS2 Art

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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.
KS2 Halloween Creative Cross-Curricula Pack - Over 40 Activities -  Fun, Modern, Engaging Learning
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KS2 Halloween Creative Cross-Curricula Pack - Over 40 Activities - Fun, Modern, Engaging Learning

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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. 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? 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
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.
Primary Art Ideas Bundle
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Primary Art Ideas Bundle

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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 All images either copyright owned by tftf or licensed through Creative Commons C.0
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!!! :)
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
Year 3 Prepositions of Cause. Easy to Teach Complete Grammar Lesson
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Year 3 Prepositions of Cause. Easy to Teach Complete Grammar Lesson

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Everything you need for a complete SPaG lesson that teaches children all about prepositions of cause. Designed to meet the new 2014 curriculum and contains: starter activity; easy to understand teaching input; learning activities and a peer-assessment plenary designed to spark discussion and increase engagement in this somewhat dry aspect of grammar! The learning activity is differentiated by the extension work. This lesson is a great way to meet the new and challenging grammar requirements for lower KS2 in an engaging and easy to teach way.
Trainee Teachers - NQTs - Aspiring Teachers - Effective Primary School Teaching Made Easy
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Trainee Teachers - NQTs - Aspiring Teachers - Effective Primary School Teaching Made Easy

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This unique and innovative pack from #1 bestselling authors in Primary Education TFTF, has been created to make effective teaching EASY. Designed to rapidly improve your teaching and easily show how all the pieces of modern primary teaching fit together to create outstanding teaching and learning. This package includes: 5 Easy-to-Read Full Colour eBooks: - Aspects of Effective Teaching - Components of an Effective Lesson - Effective Lesson Planning - Effective Lesson Templates - Introduction to Behaviour Management Report Plus How to Effectively Talk to Children examples in - Video (split into 2 parts due to the file size!) - MP3 Audio Information on: differentiation, marking and feedback, assessment, data, starters, teaching inputs, plenaries, self/peer reflection, questioning, discussion, learning objectives, success criteria, learning activities and so much more. All images copyright tftf
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.
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.
Year 3 SPaG Pack
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Year 3 SPaG Pack

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3 x complete lessons designed for year 3 grammar, spelling and writing bundled at a discount together in an easy access format with EVERYTHING you need included.
Mini-Project 12 Activities. Design Your Perfect Book. Cross-Curricula Engaging Challenging
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Mini-Project 12 Activities. Design Your Perfect Book. 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 & complete activities for your class to undertake that result in them designing a new piece of children's literature. 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, 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 or owned by tftf