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with children’s storybook Ranjit's Rainbow Tigers by Tracy Kewley
with illustrations by Jessica Knight
The topic of Traders opens up an exotic world, rich in stories, ideas and exploration and our story Ranjit’s Rainbow Tigers, leads the way.
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with children’s storybook Ranjit's Rainbow Tigers by Tracy Kewley
with illustrations by Jessica Knight
The topic of Traders opens up an exotic world, rich in stories, ideas and exploration and our story Ranjit’s Rainbow Tigers, leads the way.
Use How the platypus got his shape story to get children creatively engaged with number, algebra, sets and symmetry with some great contextual maths.
Invite each year group or class to prepare a short presentation on an Australia theme and you’ve got a whole week’s worth of assemblies.
Make the most of the outdoors and act out parts of the platypus story in the sunshine.
Letting children explore the myriad of roles involved in making a film gives them critical insight into just what goes into making their favourite blockbuster.
Get out your clapsticks and shakers and create your own Australia-inspired music in class.
Creating your own weird wildlife with this collaborative ‘Creature consequences’ lesson.
Use our short radio play and visual resources to set the scene and whet children’s appetite to find out more about the explorer Captain James Cook.
Turn your class into super sleuths with an enlightening fact-finding mission that will really get their ‘little grey cells’ working.
How the platypus got his shape paves the way for some useful circle time discussion.
Try out these ideas to help your class understand the idea of narrative and to ensure that they get to grips with character, plot and setting.
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You’ll be amazed at the quality of writing that recreating an Australian landscape in your school inspires.
Nikky Smedley tells the tale of A Thumping Great Rabbit in front of a Year 2 class from Brookhurst Primary School in Warwickshire.
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Poems for learning by heart, poems for performance but, best of all, poems to inspire.
Cut out the caterpillar cards and place a piece of double-sided sticky tape across each caterpillar. Ask the children to sticky tiny samples of woodland materials onto the caterpillar.
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Rosa Franklin (namesake of famous female DNA scientist Rosalind Franklin) wants to fit in at school, but who should change, her or her friends?
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Look back at two extraordinary women, mathematician, Ada Lovelace and her portrait painter Victorian artist Margaret Sarah Carpenter.
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Use this short story as an example of the Spy plot plan resource in action.
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Working out a plot for a spy story might feel daunting but a good plan will keep children on track.
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These spy profile sheets will help children think about what qualities make a great spy hero and conversely the antagonist sheets will help hone their villains.
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Demonstrate to children that human bodies are 'perfect' with these 'Golden ratio' resources.
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Rosa’s code has some truly tricky spellings – use this list of words from the story to help master them.
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Get on the road to cracking code with Ben Waldram's fantastically satisfying maths lesson.
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Use these experiment write-up sheets when doing any hands-on science work.
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Use this handy semaphore reference when transmitting your long-distance communications across the playground or sports field.
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Can the children work out the hieroglyphic characters names on their 'Who am I?' sheets?
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A spy theme is perfect for your avid and reluctant readers. Get them thinking like a spy with this spy questionnaire.
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Explore how some characters in a story stay the same all the way through and how some characters change and grow.
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Perfect for road safety assemblies or use alongside ‘Codes rule’ from the Codes topic.
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Our editable playscript in drama activities or for a full-scale production.
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These fact cards are a great start to any research project. Use them to investigate DNA, Alan Turing, the Rosetta Stone and Ada Lovelace.
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Our codes fact card templates make great class displays and are perfect for children to use when presenting their fact findings to the class.
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These image-only fact cards will help with investigating DNA, Alan Turing, the Rosetta Stone and Ada Lovelace.
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Our image only ‘Storytelling prompts’ for Rosa’s code are the perfect accompaniment to your storytelling lessons.
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Our ‘Storytelling prompts’ for Rosa’s code are the perfect accompaniment to your storytelling lessons. These prompts come with keywords.
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Our ‘Storytelling prompts’ with keyword phrases for Rosa’s codes are the perfect accompaniment to your storytelling lessons.
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Celebrate the joys of individuality and talk about some of the issues arising from Rosa's Code.
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Get children investigating numbers with this Alphabet number decoder resource.
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Use this Codebreakers-themed 10x10 multiplication grid.
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A partner resource, to be used in conjunction with the 'Hieroglyphic puzzle slideshow'.
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Can you tell a story without using words or letters and without telling the story out loud? This tricky but fun activity will demonstrate the
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Go back in time and imagine the tales told on the walls of Ancient Egypt.
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Reward your KS1 storytellers for their Rosa’s code storytelling with this themed certificate.
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Reward your KS2 storytellers for their Rosa’s code storytelling with this themed certificate.
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