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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.
Genetics can be a tricky topic to tackle with young children but educational science writer Rhys Baker explains how we can approach a subject that children are increasingly coming across in both news and fiction.
Teacher Ben Waldram shows us how to get on the road to cracking code with these challenging but achievable maths activities that are also an excellent way of assessing speaking and listening.
Take your class back in time and imagine you are amongst the very first archaeologists to come across the key to an ancient world – the Rosetta Stone.
Teacher Chris Leach shows us some excellent activities that show there’s so much more to secret codes than spies wearing trench coats.
Shhh, tell no one! Let’s face it there’s nothing more intriguing than a secret. So get ready to be ‘M’, Head of your school’s Secret Intelligence Service, and start recruiting some literacy spies.
As we explore Rosa’s code we see how children can develop skills to help them empathise with the characters they read and write about in stories.
From Roman law to programming, a topic on Codes can be very far reaching, so start at the very beginning and see where your journey takes you.
Professor Smedley of Storytelling tells us all about Space Girl, a funny and charming oral story – just perfect for drama, storytelling and art activities with younger children.
Performance poet and educator Joshua Siegal shows us how to maximise space's poetry possibilities.
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Make the world of space accessible to children by creating a planet in your playground.
Become a history detective… get on the case and time travel back to the 17th century to discover what Isaac Newton did for us. You’ll be amazed!
At the end of your Space project, children will be keen to show off their new-found knowledge – and a class assembly is the perfect way to do this.
Creating great stories is a skill that we can all develop. We tapped into the imagination of Peter Dixon, author of Space Story, and tried to extract some of his top-secret techniques for writing.
Our creative topics and their springboard stories...
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