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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.
Our creative topics and their springboard stories...
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