Site Update: 29th March 2007

There have been 50 resources added to the main website and 38 new images in the photograph section.. A full list of all the new material is given below. Thanks to everyone who sent in contributions this time!

ENGLISH: Adjectival Clause Cards / Compound Words (ppt) / Instructional Writing Assessment Form / Commas for Clauses / Improve Your Writing (Synonyms) / Explanation: Making Organic Compost / Explanation: The Water Cycle / Explanation: How to Fly a Hot Air Balloon / Explanation: Recycling Glass Bottles / Y2 Individual Reading Assessment Sheets / Long and Short 'oo' (ppt) / "The Lighthouse Keeper's Lunch" Describing Words (ppt) / Persuasive Letter Writing Web / Persuasive Writing Web Template / Apostrophes and Contractions / Spelling Word Searches / First and Last CVC Sounds
MATHS: Time Tables Grid / Number Bonds to 10 Cards / Harold Goes Fishing (Subtraction) (ppt) / Checking Calculations Rocket / Rocket Colouring Investigation / Money (£ to p) Loop Cards / Timed Addition (Number Bonds to 10) / Number Patterns / Numbers in Words and Figures (4-6 Digits) / Converting Fractions to Decimals (ppt) / Converting Fractions to Percentages (ppt) / Divisibility Tests (ppt)
SCIENCE: Data for Graphs
ICT: Creating Talking Books Using Powerpoint
HISTORY: WW2 Key Words / WW2 Quiz / Victorian Inventions / Robert Burns (ppt)
RE: Chinese New Year (ppt) / Weddings
LANGUAGES: Spanish: Reward Stickers / Spanish: Witch Colour Tag / Spanish: Family Names Hidden Words
PSHE: Choosing Friends
WELSH: RE: The Last Days of Jesus (ppt) / RE: The Parable of the Sheep and the Goats (ppt)
OTHER: Matching Easter Egg Shapes / Easter Egg Data Handling / Symbols of Spring at Easter (ppt) / Easter Egg Template / Easter Egg Teen Numbers / French: Easter (ppt) / French: Easter Worksheets / Easter Maths (Smart)
PHOTOS: RE: Stations of the Cross (14), Inside Church (10) / Classroom Display Photographs: Maths (1), Science (2), PSHE (1), Other (1), RE (3), History (1), ICT (1), Art (2), MFL (1), D&T (1)

Learning Brain Europe

http://www.learningbraineurope.org/
I've been asked to give the Learning Brain Europe Conference a mention...

"Learning Brain Europe returns, following its hugely successful launch in 2005.

Run by teachers passionate about raising achievement, the event brings key mind-friendly learning experts together for a conference unique in Europe.

Join us to discover new facts on brain research and their impact on learning; and take away practical strategies to make learning more effective in YOUR classroom.

4th - 5th June, Oxford
7th - 9th June, Harrogate
The programme and speakers will be the same at both venues."

It looks like they've got some great speakers due to appear including Spencer Kagan, Ian Gilbert and (the always entertaining technology guru) Russell Prue.

BebWeb

http://www.bebweb.co.uk/
Higher Bebington Junior School teacher Doug Stitcher has asked me to give his resources site a mention. It includes lots of Flash games created by Doug and his students as well as links to other websites.

Easter Resources

http://www.primaryresources.co.uk/other/other2.htm#easter
I received quite a few contributions to our Easter section this weekend. I've put the new additions up early, rather than wait until the main update at the end of the week, so teachers can use the resources before the Easter break starts.

I'll keep this page updated with any new material I receive so, if you've produced anything Easter related then please feel free to send it in!

(Note: More religious Easter material is in the RE/Christianity section of the site)

Creating Talking Books

(Link Here)
Jonathan White has sent me details of the great video tutorial that he's put together on how to create a talking book in MS Powerpoint 2003. You can see it by clicking on the link to the Video Jug website above. I've also put a copy of his written instructions into the next update of Primary Resources. Jonathan also mentioned the excellent free guide on talking books in powerpoint that's available from the Ace Centre charity website.

Site Update: 23rd March 2007

It's a smaller update this week than usual but there has still been over 40 resources added to the main website. A full list of all the new material is given below. Thanks to everyone who sent in contributions this time!

ENGLISH: Silent Letters (ppt) / Mashed Potato Instructions (Imperative Verbs) / Homophones / Features of Myths (ppt) / TV Access Debate / Embedded Clauses / Embedded Clauses (Smart) / Nursery Rhymes (Smart) / Formal Letters / Deforestation Role Play Cards (Persuasive Writing)
MATHS: Count the Shoes in 2s (ppt) / Aeroplane Race Ordinals / Cheque Book (Numbers in Words) (xls) / Rounding to the Nearest 10 / Units and Estimation / Ordering Measurements / Fractions of Recipes / Shade the Fraction / Rounding after Division Word Problems / Averages (ppt) / Calculating Probabilities (ppt)
SCIENCE: Muffling Sound (ppt) / Floating and Sinking / Classifying Animals / Dairy Products / Changing State Display / The Human Circulatory System (ppt) / Bones and X-Rays (Smart)
ICT: Birds Spreadsheet
HISTORY: Henry VIII's Problems / Ancient Egypt WWtbaM (ppt)
GEOGRAPHY: Types of Houses / Rivers Quiz / Use of Water (ppt)
D&T: Fruit Salad Booklet
FOUNDATION: "I Can" Sentences
PSHE: Safe Choices (ppt)
WELSH: Colour Words / Weather Words / Colour Stars
OTHER: Award Certificates

Site Update: 16th March 2007

Another 70 resources have been added to the main website this time. A full list of all the new material is given below. Thanks to everyone who sent in contributions this week!

ENGLISH: Alien Adjectives Story / Contractions / Asking Questions / Features of an Effective Advert / Punctuation Ditty / Book Report Framework / "oy" or "oi"? / Little Miss Muffet Paragraphs (ppt) / Making Plurals (ppt) / BFG Direct Speech (ppt) / Apostrophes (Possession and Contraction) / Adding -er (Smart) / Adding -est (Smart) / Goldilocks Wanted Poster / Horror/Suspense Editing and Publishing / 'Two Witches Discuss Good Grooming' Comprehension / Writing Slogans / The Tunnel / Confusing Words / Discursive Writing: Pets (ppt)
MATHS: Add or Subtract Near Multiples of 10 & 100 Loop Cards / Pictograms (Smart) / Equivalent Fraction Cards / Toy Shop Money (3 Levels) / Treasure Hunt Coordinates Game / Straight and Curved Sides (Venn Diagram) / Appropriate Units of Length / Multiplication and Division Methods Poster / Fractions Poster / Shortest to Tallest / Y4 T1 U6 Perimeter (Activ) / Y4 T1 U1 Place Value (Activ) / Y4 T1 Y2 Addition and Subtraction (Activ) / Y4 T1 U4 Reasoning About Shape (Activ) / Fairy Tale Estimation (ppt) / Division Using a Numberline (Smart) / Division by Chunking (Smart) / Y4 T2 Reasoning About Numbers and Shapes (Smart) / Number Sequences (Smart) / Think of a Number / Perimeter (ppt) / Bigger or Smaller? (ppt) / Addition Problems (Smart) / Angles in a Triangle (Smart) / Difference Between Positive and Negatives Numbers (Smart) / Finding the Mean (Smart) / Money Problems (Smart) / Multiplying Decimals (Smart) / Shape Sequences (Smart) / Y4 T1 U8 Number Sequences and Reasoning about Numbers (Activ) / Y4 T1 U9 Multiplication (Activ) / Y4 T1 U11 Fractions and Decimals (Activ) / Y4 T1 U12 Addition and Subtraction (& Time) (Activ) / Y4 T1 U13 Handling Data (Activ)
SCIENCE: Kitchen Conductors and Insulators / "Keeping Warm" Vocabulary / Sunrise and Sunset / Unit 4E Friction Assessment / Let's Investigate! (ppt)
D&T: Design and Make a Musical Instrument / Musical Instruments Booklet / Biscuits Planning / Biscuits Booklet
RE: Signs and Symbols of Judaism
MUSIC: Sounds Interesting (ppt)
LANGUAGES: French: Make an Opinions Poster (ppt)
PSHE: Why Should we Recycle?
OTHER: Behaviour Checklist
ASSEMBLY: Mother's Day Class Assembly

Animal Collectives

http://www.askoxford.com/asktheexperts/collective/
These pages from the Ask Oxford site contain a huge of collective of terms for groups of animals. There's everything from an army of ants to a cohort of zebras. It would be very useful for those looking at collective nouns.

Prime Number Posters

Click here for the link.
I thought I'd give Adrian Bruce's excellent website another mention here as he's just put up a nice little collection of prime number posters. They've been designed to go on his class 'mathematics wall' to help his students remember some of the important information about primes. Adrian is planning to produce more posters as the year progresses so it's worth keeping an eye on his blog.

Site Update: 9th March 2007

Over 70 new resources have once again been added to the main website this week. See the list below for details of all the new files that have been added in this update. Thanks to everyone who sent in contributions!

ENGLISH: Dictionary Guide Words / Silent Letters / Compound Words / The Gingerbread Man (ppt) / Connectives Display / Y6 Poetry Resource Pack / Suspense Story / Tessie and the Kittens (Prepositions) (ppt) / A Busy Day (Present Tense) (ppt)
MATHS: Numeracy Vocabulary / Reflections in a Mirror Line / Reflective Symmetry (Perpendicular Mirror Lines) / Colour Fractions of Shapes / Place Value / Double and Halve by Partitioning (ppt) / Halving to 12 (Smart) / Days of the Week (ppt) / Reading Timetables (ppt) / Multiply & Divide 1/2dp Loop Cards / Properties of 2D and 3D Shapes (ppt) / Ordering Decimals (Money) / Multiplication Questions / Odd and Even Display Sheet / Ordinal Number Rosettes Display / Fractions 1: Mixed Numbers (ppt) / Fractions 2: Improper Fractions (ppt) / Fractions 3: Equivalent Fractions (ppt) / Fractions 4: Simplifyng Fractions (ppt) / Fractions 5: Fractions of Whole Numbers (ppt) / Fractions 6: Adding Fractions (ppt) / Number Blast Addition (ppt) / Time to Times (ppt) / Coin Matching / Coins to Prices / Measure with Money / Adding 2 Groups / Adding 1 More / Number "Flash" Cards / Commutative Multiplication / Multiplication Jeopardy (ppt) / Y5 T2 U11 Reasoning About Numbers (ppt) / Ladybird Mystery Sums
SCIENCE: Teeth Investigation / Materials (ppt) / Floating & Sinking (ppt) / Y6 Healthy Eating (ppt) / Balanced Diet Assembly / Teeth Assembly
HISTORY: Henry VIII: 1 - Introduction (ppt) / Henry VIII: 2 - The Wives (ppt) / Henry VIII: 3 - Catherine of Aragon (ppt) / Henry VIII: 5 - Anne of Cleves (ppt) / Henry VIII: 6 - Quiz (ppt) / Henry VIII Medium Term Planning / Wives Sequence Cards / Henry VIII Marriage Timeline / Henry VIII Worksheet / History of Britain Timeline / WWII Poster Task
GEOGRAPHY: Journery of a River Comprehension / River Model/Picture Assessment / Transport (ppt) / Africa Worksheet / Weather Research Project / The United Kingdom
D&T: Vehicles
LANGUAGES: French: Classroom Layout (ppt)
OTHER: 10 Second Timer
ASSEMBLY: Harvest Assembly Script (Flying Pizza) / Rubbish and Litter

Roy the Zebra

http://www.roythezebra.com/
This great site provides access to a nine-part online story, Roy: Tale of a Singing Zebra. It's wonderfully illustrated and has been designed for use as a guided reading text for Key Stage 1. Each part of the story is accompanied by guided reading questions and activity sheets. There's also a super collection of interactive literacy games and even some songs based on the characters in the story.

(At the time of writing the site is offering the chance to win £100 (or US$200) of Amazon vouchers to users who complete the site survey.)

Early ICT

http://www.kented.org.uk/ngfl/earlyict
This is another of the excellent mini-sites from the Kent NGfL. It contains loads of resources for using ICT in an Early Years classroom in a meaningful, beneficial way. There's games to download, ICT ideas for the most popular topics and a great collection of weblinks.

NatureGrid

http://www.naturegrid.org.uk
I've mentioned some of the sites that make up Canterbury Envionmental Education Centre's wondeful NatureGrid resource in the blog before.

The most famous of these sites is Sebastian Swan's Infant Explorer which was created by Kent teachers and includes wonderful KS1-targetted big books, teachers' & parents' pages, science links and lots of Literacy lesson plans and resources. Sebastian even has his own weblog!

The NatureGrid site has absolutely loads of other nature and habit themed pages. There's material on ponds, woodlands, grasslands, plants and rivers. There's a section on art, the Eco-Explorer sustainability website and also web quests that involve locating answers to questions using NatureGrid.

NatureGrid includes annotated QCA units of work that demonstrate where and when the websites can support learning. This site shows how well environmental centres, local teachers and council advisors can work together to produce material that can help educate students across the country.

Site Update: 2nd March 2007

Over 70 new resources have been added to the main website this week along with 50 new images in the photograph section. Full details are below. Thanks for all the contributions!

ENGLISH: Adjective Cards / Apostrophe Snap / "Grace and Family" Comprehension / Writing an Argument as a Letter (ppts, planning and worksheets) / Writing to Persuade Planning / a or l? / d or g? / a or m? / h / c or o? / m / c, a, d, o, g, l / -ag -an -ap -at / -an, -ag or -at? / Homophones / they-there, where-were / their or there? / too, two or to? / Emotion Senses Poem / Adverb Poem / Using Adjectives / Boring Verbs and Ordinary Adjectives / Adverbs / Conjunctions / Too many 'and's and 'then's / Too many 'and's / Change the Verb ("got") / The Picnic (Basic Sentences) / Trimming Sentences -y / Possessive Apostrophes (ppt) / Bloom's Reading Activities (ppt) / The Six Question Types (ppt)
MATHS: Ratio and Proportion Word Problems (ppt) / Fractions Decimals Percentages Display / Fractions of Sets / Multiplication (Arrays) (ppt) / Number Puzzles (ppt) / Solving Puzzles Y1/2 / Units of Measurement Test / Estimate Questions / Y3 & 4 ICT Links to Numeracy / Weight Conversion / Jam Ratio / Working out 60% / Working out 90% / Decimals to Percentages (PV grid) / Decimals to Percentages (100 Square) / Angles in Shapes / Y2 Money Word Problems (HA) / Percentages of 3 Digit Numbers / Finding Percentages / Countdown (Smart) / Multiplication and Division Rules
SCIENCE: Y6 (SATs) Science Revision (Activ) / Hibernation (ppt) / Y6 Science Pupil Self'Assessment Tick Sheet / Recognise Factors in a Given Test
HISTORY: Roman Timeline / Remembrance Day / Henry VIII Assessment / Tudor Exploration Assessment / Hampton Court Palace Trip Booklet
GEOGRAPHY: A Village iN Rural Pakistan Planning / Jamaica Assessment
ART: Unit 6a: People in Action Planning / Unit 5b: Containers Planning / Unit 6c: A Sense of Place Planning
D&T: Packaging (ppt)
PSHE: First Aid (Smart) / BASEAL Theme 7 Lessons 1&2 (ppt)
PHOTOS: Classroom Displays: Science (1), Other (1), Maths (2), ICT (1), Geography (2), Foundation (2), English (3), Art (2), Welsh (1) / Geography: Environmental Issues (6), Houses and Homes (4), Coastlines (11) / Science: Flowers (16) / D&T: Bridges (2)