Books

Primary Assemblies for the Global Dimension

Author: Gerald Haigh and Jane West

Primary Assemblies for the Global Dimension provides 40 primary school assemblies to add value to your school curriculum by bringing in the added aspect of global dimension

The Child Protection and Safeguarding Handbook for Schools

Author: Ann Raymond

The Child Protection and Safeguarding Handbook for Schools fully outlines and explains child safeguarding policy and child protection policy, to aid you in implementing effective and thorough safeguarding of pupils and students in your school

Developing very able students at post-16

Author: Moira Sheehan, Richard Gould and Jeremy Reynolds

Interested in developing very able students at post-16 by personalising learning, creating challenge and developing independent learners? Have a look at our handbook aimed at those responsible for improving teaching and learning at post-16

Teach to Inspire Boys

Author: Chris Ford

Are the boys in your school, your class or in the groups that come to you for support achieving less well than you think they should? Teach to Inspire Boys offers practical advice on how to inspire your male pupils at school

Creative and Philosophical Thinking in Primary Schools

Author: Marie Huxtable, Rosalind Hurford & Joy Mounter

Creative and Philosophical Thinking in Primary Schools shows how creative and philosophical thinking can be developed in the everyday classroom. This practical book helps you find better ways to help your children grow educationally

Healthy Living in the Early Years Foundation Stage

Author: Pat Brunton and Linda Thornton

Healthy Living in the Early Years Foundation Stage shows you how to provide a strong foundation for the future learning and development of the children in your care, covering all aspects of nutrition, exercise, emotional wellbeing and staying safe with specific regard to early years

Off the Premises Handbook

Author: Caroline Stagg, Anthony Thomas, Peter Smith and Chris Warn

Need help with planning and executing school trips? The Off the Premises Handbook will help you to run well-planned, efficiently managed, interesting and safe events away from school, that will have a lasting impact on your students

Thinking Skills in the Primary Classroom

Author: Matt Revill

Thinking Skills in the Primary Classroom by Matt Revill will help teachers to apply thinking skills strategies to maths, literacy and science. This is a new collection of more than 60 exciting activities with accompanying resources

Peer Support in the Primary Playground

Author: Linda Bell

Peer Support in the Primary Playground is designed to support you in training the pupils in your school to support their peers during playground problems using conflict resolution and problem-solving approaches

Positive Thinking

Author: Tony Pryce

Positive Thinking aims to encourage and inspire positive teaching and learning. A SEAL teaching resource, it explains the benefits of a positive approach to educational thinking and outlines relevant activites

Teaching Happiness: A ten-step curriculum for creating positive classrooms

Author: Ruth MacConville

SEAL BESTSELLER! Teaching Happiness explains how to create a positive learning environment. It explores the key aspects of positive psychology using social and emotional aspects of learning (SEAL), and takes you through ten steps for creating a positive classroom environment for your students

The Emotional Curriculum for Young Adults KS4

Author: Written by Tina Rae and Patricia Black

The Emotional Curriculum for Young Adults KS4 is from the Teach to Inspire range, designed to give support to secondary school staff and provide a flexible and comprehensive approach to promoting the emotional literacy and wellbeing of KS4 young adults in their care

The Emotional Curriculum for Early Teens KS3

Author: Tina Rae and Patricia Black

The Emotional Curriculum for Early Teens KS3 is from the Teach to Inspire range, designed to give support to secondary school staff and provide a flexible and comprehensive approach to promoting the emotional literacy and wellbeing of KS3 early teens in their care

A-Z of Special Needs: for Every Teacher (2nd Edition)

Author: Jacquie Buttriss and Ann Callander

SEN BESTSELLER! A-Z of Special Needs is our most popular and easy-to-use resource. It offers you an A-Z dictionary of special needs conditions, as well as a who's who of specialists. It is an essential text for anyone teaching children or young people with educational special needs, and can be especially helpful when working with pupils with specific special needs conditions

Living Geography

Author: Edited by David Mitchell

Living Geography draws from recent, school-focused research to guide and support you in providing a concept based geography curriculum that is relevant, purposeful and exciting for young people. It is written for all those involved with the teaching of secondary school geography

Enriching Modern Foreign Languages

Author: John Senior and Sarah Philo

Enriching Modern Foreign Languages, aimed at Key Stages 3 and 4, is a collection of over 100 brand new enrichment and extension activities that encourage confident use of modern foreign languages in secondary schools and beyond

Enriching Primary Science

Author: John Senior and Angela Tuff

Enriching Primary Science is a collection of new activities that will provide science enrichment for primary children, in particular extending learning for the gifted and talented child

The Thoughtful Learner

Author: Toby Quibell

The Thoughtful Learner is a course for pupils in Key Stage 2 that helps learners begin to understand how they learn and how to improve their skills as learners

Engaging Parents Toolkit

Author: Julie McGrane

The Engaging Parents Toolkit aims to help you to raise achievement in school through better communication with parents, by focusing on the type of parental involvement that has been proven to impact on pupil achievement the most; talking at home

Secondary Assemblies for SEAL

Author: Brian Radcliffe

Secondary Assemblies for SEAL is a collection of 40 original secondary assemblies designed to tackle the five priority outcomes outlined in the secondary SEAL programme. These SEAL assemblies about inspirational people will support your commitment to enforcing emotional learning in secondary schools

Self-Harm and Suicide

Author: Tina Rae & Elizabeth Smith

This resource, Self-Harm and Suicide, will help professionals to understand the difficult problems of self-harm and suicide among young people and provides a background to interventions, facilitation and staff training

Curriculum Briefing Vol 3 No 2: Improving teaching and learning with ICT

Inclusion and personalised learning continue to be two prominent concerns for school leaders and curriculum managers. The question is, how can you apply elements of good practice that will successfully tackle these two issues in your school? Effective information and communications technology (ICT) can be one answer read more

Curriculum Briefing Vol 3 No 3: Tutoring to improve learning

The issue of Curriculum Briefing – Tutoring to improve learning will provide you with all you need to use tutoring effectively to raise standards throughout your school read more

Curriculum Briefing Vol 4 No 1: Enterprising learning: ready for the workplace

As far as employers are concerned, far too few schools are adequately preparing students for the world of work. With enterprise education as a compulsory subject on your curriculum, schools have to take this aspect of provision more seriously. But what does providing an enterprise curriculum involve in practice? read more

Strategies for Changing Behaviour

Author: Margaret Sutherland and Colin Sutherland

Overcome challenging behaviour using practical techniques to build positive attitudes to learning

Tough Issues, Tough Choices

Author: Tina Rae and Brian Marris

Tough Issues, Tough Choices aims to help young people tackle problems and challenges. It addresses the difficult issues and decisions facing young people in today's society, – those with behavioural problems and those without – and promotes the development of emotional literacy, equal opportunities and social justice

Dyslexia Games Manual

Dyslexia Games Manual will help you support pupils with dyslexia by developing the auditory and visual awareness necessary to improve your literacy skills

Thinking Through Mathematics

Author: Sally Taverner & David Wright

Thinking Through Mathematics for secondary schools provides teachers of mathematics with a number of thinking skills activities which develop both generic thinking strategies and more specialised mathematical thinking

Learning Languages Through Fairy Tales

Author: Sheila Cartwright and Louise Harty

Teaching and learning primary languages can be easy and fun with Learning Languages Through Fairy Tales, whether you are an experienced linguist or have limited language skills

Curriculum Briefing: Assessment for learning: Targeting success

As a curriculum manager or headteacher, you will need to ensure your school’s assessment for learning approach is a permanent and central part of everyday classroom practice throughout your school read more

Curriculum Briefing Vol 2 No 3: Vocational curriculum: Making it work

Under the 14-19 reforms, vocational education is being given more weight in the curriculum. Whether you have already introduced some vocational courses, or are starting from scratch, this issue of Curriculum Briefing has been written to help schools' vocational programmes go from strength to strength read more

Christian Assemblies II

Author: Jan Thompson

Following the success of the bestselling title Christian Assemblies, Christian Assemblies II has been written to provide you with easy-to-use resources that you can pick off the shelf and deliver to the whole school or to smaller groups with the minimum of preparation. read more

Curriculum Briefing Vol 3 No 1: Positive classroom behaviour

Author: Angela Dewsbury

This issue of Curriculum Briefing focuses on developing systems and support structures to help your teaching staff implement effective behaviour management skills in practice read more

Curriculum Briefing Vol 4 No 2: Leading Learning

This issue of Curriculum Briefing focuses on a coherent and comprehensive approach to developing the professional development of all staff as a key way of improving teaching and learning in your school read more

Curriculum Briefing Vol 2 No1: Achieving effective assessment for learning

What is assessment for learning all about and how can these concepts be applied to everyday classroom practice to trigger real improvements in your pupils' learning curve? Questions like these are constantly on the minds of curriculum managers and school leaders that it can often feel as though you are tip-toeing on a mine-field of uncertainty read more

Early Years Handbook

Author: Pat Brunton and Linda Thornton

Early Years Handbook provides a complete guide to establishing and running high quality, sustainable early years provision which provides good outcomes for children and meets the needs of parents and carers

Emotional Wellbeing: An Introductory Handbook

Author: Gillian Shotton and Sheila Burton

The Emotional Wellbeing: An Introductory Handbook helps school staff learn about emotional literacy, and promote SEAL topics to their students using activities and resources

Emotional Health and Wellbeing

Author: Belinda Heaven

Emotional Health and Wellbeingprovides activities and resources to promote a whole-school approach to emotional wellbeing, focusing on a number of SEAL areas

Controlling Anger: A Solution Focused Approach for Children

Author: Authors: Tina Rae & Sara Daly

Controlling Anger: A Solution Focused Approach for Children will help to empower children to manage strong feelings more positively

Controlling Anger: A Solution Focused Approach for Young People

Author: Tina Rae & Sara Daly

Controlling Anger: A Solution Focused Approach for Young People will help to empower pupils, including teenagers and young adults, to manage their anger and other strong feelings more positively

Transition: A Peer Mentoring System

Author: Teresa Bliss, Rachel Down, Isobel Hollis & Christina Lythgoe

Transition: A Peer Mentoring System is a guide to organising a 'buddy' programme, which will help ease the transition process for Year 7 pupils

Emotional Resilience and Problem Solving for Young People

Author: Tina Rae, Nisha Nakarja & Patricia Velinor

Emotional Resilience and Problem Solving for Young People will help promote the mental health and wellbeing of young people. It is aimed at teachers, social workers and all those involved in supporting young adults

Mediation and Restoration in Circle Time

Author: Teresa Bliss

Mediation and Restoration in Circle Time will help increase participation and help develop emotional literacy

Inclusion in the Primary Classroom

Author: Margaret Collins

Inclusion in the Primary Classroom, suitable for children aged 5-11, is a practical resource to help promote inclusion and disability awareness

101 Playground Games

Author: Thérèse Hoyle

101 Playground Games, written by Thérèse Hoyle, is a collection of active and engaging games, ideal for teachers, lunchtime supervisors and any adult involved with children at play. It is one of nine titles in the Teach to Inspire series

Primary Assemblies for SEAL

Author: Gerald Haigh and Jane West

Primary Assemblies for SEAL is a collection of 40 original primary assemblies covering the five areas outlined in the primary SEAL programme. These SEAL assemblies will support your commitment to embedding emotional learning in your school

Using Games in School Geography

Author: Rex Walford

Enliven and enrich geography lessons with this collection of games and simulations to challenge and excite your students

Teaching Children with Special Needs: A Guide for Teaching Assistants

Author: Sue Soan

This helpful guide, part of the Teaching Children with Special Needs series, provides useful information specifically for teaching assistants and support workers in a primary school setting. This series by Sue Soan publishes in October!

The Primary G&T Handbook

Author: John Senior

Practical strategies and resources for leading teachers for gifted and talented. This comprehensive resource by John Senior will help you to deliver gifted and talented provision that will enhance the learning experience for your more able pupils and contribute to raising standards across the whole school.

Making the most of SIMS.net: Assessment for Learning: The Path to Primary School Improvement

Author: Anthony Powell

This easy-to-use guide will help you monitor and evaluate performance in your school using SIMS, enabling you to support school improvement and assessment for learning. By Anthony Powell