Books

Primary Assemblies for the Global Dimension

rtillbrook — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 15:36:42 +0100

Published June 2009

Primary Assemblies for the Global Dimension is a brand new publication of 40 assemblies that draw out the emotional, moral and spiritual aspects of the stories they tell.

The Child Protection and Safeguarding Handbook for Schools

scameron — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 11:26:29 +0100

Please click here for latest information and to order this book

Children need to be safeguarded and sometimes, as we know from the tragic deaths reported recently, need to be protected from any form of harm that threatens them. The job of safeguarding children cannot be left solely to parents or carers. In today’s society all other adults in contact with a child or young person need to share responsibility for their wellbeing also.

Developing very able students at post-16

scameron — Tue, 12 May 2009 10:55:24 +0100

Written by Moira Sheehan, Richard Gould and Jeremy Reynolds

A handbook to support your Gifted & Talented strategy

This handbook is a source of practical advice and expertise for all those responsible for improving teaching and learning at post-16, including lead professionals for Gifted and Talented, Heads of Sixth Forms and Vice-Principals. Whether you have just started to think about provision for your very able students or whether you have a well-established programme, this handbook can help.

Teach to Inspire Boys

scameron — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 16:56:53 +0000

Written by Chris Ford

Expecting (and subsequently accepting) poor handwriting, trouble at playtime or an un-swerving enthusiasm for football books at the expense of fiction material because “he’s a boy” undermines our assessment and understanding of the child, weakens the quality of targets we set and, in turn, will lead to the provision of inappropriate learning experiences.

Teach to Inspire Boys provides practical guidance on how to excite and engage the boys in your school, helping you fight the growing trend of underachievement.

Creative and Philosophical Thinking in Primary Schools

scameron — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 16:19:26 +0000

Written by Marie Huxtable, Rosalind Hurford & Joy Mounter

We are taken directly into educational relationships with children and the creative responses of the teachers to their pupils’ needs. The authors’ insights into these responses are used creatively and with philosophical reflection to support the thinking of pupils.

The systematic approach known as Thinking Actively in a Social Context (TASC) is used, which involves the individual asking:

Healthy Living in the Early Years Foundation Stage

scameron — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 15:39:47 +0000

Written by Pat Brunton and Linda Thornton

Living a healthy lifestyle is important for us all. Being physically active, eating a healthy diet, taking sensible precautions to ensure our own personal safety and recognising the importance of good mental health, all play an important part in determining our overall health and wellbeing.

A healthy lifestyle can:

Off the Premises Handbook

scameron — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 11:48:04 +0000

Written by Caroline Stagg, Anthony Thomas, Peter Smith and Chris Warn

The Off the Premises Handbook is a comprehensive and practical resource to ensure you have the confidence to plan, prepare, implement and evaluate off-site visits which will support learning and enrich your relationships with students, with the full support of national, local and school policies.

Thinking Skills in the Primary Classroom

scameron — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 09:52:50 +0000

Thinking Skills in the Primary Classroom includes an introduction to the different thinking skills used mentioned in the book, along with guidance on differentiation, adapting the activities and creating your own.

It provides teachers with the tools they need to promote creative and critical thinking abilities to their pupils, by providing the practical materials needed as well as increasing their confidence in applying new strategies to their teaching.

Thinking Skills in the Primary Classroom will help you to:

Peer Support in the Primary Playground

scameron — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 14:51:53 +0000

This comprehensive training pack for teachers and teaching assistants includes information for staff and parents/carers. Copiable training materials and resources will help you to successfully introduce the concept of peer support and ensure successful implementation of the programme in your school.

Peer Support in the Primary Playground will help you to:

Positive Thinking

scameron — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 13:10:13 +0000

Written by Tony Pryce

Positive Thinking: Exercises and activities for mental and emotional development is an exciting resource brought to you by Teach to Inspire that is designed to prepare young people to positively take up challenges that lie ahead of them.

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

scameron — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 16:11:12 +0000

Written by Ruth MacConville

Teaching Happiness: A ten-step curriculum for creating positive classrooms will enable you to teach young people the attitude change, knowledge, practice and skill developments that are essential for building happiness, in a creative and engaging manner. This exciting resource will help you to teach your students practical skills that they can use to make their lives better through a developmental programme of action.

The Emotional Curriculum for Young Adults KS4

scameron — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 15:37:32 +0000

Written by Tina Rae and Patricia Black

The Emotional Curriculum for Early Teens KS3 and The Emotional Curriculum for Young Adults KS4 are designed to fulfil many objectives identified in the SEAL approach, specifically addressing many of the challenges and stresses encountered by today’s young people in both a social and an educational context.

The Emotional Curriculum for Early Teens KS3

scameron — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 15:28:02 +0000

Written by Tina Rae and Patricia Black

The Emotional Curriculum for Early Teens KS3 and The Emotional Curriculum for Young Adults KS4 are designed to fulfil many objectives identified in the SEAL approach, specifically addressing many of the challenges and stresses encountered by today’s young people in both a social and an educational context.

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

scameron — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 13:36:06 +0000

Written by Jacquie Buttriss and Ann Callander

The first edition of The A-Z of Special Needs (2003) quickly sold out. Don't miss this new updated edition, with the same quality and breadth of information, plus extra features.

Living Geography

admin — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 10:58:43 +0000

Edited by David Mitchell

It contains 12 chapters that each focus on a theme relating to current UK policy, both in the national curriculum for geography and other overarching policy guidelines (including QCA and Every Child Matters 2007). These include;

Enriching Modern Foreign Languages

scameron — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 11:33:48 +0100

Written by John Senior and Sarah Philo

This exciting resource is designed to:

Enriching Primary Science

scameron — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 14:48:06 +0100

Written by John Senior and Angela Tuff

Enriching Primary Science offers challenging enrichment activities that aim to inspire more children to study science, encourage scientific literacy among all children, foster creativity with regard to scientific thinking and stimulate an informed debate among children about the application and direction that science takes in our increasingly complex society.

Enriching Primary Science will allow you to:

The Thoughtful Learner

scameron — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 13:18:37 +0100

Written by Toby Quibell

Developing thinking and learning skills in Key Stage 2
This vibrant and colourful approach to teaching and learning will enhance the learning experience of your pupils and provide them with transferable skills that they will find invaluable as they progress through school and throughout life.

Engaging Parents Toolkit

scameron — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 15:19:31 +0100

Written by Julie McGrane

Getting you started on building relationships with parents

The Engaging Parents Toolkit is designed to help you start conversations with the parents of your students and your staff to make a difference to pupil attainment. The toolkit comes in 5 sections which are specifically designed to help you engage with parents in a way that will have a positive impact on students. The sections cover areas such as:

Secondary Assemblies for SEAL

sara — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 12:27:14 +0100

Written by Brian Radcliffe

Helping pupils become emotionally literate adults is an important part of your role as a teacher. A good way to implement SEAL across the whole school is to start with assemblies. Assemblies can be important opportunities to instil learning about life, away from academic pressure.

Self-Harm and Suicide

sara — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 12:27:14 +0100

Written by Tina Rae and Elizabeth Smith

It looks like a shocking statement, but recent statistics show that one in every fifteen teenagers has resorted to self-harm, suggesting that Britain has one of the highest levels of self harm in Europe.

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

sara — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 12:27:13 +0100

Used well, ICT can transform learning and bring about immense improvements in whole-school achievement. ICT offers new ways to engage the learner, taking them beyond the walls of the classroom and allowing them to communicate with learners around the world. It also offers new modes of presentation. In short, ICT offers the chance to further innovate teaching and help make personalised learning and inclusion a reality in your school.

Curriculum Briefing Vol 3 No 3: Tutoring to improve learning

sara — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 12:27:13 +0100

Managed well, tutors can be solid support for curriculum managers, working to ensure the latest approach to the curriculum is delivered to the people that matter most: the students themselves. It is their job to understand the unique needs of every pupil in their group, and to implement strategies to ensure these needs are met in classrooms throughout the school so that each day the student can gain as much as possible from the learning menu on offer.

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

sara — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 12:27:13 +0100

This issue of Curriculum Briefing - Enterprise learning: ready for the workplace shows you how to source business links for your school, and then make best use of these within your curriculum delivery. It also offers guidelines for preparing your staff to deliver this new way of learning, and includes several case studies that will help you to see results in schools around the country for yourself.

SUMMARY OF CONTENTS

Strategies for Changing Behaviour

sara — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 12:27:13 +0100

Written by Margaret and Colin Sutherland

Strategies for Changing Behaviour is a book designed to help you, as an adult who works with children and young people, to stop the damaging cycle of challenging behaviour. The book provides practical worksheet-based techniques that give you a step-by-step guide to dealing with the issues underlying behavioural problems. Working through them with young people will enable you to counter their negative attitudes and improve their behaviour.

This book will help you to:

Tough Issues, Tough Choices

sara — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 12:27:13 +0100

Written by Tina Rae and Brian Marris

Tough Issues, Tough Choices addresses some of the real concerns and agendas of teenagers today. It fulfils many of the objectives of the KS3-4/PSHE curriculum, and aims to promote the development of emotional literacy, equal opportunities and social justice.

Dyslexia Games Manual

sara — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 12:27:13 +0100

'Out of every 10 people you know, one will be dyslexic' British Dyslexia Association

'This condition should not hinder young people's education and life chances. Sadly, it all too often does. We need to be better at identifying pupils with dyslexia and then supporting them.' Schools Secretary Ed Balls

It is highly recommended that all pupils with dyslexia should be taught using a course that is not only multi-sensory, but also one that is totally structured.

Thinking Through Mathematics

sara — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 12:27:13 +0100

Teaching mathematics to children can be difficult, especially with the current climate of failing mathematics grades, due to candidates being "required to now exhibit a degree of familiarity with a much wider but shallower curriculum" (Reform 2006).

The activities included in Thinking Through Mathematics will help you to:

Learning Languages Through Fairy Tales

sara — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 12:27:13 +0100

Written by Sheila Cartwright and Louise Harty

A new approach to teaching MFL – easy and fun for teachers and pupils

Learning Languages Through Fairy Tales contains two fairy tales each translated four times to offer a language course in French, German, Spanish and Italian.

Curriculum Briefing Vol 4 No 2: Leading Learning

sara — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 12:27:12 +0100

To secure ongoing improvements to teaching and learning across your school, you need to ensure all of your staff are equipped with the skills needed to deliver what is required in practice.

This issue of Curriculum Briefing brings together experts in learning leadership to show you new ways to manage the learning that goes on in your school, so you can be sure you have seized every opportunity to empower your staff constantly to improve on their teaching.

Curriculum Briefing Vol 2 No1: Achieving effective assessment for learning

sara — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 12:27:12 +0100

The fourth issue of Curriculum Briefing – Achieving Effective Assessment for Learning, brings to you invaluable insights into how your peers and other schools have sown the seeds for successful assessment for learning, for example, by encouraging student involvement through self- and peer assessment methods, and ensuring effective communication between teacher and student.

Curriculum Briefing: Assessment for learning: Targeting success

sara — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 12:27:12 +0100

This issue of Curriculum Briefing: Assessment for Learning: Targeting Success, shows you how to achieve this in practice. By bringing together advice from the experts, and practitioners in schools that have taken assessment for learning practice to the next level, you will be able to apply this knowledge to your school’s practice and take a structured approach to planning, so that your school can build a system that works and ensures consistency of practice across departments.

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

sara — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 12:27:12 +0100

Vocational Curriculum – making it work aims to give you the insights, management tools, advice and, most importantly, examples of effective practice to help you take a firm grip of this area of the curriculum, and to plan quality programmes that will ensure effective vocational learning in practice.

Christian Assemblies II

sara — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 12:27:12 +0100

Written by eight religious education advisers, one head teacher and a primary school worship coordinator, all from different dioceses, Christian Assemblies II is the perfect resource for both experienced assembly leaders and inexperienced teachers without a Church background. The assemblies have been written both for pupils who are familiar with the Christian religion and those who aren’t and come ready for you to deliver to your: • Whole-school • Key Stage 1

Curriculum Briefing Vol 3 No 1: Positive classroom behaviour

sara — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 12:27:12 +0100

Does your school have in place effective strategies for pinpointing and tackling misbehaviour in the classroom? As a school leader or curriculum manager, this will be a prominent issue because if poor pupil behaviour is allowed to go unchecked in your classrooms then the damage can escalate and hinder the learning development not just of those who misbehave, but of all other pupils.

Positive classroom behaviour: strategies for making it work will provide the support you need to plot the best way forward for improving behaviour in your school. It will help you to:

Early Years Handbook

sara — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 12:27:11 +0100

The Early Years Handbook is designed to help you to carry out the duties and responsibilities involved in running early years provision for children under the age of five, whether you are working as part of a school, children’s centre or an independent nursery.

Emotional Wellbeing: An Introductory Handbook

sara — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 12:27:11 +0100

Written by Gillian Shotton and Sheila Burton

The Emotional Wellbeing: An Introductory Handbook is an essential book for those wishing to make a positive contribution to the emotional ethos of their school. Written by two popular and experienced authors who offer training to school staff, it aims to help people learn about emotional literacy and promote it with individuals, groups or whole classes. Each section includes a theoretical explanation, a description of particular vulnerabilities, plus activities, resources and a case study.

Topics covered include:

Emotional Health and Wellbeing

sara — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 12:27:11 +0100

With several government agendas now focused on emotional health and wellbeing, this exciting resource helps teachers engage young people in stimulating discussion and activities. Successfully trialled, its focus is on the following SEAL areas:

social skills
empathy
motivation
managing feelings
self-awareness.

It complements government initiatives such as Every Child Matters, the National Service Framework for Mental Health, Youth Matters, Next Steps and Social and Emotional Aspects of Learning.

The pack is designed to:

Controlling Anger: A Solution Focused Approach for Children

admin — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 12:27:11 +0100

Authors: Tina Rae & Sara Daly

Many pupils experience difficulty in controlling their strong feelings and in managing conflict in school and home settings. This book contains two programmes (for different age groups) which aim to help children and young people:

Controlling Anger: A Solution Focused Approach for Young People

sara — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 12:27:11 +0100

Many pupils experience difficulty in controlling their strong feelings and in managing conflict in both school and home settings. These two programmes (for different age groups) aim to help children and young people:

Transition: A Peer Mentoring System

sara — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 12:27:11 +0100

Through their extensive research, the authors of this book have found that there are still significant aspects of the transition into Year 7 that make the process difficult for new students. Transition: A Peer Mentoring System provides a comprehensive programme to train all of last year's Year 7s in the skills needed to be buddies to the new Year 7s arriving in the autumn term. As well as supporting the new pupils, the research indicates other positive effects of peer support systems, including:

Emotional Resilience and Problem Solving for Young People

sara — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 12:27:11 +0100

Young people today encounter specific challenges and stresses in both educational and social contexts. This carefully thought out resource pack helps participants to:

understand the importance of mental health and wellbeing
recognise the stresses that they and other people face
develop effective managing strategies.

The authors have designed a flexible programme which contains two important concepts taught and practised throughout: the development of emotional resilience and techniques for solution-focused problem solving.

Mediation and Restoration in Circle Time

sara — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 12:27:11 +0100

Evidence suggests that the processes of Restorative Justice and Mediation can:

Inclusion in the Primary Classroom

sara — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 12:27:11 +0100

***In Autumn 2008, Inclusion in the Primary Classroom was awarded the nasen Celebrating Inclusive Practice Award, "Book that supports SEN and Disability Issues". Read more about the award, as well as comments from the judges on their decision, below.***

101 Playground Games

sara — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 12:27:11 +0100

The school playground plays a crucial role in developing all aspects of children's behaviour and interpersonal learning, and yet there is a growing awareness that children today do not play in the same sociable ways as previous generations. Adrian Voce, director of the National Children's Bureau's Play England, therefore recommends 101 Playground Games (read his comments below).

Primary Assemblies for SEAL

sara — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 12:27:11 +0100

Written by Gerald Haigh and Jane West

With the implementation of the social and emotional aspects of learning (SEAL) it is important for schools to embed the SEAL ethos across the whole school. One effective way to complement and support the SEAL programme is to use your school assemblies.

Primary Assemblies for SEAL is a collection of 40 assemblies covering:

Making the most of SIMS.net: Improving School Attendance

julia — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 12:27:10 +0100

In the past, the task of recording and analysing absence could be daunting, but with advances in technology schools can now collect the required data, update it and put it to use within the school day. Using SIMS software, data can not only be entered easily and frequently, the information in the system can be interrogated in a myriad of ways and can then be used to lead to intervention.

Dilemma-based learning in the humanities: integrating social, emotional and thinking skills

julia — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 12:27:10 +0100

Written by Phil Wood, Barry Hymer and Deb Michel

Dilemma-based learning in the humanities will help to develop understanding of how the dilemma-based learning framework can be applied to the secondary humanities classroom.

Using Games in School Geography

julia — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 12:27:10 +0100

A portfolio of tried and tested games and simulations

Teaching Children with Special Needs: A Guide for Teaching Assistants

julia — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 12:27:10 +0100

Teaching Children with Special Needs is a three-part collection of books that provides useful and highly accessible information about a wide variety of special educational needs, for every teacher, SENCO and support worker in a primary school setting.