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101 Playground Games

Author Thérèse Hoyle.

101 Playground Games is one of nine titles in the Teach to Inspire series.

Active Enrichment: Sports Themed Activities across the Curriculum

Active Enrichment: Sports Themed Activities across the Curriculum, by John Senior, offers 100 sports-themed extension activities for use across the curriculum, using students’ enjoyment of sport to enrich learning throughout the school.

All Year Round Assemblies

This unique collection of over 50 assemblies focuses on special days in the school year.

Assemblies Across Faiths

Help your pupils to learn about, and learn from, different faiths, with these assembly resources written by Gerald Haigh. This brand new book includes material drawn from six major faiths and aims to reinforce learning from religion.

Assemblies for Special Days

Assemblies for Special Days for Key Stage 3 and Assemblies for Special Days for Key Stages 4-5 are two collections of assemblies offering you the chance to deliver collective worship with flexibility and imagination. Both by Brian Radcliffe.

Christian Assemblies I

Whether or not your school has a dominant religious character, the statutory requirements are such that collective worship must be of a broadly Christian character, ie. reflecting the broad traditions of Christian belief. These acts of worship have been produced with this in mind and provide you with a resource that you can draw on when you need to. Edited by Jan Thompson.

Christian Assemblies II

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.

Controlling Anger: A Solution Focused Approach for Children

Authors: Tina Rae & Sara Daly

Controlling Anger: A Solution Focused Approach for Children is one of nine titles in the Teach to Inspire series.

Controlling Anger: A Solution Focused Approach for Young People

Authors: Tina Rae & Sara Daly

Controlling Anger: A Solution Focused Approach for Young People is one of nine titles from the Teach to Inspire series.

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

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

Curriculum Briefing Vol 3 No 1: Positive classroom behaviour

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

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

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

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?

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

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

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

Use dilemma-based learning techniques in your humanities classroom to teach your students important skills that will help them make wise choices in their lives

Dyslexia Games Manual

Dyslexia Games Manual will help you to support pupils with dyslexia by developing the auditory and visual awareness necessary to improve word-attack skills, while also providing over-learning, revision and reinforcement of vital literacy skills

Early Years Handbook

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 Health and Wellbeing

Author: Belinda Heaven

Emotional Health and Wellbeing is one of nine titles from the Teach to Inspire series.

Emotional Resilience and Problem Solving for Young People

Authors: Tina Rae, Nisha Nakarja & Patricia Velinor

Emotional Resilience and Problem Solving for Young People is one of nine titles from the Teach to Inspire series.

Emotional Wellbeing: An Introductory Handbook

Authors: Gillian Shotton and Sheila Burton

The Emotional Wellbeing: An Introductory Handbook is one of nine titles from the Teach to Inspire series.

Enriching English

Written by John Senior and Sarah Philo Raise standards in English with this brand new collection of themed enrichment activities for all!

Enriching Maths

Raise achievement in Maths with these challenging and exciting enrichment activities, by John Senior and Elizabeth Hind

Enriching Science

Raise achievement in Science with enrichment activities by John Senior and Angela Tuff that will challenge and excite your students!

Enrichment Activities for Gifted Children

This easy-to-use file by John Senior and Julian Whybra is designed to offer the G&T teacher access to differentiated enrichment extension activities. These activities have all been trialled with gifted and talented children and are divided into three main sections for instant use by a teacher.

Gifted & Talented Coordinator's Handbook

This NEW second edition handbook for Gifted and Talented (G&T)Coordinators, edited by Brin Best, Sophie Craven and Jane West, is the first of its kind. It will explain what is expected of schools and G&T coordinators and provides guidance on every aspect of your work and role.

Improve your Leadership Skills

This school resource tackles the issues that those with leadership positions in schools face. It contains worksheets, guides and 20-minute activities designed to help middle leaders develop practical and straightforward procedures that will make a contribution to teaching and learning within their school. Edited by Kit Field, Elizabeth Hoult and Simon Hughes.

Improving Performance in Primary Schools

This pack provides a framework that penetrates to the core of teaching and learning, enabling the headteacher, school management team and teachers to focus clearly on the pertinent issues.

Inclusion in the Primary Classroom

Author: Margaret Collins

Inclusion in the Primary Classroom is one of nine titles from the Teach to Inspire series.

Learning Languages Through Fairy Tales

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

Making Meaning

Making Meaning is a practical resource to help you with teaching and learning within your classroom. It is designed to get to the essence of how children and adults make sense of complex information and develop meaningful ideas for themselves.

Making the most of SIMS.net - Assessment for Learning

This straight-forward guide by Anthony Powell will help you to monitor and evaluate performance, showing you how you can exploit the power of SIMS to assist with this task and support school improvement and assessment for learning.

Making the most of SIMS.net - Timetabling for School Effectiveness

This complete guide by Nicholas Faux will enable you and your staff to produce and work with timetables that can contribute to the overall improvement of school performance.

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

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. Publishing in November, this book comes from Anthony Powell, author of the bestselling SIMS book for secondary schools.

Making the most of SIMS.net: Improving School Attendance

Use SIMS software effectively to improve attendance and attainment – publishing in November this new easy-to-use guide for secondary schools will show you how!

Matching Teaching to Learning

Matching Teaching to Learning by John Beresford will help you to identify and address the learning styles of the pupils you teach. This essential publication explains the mapping techniques used to record students’ learning preferences. This book describes what many schools now regard as an essential part of their process of self-review.

Mediation and Restoration in Circle Time

Author: Teresa Bliss

Mediation and Restoration in Circle Time is one of nine titles from the Teach to Inspire series.

More Favourite Assemblies Key Stage 1

Bringing you the best from the Primary Assembly File and brand new assemblies! Edited by Gerald Haigh.

More Favourite Assemblies Key Stage 2

Bringing you the best from the Primary Assembly File and brand new assemblies for 2006! Edited by Gerald Haigh.

More Favourite Assemblies Key Stages 3 and 4

This new collection brings together the best of the Secondary Assembly File and two sets of brand new assemblies! Edited by Gerald Haigh.

More Thinking Through Geography

The follow up to the highly acclaimed Thinking Through Geography, by David Leat, which gave many teachers strategies, materials and confidence to make the classroom experience more challenging and stimulating.

More Thinking Through Geography, by Adam Nichols and David Kinninment, contains eight strategies to enable teachers to further diversify their repertoire of teaching approaches that really do get children thinking.

Primary Enrichment

This collection from John Senior will provide you with 91 exciting gifted and talented enrichment activities that will inspire your pupils to enjoy learning and raise their levels of achievement.

Primary Social, Emotional Aspects of Learning (SEAL) Assemblies

Primary SEAL Assemblies is a collection of 40 new assemblies written by the authors of the Primary Assembly File that are designed to tackle the five areas outlined in the SEAL programme.

Re-presenting Geography

“Winner Gold Award 2005, The Geographical Association”

Liz Taylor explores exciting concepts and new ways of thinking in geography. How do teachers think about teaching their subject; how do they support their students to learn, re-present or re-appraise their geography? This is a challenging and rewarding book for all teachers. The many enquiry sequences demonstrate an effective approach to medium term planning and teaching and have been seen to improve the quality of students' work.

Reading Our Landscapes: Understanding Changing Geographies

“Silver Award Winner 2008, The Geographical Association”
This award-winning illustrated book by Charles Rawding shows how approaches to the study of landscape – in its broadest sense – can reaffirm the relevance of geography to pupils' everyday lives

Resource Management

Resource Management, edited by Simon Hughes, is written for all subject leaders interested in managing resources more effectively and efficiently in their school.

Self Harm and Suicide: The Professional Development File

The Self Harm and Suicide professional development file 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

Self-Evaluation for School Improvement

This unique guide written by Gill Bracey provides the tools you need to help all staff embed the self-evaluation process within your school and use it to raise levels of achievement.

Strategies for Changing Behaviour

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

Strategies for Learning

Tackle barriers to learning with this brand new resource by Margaret Sutherland and Colin Sutherland – providing your students with a range of skills that can boost and strengthen their learning.

Teaching Children with Special Needs: A Guide for Teaching Assistants

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!

Teaching Children with Special Needs: Inclusive Strategies for Meeting Individual Needs

Part of a series of accessible books by Sue Soan, this title is designed to help those working with children with special needs to support learners in a primary school setting. Publishing in October, this title provides easy reference to up-to-date information and the most frequently used strategies.

Teaching Children with Special Needs: Specific Intervention Programmes and Strategies

The second book in this series by Sue Soan, this title offers accessible information on the most frequently used interventions for those teaching children with special needs. Suitable for primary schools.

Teaching Geography in Primary Schools

“Winner Silver Award 2007, The Geographical Association”

Whether you are an experienced geography teacher or, more likely, a teacher insecure in your geography knowledge, Teaching Geography in Primary Schools: Learning to Live in the World by Fran Martin is for you.

The Cross-Curriculum

The Cross-Curriculum, edited by Kit Field, is designed to support subject leaders in the organisation of learning in relation to cross-curricular matters. By focusing on cross-curricular matters, subject leaders are likely to improve the performance of pupils in their own subject area, as well as contribute to the broad education of the learner.

The Home-School Partnership File

Enhance your home-school partnerships with this one-stop resource by Mike Walton, offering all the resources you need to communicate with parents!

The Peer Mediation and Mentoring Trainer's Manual

Empower your students to resolve conflicts for themselves and their peers with this brand new guide, by Belinda Hopkins, to making peer mediation and mentoring happen within your school.

The Primary G&T Handbook

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.

The Role of the Subject Leader

Subject leadership is developing as a role. The Role of the Subject Leader, edited by Glynn Kirkham, assists subject leaders in the establishment of a detailed appreciation of the role.

The SENCO Handbook

Providing everything that a busy secondary SENCO will ever need all in one place, this new handbook will allow you to spend as much time as possible where you need to be – with your students. Edited by Sue Soan.

Thinking Skills Through Science

The series of science activities by Sue Duncan, Don McNiven and Chris Savory in Thinking Skills Through Science are appropriate for Key Stage 3, but they can be adapted for older or younger pupils across the whole range of abilities.

Thinking Through English

Year 11 student: ‘we all have our own ways of thinking but Thinking Skills lessons mean you look at other ways of thinking that help you to re-form your own thinking.’

Thinking Through Geography 2nd edition

“Winner Gold Award, The Geographical Association”

Devised by ten classroom teachers active in the Thinking Through Geography Group, this photocopiable resource helps teachers create exciting and memorable geography lessons. It is about children's learning and the way you can assist their learning in geography.

Thinking Through History

This book is written for teachers who have ambition. It was certainly written by teachers with an ambition - that pupils should be challenged to think, as they enjoy this different approach to History and learn from it.

Thinking Through Mathematics

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

Thinking Through Modern Foreign Languages

Thinking Through Modern Foreign Languages is a hugely important new publication which helps teachers and pupils make sense of what goes on in the languages classroom. Teaching thinking is definitely not 'teach, test, tick'; rather it provides strategies that challenge and motivate pupils, that put enjoyment and intellectual stimulation into teaching and learning.

Thinking Through Primary Teaching

Developing children's thinking and understanding of their own learning is a key factor in effective primary teaching. By encouraging your pupils to think about their learning, you will help them to grow into effective learners. So how can you achieve this successfully? Thinking Through Primary Teaching by Steve Higgins with Viv Baumfield can help.

Thinking Through PSHE, Citizenship and Careers Education & Guidance

This title, by Claire Harbottle with Genevieve Barlow, is designed to help you to apply thinking skills strategies in the important wider area of Personal Social and Health Education.

Thinking Through Religious Education

Thinking Through Religious Education is developed and written by practising teachers. Its practical strategies with numerous exemplars enable teachers throughout the secondary school (Y7-Y13) to create exciting, memorable and challenging RE lessons. A teacher resource, it addresses both the teaching and learning of RE and ways in which teachers can promote effective learning. The quote from the pupil above is not an isolated example of such a mature response after being in a teaching thinking classroom.

Thinking Through School - Evaluation Pack

This award-winning publication by Anne de A Echevarria and David Leat helps schools, teachers and pupils move onto a more sophisticated level of thinking skills. Read on to find out how this amazing new title can help you and your pupils.

Tough Issues, Tough Choices

Tough Issues, Tough Choices is a collection of 24 hard-hitting workshop sessions to help young people tackle the challenging issues they are facing in today’s world

Transition: A Peer Mentoring System

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

Transition: A Peer Mentoring System is one of nine titles from the Teach to Inspire series.

Using Games in School Geography

Enrich Geography lessons with this new collection of games and simulations to challenge and excite your students! From author Rex Walford.

Teacher resources

Learning Languages Through Fairy Tales

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

The Home-School Partnership File

Enhance your home-school partnerships with this one-stop resource by Mike Walton, offering all the resources you need to communicate with parents!

The Peer Mediation and Mentoring Trainer's Manual

Empower your students to resolve conflicts for themselves and their peers with this brand new guide, by Belinda Hopkins, to making peer mediation and mentoring happen within your school.

Thinking Through School - Evaluation Pack

This award-winning publication by Anne de A Echevarria and David Leat helps schools, teachers and pupils move onto a more sophisticated level of thinking skills. Read on to find out how this amazing new title can help you and your pupils.

Using Games in School Geography

Enrich Geography lessons with this new collection of games and simulations to challenge and excite your students! From author Rex Walford.

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