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Make every lesson count with Teach Starter! Our expertly created teaching resources and classroom solutions help you save time, reduce planning stress and feel more confidant that every lesson will be engaging, impactful and ready to go! 🚀 Because when you have reliable resources at your fingertips, you can focus on what matters most - creating those "aha" moments that spark a love of learning for every student in your class.💡📚✨
All about me artwork activity
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All about me artwork activity

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A fun back to school or transition all about me artwork activity for primary pupils. Pupils roll a die to fill in the 6 sections of their all about me template with different colours, patterns, textures and answers to the questions using the reference gird. Questions included are, what is your: favourite hobby, favourite food, favourite colour, age, birthplace and favourite subject. This activity can be easily printed off and used with pencil crayons and felt tips, or you could challenge your students to create the patterns in collage and materials you have readily available in the classroom. This resource comes with: Instructions and dice rollling reference grid (1 page) Six templates (6 pages)
Fairy Tale Setting Display
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Fairy Tale Setting Display

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Teaching a unit on Fairy Tales? Looking for a popular book characters display? Setting up your immersive learning or sensory play area in EYFS? Look no further than this selection of fairy tale display resources that you could use in your primary classroom. This selection of display resources could be scaled up for large displays and used to showcase narrative work or it could be used as an interactive display to support your pupils understanding of narratives and fairy tales. Setting up your fairy tale or narrative display: Download the PDF Follow the letter and number guides shown on each page, and glue them together Place the backdrop on your classroom display or in your library Print the accompanying character illustrations and book titles Use the display for narrative work or as an interactive display that you can move your characters around or divide your wall into headings such as: sentence starters, characters, settings, e.t.c. This resource comes with: Fairy tale backdrop (26 pages) Selection of illustrated characters and book titles (15 pages)
Library display - find a new book!
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Library display - find a new book!

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Finding a new book can always be tricky especially when you haven’t found the right genre for you yet! Make finding your pupils new book fun and interactive with this ‘hook-a-book’ library display. Simply print out the fish templates, back them on card and fill in the suggestions ready for your pupils to ‘hook’ their next book! Whether you’re putting this up on a display board, or using a box for pupils to ‘fish’ them out - these templates contain key information including: Book title Author Genre so that you know there’s a good range of books on the ‘hook-a-book’ display board. Running out of book suggestions for your ‘hook-a-book’ display? Ask fellow teachers to fill out their own suggestions or get pupils to fill out suggestions of books they loved for their classmates! Or, you could back genres or collections on different coloured card so pupils can hook different books, or choose their favourite category/genre.
Reading display banner - read, grow, inspire
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Reading display banner - read, grow, inspire

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Looking for a reading display or want to bring some colour into your reading corner? Look no further than this colourful read, grow, inspire display banner that you could use to brighten up your classroom and encourage your pupils to be inspired through reading! Follow these three simple steps to create your new display banner: Print this PDF in A4, A3 or A2 Piece together the three sections Glue or cellotape them together … and that’s it! Your bright and bold reading banner is ready for your new display!
Classroom analogue clock display - learning 'past' and 'to'
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Classroom analogue clock display - learning 'past' and 'to'

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Looking for a classroom clock display to support your pupils with telling the time using the language ‘past’ and ‘to’? Well look no further than this handy resource pack! Classroom clock labels are a great way of providing visual aids to reinforce time concepts, allowing pupils to become more independent learners by practicing telling time regularly and on their own. Clock labels are designed to help pupils tell time by providing them with a scaffold for determining time to the five-minute mark. They can also help pupils remember commonly used phrases and their meanings, such as quarter-to, half-past, etc. Included in this resource you’ll find: Colour-coded written terminology and amounts of time including: o’clock (:00) five past (:05) ten past (:10) quarter past (:15) twenty past (:20) twenty-five past (:25) half-past (:30) twenty-five to (:35) twenty to (:40) quarter to (:45) ten to (:50) five to (:55) as well as ‘to’ and ‘from’ arrows for display around your clock. To use this classroom analogue clock resource follow these simple steps: Print out the resource on white card and cut out Place and stick the common phrase cards and amounts of time around your classroom clock at the relevant time Put the ‘to’ and ‘from’ arrows on the correct side of your clock Step back and admire your new classroom clock labels!
Analogue clock flower label display
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Analogue clock flower label display

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Looking to spruce up your classroom clock and support your pupils tell the time? We have just the resource for you! This analogue clock flower label resource pack is the perfect way to add some colour to your classroom clock whilst supporting your pupils with telling the time. Included in this resource you’ll find: 12 petals for every 5 minutes Four common phrases used to tell the time including: o’clock, quarter past, half past and quarter to To make your classroom clock label display follow these simple steps: Print off the petals included in this resource on a card colour of your choice Print off the four common phrases for telling the time onto white card Cut out your petals and common phrase cards and illustrations (optional) Laminate the petals and common phrase cards for longevity Remove your classroom clock from your wall Place the common phrase place cards on the correct petal (00:00 = o’clock, 00:15 = quarter past etc.) Place the time petals at the corresponding points on the clock e.g. (12 o’clock = 00:00, 1 o’clock = 00:05 etc) Secure your petals together and attach it to your classroom clock Carefully place your classroom clock back on the wall Admire your new classroom clock flower display! Classroom clock labels are a great way of providing visual aids to reinforce time concepts, allowing pupils to become more independent learners by practicing telling time regularly and on their own. Clock labels are designed to help pupils tell time by providing them with a scaffold for determining time to the five-minute mark. They can also help students remember commonly used phrases and their meanings, such as quarter-to, half-past, etc.
Time display banner
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Time display banner

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Teaching time and looking for a colourful banner you could use in your classroom for a time display? Look no further than this simple yet colourful time banner with a representation of clock faces including digital and analogue on a series of devices that tell the time. To create your primary time display banner, follow these simple steps: Download this resource Print all 3 pages in A4 (or A3) Glue them together Place the finished banner on your classroom display
Telling the time poster
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Telling the time poster

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Looking for a supportive resource to help you teach telling the time to your primary pupils? Look no further than this handy poster which provides an overview of different amounts of time including hours/minutes, units of conversion between time increments and the difference between AM and PM. This resource references: hours, minutes (including every 5 minutes highlighted), day o’clock, half past, quarter past, quarter to Anti Meridiem (AM), Post Meridiem (PM) So whether you’re looking for a poster to display or to use as a support mat, this helpful resource can be used in multiple ways to support your teaching of telling the time. Looking for ideas for how you could use this poster? Encorporate the poster into your daily school routine Get students to colour in their own clocks using the black and white version of this poster Print A5 versions for pupils to refer back to whilst completing their homework
12 and 24 hour interactive clock template for display
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12 and 24 hour interactive clock template for display

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This 12 and 24 hour clock template is the perfect way to make your time display interactive as well as doubling up as a tactile resource to support your pupils whilst they learn how to tell the time. There are two different clock face templates to pick from : A 24 hour plain clock face A 12 hour clock face with minutes and common telling the time phrases including (o’clock (:00), five past (:05), ten past (:10), quarter past (:15), twenty past (:20), twenty-five past (:25), half-past (:30), twenty-five to (:35), twenty to (:40), quarter to (:45), ten to (:50), five to (:55)). To create your interactive clock: Print out your preferred clock face and clock hands Cut out the clock face and clock hands Back on card or laminate for longevity (optional) Create a small cut on the ‘+’ marked on the clock hands as well as in the centre of the clock face Align the clock hands on top of the clock template with your incisions, push a split pin though the centre and secure Step back and admire your new interactive resource This resource comes in colour and a printing friendly black and white version so you can decide how to best utilise this resource in your classroom - you could even get your pupils to design or colour their own interactive clocks!
24-hour time display poster
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24-hour time display poster

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Looking for a way to support your KS2 pupils whilst they get to grips with the 24-hour clock? Look no further than this simple 24-hour time display poster. Supporting your pupils to understand the difference between the 12 and 24-hour clock can be tricky but this simple poster supports them to read and write 24-hour time as well as demonstrate the difference between AM and PM. This resource comes in colour and a printing friendly black and white version so that you can display the poster on the wall or use it as a handy reference mat for your KS2 primary pupils.
Classroom display pack - Introducing scientific method
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Classroom display pack - Introducing scientific method

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Use the scientific method classroom display pack to introduce your pupils to the steps included in scientific method, to get them ready to tackle scientific experiments and analysis with confidence. Stages of the scientific method covered in the full display pack include: Ask a question, Perform background research, Form a hypothesis, Perform an experiment, Analyse the data, Communicate the results. The Introducing scientific method classroom display pack is ready to go, with labelled pieces for each stage of the scientific method - Question, Research, Hypothesis, Experiment, Analysis and Conclusion - along with headers, arrows and more, to create a clear and eye catching Scientific Method display that can be easily modified for your learning area or display.
Classroom display pack - Electrical circuits
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Classroom display pack - Electrical circuits

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Create an eye-catching classroom display showing different types of circuits and the related topic vocabulary. The complete display pack helps pupils to learn different types of circuits: open circuit, closed circuit, series circuit, parallel circuit. Also included in the Electrical circuits classroom display pack is a fun light bulb-themed Circuits heading, as well as vocabulary cards with images and definitions for the following key terms: battery, bulb, circuit, motor, switch, wire. This resource is available as a PDF to be printed over multiple pages, in black and white or colour, so just download and get ready to spark your pupils’ interest in this illuminating topic!
Classroom display banner - Order of the planets
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Classroom display banner - Order of the planets

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This attractive banner, showing the order of the planets for pupils when they are learning about the solar system, would be a great addition to your learning area. The colourful banner helps pupils to remember the order and qualities of the individual planets, from the scorching proximity of Mercury to the icy depths of Neptune, while sparking their curiosity about all things astronomical. This resource is available as a PDF to be printed over multiple pages, so just download and get ready for lift off!
All About Me booklet - KS1
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All About Me booklet - KS1

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An All About Me booklet to help your KS1 primary pupils get to know each other at the beginning of the school year or as part of a transition day. Pupils create a booklet with interesting information about themselves, their family and their likes and favourite things to share with others. To complete their booklet pupils have fun as they: write all about their favourite things, write simple information like name and birth month, draw a self-portrait, tell a joke, share information about their family, set goals for the new year. You could also use the completed All About Me booklets to create an attractive classroom display for your new class, to help them get to know each other and settle into the school year.
All About Me booklet - KS2
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All About Me booklet - KS2

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An All About Me booklet to help your KS2 primary pupils get to know each other at the beginning of the school year or as part of a transition day. Pupils create their own booklet to share their special hobbies, interests and personal experiences with one another. To complete their All About Me booklet pupils fill out sections on the following prompts: All about my subjects If I were an animal When I grow up My friends My favourite things My favourite games Favourite foods All about movies Favourite books Favourite Music You could also use the completed All About Me booklets to create an attractive classroom display for your new class, to help them get to know each other and settle into the school year, or why not have them present them to the class or make time during the first week for them to read about each other?
All About Me simile poem worksheet and poster
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All About Me simile poem worksheet and poster

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An All About Me themed worksheet activity for primary pupils designed to help them write a simple poem using similes, while getting to know each other at the beginning of the school year or during a transition day. Pupils use the template to write five similes to describe themselves, then draw a self-portrait or attach a photo to accompany their completed simile poem. It can be used as a fun creative getting-to-know-you activity to help your pupils settle into their new class and build new friendships. Included in the resource: sheet 1 - a colourful poster displaying the definition of a simile and a completed simile poem template, including lines such as ‘I am as busy as a bee’ and ‘I am bright like the sun’, sheet 2 - an ‘All about Me Simile Poem’ template for pupils to complete with five similes about themselves and a self-portrait or photo. Why not use the ‘Simile Poems’ poster and completed ‘All About Me Simile Poem’ worksheets to create an attractive classroom display to help your new class get to know each other and settle into the school year? Or ask your new pupils to read their poems out and present them to the rest of the class.
KS2 All About Me Lantern activity
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KS2 All About Me Lantern activity

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A 3D All About Me Lantern template to use with primary pupils at the beginning of the school year or during a transition day. Use this All About Me Lantern template as a fun ‘getting to know you’ activity and display that helps pupils share interesting information about themselves with the rest of the class, and identify common interests with other pupils. To complete the All About Me activity pupils decorate their lanterns with fun colours, add a self-portrait or photo and fill in the following sections: their name, their favourite things, information about their family, a fun fact about themselves, two goals they have for the year. Your pupils’ completed All About Me lanterns will make a great colourful classroom display, which will help your new class get to know each other and settle into the school year. So, why not give it a try during a transition day or the first few days back to school?
Classroom display pack - Phases of the moon
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Classroom display pack - Phases of the moon

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This attractive display pack showing the phases of the moon for pupils when they are learning about space and the moon, would be a great addition to your learning area. The colourful display helps pupils to remember the different phases of the moon, while sparking their curiosity about all things astronomical. Included in the Phases of the moon classroom display pack: Letters to make up a Phases of the Moon heading, Image of the earth, Image of the rising sun, Star images, 8 different images of the phases of the moon, Headings for the different phases of the moon (including definitions for Waxing and Waning), Don’t be Phased - It’s Just the Moon poster. This resource is available as a PDF to be printed over multiple pages, so just download and get ready to assemble your out of this world Phases of the Moon display.