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We create outstanding learning experiences that engage and excite children in their schoolwork and make teachers' lives easier by saving them precious time, enabling a better work/life balance.
We are committed to promoting creative thinking, cross curricula learning, emotional intelligence and mindfulness to children of all ages. The future is here.
7 lesson unit including an editable MTP plus 7 separate lesson packs. Everything you need for a half term's worth of engaging and original art and DT is here, matching perfectly with any Space or planet Earth topic and the 2014 curriculum.
We have endeavoured to use: new, unconventional, creative and modern ideas that will really engage children, but also use familiar materials for teachers that are common to all schools or easy to obtain. Children will build, discuss, design, plan, create and evaluate throughout, as they construct 3D models and 2D art including the unit's culmination: a study of the Earth's structure leading onto a lesson full of experimentation, creativity, challenge and purpose.
Every lesson has cross-curricula elements including: reading comprehension, writing, geography and science plus a reflective self-evaluation sheet. This whole unit is easy to teach, rewarding and will provide many items that children will treasure for a long time. Adaptable for KS1
This engaging KS2 Space cross-curricular writing pack can last up to 3 lessons and easily fits into your planning as it can be applied to a lot of genres such as fiction, non-fiction, biographies, newspaper writing and more. Full teaching input, worksheets and teachers' notes included - just print and teach!
Great for inspiring reluctant writers or filling a few hours in your class with fun yet challenging learning activities. A complete, engaging, imaginative, creative writing or Big Writing stimuli lesson that can be applied to many different writing genres.
Children discuss ideas and then plan by answering the thought provoking questions which enable a wealth of ideas to be generated. Planning sheet has space for 5 sense descriptions, VCOP elements and purpose, audience and genre notes to help meet the new 2014 curriculum.
Starter activity plus 2 widths of line guides/writing sheets included plus optional paragraph planning sheet, custom art sheet and self-assessment plenary activity mean that this lesson's length is flexible and could easily last for 2 hours if you wanted it to and comes with 3 different options in the teachers' notes for delivery over 1,2 or 3 lessons.
Lesson is aimed at KS2 but can be used for more able KS1, or KS3 as it is differentiated by outcome.
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Complete lesson pack that lasts up to 2 hours, with starter, teaching input and peer-assessment based plenary all on the included PowerPoint. Children discuss, plan and then create inspiring writing based upon an inspiring, historical story starter writing prompt.
The planning sheet asks thought provoking questions ensuring an original, well thought out piece of cross-curricula writing that is full of their own ideas. Other writing genres can also be applied to the plan.
Suitable for big writing, creative writing, assessment, moderation or just a regular English lesson. There is also a creative drawing sheet included and lined writing sheet. Variable length: can be done in 1 hr or extended to nearer 2 hrs if required. Children will also practice empathy skills and have the opportunity to demonstrate their historical knowledge.
Make sure you check out our other Vikings lessons too!
Based around abstract art, this lesson has been taught with great success to EYFS/Year 1 children, Year 4 children and Year 6 children with fantastic results in every year group. Children access and interpret the work on different levels, it is differentiated by outcome to an extent, although differentiation suggestions are included. Whichever age undertakes this work the result has always been beautiful large scale pieces of art that look incredible when framed or just mounted on display. This lesson involves children using their imagination and creativity whilst simultaneously enhancing their technical, observation and replication skills. The lesson is designed so that children collaborate in groups to slowly and precisely create large scale work but the lesson can be easily adapted for pair or individual work. Allow 2 hours for completion. Contains easy to understand teachers' notes and 7 full colour art images for the lesson.
We love this resource! 15 pages of engaging and fun activities that your class will love, that have been designed to make children think creatively and imaginatively.
A stunning resource to develop creative and artistic abilities and inspire writing, collaboration and discussion.
Enlarge them to A3 or bigger and get your class to collaborate together creatively too. You can then get them to write about what they have done and explain the creative decisions they had to make.
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* Contains 3 Bonus Writing Lessons Worth £1 Each That Can Last a Day If You Want!*
Take a week or more off planning with this spooky blockbuster pack of incredibly engaging, cross-curricula learning all inspired by and based upon Halloween.
Contains 4 separate PDF booklets that are well organised, professionally presented and designed to meet the new 2014 curriculum objectives as well as 3 separate inspiring writing lessons that can each last a whole day if required.
PDF booklets include:
- Halloween English and Writing Pack : Designed to inspire writing across a range of genres with 7 "lesson-long" fun yet challenging tasks and prompts that will engage your class in their learning. You can choose which genre to apply each lesson/activity to, to match your class' current learning or ability. Also contains 3 Halloween writing frames.
- Halloween Cross-Curricula Topic Pack: Contains worksheets for lessons based upon science, history, independent learning, internet research, art and design, writing, small group presentations, maths (multiplication, division and data handling/presentation), team work and a special party planning lesson involving many different skills and tasks.
- (Our Favourite!) Halloween Creative Thinking Activity Book: 15 pages of stunning activities that your class will love, that have been designed to make children think creatively and imaginatively. A stunning resource to develop creative and artistic abilities and inspire writing, collaboration and discussion.
- Halloween Colouring Book: 10 colouring pages based on Halloween - great for anytime but why not blow them up to A3, pair the children up, pick an art technique and let them create stunning, huge pictures for display?
* 3 x spooky bonus writing lessons - Create Your Own Monster, Robot and Alien writing lessons each selling for £1 separately and each containing separate: PowerPoint, Worksheets and Teachers' Notes.
This is without a doubt one of our most stylish, creative and engaging packs yet, full of deeply engaging learning - we hope you enjoy it.
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Your Halloween planning is now done, with this spooky Halloween themed pack of fun, engaging learning and activities all inspired by, and linked to, Halloween.
This resource comes in 3 separate PDF booklets containing a total of 25 worksheets/activities that are professionally presented and full of age-appropriate Halloween activities.
PDF booklets include:
- (Our Favourite!) Halloween Creative Thinking Activity Book: 10 pages of stunning activities that your class will love, that have been designed to make children think creatively and imaginatively. A stunning resource to develop creative and artistic abilities and inspire thinking, writing, collaboration and discussion. We recommend getting your class to write about what they have drawn - of course, if they are able to!
- Halloween Colouring Book: 10 colouring pages based on Halloween - great for anytime but why not blow them up to A3, pair the children up, pick an art technique and let them create stunning, huge pictures for display?
- Halloween handwriting practice - 5 A4 sheets to help learn basic letter formation and the spelling of Halloween topic words, complete with cute pictures on top of each sheet - multiple words are used on each sheet.
This is without a doubt one of our most stylish, creative and engaging packs yet, full of engaging learning that we know your class will love - we hope you enjoy it.
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22 beautifully drawn A4 size colouring pages specifically aimed at girls in the EYFS.
Always handy to have, and can be blown up to A3 or even bigger for an extra challenge (or for larger scale pair or group-based work). Suitable to be used with a wide range of art materials if you so wish or even to inspire creative story telling.
Pictures include: a fairy, a tea party, a unicorn, a girl on a swing, princesses, a mermaid, a girl dressed up as a doctor helping a sick teddy, butterflies, a pumpkin carriage and fairy godmother, a flower, a girl on a bike, love hearts, jewels and crowns, cute creatures and lots more! All the things EYFS girls love!!!
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This engaging, simple, cross-curricular 2 worksheet pack, will last a whole afternoon when combined with access to the internet, atlases and non-fiction books about Planet Earth.
The lesson is centered around child-led independent learning, based on their interests and wonders - and what better thing to wonder about than Planet Earth! This lesson is perfect for any topic, unit or learning related to Planet Earth and would work well as an introduction or stand-alone lesson to use at any time in an emergency!
The worksheets tell children everything they need to do for the learning objective and the learning is split over 3 different activities with final one enabling the children to sum up and explain their learning.
The work is differentiated by outcome and perfect for mixed ability pairs.
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*64% OFF* This huge bundle of resources includes 18 of our most popular and bestselling resources and lessons: potentially weeks of learning!
Treat your class or school to a a massive amount of truly engaging, creative and cross-curricular learning suitable to match any topic, unit or learning to do with:
- Planet Earth
- Our World
- Living Things
- Earth and Space
Each resource contains many cross-curricular elements, and subjects covered include: English, Science, geography, creative writing, reading, art, DT, sculpture, drawing, I.T & computing, poetry and much, much more all designed to match the "new" National Curriculum in England and Wales.
Your class will learn and develop such a wide variety of skills with this pack and all in an incredibly engaging and creative way that they will never forget.
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3 x colouring books of beautiful colourable images specifically created to appeal to children in the EYFS and can be printed time and time again!
Inspirational, cute, and with the just the right level of detail for EYFS children.
Over 60 images than can be used not just for colouring, but for a wide variety of purposes and learning including: enlarged mixed media art work, story telling inspiration, speaking and listening, continuing from the edge of the page, painting etc...
With this you will always have a wide selection of images to use every day to inspire your little learners' creativity :)
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21 lovely A4 size colouring pages specifically designed to appeal to both Girls & Boys in the EYFS.
*Please note these are separate and different images to our other EYFS colouring books - All can be purchased together at a discount in a bundle from TES.
You'll never be short of an art idea and always handy to have up your sleeve.
Can be blown up to A3 or even bigger for an extra challenge (or for larger scale pair or group-based work). Suitable to be used with a wide range of art materials if you so wish.
Pictures include: a minibeast, a birthday card, King and Queen, castle, pets, cute animals, pattern-based colouring, toys, at the beach, bath time, a rainbow etc...
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If you are teaching Stone Age to Iron Age then this versatile bundle will slot easily into your planning and provide you with a wealth of engaging, creative and cross-curricular resources that your class will love!
Includes a bestselling and top-rated complete 6 lesson Art and DT unit plus a rich variety of other cross-curricular resources.
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If you are looking for creative writing resources and prompts then look no further as these wonderful lessons have been designed to inspire the most reluctant of writers!
This huge bundle contains all of the creative writing topics created by bestselling TES authors, The Future Teacher Foundation.
The unique planning sheets contained mean children have the time and opportunity to fully develop their ideas before writing, making the actual writing process alot easier - this technique has since been copied many times as it is so effective for creative writing.
Every resource can be applied to any writing genre or style that you want, and each lessons comes with a PowerPoint, starter, plenary, planning worksheets, creative activities, teachers'notes and much more, meaning that each lesson can last for a whole day or more, if you want it to.
At The Future Teacher Foundation, we take creativity very seriously (well, in a fun way!) and you can find many more resources which inspire and develop creative thinking by clicking this link to view our complete range of bestselling resources..
This 5 Worksheet pack with 3 levels of differentiation, enables children to explore and expand their knowledge of materials and their properties.
Children then use this knowledge to classify and sort materials under their own criteria enabling lots of discussion and potential for child-led teaching and learning as curiosity and questioning is bound to ensue.
An extension task requiring children to use the learning creatively is included as well, meaning that this pack will easily last a whole afternoon or more.
Would work well as an early lesson in a materials and their properties topic or any topic or learning area that focuses on Planet Earth.
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I found this Christmas Decoration and thought lots of teachers and children would benefit from this great activity so in the spirit of Christmas I shared it. Cut out and stick together to make a Christmas ornament - You could add different pictures, make it A3 or print onto card if you can.
If you are looking for more creative Christmas activities then copy and paste these link to view our larger art based Christmas resources.
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Or visit our Bestselling Gold Tiered Resources shop where you can find many resources perfect for the Christmas period as they are unique, creative, fun and highly engaging.
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SAVE 60% - This Early Years Literacy Resources Bundle contains a wide variety of cross-curricular materials to develop phonics, reading, writing, handwriting, art and creative thinking skills.
First up, are 2 popular resources that teach about basic punctuation, with the bestselling one being 10 worksheets to practice adding full stops.
Next is 10 fully resourced learning experiences that will help your little learners to develop their understanding of phonics, writing and spelling
Included as well are 60 colouring pages designed for children in the EYFS, which can be used as you wish, but we recommend using them to inspire writing, creative describing and language development.
Also included are 52 pages of basic letter formation handwriting pages complete with colourful pictures. So handy to have up your sleeve!
All created by bestselling Gold-Tiered TES Authors The Future Teacher Foundation.
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This useful KS1 Writing Resources Bundle has been created to provide you with a wide variety of resources that will help little learners to improve their writing.
Created by bestselling TES authors, The Future Teacher Foundation, the bundle includes: handwriting practice, SPaG lessons, creative writing prompt lessons and even a colouring book which can be used to inspire writing.
If you are looking to engage and inspire your little writers with some unique and fun KS1 writing resources then look no further - buy this bundle today!
Save over 64% with this huge bundle of engaging, creative and cross-curricula learning all based around a local area study from The Future Teacher Foundation.
This bundle will compliment and enhance your teaching and learning, and has been put together to allow you lots of flexibility in how you teach - enabling you to adapt resources to suit your class' specific needs.
Contains
- a full 6 lesson art/creative unit
- 4 writing lessons that can EACH be stretched out for a few days if you like ;)
- 2 awesome, complete project-based learning packs containing nearly 25 worksheets between them.
This bundle has such a wide variety of learning opportunities and skills for children to learn and develop that add a new, modern twist on studying a local area including but not limited to: art & design, writing, speaking & listening, group work, research, creative thinking, self & peer assessment and PSHE to name but a few!
This bundle will really add some fun, engaging and creative flair to your local area study topic or learning.
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