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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.💡📚✨
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!
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!
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
Units of time poster KS2
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Units of time poster KS2

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Time is often a tricky concept for primary pupils to understand, especially when considering units of time. This units of time poster would be a great addition to any display board or could be utilised as a handy reference to support your pupils during lessons. Units of time included: Minute Hour Day Week Month Year So what are you waiting for? Print this useful poster in A3 and display it on your time display or in A4 and laminate it for your pupils to refer back to.
All about me transition activity - personality planets
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All about me transition activity - personality planets

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A fun all about me ten page craft activity for primary pupils with two pages of self reflection questions. This versatile resource could be used on a transition afternoon, transition day or as a back to school activity to get your pupils thinking about their personality solar system. Included in this resource: Instructions (1 page) Front cover (1 page) Star template and personality planets (6 pages) Self reflection questions (2 pages) Pupils start by drawing a portrait of themselves in the star and writing a summary about who they are and what they love before thinking about five aspects of their personality that make them special. They could write down five things that describe who they are, what is important to them, what they believe in, what they love etc. Once pupils have drawn their personality planets and written about them, they can arrange them into a solar system with the star (them) in the middle and the planets surrounding the star. This resource contains a layout suggestion, but you can get creative with how you present them whether that’s in a solar system format, a booklet or flipbook. Pupils then complete ten questions at the end to reflect on their solar system, as well as thinking about whether anyone else in the class may share one of their personality planets. This is a great activity that pupils can complete independently as well as creating conversational discussion points for the class.
Safe or Unsafe Scenario task cards activity
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Safe or Unsafe Scenario task cards activity

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Discuss safe and unsafe situations with your pupils in an engaging way with this set of scenario task cards. The Safe or Unsafe Scenario task cards are designed to cover the basics of keeping safe and what to do if your pupils feel unsafe or uncomfortable, whilst promoting discussion on personal safety and safe interactions. Each card has a scenario, and the pupils are asked: Is this safe or unsafe? These scenario cards can be used in a variety of ways, including the following: Use in a small group and have pupils pick a card and then discuss why they think the scenario is safe or unsafe, As a whole class, the teacher reads out the scenario, then pupils either put thumbs up for safe or thumbs down for unsafe and then discuss their choices, As a small group, sort the cards into safe and unsafe piles and then pupils write down what they would do in each unsafe scenario.
Asking for Help poster set
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Asking for Help poster set

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Help your pupils learn how to ask for help with this engaging 51ºÚÁÏ poster set. This set of five posters provides pupils with a step-by-step process that guides them through asking for help clearly and concisely. The simple and attractive posters make it easy for pupils to think carefully about exactly what they need help with, and the specific actions they need to take to get the appropriate help from the right person. This set of five helpful classroom posters show the following advice: I Can Ask for Help Reasons to Ask for Help People to Ask for Help Ways to Ask for Help How to Ask for Help Why not display the set of posters in your classroom, to remind pupils what to do to get help, or use them as a starting point for whole class or group discussion on overcoming challenges, to help create an effecting learning environment?
My Safe Relationships flipbook
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My Safe Relationships flipbook

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Help your pupils to explore the concept of safe and unsafe environments, feelings, emotions and when/who to ask for help with this My Safe Relationships flipbook. Each worksheet in the flipbook is designed to get pupils to consider aspects of safe relationships, what makes a trusted adult and who their trusted adults are, by writing or drawing their ideas in the boxes provided. The worksheets in the My Safe Relationships flipbook cover the following topics: A safe and trusted adult is someone who? List actions or words that are safe and unsafe The different emotions you feel when you are feeling unsafe or uncomfortable Characteristics of a trusted adult My trusted web diagram Identifying feeling unsafe, finding a trusted adult and what words you use to ask for help. The My Safe Relationships flipbook template is easy and straightforward to use. Simply download and print pages 1-8 for each pupil. Have your pupils cut along the dotted line on each page and then stack the pages. Begin with the largest page at the bottom and stack the rest from largest to smallest, then secure the pages at the top with staples to complete each flipbook.
Setting Boundaries lesson activity
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Setting Boundaries lesson activity

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Help your pupils identify their support network and trusted adults with this interactive activity. The activity starts off by prompting pupils to think about their support network, including trusted adults such as parents, teachers and carers. You then guide them through a range of everyday scenarios they might encounter, mainly in a school setting. Each scenario comes with a happy emoji and a not-so-happy emoji. Pupils decide how they would feel in each scenario, and then choose the emoji that best mirrors their emotions for each one. By presenting these scenarios that mimic real-life situations, pupils can practise applying the concept of personal boundaries, and develop their social and emotional learning.
Don't be a Bystander - online safety poster
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Don't be a Bystander - online safety poster

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Help pupils to understand cyberbullying and how they can act to help when someone they know is a victim of cyberbullying with this Don’t be a Bystander - online safety poster. This clear and helpful cyberbullying poster provides pupils with easy to follow advice on not being the bystander when they see cyberbullying taking place, highlighting the situation and gaining help from the appropriate trusted adults and providing support to the victim of bullying. Advice included in the poster: Take action. Ask the victim if they need your help Give words of support to the victim Alert a teacher, parent or other adult Put yourself in the victim’s shoes, try to understand them Encourage the victim to find help from someone they trust Don’t give up, talk to more people. The victim needs you. You can display this poster in your classroom or computing areas, or even print it off for pupils to keep as advice to refer to when online at home. Check out more online safety posters by Teach Starter here: Keeping safe online poster Keep your details safe - online safety poster.
Keeping safe online poster
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Keeping safe online poster

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Help pupils to stay safe online with this online safety poster. This clear and helpful online safety poster provides pupils with easy to follow advice, with dos and don’ts and what to watch out for, to keep them safe online. Advice included in the poster: Always keep your passwords secret Think twice before you post anything on the Internet. Remember, once something is posted or shared, it’s very difficult to remove Always be polite and respectful. If you wouldn’t say it in real life, then don’t say it online Ask your parents before giving out your name, address or any other personal information online Don’t open messages from people you don’t know Don’t accept special offers or deals that seem too good to be true Talk to your parents if you feel uncomfortable with what you see on the Internet Be careful who you trust online. If you don’t know the person in real life, then ask a parent before you become friends with them online. You can display this poster in your classroom or computing areas, or even print it off for pupils to keep as advice to refer to when online at home. Check out more online safety posters by Teach Starter here: Don’t be a Bystander - online safety poster Keep your details safe - online safety poster.
Personal Space posters
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Personal Space posters

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Teach your class about personal space with these space-themed classroom posters. Helping children understand the concept of ‘personal space’ is crucial for their social interactions and development. Understanding personal space also helps children recognise situations that may make them uncomfortable or unsafe. They learn to identify and communicate their boundaries, empowering them to protect themselves and seek help. This set of space-themed posters use simple outer-space themed images to clearly explain personal space and reinforce positive interactions. The set includes three different posters with the following headings: Personal Space - Personal space is the amount of room each person has to feel safe and comfortable, Talking Space - When we talk to friends we need to respect personal space and use ‘talking space’, Respect - When we respect personal space our friends feel: comfortable, happy, safe. Why not display these attractive Personal Space posters around your classroom to remind pupils how to respect other people’s personal space and safeguard their own, or use them as a stimulus for whole class discussion on personal space as part of a lesson activity?
Personal Space flipbook
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Personal Space flipbook

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Help your pupils master personal space and boundaries concepts with this engaging flipbook activity. Pupils fill out the activity sheets to identify what appropriate personal space looks like and how to respect other people’s personal space, and assemble their completed flipbook to give them a useful reminder on personal space. The flipbook covers a range of important concepts including: The idea of a personal space bubble and its significance The importance of setting and respecting boundaries Practical ways to practise maintaining boundaries Self-evaluation: Am I invading someone else’s space? Understanding what constitutes healthy boundaries Identifying and appreciating the role of people in their community in maintaining personal space. The Personal Space flipbook template is easy and straightforward to use. Simply download and print pages 1-8 for each pupil. Have your pupils cut along the dotted line on each page and then stack the pages. Begin with the largest page at the bottom and stack the rest from largest to smallest, then secure the pages at the top with staples to complete each flipbook.
My Body Warning Signs - worksheet activity
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My Body Warning Signs - worksheet activity

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Help pupils identify the body signs that indicate they are feeling unsafe with this cut and paste 51ºÚÁÏ worksheet. It is important that children understand that physical changes in their bodies may indicate that they are feeling unsafe. Once they have identified this, they can then take the appropriate action to remove themselves from any harm. This worksheet activity can be used as part of your lessons about staying safe at home and in the community. The early warning signs demonstrated in this worksheet include: My head feels sore and hot I feel like crying My shoulders tense up My heart beats faster My hands feel sweaty I feel sick in the tummy My legs feel wobbly I need to use the toilet. The pupils cut out the warning signs and paste them into the correct box around the child’s body. This one sheet 51ºÚÁÏ worksheet activity (with an answer key) can be used to promote class discussion with your pupils on how their bodies may react when they feel unsafe, and what they could do in unsafe situations.
Am I A Space Invader? Personal Space poster and worksheets
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Am I A Space Invader? Personal Space poster and worksheets

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Teach your pupils about personal space with this Am I A Space Invader Personal Space poster and worksheet set. The poster provides pupils with the following questions, they can ask themselves to ensure they aren’t a ‘personal space invader’: Do they look worried or confused? Do they look mad, sad, or nervous? Did they look down or away? Did they turn away from you? Did they have their arms crossed? Did they move away from you? The accompanying worksheets then provide pupils with real-life scenarios and ask them to decide if the person in the example is a personal space invader. When the pupils have completed the worksheet activities, the engaging outer space themed poster can be displayed in your classroom, to remind pupils what personal space is and how to respect other people’s personal space.
I Can Ask for Help - workbook activity
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I Can Ask for Help - workbook activity

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Help your pupils learn how and when to ask for help with this easy to use 51ºÚÁÏ activity workbook. Many children find it challenging to understand when, who and how to ask for help. This workbook activity will guide them through the following topics: Reasons to ask for help Phrases to use when asking for help Ways to ask for help People to ask for help. Pupils work through their own version of the workbook and fill in the pages with information useful for, and personalised to, them. The booklet has numbered pages to print off and collate to make each pupil’s own workbook they can refer to and update, as a reminder of productive ways to ask for help and the trusted adults they can go to for assistance and support. This I Can Ask for Help workbook can also be used as part of a whole class 51ºÚÁÏ activity to promote discussion with your pupils on getting help and support in a safe and effective way.