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Diwali activities for primary |
short Christmas plays |
autumn activities eyfs |
themes in Macbeth |
Upcoming events and current affairs
Yom Kippur [1-2 Oct] |
National Poetry Day [2 Oct] |
World Space Week [4-10 Oct] |
World Teachers Day [5 Oct] |
Harvest Festival [5 Oct] |
World Mental Health Day [10 Oct] |
Diwali [20 Oct] |
Enviroweek AU [22-28 Oct] |
Halloween [31 Oct] |
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What's been happening
Top search terms last month
Terms in bold italics did not rank in the top 20 in August 2024
Zones of regulation | Tray labels |
Display | Macbeth |
Place value | Fractions |
Colour Monster | Birthday display |
Back to school | Phonics |
All about me | Classroom jobs |
Teaching in technicolour | Construction |
Visual timetable | First week feelings |
Class Charter | First day |
Planning | Algebra |
Current resource catalogue
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October 2024 top search terms
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Topical
Halloween | Autumn |
Black History Month | World Mental Health Day |
Dia de los muertos | Remembrance Day |
Diwali | Harvest |
Day of the Dead | Bonfire Night |
Free | Paid |
World Mental Health Day 2024: Inside Out 2 Assembly PowerPoint (Primary) | Assembly: World Mental Health Day |
Black History Month Assembly | Halloween Quiz |
General
Quiz | GCSE |
Assembly | Weekly quiz |
Exam question practice | Lesson plan |
Revision | Escape room |
Display | Pay calculator |
Free | Paid |
Pay Calculator | OUTSTANDING UPS/UPR Threshold Application - Complete, very detailed, for ALL Teachers |
Diamond 9 Templates | NPQ Assignment 22/23 (NPQLT) |
English
Macbeth | Colourful semantics |
A Christmas Carol | Handwriting |
An Inspector Calls | Of Mice and Men |
Creative writing | Room on the Broom |
Colour Monster | Romeo and Juliet |
Free | Paid |
Fronted Adverbials | AQA Paper 1 Question 5 Descriptive Writing |
Similes and Metaphors | Descriptive Writing Introduction |
Maths
Fractions | Standard form |
Halloween maths | Algebra |
Trigonometry | Rounding |
Ratio | Place value |
Probability
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Indices |
Free | Paid |
Addition and subtraction word problems | Add 1s Across a 10 |
Expanding and factorising COLLECTION (Bundle) | Halloween Dead Pirate Game |
Science
Diffusion | Cells |
Enzymes | Specialised cells |
Periodic table | Osmosis |
Photosynthesis | Ionic bonding |
Forces | States of matter |
History
Black History | Titanic |
Battle of Hastings | Vikings |
Crime and Punishment | Cold War |
Slave auctions | Rosa Parks |
Industrial revolution | American West |
Geography
Climate change | Globalisation |
Rivers | Map skills |
Weather | Earthquakes |
Sustainability | Migration |
Volcanoes | Global warming |
RE
Judaism | Abortion |
Islam | Buddhism |
Christianity | Baptism |
Euthanasia | Philosophy |
Hinduism | Introduction to RE |
Free | Paid |
R.E - Festivals and Celebrations Unit | End of Year RE Quiz |
Human Rights | RE SMART and PowerPoint Was Jesus the Messiah? Incarnation unit of six lessons plus all resources |
MFL
Dia de los muertos | Translation |
Frence numbers | Spanish numbers |
Ma famille | Les vacances |
Les vetements | La famille |
Passe compose | La toussaint |
Free | Paid |
Dia de los muertos / Day of the dead 1st and 2nd November | New GCSE French - Module 1 - Tu as du temps à perdre? |
Plural Rules Worksheet | FRENCH HALLOWEEN |
Computing
Online safety | Binary |
Python | Cyber security |
Scratch | e-safety |
Internet safety | Artificial intelligence |
Excel | Spreadsheets |
PSHE
Careers | Alcohol |
Mental health | Drugs |
British values | Vaping |
Healthy eating | Social media |
Bullying | Budgeting |
Free | Paid |
The Colour Monster Activity | Drugs PSHE |
Inside Out 2: Changes and Challenges | Conflict Management - Healthy Relationships PSHE |
PE
Gymnastics | Football |
Netball | Components of fitness |
Games | Table tennis |
Basketball | Circuit training |
Badminton | Orienteering |
Primary
Phonics | Storyboard |
Comprehension | Initial sounds |
Number blocks | Phase 2 phonics |
Name writing | Fairytales |
Free time | Sight words |
Free | Paid |
RWI set one mat | What can you see? CVC words |
Respiratory system - Year 8, KS3 stage | CVC Word & Picture Discs |
SEND
Zones of regulation | Makaton |
Visual timetable | Fine motor |
EAL | ADHD |
Dyslexia | Inclusion |
Autism | Attention autism |
Free | Paid |
World Mental Health Day toolkit | TICKING TEXTS 3 |
Colourful (Colorful) Semantics FREE Board with colours I use in my resources | TICKING TEXTS 1 |
DT
Food | Alloys |
Nutrition | 2d design |
Materials | DT activities |
Food groups | Smart materials |
Food labels | Hygiene |
Art
Picasso | Patterns |
Halloween art | Ceramics |
Pop art | Colours |
Colouring | Diya |
Colour theory | Frida Kahlo |
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