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Globetrotting Set up your own travel agents and let the children enjoy planning a holiday
Getting to know you Practical activities are a great way for staff to bond and learn to support each other. Sue Cowley suggests some fun ideas for successful team building
Happy Father’s Day To celebrate Father’s Day, we meet three dads who spent a day at their children’s nursery
Reading escapes This month’s theme for the 2008 National Year of Reading focuses on holiday reading and what better book to link this to than Mr Bear’s Holiday by Debi Gliori (Orchard Books) 
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Art: Garden games Short on display space for children’s 3D work? Your outdoor area is the perfect place for an interactive exhibition
Outdoor learning: Junior entrepreneurs Swap the classroom for the boardroom and teach children important life skills with our new cross-curricular series. This month: the garden challenge
RE: Old stories, modern messages Discover a fresh new RE series that helps give Bible stories a modern makeover
Numeracy: Step to it Use practical challenges and a simple four-step procedure to develop effective problem-solving skills
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Phonics: Letters and Sounds Letters and Sounds is starting to gain pace in schools. Still overwhelmed by the six phases? Relax! and read our guide on how to approach them
Through the keyhole — Pharaoh’s tomb Discover the wonders (and dangers!) of an ancient desert tomb
Favourite books — Wild About Books A librarian mistakenly drives her bookmobile into a zoo. The result? A whole heap of animal and reading fun
Worry dolls Children often have more things bothering them than they let on. Time to make some worry dolls to share those problems
Literacy Time PLUS Ages 5 to 7
Really Looking A collection of vividly descriptive poems, which supports the Literacy Framework Y2 Poetry Unit 2 – Really Looking and Y1 Poetry Unit 1 – Using the senses.
Dame Kelly Holmes: Olympic Champion A group of primary schoolchildren pose questions to Olympic gold medallist Dame Kelly Holmes in this multimedia resource – PLUS a biography and video link
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Literacy Time PLUS Ages 7 to 9
Literacy Time PLUS resource inspires young poets Authors and Letters, published in the March 2008 issue of Literacy Time PLUS, inspired children in one Warwickshire primary school to write their own poems in the style of Moira Andrew
Once upon a time… Use these interactive story frames to plan and write the beginning, middle and end of a traditional story. The amount of support given gradually reduces as children move through the resource.
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Literacy Time PLUS Ages 9 to 11
The National Year of Reading… what’s it all about? Honor Wilson-Fletcher, NYR Project Director, tells us more about the aims and structure of the National Year of Reading
Olympic Dictionary Game Interactive ‘Call my Bluff’-style dictionary game in which children must match the Olympic Games topic words to their correct definitions.
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| Europe Day | Astronomy Day | Last day of Tesco Computers for Schools vouchers |
Latest news
SEN policy should be driven by parents 9 May 2008
New SEN report puts parents in control
Parents prefer informal chats to parents’ evenings 9 May 2008
Government survey finds parents want more involvement in children’s education via informal chats
Helping children gain citizenship skills 8 May 2008
New advice on getting young people involved at school and learning important citizenship skills published
Bring your Bear! 8 May 2008
Zoe Ball rises to Paddington’s Suitcase Challenge!
Free book for NYR Coordinators 7 May 2008
Scholastic are giving a free copy of their title You Can Make the most of the National Year of Reading to every Local Authority Coordinator for the National Year of Reading
Funding cuts for after-school clubs 2 May 2008
Primary schools in Northern Ireland face losing extra curricular provision
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