Real life: Diary of a guest editor
Rosie Warden, a Year 4 teacher from Dover, won the chance to join the Junior Ed PLUS team and guest edit her own issue. Here, she shares the secrets behind the pages in her guest editor’s diary
By Rosie Warden — Year 4 teacher, Vale View Community School, Dover
Music: Get into the groove
Explore the orchestra with these inclusive, ICT-based activities that will be music to your ears!
By Richard Slaney from www.philharmonia.co.uk/thesoundexchange
How to deal with violent behaviour
Involving children in role play will urge them to think about what it’s like to be on the receiving end of bad behaviour
By Sue Cowley — educational author and trainer www.suecowley.co.uk
Gifted and talented: The kid’s got talent, you know
Roger Smith explores a whole-school approach to meeting the needs of gifted and talented children
By Roger Smith — educational writer
Also this month
More great articles published this month.
- Cross-curricular: A Victorian Christmas
- Literacy: Take 5… challenging literacy games
- Debate: Enough is enough!
- Music maestro: extended version
- Have you seen our star resources?
- Simple crafts: Christmas
- Professional development: interviews
- ICT: Video book reviews
- Science: Kitchen cupboard science – the body
- Coming up in Junior Ed PLUS January ‘08
- Literacy: Knock, knock. Who’s there?
- Reviews from 7—11 years
This month's resources
3 worksheets: kitchen cupboard science
3 worksheets on the body – food groups, nutritional information and testing for fat and starch
Fearless Fiona - The Mystery of the Great Stone Haggis by Karen Wallace
Year 4 children review the children’s book Fearless Fiona—The Mystery of the Great Stone Haggis by Karen Wallace
Interactive punctuation dice game
An interactive punctuation dice game. Challenge the children to click on one or all of the dice, and to create a piece of writing using all the marks rolled.
Literacy: interactive creative writing
Inspire creative writing with our interactive PowerPoint presentation, which focuses on the theme of doors
The Dragon Kite by Kenneth Steven
A group of Year 4 children review the children’s books The Dragon Kite by Kenneth Steven (Tamarind, {L-}6.99 PB)
The fame game - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Use our interactive PowerPoint presentation to inspire cross-curricular activities focusing on the famous composer Mozart
Tracks of a Panda by Nick Dowson
A group of Year 4 children review the children’s book Tracks of a Panda by Nick Dowson, illustrations by Yu Rong (Walker, {L-}10.99 HB)
Video My Travels with Clara by Mary Tavener Holmes
A group of Year 4 children review My Travels with Clara by Mary Tavener Holmes, illustrated by Jon Cannell (J Paul Getty Museum, {L-}10.95 HB)
Other resources this month
Latest news
Children’s Plan aims for world class schools 12 Dec 2007
£1 billion plan launched by the government for education, welfare and play reforms
Education more important than family 4 Dec 2007
A survey from CBBC’s Newsround programme finds children think doing well at school is more important than getting on with their family
Number of children in education increases 4 Dec 2007
More children are now in primary education says report
Union suspends classroom strike 4 Dec 2007
Members of Nispa, the union for classroom assistants in Northern Ireland, have voted to suspend their strike in the dispute over classroom assistant’s pay.
Get unwrapped with Oxfam! 28 Nov 2007
Oxfam has published an ‘Unwrapped for Schools’ pack to inspire pupils to change the world for the better this Christmas.
This month's calendar
| Calendar for Oct 2008 | ||
|---|---|---|
| 16 | 17 | 18 |
| Walt Disney Company Founded | Silent Protest | RSPB Feed the Birds Day |
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