Drawing on long-term case studies of four primary schools located in these communities, this book describes the difference between what is commonly practiced and those practices that have a greater chance of supporting young people's literacy learning. This book aims to provide an explanatory account of these complex schooling contexts and the policy logics under which they operate.

Longman Student Atlas - Exciting and Informative Can you really say that about your current Atlases?

A flap book introducing children to the secrets of castles in a fun and informative way. It includes flaps beneath flaps and other surprises. It features lords, ladies, knights and squires to find out how they live, work, fight and relax in their castle home.

In Making Every Primary Lesson Count: Six Principles to Support Great Teaching and Learning, full-time primary teachers Jo Payne and Mel Scott share evidence-informed practice and gimmick-free advice for ensuring that every lesson makes a difference for young learners.

Practical and easy to use this book provides essential information for both practitioners and academics.

Maths Homework for Key Stage 2 is a unique resource for busy teachers - a selection of 'pencil-free', hands-on activities, aligned with the National Curriculum Programmes of Study.

Mental Arithmetic provides rich and varied practice to develop pupils' essential maths skills at Key Stage 2. Questions in Mental Arithmetic 4 cover the key subject areas of number, measurement, geometry and statistics, including Roman numerals, square numbers, equivalent fractions, problem solving, reflection, translation and line graphs.

Intended for Key Stage Level 1, this book features many exercises that help build children's confidence in their mental maths skills. These exercises cover a range a key areas from the National Curriculum such as Number Bonds, Ordinal Numbers, Time, Fractions, and more.

This practical guide helps mentors of trainee and newly qualified primary school teachers in both developing their own mentoring skills and providing the essential guidance their beginning teachers need as they navigate the roller-coaster of the first years in the classroom.

Written by Jonathan Lear, The Monkey-Proof Box: Curriculum design for building knowledge, developing creative thinking and promoting independence is a manifesto on how to dismantle the curriculum we're told to deliver and construct in its place the curriculum we need to deliver.

Recognising cultural, ethical and geographical influences which impact the development of a child's identity, this insightful text explores the role of early childhood practitioners and settings in nurturing the child's sense of being and belonging and helps students engage critically with the concept of identity-formation.

The Reception year is a transitional or bridging time for children. This text will guide trainee and beginning teachers to perform the multiple roles and responsibilities of a reception teacher and support children through this transition.

Get ready for the biggest curriculum change in more than a decade! To help teachers to deliver the new Curriculum, Scholastic has published the first complete printed version for Key Stages 1 and 2.

This is the first strand in a brand new series of Developing Literacy, developed to be fully in line with the government's Revised Primary Framework for Literacy. It features completely new content, a fresh up-to-date look both inside and out, and comes with a CD-ROM that contains all of the activity sheets in a customisable format.

Helps on problems of classroom organisation such as: how to group children, how to set out a classroom physically, and how to make the most efficient use of time and resources. This book intends to get teachers and student-teachers to analyse their own classrooms and to produce solutions that work for them.

Best-selling author Shirley Clarke provides a wealth of high quality ideas, practical strategies, classroom examples and whole-school case studies for teachers in primary and secondary schools.

A new edition in the successful series of teaching plans to help non-specialist primary teachers to implement the physical education curriculum, including lesson plans for dance, gymnastic activities and games. Includes a CD of all lessons in PDF format for ease of use.

A new edition in the successful series of teaching plans to help non-specialist primary teachers to implement the physical education curriculum, including lesson plans for dance, gymnastic activities and games. Includes a CD of all lesson plans in PDF format for ease of use.

Provides practical guidelines for teachers who are beginning to implement the National Literacy Strategy at Key Stage 1 and 2. Using familiar picture books, the contributors show how learning objectives can be achieved through meaningful activities related to text.

A book for primary teachers and those training to teach in primary schools on how to develop positive socially-aware teaching that offers deep learning across different curriculum subjects.

In Powering Up Children: The Learning Power Approach to primary teaching, Guy Claxton and Becky Carlzon harness the design principles of the Learning Power Approach (LPA) to provide a rich resource of effective teaching strategies for use in the primary school classroom.

Focuses on how to teach the foundation curriculum subjects effectively to the 5-11 age group. This textbook covers various manners of good practice including: cross-curricular links, planning, assessment and evaluation along with teaching beyond the classroom.