Print the pdf onto card and ask your children to design their calendar. Send it home at the end of term for a Happy New Year

These group cards will help your guided reading group share the roles associated with reciprocal teaching. The cards are an aid to model the four basic strategies for understandning any text.

Each card can be laminated and used as a book mark or to section the page if one paragraph is being used at a time.

Cards include:
The Boss
The Predictor
The Questioner
The Clarifier
The Summariser

The cards act as a reminder to each group member of their role and help formualate responses for the discussion.

Once modelled by the teacher the children will be trained to work within their group unassisted.

Download reciprocal reading pdf (right click link and choose Save Link As)

Please note the character graphics print much nicer than they are displayed on the screen

These posters are a useful reminder for everyone on how to optimise Google searches by good practice and careful search parameters

Google has many tools at your fingertips and embeded within the standard search facility - you just need to know what it can do!

Free to Use - Google Calculator, Dictionary, Unit Conversion, Maps, Book Search, Weather, Queries, Synonym Search, Time Around the World...

Google is a powerful search engine with millions of links in its index - Refine your results following some simple and standard protocols

The object of the game is move around the game board earning Reward Smilies by reading the letters they land on or following the instructions in the game squares. Remember to encourage all the players to clap or say ‘well done’ when every child has a successful or unsuccessful attempt

Always ask the players to sound the letter and make the correct mouth formation and then think of a word that starts with the letter (you could offer several more words too!)

Print loads of Smilies for lots of rewards and encouragement

Page 1 - Instructions and game ideas

Page 2 to 3 - Game Board - random letters to A-Z

Page 4 - Smilies

Download a pdf Simley Sound Game

Create the greatest reading corner or library space, a cool and tranquil time out room or use indoors and outdoors for circle time, these great bean bags, floor cushions and scatter cushions from Magic Bean Bags are sure to add a spark of delight to all pupils.

The amazing 14 available colours in the Outdoor / Indoor Range include; fuscia, aqua, chocolate, gold and orange and are all water resistant, fire retardant and easily cleaned. Made in the UK to British Safety Standards, you are guarenteed to offer pupils in your class and school comfort and style in the classroom and breakout spaces.

The bean filled floor cushions are great for sharing a reading book, whilst the scatter cushions are perfect for throwing onto the floor for everychild giving them their own individual space, the slabs are easily stackable so are perfect for areas that needed to be tidied quickly or are used for multiple purposes.

Take a look as the bean cubes are great for teachers and asistants to use as an extra chair that can easily moved from group to another.

Fresher Schools is delighted that Pivotol Education has published our deBono's Thinking Hats Resource on their website for Behaviour Management Training.

You can visit Pivotal for more great resources

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A 2010 Calendar to print onto card and let the children add a picture, collage, glitter & critters

This is a great send home treat for children to take home for the new year

Two to choose from:

Calendar 2010 - photocopiable - black and white

Focus everyone's thinking for tasks and activities by using deBono's Thinking Hats.

Every hat helps solve a problem or task

Black Hat for Judgement
White Hat for Information
Blue Hat for Thinking
Green Hat for Creativity & New Ideas
Red Hat for Feelings
Yellow Hat for Strengths

Download the posters here

Thousands of resources from the Foundation Stage to KS4
- - definately worth a look

School Resources

SHEEP - the acronym for the Every Child Matters 5 Outcomes

I used these sheets to play games to develop citizenship skills, work with the school council and set school and class targets. There are a range of sheets here that could be used in a variety of ways so experiment.

SHEEP Poster Our SHEEP Target - Set a target for the week or add the target to the SDIP SHEEP Mini Cards - Play games with these cards or let children earn a card for their good behaviour or awareness of the 5 outcomes

The statement cards-  2 sets. 1. 45 statements - allow children to sort a range of situations into postive and negative behaviours 2. 24 positive statements to sort into the 5 outcomes SHEEP display banners - Cut these up and put them on a separate piece of paper and ask the children to think of how the school meets each of the 5 outcomes. There is a yellow SHEEP with a bin  (on page 2) to add comments regarding things that happen at the school which may not be positive