This collection supports learning about the identification of birds, aspects of literacy, mathematics and design and technology. Created to support the Big Schools’ Birdwatch, the activities may also be used independent of the larger survey at other...

This resource, aimed at primary level, contains mathematical activity ideas linked to the science rainbow spinner demonstration. Activities in this resource investigate: radius, diameter and circumference of a circle, angles and puzzles. This resource has been...

Aimed at primary level, this activity links to the topic of light and how the rainbow colours can be brought together to produce white light. Children make spinners and colour them in the colours of the rainbow. They then investigate how we see them when they spin. By spinning the disc quickly, the eye sees all the...

This collection of short films aims to support primary teachers in planning and delivering science lessons. The films provide ideas for use in class, demonstration activities and background knowledge on particular topics within the curriculum.

The films have been provided by Reach Out CPD, the programme was...

This resource pack supports the teaching of living things in the environment, adaptation, habitats and feeding relationships. It also links to cross-curricular work in art and literacy. It can be used in any order, or as stand-alone activities when teaching about...

This resource contains an interactive spreadsheet designed to illustrate teaching points and which could be used as the basis of investigations which involve reasoning about number and shape. Each page of the spreadsheet contains a different activity:

This booklet from the National Numeracy Strategy was written to help students: * solve mathematical problems or puzzles, recognise and explain patterns and relationships, generalise and predict; * explain methods and reasoning orally and in writing; * suggest extensions by asking ‘What if …?’ All the activities...

This resource aimed at the Early Years, provides two weekly plans which help support children in counting and addition. The objectives covered in the lessons include reciting numbers to 10, then 20, counting to 10, matching one-to-one, recognising numbers, matching numerals to quantities and ordering numerals to 10...

This collection of resources, aimed at reception, includes a series of weekly lessons plan on numbers, counting, ordering, ordinal numbers and addition. They include a section for outcomes which can be used to record children who struggle with or exceed the objectives in each lesson. The plans, provided by Hamilton...

This resources aimed at EYFS learners, provides two weekly plans which help support children in:

• Reciting numbers to 100
• Counting 20 objects
• Ordering numbers
• Counting back
• Estimating
• Counting objects, actions and sounds
• Ordinal numbers

This resource aimed at the Early Years, provides two weekly plans which help support children in counting and addition. The objectives covered in the lessons include:

• Counting in 1s and 10s to 100
• Counting at least 20 objects
• Adding 1, 2 or 3 to any number to 20 by counting on,
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This resource has been created for mixed age classes of early years and lower primary children. Containing two weekly plans which support learning about number, place value and addition, objectives covered in the lessons include:

Week One

• Counting up to 10, then 20 objects...