Category Archives: Cross-Curricula

Why are boys often competitive?

The simple answer? Hormones.

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Free creative teaching resource – brain ‘warm-up’ activities

Bring an elephant into your room. It will make people think, or, more accurately, it will make people want to think.

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Free creative teaching resource – Personal Rain Catcher

Was your sports day disrupted by rain? Get children to write and illustrate an advert that will persuade people to buy a ‘Personal Rain Catcher’. They will need to exaggerate any positive features they can think of for this invention.

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Free French teaching resource – formal and informal language

Comparing the structure of two different languages will help children develop the use of both.

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How much homework is too much?

The NY Times ‘Quotation of the day’ is from a parent who asks this question, and that has got me thinking about how much homework children should be getting, and what it should be like.

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