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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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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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