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Download this welcome poster for your classroom which has five tips for how you and your students can welcome new students. Ideal for encouraging empathy and understanding with KS1 and KS2 pupils

Inspired by the picture book The Girl at the Front of the Class

Also Available: A Collaborative Art Project, Teaching Resources and Welcome Sign

Help young children understand and empathise with the refugee experience, with this moving picture book from Onjali Q. Raúf, the bestselling author of The Boy at the Back of the Class, and illustrated by Pippa Curnick. Told with heart and humour, this story of friendship and kindness provides an early conversation starter to the topic of refugees for children in Key Stage 1 and 2.

This pack includes discussion questions, activity sheets and everything you need to make a kindness display

Key Themes: PSHE | Art | English | Empathy | Creative Writing

Also Available: A Collaborative Art Project, Welcome Poster and Welcome Sign

A gripping adventure filled with suspense that will keep your upper KS2 class on the edge of their seats. The perfect spooky story for confident readers and reading together as a class.

These classroom resources include three extracts and discussion questions and activity sheets exploring nature and creative writing​.

Themes: Creative writing | Art | English

From the award-winning author of Skellig comes a new story of hope, friendship and conquering your fears.

Nothing is the same this summer. With Joff’s father ill and his mother working, he can’t wait to escape each day, but when his adventures take him to the Chapel of Doom, he uncovers something unexpected, something truly magical.

This timeless coming-of-age story is supported by curriculum-linked activities and display materials.

Themes: Coming of age | Back to school | Family | Illness

This pack includes teaching resources inspired by four of Enid Blyton’s most well-known series: The Famous Five, The Secret Seven: The Magic Faraway Tree and Malory Towers. This pack can be used in lessons to explore one or all of these series, and include themes of comprehension, creative writing and writing skills.

Themes: Creative Writing | English | Reading Comprehension | Writing Skills

You can download the individual resource packs for each series here: The Magic Faraway Tree, The Famous Five, The Secret Seven and Malory Towers.

Inspire and educate your students with Enid Blyton’s enchanting Magic Faraway Tree books. These resources will develop your students’ reading comprehension, encourage creative writing, explore fantastical worlds and settings and ultimately inspire children to expand their imaginations.

Themes: Creative Writing | English | Reading Comprehension | Writing Skills

Resources are also available for Enid Blyton’s other series: The Famous Five, The Secret Seven and Malory Towers. Download a pack featuring all four resource packs here.

Teaching resources inspired by Enid Blyton’s well-known series, The Famous Five. Use these resources to develop your students’ reading comprehension and writing skills and encourage creative thinking

Themes: Creative Writing | English | Reading Comprehension | Writing Skills

Other resources inspired by Enid Blyton’s books: The Secret Seven resources, Malory Towers resource, The Magic Faraway Tree resources. Download a pack featuring all four resource packs here.

These Malory Towers inspired resources will allow your students to explore themes of starting school and making friends, alongside aiding their development in creative thinking and reading comprehension

Themes: Creative Writing | English | Reading Comprehension | Writing Skills

Other resources inspired by Enid Blyton’s books: The Secret Seven resources, The Famous Five resources, The Magic Faraway Tree resources. Download a pack featuring all four resource packs here.

Inspire and educate your students with The Secret Seven, Enid Blyton’s beloved series about a group of detectives. These resources will develop your students’ reading comprehension, encourage creative writing, explore themes of teamwork and ultimately inspire children to set up their own detective club

Themes: Creative Writing | English | Reading Comprehension | Writing Skills

Resources are also available for Enid Blyton’s other series: The Famous Five, The Magic Faraway Tree and Malory Towers. Download a pack featuring all four resource packs here.

The incredible true story of Holocaust survivor, Tova Friedman.

Inspire and educate your students with this extraordinary memoir of one girl’s fight for survival and eventual liberation of her and her parents. A sensitive retelling of the New York Times bestseller, The Daughter of Auschwitz, for children aged 12+; supported by curriculum-linked activity sheets.

Watch the video series with Tova Friedman here. Includes an introduction, reading and Q&A.

 Themes: Holocaust | WWII | Family | Identity

Lately, Grandad has been forgetting things, but when his memories magically start coming to life, granddaughter Lily knows it’s the key to help him get better. Can she unlock his past, before it’s too late? An action-packed graphic novel about remembering who you are and finding the light at the end of the tunnel.

Download these activity sheets including diary writing exercise, memory jar activity and wordsearch.

Themes: Family | Identity | Dementia | Refugees

Download these fun activity sheets for Impossible Things, a brilliant book for curious kids aged 8+, packed with unbelievable-but-true facts, hilarious comic strips and answers to all their weird and wonderful questions.

These activity sheets contain: creative writing; problem-solving tasks; writing tasks; drawing tasks, critical thinking tasks

Themes: Critical Thinking | Facts | Mysteries | Non-Fiction | Did you Know?