Creepy Crawlies

This can be done over a series of lessons as part of an ongoing project, dedicating each lesson to a different insect, or otherwise as one lesson. Children love squeamish subjects so you may find that they want

The Multi-Cultural Primary Classroom

Introduction
You may find in your primary English class that you have children who struggle with the school language in their first year of primary school because they have a different home language. How will this affect your classroom when teaching English to 1st year primary? How can you cater to their needs? How can you simplify the language so that all your 6 year olds can learn?

Machines

Introduction
Children are often fascinated by machines; the way they work, inventing their own. We are not going to go into

Managing very young learners

Introduction
It can be very daunting going into a class of 20 or 30 five-year-olds when you have little teaching experience.

All about me

Introduction
With very young learners much of what they do in the classroom revolves around them. Before school they are often the centre of ‘their’ universe so starting school can sometimes be a bit of a shock.

At the funfair