What have you achieved this year? Here’s a selection of the updates and changes to my teaching websites over the past 12 months.

New Christmas Resources and Inspiration Posters!
Download our HUGE collection of free Christmas lesson ideas and classroom resources. Take a look!

Teaching Ideas – New Look and New Resources!
Take a look at the updated Teaching Ideas site and download the free lesson ideas and resources!

New Resources on Teaching Ideas
Find out about new ideas and resources that have been added to Teaching Ideas recently.

Christmas Teaching Theme Resources
Our new Christmas Teaching Theme has recently been published and it is rapidly becoming the most popular section on Teaching Ideas! This theme is the biggest one yet and it includes a wide range of teaching ideas, resources, display material, videos, photos, jokes, apps, games and links… all related to Christmas. Visit the theme at [...]

Learning about Money
Learning about money is an important part of life and education… here are links to some sites and resources which may be useful to you: This BBC report shows schools in Northern Ireland where lessons in personal finance are compulsory for all children. The following Youtube video shows five tips to teach younger children good [...]
Competition – Win one of five ‘Colour to Life’ books!
A few months ago, Rommie Corso kindly contributed a free page from her book to my Teaching Ideas site. The page, which has a picture of a turtle to colour and a related drawing activity, has been downloaded and used by lots of teachers. Rommie has now offered five copies of her book as a competition [...]

Teaching Events
I recently set up a new site to accompany my existing collection of Teaching Websites. The new site is called Teaching Events and is a place where you can find: Events which could be used as a starting point for a range of classroom activities. Conferences, exhibitions and shows which teachers can attend for their [...]
Free sounds to use in the classroom
Alan McKinney from SoundScalpel has kindly contributed a large collection of sound effects to Teaching Ideas. You can download these sounds and use them in your classroom for: Adding atmosphere to lessons, Assemblies, School performances, Adding sound to children’s ICT / multimedia work, Addition to a school website / VLE. www.teachingideas.co.uk/english/dramasoundeffects.htm I’ve also recently discovered www.freesfx.co.uk which [...]

Popular Teaching Ideas and Resources (July '10)
Here are links to some of the most popular Teaching Ideas, News, Videos and Photos on my websites recently: World Cup Ideas and Resources – A large collection of lesson ideas, videos, display material and other resources, to support the use of the World Cup in the classroom. Creative Writing – A collection of starting [...]






