I’ve had a busy few months with lots of updates to my Teaching Websites. Find out all about the new changes and additions here!

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 [...]
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 [...]

Teaching Themes – Summer at the Seaside
I’ve published July’s Teaching Theme a few days early, so that it can be used in the last few weeks of the summer term here in the UK. The theme is called ‘Summer at the Seaside‘ and it contains an enormous collection of ideas, resources, display material, photos, videos, links, places and maps… all linked [...]

Favourite World Cup Resource sites
The World Cup has now started and lots of schools are using the event as a starting point for their lessons. Here are links to a selection of my favourite World Cup resource sites: Teaching Ideas – This is my own collection of lesson ideas, resources, display material, videos, links and more, which also includes [...]

Teaching Themes – Myst Ideas and Resources
I am really pleased to announce the availability of the second ‘Teaching Themes‘ section on my Teaching Ideas site. Last month’s World Cup theme was incredibly popular and the resources are all still online if you would like to use them. This month, the theme is Myst: www.teachingideas.co.uk/themes/myst The Myst series of computer games can be [...]

Popular Teaching Ideas and Resources (May '10)
Here are links to some of the most popular Teaching Ideas, News, Videos and Photos on my websites recently: Limericks – Learn about limericks! Contains lots of examples and suggested activities. Prime Numbers – A clear set of instructions to help you identify prime numbers. Number Square Patterns – A set of resource sheets and [...]
Teachers Pet
Teachers Pet is a new free resource site for teachers. The site features lots of downloadable resources, in different subject areas, for Foundation stage, Key Stage 1 and Key Stage 2 classrooms. www.tpet.co.uk The creators of the site are also keen to receive suggestions, so teachers can get in touch with them and request resources. [...]







