January 2015

Find out how one school have used and adapted Rising Stars History to deliver an outstanding History curriculum at their school. 

Our October Reading Planet Book of the Month is Fatama and Mami Wata’s Secret (Galaxy - Turquoise) by Marcelle Mateki Akita. The book follows Fatama, a young girl who lives with her family in Freetown, Sierra Leone and is fascinated by stories about Mami Wata, a water goddess from African legend. In this blog, Marcelle explains the significance of Mami Wata in African culture and explores how children might study the book in the classroom.

Emma White explains how and why she created the Oi Frog! teaching unit and how it can be used to achieve high-quality reading and writing skills.

We are excited to announce that three of our resoruces were winners at this year's Teach Primary Awards. 

We've teamed up with Jessica Kingsley Publishers to share some activities to try with your SEN pupils as they return to school.

At a free professional development webinar forming part of a pilot scheme for eduu.school, we asked teachers whether they thought an online school environment was important to support students in the COVID context. Here’s what they had to say.

We're delighted to announce that our Special Needs Assessment Profile (SNAP-SpLD) has been shortlisted in this year's NASEN Awards!

"We know many teachers will be concerned that pupils will have fallen behind in English and Maths during school closure, and catching up here is understandably going to be a priority for many. Fortunately, many of the Switched On Computing units can be used to help support pupils in rebuilding their skills in Reading, Writing and Maths, whilst simultaneously developing their skills, knowledge and understanding in computing."

To help spread some positive news in your school, we've teamed up with The Happy Newspaper to send newspapers full of uplifting stories from around the world into 10,000 schools for pupils and teachers to read

Our Reading Planet September Book of the Month is Journeys: The Story of Migration to Britain ((Saturn/Blue-Red band) by Dan Lyndon-Cohen. The book uncovers the stories of people who migrated from their own countries and settled in Britain. In this blog piece,  Dan explores what led him to writing the book and explains how schools are using it to teach the topic of migration.