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This week's Wednesday Words blog, brings you a Year 5 vocabulary teaching activity which uses Alfred, Lord Tennyson's poem The Eagle to explore how vocabulary choices change and enhance meaning.

Today marks the start of this year's Dyslexia Awareness Week and we will be updating this page with the latests SEN blogs and updates throughout the week.

We're celebrating the European Day of Languages by taking a look at the benefits learning a second language can bring. We're also offering 25% off our Euro Stars resources until the end of September.

Celebrate National Poetry Day on the 4th of October with our collection of free poetry resources and activities. 

This week, we bring you a Reception vocabulary teaching activity which uses the story of Hansel and Gretel to help children to develop an understanding of words to describe different characters.

We've collated all of our news, advice and free resources to help you keep abreast of what's going on in primary education, as well as the latest resources to help your child reach their full potential.

It has taken a lot of hours for Ofsted to discover that the primary curriculum is skewed by SATs, that the foundation subjects are being squeezed and creative teaching is not as widespread as they hoped.  They find that timetabling is conservative, priorities are focused on the acquisition of knowledge and there is a lack of flair in some of the teaching. And, apparently, we don’t know what we mean when we say ‘skills’.

Teach your children about the different functions of our bones and muscles with this fun practical lesson!

This week's Wednesday Words blog, brings you a Year 3 vocabulary teaching activity which uses Alice in Wonderland to explore adverbs in fiction.