It’s the start of our third week of our Free Online Summer Club (#CatchUpOnPlaying) !! The theme for this week is ‘STEM‘ and we’d love you to use play this week to learn about science, technology, maths and engineering. We’ve created a list of fun STEM based activities […]
Today’s activity is a great one for children that enjoy imaginative play! It can also be a lovely way of getting children to put pen to paper and practise their writing and number formation, through play. (If you like this video, head over to my YouTube channel here […]
If you’re child is learning some spellings for school or just needing to practise the spellings of certain tricky words…then have a go at this! This could also be adapted to using letters to revise the alphabet or graphemes to reinforce phonics. In summary, you make a hand […]
It’s CASTLES AND MAGIC week as part of our #SENResourcesSummer (find out more about our free summer holidays activities here) Yesterday we launched a competition for this week to win a Magformers set by making a cardboard castle. Enter on Facebook here. Today we are showing you how you can […]
Many of us have now just completed our first two weeks of home schooling due to school closures because of the coronavirus outbreak. We’ve had lots of people ask us for recommendations of resources to help support their child’s homeschooling so we’ve compiled our favourite homeschool resources for […]
We are extremely excited to be teaming up with Special Direct (TTS Group) to GIVE AWAY a Calming Weighted Blanket (worth over £70!) to one lucky winner on twitter. If the children in the school you work in or your own child for example could benefit from one […]
Searching for high quality, online learning games for children can be a bit of a minefield. The quality of online games varies significantly and it can be difficult to find ones that correctly support your child’s learning at school. It can also be tricky to find a game […]
We asked some reception teachers their advice for how to prepare children for starting primary school. Here are some of the things they said! If you’d like a PDF copy of this please click here to download for FREE! All I ask is you share our blog with […]
The bank holiday weekend is in full swing: Here’s eleven activities that, minus a bit of petrol and or ice cream money…should be pretty much free. Park– don’t under estimate the local play park! Not only are they free but there’s always the added bonus that they may […]
