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Keep abreast of the broad learning needs of primary pupils, and build strong foundations for a lifetime of education with videos covering the practical and the inspirational.
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Professional Skills - Positive Learning Environment - Primary
Can classroom layout affect speaking and listening skills?
Top Tips for Trainee Teachers - School Placements
Advice for trainee teachers embarking on school placement
KS1/2 Art - Drawing Self Portraits
Developing drawing and observational skills with portraits
Lesson Starters - Story Writing - Seven Dramatised Clips
A look at seven story start video clips for literacy teaching
Great Lesson Ideas - Primary English - Writing Activities
Three teachers demonstrate writing activities for KS1 and KS2
Lesson Starters - Storytelling: Raja's Secret
Using a story as a starting point for KS1 creative writing
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Primary Lesson Ideas Channel
- Great Lesson Ideas - Primary Science: Materials Activities
- Great Lesson Ideas - Learning Outside the Classroom: Primary Environment
- Great Lesson Ideas - Primary PE
- Great Lesson Ideas - Primary French
- Great Lesson Ideas - Primary Arts: Scrap Art
- Great Lesson Ideas - Primary Geography - On Location
- Great Lesson Ideas - Primary History - Vicious Vikings
- Great Lesson Ideas - Primary History: Artefacts
New videos
Great Lesson Ideas - KS1 Art - Pop-up Puppets
Emma Myers takes a class in making pop-up puppets
Great Lesson Ideas - KS1 Art - Peacock Masks
An artist shows a KS1 art class how to make peacock masks
Great Lesson Ideas - KS1 Art - Indian Block Printing
A KS1 art lesson on Indian block printing
Lesson Starters - Storytelling: Raja's Secret
Using a story as a starting point for KS1 creative writing
Teaching Past, Present and Future
A series of short clips for use as activity starters
Hard to Teach - Personal Hygiene
Advice on how to help pupils improve their personal hygiene
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Classroom resources
Lesson Starters - Primary Writing Starters - Lily & Ermine
An animated KS2 creative writing starter