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Bookshelf Best
This week's Bookshelf Best is 'Turtle Moon' by Hannah Gold. Having read all of Hannah Gold’s other books, I was delighted to find ‘Turtle...
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Feb 21 min read
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Bookshelf Best
This week's Bookshelf Best is 'Storm Child' by Ele Fountain. Maya Penrose loves her life: her surfing, her friends and their endless...
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Jan 261 min read
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Bookshelf Best
This week's Bookshelf Best is 'The Wild Robot Protects' by Peter Brown. Safely back home with Brightbill on their beloved island, our...
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Jan 171 min read
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Escape From Pompeii
Welcome to our NEWLY UPDATED six-week fully resourced English planning based on Christina Balit’s ‘Escape From Pompeii’. Watch your...
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Dec 13, 20241 min read
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Bookshelf Best
This week's bookshelf best is 'The Voyage of the Sparrowhawk' by Natasha Farrant. Ben and Lottie - who are both desperate to escape the...
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Nov 9, 20241 min read
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Bookshelf Bests
The very next day after finishing ‘The Wild Robot’ I went out and found the sequel, ‘The Wild Robot Escapes’. The second book in the...
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Oct 26, 20241 min read
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Victorians Fully Resourced English Planning
When Ettie’s world gets turned upside down, she does everything she can to survive in Victorian London. Follow Ettie, and her brother...
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Oct 18, 20241 min read
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Bookshelf Bests
Discover the 'Bookshelf Best' with 'The Shark Caller' by Zillah Bethell. Join Blue Wing on a thrilling adventure of revenge and friendship.
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Oct 13, 20241 min read
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Bookshelf Bests
This week’s Bookshelf Best is The Wild Robot by Peter Brown.  I didn’t think it was possible to be completely taken by a lump of metal...
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Oct 6, 20241 min read
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Bookshelf Best
It’s no wonder this stunningly illustrated book has just won the Klaus Flugge Prize. 'The Fossil Hunter' is easily our bookshelf best...
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Sep 26, 20241 min read
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Fully Resourced English Planning based on an environmental novel
Times are tough for Cari and her mum. A violent storm has flooded the valley where they live, destroying their home and café...
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Sep 20, 20241 min read
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Bookshelf Best
This week's Bookshelf Best is 'The Lost Whale' by Hannah Gold. When Rio’s mother knows she needs time and support to become well again,...
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Sep 19, 20241 min read
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Stone Age English Planning
Our thirty fully resourced English lessons are based upon the enchanting book, ‘Nell and the Cave Bear’ by Martin Brown. This is a...
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Jun 18, 20241 min read
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' The Wild Way Home' Stone Age English Planning
If you are looking for gripping Stone Age English planning for Year 3 and 4 learners (ages 7-9), then look no further! We have based our...
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Jun 18, 20241 min read
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Fully Resourced English Planning: 'Marcy and the Riddle of the Sphinx.'
This spotlight focuses on something we pride ourselves on! It really does create time for teachers when you access our bespoke teaching...
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Apr 13, 20241 min read
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Fully Resourced English Planning: Vlad and the Florence Nightingale Adventure
Today's spotlight focuses on a superb teaching resource within our fully resourced English planning for Year 2 centred around 'Vlad and...
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Mar 23, 20241 min read
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Fully Resourced English Planning: Resist
In this blog, we are shining the spot light on our fully resourced English planning based on 'Resist' by Tom Palmer. Resist is a...
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Mar 13, 20242 min read
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Fully Resourced English Planning: Vlad and the Florence Nightingale Adventure
This blog will put the spotlight on our fully resourced English planning for the wonderful book 'Vlad and the Florence Nightingale...
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Mar 1, 20242 min read
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Fully Resourced English Planning: She Wolf
This week we will be spotlighting lesson five from our 'She Wolf' fully resourced English planning written for Upper Key Stage 2. This is...
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Feb 23, 20242 min read
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Fully Resourced English Planning: Omar, The Bees and Me
This week we will be spotlighting one of our lessons from our fully resourced English planning based on 'Omar the Bees and Me' by Helen...
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Feb 17, 20242 min read
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