Lessons with Grandpa

Jonny Griffiths

What else?

• Make maths come alive with Len Cooper's Kaleidoscope activity about mirrors and angles
• Try Teach First's comprehensive scheme of work for applying maths to real life

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• Share ideas for maths in 'real life contexts'.

Partner of the week - Khanacademy

TES welcomes Khanacademy, an American education site WHICH HAS shared over 8,000 free maths videos.

• Khanacademy profile
• Khanacademy is branching out beyond mathematics, with resources for science and history now available. Why not check out their website and tell your peers

Resource of the Week

Can there be giants?

• mrslack_maths' investigation lesson asks students just this question as they study the relativity of height, strength and weight

A taste for words

What else?

• If food tasting isn't your thing, try krista_carson's homelessness themed lesson to develop descriptive writing- one of the most popular resources on TES
• Get students thinking with their senses with a PowerPoint from Miss R

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• Share your ideas of inspiring descriptive writing to use in class.

The Great Reading Eggspedition

Help your pupils become reading champions with Mathletic's Great Reading Eggspedition (26 April- 6 May). A free 2 week literacy event where key stage 1 and 2 pupils are invited to visit an online world to help them develop their reading, grammar and vocabulary skills while them aim to win the most golden eggs.

Register at www.mathletics.co.uk/Eggspedition

Resource of the Week

London teens and illegal activity

• Kids hanging out on the streets; a desperate teenager trying to scramble money together to feed their drug habit; a young girl threatened with prison time for possession- these are typical film images of London's ethnic minority youths. But Sebastian Thiel's short film Illegal Activity (A Kingdom Vision Production) turns these stereotypes on their head.
• Kingdom Vision Production has set up the Kingdom School of Arts where young people have the opportunity to be trained and promoted by RADA graduates and industry professionals. The school runs in 10 week terms every Sunday for 3 hours and opens this summer term in Camden.
• Get students thinking about gun crime and gang culture with a study book from TESEnglish

SEN

Eight special tales

'Being Forgotten' is available from Amazon at £7.99

What else?

• inclusivesolutions provides a number of quotes and images to inspire discussion about inclusion. Start inspiring change today
• Teachers TV shares a video investigating SEN inclusion in schools

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• Does inclusion work? Join the debate.

Resource of the Week - Get in focus

The UK's first National Photography Month (June 2012) celebrates the value of photographs as historical records with the launch of a new photographic archive project for secondary schools: My School in Focus

• Use Google's guide to comparing postcards from the past with students' images of the present and store them on an interactive map

In the Spotlight - Images of Britain

• Celebrating the design achievements of Britain between London's last Olympics (1948) and this year's games, the Victoria and Albert museum is hosting the first celebration of the nation's innovations with its British Design: 1948-2012 exhibition.
• Get students inspired by the decade of flower power, pop music and counter-culture with the V&A's designing the decades 1960s study day (16 June)
• From the mini-skirt to the spitfire, introduce classic British designs with a PowerPoint from LBleach

Win the chance to have exclusive use of a private Spanish island for a week.

Make film your friend

What else?

• Check out the TES MFL film collection to help you incorporate the audio-visual into your secondary classroom
• grebdeb shares a colourful study aid to help students show their understanding of Lola Rennt

Resource of the week - Internet dating

• A differentiated reading and writing activity where students can learn or revise key 'about me' vocabulary, practise reading basic personal details and write their own advert for an online dating page

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• 1 teacher is looking for advice on starting a French and Spanish film festival in their school

In the Spotlight - One to 100

If you are looking for a quick reference guide for young learners new to foreign languages then the 'My First 100 words' series from b small publishing can help. The book is also available in English and Spanish

• Keep vocab learning creative with Janice Horrocks' balloon number colouring-in worksheet
• Or get the Simpsons on board to help pupils remember beginner words with Nickyga's worksheet

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