A downloadable resource from Franklin Watts focusing on the recent history of South Africa - host of the World Cup 2010. Includes information on the end of apartheid and Nelson Mandela, as well as weblinks for further study.

Getting students to believe in the value of a growth mindset can be a classroom game changer. Students show increased perseverance, learn to value mistakes, and set goals for themselves that help them succeed. In your folder, you will receive a color version, black and white version, and a template for you to make your own addition to the collection! Check out the quotes I've included below to ensure this product will meet your needs. Mistakes are proof that you’re trying. -Cara Delevingne I haven’t failed, I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work. -Thomas Edison A person who has never made a mistake never tried anything new. -Albert Einstein Do the best you can until you know better. Then, when you know better, do better. -Maya Angelou I hope that in this year to come, you make mistakes. Because if you are making mistakes, then you are: making new things, trying new things, learning, living, pushing yourself, changing yourself, changing your world. -Neil Gaiman Nothing is impossible. The word itself says “I’m Possible”. -Audrey Hepburn I’m never satisfied. I’m always trying to get better and learn from my mistakes. -Russell Westbrook There is a difference between knowing and not knowing yet! -Sheila Tobias It is impossible to live without failing at something unless you live so cautiously you might as well not have lived at all. In which case, you fail by default. -J.K. Rowling Do not judge me by my successes, judge me by how many times I fell and got up. -Nelson Mandela It’s not the absence of fear. It’s overcoming it. Sometimes you’ve got to blast through and have faith. -Emma Watson Anytime someone tells me I can’t do something, I want to do it more. -Taylor Swift I fall. I rise. I make mistakes. I live. I learn. I’ve been hurt but I’m stronger. I’m human. I’m not perfect but I’m thankful. -Will Smith The best way to guarantee a loss is to quit. -Morgan Freeman The greatest discovery of all time is that a person can change his future by merely changing their attitude. -Oprah Winfrey Let us make our futures now and let us make our dreams tomorrow’s reality. -Malala Yousafzai I am always doing what I can not do yet in order to learn how to do it. -Vincent Van Gogh If you are not willing to learn, no one can help you. If you are determined to learn, no one can stop you. -Zig Ziglar If at first you don’t succeed, you’re normal. -Kid President I am not afraid of storms for I am learning how to sail my ship. -Louisa May Alcott Success is not final. Failure is not fatal. It is the courage to continue that counts. -Winston Churchil

Our school newspaper and puzzle pages. This resource provides an example of a school newspaper and includes some of the puzzles incorporated into its activity pages

I have recently written some harvest poems and songs for key stage 1 and 2 to use during harvest festivals and thanksgiving celebrations/ assemblies. One is based around nursery rhymes for the verse(with appropriate tweaking of the words to be relevant to harvest-time), and uses the tune of oranges and lemons to accompany the choruses. Another is a thanksgiving song which is written to the tune of 'If you're happy and you know it, clap your hands', and is very simple and repetitive, but goes through all of the different types of foods, ie, dairy, cereal, fruit, veg, meat etc. My favourite is the one that I have downloaded here which would work great with key stage 2 children and uses anagrams of the word HARVEST within the poem whilst the children hold the appropriate letters aloft. I have included 'stage direction', and have deliberately ordered the words in the poem to require as few changes around of the letters as possible. The anagram concept could potentially be extended in class. The other 2 harvest poems that I have mentioned can be reached and downloaded via my free educational poetry website link opposite.

We ran a competition to find the UK's most inspiring food technology / home economics teachers. Their entries were truely fun and inspiring. See summaries of their lesson plans and ideas here. For more information, visit www.grainchain.com and click on the Inspire! link.