English – In The Garden

This book is part of a series of 5 books using gardening as a cross curricular theme.
Plants and soil are something children are familiar with and are an excellent theme for cross curricular work that covers many areas of the National Curriculum. This book has a wide range of English activities. These include comprehension, story writing, descriptive writing, alphabetical order, compound words, sentence structure and many more.

Maths – In The Garden

This book is part of a series of 5 books using gardening as a cross curricular theme.
Plants, trees and flowers can be counted, measured and compared. In the Garden are not only trees and flowers but also a wide range of creatures. These can be counted and matched. Gardening equipment, the weather and the need to purchase equipment and seeds adds additional interest and allows for a wide range of activities that are stimulating and develop pupils skills.

Health and Safety in the Garden

This book is part of a series of 5 books using gardening as a cross curricular theme.
Risk analysis is something we all need to do when we approach tasks. Doing this in familiar surroundings helps pupils develop an understanding of the process. When gardening people need to consider at range of possible problems such as the sun, carrying materials, chemicals, insects, and tools. Strategies need to be developed tackle the risks. The worksheets raise pupils awareness of the problems and the need for safety.

Humanities in the Garden

This book is part of a series of 5 books using gardening as a cross curricular theme.
Gardens have been recorded and played an important part throughout history and the world. The book looks at the Hanging Gardens of Babylon, Kew Gardens and digging for victory. There have been some interesting. Throughout the world there are different garden styles, purposes and decoration. There are worksheets that cover these aspects.

Science in the Garden

This book is part of a series of 5 books using gardening as a cross curricular theme.
A major area of the science curriculum is living things. This includes plants and creatures. These are to be found in the garden. Pupils will be aware of many of these but may not have the ability to identify the objects and their parts and is unaware of their basic needs. This book has worksheets that will help pupils develop and demonstrate their knowledge.

English – Eating Out

Relating pupils experiences to their learning shows that their learning has relevance and purpose. They are able to use personal experience to enhance their work. Many pupils may find themselves working in the catering trade in the future. The book has exercises to extend their English skill including vocabulary, writing skills and comprehension.

Maths – Eating Out

Counting, matching, money, bills and computation skills are addressed in this book o f worksheets. The book gives teachers a valuable resource of interesting worksheets that can be used in numeracy lessons. Pupils can relate to the topic and therefore feel less threatened.

English – On The Farm

Most pupils will have visited or live near a farm and can relate to the interesting exercises within this book. As well as story, phonic, comprehension and dictionary work this book contains simple riddles, word searches and crossword puzzles linked to the topic to extend and stimulate pupils. Many of these sheets can be used as age appropriate homework sheets.

Maths – On The Farm

Animals and farms are popular subjects with pupils who have seen them in real life or on TV and so come within their range of experience. Computation work giving learning and consolidation opportunities and problem solving at a variety of levels, allows the teachers to select appropriate levels of work sheet to meet pupils needs. Also included are sheets on matching, shape, grids, size, graphs etc.

English – At The Zoo

This can be used by itself or linked with the farm book to give a range of worksheets useful as follow up to a visit, as home work or to relate real life situations and books. Comprehension of poetry, anagrams and exercises related to verbs and nouns added to the comprehension and story writing pages give busy teachers a wide range of quality differentiated worksheets.

Maths – At The Zoo

Size shape and sequencing are important skills that pupils need to develop and the topic is used to give a range of interesting lively exercises. The topic also gives excellent opportunities for work on time and money at different levels. A clear but detailed plan of the zoo offers a range of work such as grids allowing teacher to give cross curricular experiences.

English – On The Road

This is a topic that appeals to many pupils and is within everyone’s experience. Stimulating comprehension exercises vary in levels of difficulty and presentation including poetry, maps and data. Story writing involves modern and old forms of transport and asks pupils to respond using a variety of writing styles, Word searches, vocabulary and pencil control exercises add to the range of material provided in this book.

Maths – On The Road

Work on cars, trucks and maps are viewed by pupils as an interesting and age appropriate topic no matter what the level. Counting, matching shapes, sizes, grids and graphs, computation, time and money all fit neatly into this topic. Interested and stimulated pupils often concentrate and apply themselves bringing about greater levels of success. The exercises in this book are attractively and creatively presented.

English – At The Shops

Shopping is frequently a topic pupils fall back on when asked to write. This book gives teachers a range of stimulating material to develop pupils skills and knowledge based on their own experiences. A variety of writing styles, comprehension, dictionary work, vocabulary and sequencing use real life situations that are relevant to the pupils and demonstrate the purpose of learning and developing literacy skills.

Maths – At The Shops

Money is an obvious topic for Maths At the Shops but counting, computation, measurement, sequencing and problem solving also lend themselves to this lively topic. Having frequently visited shops, pupils are able to relate to these exercises and see their purpose in everyday life.

English – In the Office

By using the work related theme of the office, the book aims to stimulate and extend pupils and show pupils the relevance of the dictionary work, phonics, comprehension, and other English based learning. Clear simple pages with age appropriate illustrations encourages and extends pupils experiences.

Maths – In the Office

Maths is part of everyday life at home and at work. By relating the problems to everyday situations pupils are motivated and understand the purpose of what they are doing. The non-threatening manner of presentation, with age appropriate fonts and illustrations, allows teachers to use these books with all age groups.

English – In the Salon

This topic will stimulate all those who work, would like to work in or go to a salon. Motivating pupils and enabling them to see the relevance of the tasks set will assist pupils to learn and develop the skills they require.

Maths – In the Salon

Pupils are often surprise at what and where mathematical knowledge is required. By relating tasks to work situations teachers demonstrate the importance of the learning. The non-threatening, age appropriate style of the book enable teachers to use this material with all age groups.

English – On the Building Site

Comprehension, cloze procedures, grammar and story writing exercises are some of the worksheets included in this book. It uses safety procedures and a Permit Work from a demolition company to make the work realistic and related to procedures and practices in the work situation. By addressing work place practices the book aims to stimulate and make pupils aware of the value of literacy in the real world.

Maths – On the Building Site

This book aims to use pupils knowledge, experience or interests to stimulate their development in Mathematics. By using real life situations it aims to help pupils see how maths relates to everyday situations. Size, shape, pattern, time, counting and computation work sheets are included giving pupils a wide range of work based of real life situations.

English – on the Industrial Estate

The Industrial Estate is part of the urban structure. Many students will have visited the estates and some may even have jobs there. This book uses this familiar environment to extend pupils language skills and relates this to the real world – giving a purpose for learning.

Health & Safety – On The Industrial Estate

Health and safety at times is treated as a joke but it is every ones responsibility and students need to be aware of the rules and regulations that they will meet in the workplace. This book looks at the signs and symbols, welfare, hazards, equipment, protection and safety. We all need to know the basic rules and rights as workers.

Maths – On The Industrial Estate

This books helps pupil see the relevance of the work and extends their knowledge of the outside world. Making the work real helps pupils have a greater understanding of the relevance of the work. The book covers coordinates, weight, recycling, time, sequencing and shapes. These pages are useful for home work and differentiated learning.

Football English

Everyone has stories about matches they have taken part in or have watched live or on TV. This book aims to use some of that experience, knowledge and enthusiasm to develop pupils reading and writing skills, grammatical knowledge and sentence structure.

Football Maths

Football is a popular sport and topic that can be used in order to enable pupils to develop their maths skills and knowledge. Sequencing, size, shape, symmetry and money are just some of the topics that can be developed though this book.

English – At Christmas

This book contains a wide range of applications based on the topic of Christmas. These include story writing, comprehension, sequencing and phonics. Use is made of poetry, carols, traditions and the Christmas story. Pupils minds at this time of the year are often pre-occupied with a range of non academic activities and this book allows teachers to redirect their thoughts to useful work related to the curriculum.

Maths – At Christmas

This books gives a range of creative maths exercises including shape, addition and subtraction, measurement and size, money and time. By linking Christmas with their normal exercises pupils enthusiasm can be stimulated. Christmas decorations give many interesting opportunities to give pupils stimulating work related to shape and size.

Humanities – At Christmas

We accept with out thinking many of the traditions of Christmas. This book looks at traditions in other countries, how traditions have evolved and how the celebration of Christmas has been adopted by non-Christian countries. It uses a celebration that students are familiar with and enjoy to assist them to develop an interest in the past, and an awareness of other people and places.

Clothing

Phonics, anagrams, writing patterns, matching, dot to dot, sequencing and symmetry are just a few of the teaching strategies used in this book on clothing. Clothing is an excellent topic in its own right and it also links with geography, science and history and many fiction and non-fiction books.

Food

Food is a great motivator. Pupils are familiar with the vocabulary of eating, cooking and tools. This gives pupils a good basis to develop skills such as matching, sequencing, counting, spelling and symmetry. These pages make a useful addition when teachers are doing the topic food. They help extend the range of material and make useful homework sheets.

Homes

This interesting and lively book looks at many aspects of the topic homes including in the street and inside many rooms in the house. Pages look at a wide range of skills including spelling, phonics, compound words, pattern, symmetry, matching and odd and even numbers

Pirates

Always a popular topic with pupils and adults. This book has pages that assist pupils with observation, matching, spelling, counting, addition, co-ordinates and many other skills using the topic of pirates to stimulate interest.

Playing

This can be used by itself or linked with the farm book to give a range of worksheets useful as follow up to a visit, as home work or to relate real life situations and books. Comprehension of poetry, anagrams and exercises related to verbs and nouns added to the comprehension and story writing pages give busy teachers a wide range of quality differentiated worksheets.

Time, colours, codes, mazes and dot to dots are just a few of the learning strategies used to provide stimulating and interesting pages in the book about Autumn. The pages cover maths, science, and English topic areas.

Winter

Winter provides an endless range of interesting topics for stimulating learning. The weather, nature and celebrations and traditions from different cultures provide an interesting range of pages. Pages provide stimulating work for the pupil who finished early or for home work.

Spring

Always a popular and productive topic Spring is an excellent cross curricular theme. This book has pages on the weather, time, living things and seasonal festivities. The pages us a wide range of teaching strategies to stimulate pupils and develop their knowledge and skills.

Summer

Summer as a topic provides a wide range of interesting and stimulating areas for learning. Strategies used include matching pictures and words, symmetry, crosswords and dot to dot. The lively and interesting sheets make learning fun.