Shows how families can enjoy learning together, for the home and its immediate environment offer wonderful opportunities for discovery, exploration, play, education and learning. This book contains activities, games, tips and suggestions for dealing with everyday concerns, such as helping with homework and things to do in the school holidays.

Focuses on how to teach the core curriculum subjects effectively to the 5-11 age group. This book covers various manners of good practice including: planning, assessment and evaluation along with cross-curricular links and guidance on teaching beyond the classroom.

Offers evidence-based research and case studies of creative work with children from across the world in a variety of settings. This book contains theoretical reviews of the research that are useful for politicians, policy developers, teachers, students, trainers, inspectors and anyone interested in developing more creative ways of teaching.

Covers core PSCHE themes including friends and friendship, growing up, feelings, keeping safe, and citizenship.

Reflecting the developments across the early childhood field, this book covers: policy and service development at national and local levels, including the broader children's services agenda, as well as specific developments for young children, such as Sure Start and children's centres; and, the international context for early childhood services.

An overview of Roman history as recommended for Steiner-Waldorf Class 6 (age 11-12).

Suitable for teachers of children aged four-eight years, this book shows how teachers can collaborate with parents in addressing children's educational and emotional needs. It presents a variety of classroom management strategies, which teachers can choose from to strengthen children's social and academic competence.

Deals with the key professional issues faced by students on teacher training courses and practising primary teachers. This book sets out the nature of primary education in England and the professional demands made on primary school teachers by parents, the children themselves, government agencies, society and the profession.

An essential text for all primary trainees, covering the fundamental issues for learning and teaching in primary schools today.

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An accessible, engaging text which brings together the key themes in early childhood studies - an increasingly significant and complex, multi-agency field.

Showcases the creations of Magritte, Miro, Salvador Dali, and other surrealists for young artists. This work also contains activities that include making Man Ray-inspired solar prints, filming a Daliesque dreamscape video, writing surrealist poetry, making collages, and assembling art with found objects. It is intended for ages 10+.

Describes how a baby elephant plays, eats, and grows, and provides facts about how elephants live.

To celebrate the 'Seussentennial' -- the 100yj anniversary of the birth of Dr. Suess -- here is a special paperback comprising two of the good Doctor's best-loved tales: 'The Cat in the Hat' and 'The Cat in the Hat Comes Back'.

This text is based on a national survey of primary schools in England and Wales. It examines the health of children in schools at a time of increased class sizes and cutbacks in staff and support services. The effect the school building may have on

Focuses on how to teach the foundation curriculum subjects effectively to the 5-11 age group. This textbook covers various manners of good practice including: cross-curricular links, planning, assessment and evaluation along with teaching beyond the classroom.

Unlock the power and potential of formative assessment! Down to earth, 'hands-on' and direct, with numerous examples, this book gives practical strategies for implementing formative assessment in your own classroom .