Getting Ideas is a short, fun e-book about how to get ideas and what to do with them. The book explains ideas in a way that helps children and young people understand why creative thinking matters and gives them the confidence that they can think creatively. The cover blurb: This is a helpful book full of lies (and truths) about being silly, one possible way to not be eaten by a T. rex, large heads, mythical creatures, an extremely valuable diamond and much more.* Most of all, this book is about ideas, why they matter, how to get them and what to do with them. This book is used by teachers to help foster creativity in their classes and read for pleasure by children and young people. Once, the print edition was a end-of-year gift for Year 6 leavers from the headteacher.

A snazzy inspirational poster for your classroom featuring two complementary quotes about failure. ‘What would you attempt if you knew you could not fail?’ —Robert Schuller ’Failure is the key to success. Each mistake teaches us something’ —Morihei Ueshiba The poster can be displayed any way up – portrait or landscape. Regular rotation of the posters is is a good way to change the emphasis. The PDF includes the poster in four bright colours, greyscale, and black and white.

Jeff Gill ran a six-week experimental cooking club with KS2 pupils. The used techniques of the world’s most innovative chefs to teach basic cookery skills. This dissertation contains a description of the club, background research, thoughts about how the lessons learned in the club could be used more widely in schools, and, most exciting, all the recipes and handouts used in the club. Teach your pupils to cook by making air bread sandwiches, potato stone, healthful agar jelly and more!

Sometimes it’s time to talk. Other times, it’s important to be quiet and listen. This poster is for the quiet, listening times. Young Hank Bolliday has seven really good reasons why it’s important to be quiet and listen. (Four of them are ridiculously untrue but they are still really good.) The PDF includes both colour and black only versions. The poster is A4 but can be printed larger or smaller without any loss of quality. Enjoy!