Wallpaper worth staring at
If your classroom still has bare walls, try sairer’s popular poster collection. It includes motivational messages, a birthday chart and class rules to help pupils get along with each other. bit.lyclassposters
Parlez-vous francais?
Pupils can enrol in the European Day of Languages championship and demonstrate their foreign vocabulary knowledge and skills. The competition will take place from 26 September to 2 October. Pupils can enter the online tasks in French, German, Spanish, Italian, Mandarin, Latin, Arabic or Urdu. For more information, see bit.lyvocabchamps
Worldwide view
TES content partner Discover Human Rights has shared more than 100 lesson plans, worksheets and activities to get pupils thinking about the world around them. Topics include conflict, obstacles and opportunities for women, the death penalty, slavery and media perceptions of beauty. Check out Discover Human Rights’ TES profile for more. bit.lyTESdiscoverhumanrights
Grandmother’s footsteps
Take a journey through the history of outdoor games with Childsplay, a new production by SPID (the Specially Produced Innovatively Directed theatre company). Performed in Normand Park in Fulham, London, the play explores children’s imaginations. How much has changed about the way they play? The play will run until 14 October. For tickets telephone 020 8237 1111.
The write way
Help pupils to write perfect paragraphs with judyduffelen’s top tips resources. A PowerPoint contains exercises, a helpful acronym showing when to start a new paragraph and a worksheet with a story in which pupils must choose where to mark paragraphs. bit.lyparagraphtips.
