I am a retired teacher who wrote 7 photocopiable books for Teachers and one book for children Union Jack Colouring Book.
The 7books covered Geography, History (Medieval/ Tudor/ Stuart), Travel and Transport, Myself and Events (this included diaries), Race Against Time Stories (SATS based), Church Dates for Children plus Nature and Seasons (including Sport). These 7 books have been mainly broken into a number of segments.
Challenging the Physical Elements, my Geography book, is complete.
I am a retired teacher who wrote 7 photocopiable books for Teachers and one book for children Union Jack Colouring Book.
The 7books covered Geography, History (Medieval/ Tudor/ Stuart), Travel and Transport, Myself and Events (this included diaries), Race Against Time Stories (SATS based), Church Dates for Children plus Nature and Seasons (including Sport). These 7 books have been mainly broken into a number of segments.
Challenging the Physical Elements, my Geography book, is complete.
Rok Rozman, a former Olympic rower, who is concerned about climate change, has dedicated his life to protecting wild rivers.
Too many rivers have had dams built on them.- Dams destroy the natural environment. To build a dam, hydroelectric dams especially, a valley is flooded to create a reservoir, destroying the plants and animals which live there, plus the homes and communities of the inhabitants would be lost…
At a rivers conference, without stopping to think, he announced that he and his friends would paddle the affected rivers the following spring.It was to be called the Balkan Rivers Tour.
The kayakers tour, which lasted 39 days, began in April 2016. Rok and his friends were joined by 500 kayakers and 1,500 activists from 18 countries- some for days , others fro weeks. TV , radio and newspaper reporters followed the tour - the stories of the local inhabitants were finally heard.
On the last day Rok, in Tirana, Albaniia’s capital city gave a speech. The police stopped him from delivering his kayak to the Prime Minister.
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Earth Heroes by Lily dyu & Amy Blackwell
Mohammed is the Founding Executive Director of Ahidhula Swanirvar Sangstha.
He lives in Bangladesh which lies on a huge river delta where 3 rivers meet the sea. The country is low lying and flooding is now more frequent and severe due to climate change. It is estimated the country will permanently lose one fifth of its land under water.
In the monsoon season children could not get to school. He had a dream to build floating schools.
He studied Architecture. Once he had finished his studies he set about creating a charity. No money came forward so he collected waste - like plastic and glass. It took 4 years, by recycling waste, to buy 4 traditional boat hulls. In 2002 his first floating school was launched.In 2004 he received his first international funding.
He now has 26 floating schools
8 other countries now have floating schools
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I have put together phrases and vocabularies to encourage children) to write about the up and coming major Summer Olympic Sports in Paris, France.
I have included :-
Diary idea
The day of the event
Dream and an example
Poetry Aid 2 versions - differentiated -plus 2 liners
Sports Words
Thesaurus of useful words
Thesaurus relating to Feelings
Positive and negative thoughts -from the competitor & spectator’s point of view
Record breaker ideas plus eg. Usain Bolt
Parade of Champions voc.
4 blank comic strips
Clip Art
Plus 5 word searches
Tom Pidcock and Bethany Shriever have just been named. 3.2.2024
Included:-
Official sheet
6 Phrase and Voc. sheets ( all slightly different)
Sheet on Mountain Biking
Poetry Aid
2 ‘blanks’ for best copy
2. Word searches -with answers)
2 profiles from Wikipedia for Tom Pidock and Betn Shriever
Hope ,these sheets prove useful.
The official sheet will be lengthened and more profiles added as more competitors are revealed in the coming days/weeks.
David Woodroffe, a professional illustrator, has created some very good clip art for my Easter resource.
The Holy week sheet looks briefly at Palm Sunday, Maundy Thursday and Good Friday. I have created a page listing the personalities and the order of events from the Last Supper to Christ’s appearance, following his resurrection to two disciples on the road to Emmaus.
The Poetry Aid can be used to create a poem or even a hymn to celebrate Easter. The fourteen stages of the cross has been deal with clip art. The main personalities have been included in a word search. The Easter diary can be written up on the ‘blank’ sheet.
Children are often asked to see how many words they can find in a topical word - eg. Easter. I have enclosed four sheets, a lesson outline, a pupil sheet and two answer sheets.
(I have included Pancake Day because I did not want to set up a resource of just two pages. )
I have included ;-
Definition
Result sheet to fill in
Phrase and Vocabulary sheet
Poetry Aid
Picture
Blank comic strip
Terminology 5 sheets
Information about our 4 competitors Bradly Sinden, Caden Cunningham, Jade Jones and Rebecca McGowen.
Jade is obviously our most successful competitor having been Olympic champion in 2012 and 2016.
Information about GB s 3 Paralympic competitors Amy, Beth and Matts ’
Note kicks to the head are not allowed.
I was thinking of creating some junior material about Mary Seacole when I found National Geographic For Kids had already created this resource.
See also notes on Kofoworota Abeni Pratt - first black Nigerian nurse in NHS
Toby Roberts is our representative for Sports Climbing.
It only became an Olympic event in 2020 in Tokyo.
I have included: -
Phrase and Vocabulary list
Poetry Aid
Profile on Toby Roberts
Clip Art images
Format in 2020
Climbing vocabularies
Word Search for Climbing Gear
I hope these pieces prove useful.
Who is Penny Healy?
Official result sheet to fill in
Phrase and Vocabulary sheet
2 Word searches of Archery vocabulary/equipment (answer sheets provided)
Basic guide to equipment
Information on shooting jackets
GB have 3 boxers competing at the Summer Olympics in Paris -
Delicious One, Charley Davison and Rosie Eccles.
I have included:-
the result sheet to fill in
Phrases and Vocabulary sheet
Poetry Aid
Word search on boxing terms (answer sheet included)
Information about the 3 boxers but no pictures.
3 free clip art examples relating to boxing.
I hope there is something which will prove useful.
I have put together some information about the triathlon in Paris.
Official entry form
Phrase and Voc. sheet
‘Comic’ blank
Information about Alex Yee and Beth Potter
Information about the Triathlon
Medal table showing GB at top
I have put together some information about the Olympic Sailing in Paris 2024.
The event form to fill in
Phrase and Vocab sheet
Poetry Aid
Brief info about the 10 sailors
Brief word search
Profiles on 5 of the sailors
Info about the 49er and the Nacra17
Art idea
Hope there is something useful there to use.
Word search added
I have downloaded the Canoeing sheet for Canoe Slalom and Kayak Cross’
There is a Phrase/ Vocabulary sheet and a Poetry Aid sheet…
3 sheets created years ago - sheet 1 would be good for differentiated work.
There is information on all 4 of our experienced Olympic canoeists -Adam Burgess , Joe Clarke, Kimberly Woods and Mallory Franklin.
I have included:-
the form sheet to fill in
Phrase and Vocab. sheet
Poetry Aid
‘comic strips’ -4
Information about the modern Pentathlon
profiles about the 3 competitors mentioned so far Joe Choong
Olivia Green
Kerenza Bryson
I start with St. Nicholas - history and legends, letter to Father Christmas ideas, clip art for best copy and word search and one page on Advent.
Christmas has a list of nativity characters, poetry aid, three journeys, 'How many words can you find in Christmas' and Diary Aid.
Epiphany has one page. There are several clip art pictures to use.
John Wesley is the founder of Methodism - the Methodist church.
Until the age of 35 John Wesley was a 'normal' Christian. He had grown up in a Christian family and had become a clergyman but something was missing.
On May 24th 1738 he had his 'spiritual birthday'. Today we talk about being 'born again'. His outlook on life changed dramatically. His sermons were no longer ordinary, congregations found them disturbing and he, along with others, were banned from preaching in church. He became a field preacher and his statue outside the New Room sees him astride his horse.
For nearly fifty years he was out in the open, in all weathers, preaching the Good News. He kept a Journal, preached many sermons, wrote many books
and even a dictionary. He brought the message that 'love casts out fear' to his listeners.
I have created time line and written about his life in brief using Wikipedia and a Ladybird book. The book is called John Wesley, Founder of Methodism
ISBN 0946550654. It is published by Methodist Publishing House, 4 John Wesley Road, Peterborough price £2. It is a typical ladybird book - writing with a very full text and well illustrated - see examples included.
St. Augustine of Canterbury I think is the ' forgotten' saint of England. He is not to be confused with St. Augustine of Hippo. He is sometimes called' the Apostle of England' or' St. Augustine the less'.
He was chosen by Pope Gregory to lead a mission to Britain. His task was to Christianize King Ethelbert and his kingdom of Kent from Anglo Saxon Paganism.
In the short time he was in England (597- 604 AD) he laid the foundations for the Church of England. He was the first Archbishop of Canterbury.
I have put together some information about Augustine with a 'gap' sheet, a simple crossword and word search, plus an answer sheet.
This is the story of how Gladys Aylward, a missionary in China during the second World War, helped Chinese orphans safely across a mountain.
When she returned to England she realised a film had been written showing her life and a book called The Small Woman had been published.
On Google, and Youtube there is a great deal of information about how from her humble beginnings as a housemaid/domestic help became a successful missionary.