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Breaktime News | Interviews | Ideas | Resources | Research 8 | www.teachwire.net PRIORITISE ORACY The English- Speaking Union is a charity with oracy at its heart, and a long heritage of oracy expertise, research, competitions and coaching. Bring the ESU into your classroom with a customisable Discover Your Voice workshop. education@esu.org A MUSICAL EXTRAVAGANZA World-class musicians, producers and composers have teamed up for a series of special episodes of Armchair Adventures. This new project from the hit podcast for kids will help KS2 children explore and better understand the tricky subject of dementia. Read more at madebymortals.org APR I L 3 INSTANT LESSONS... (You’re welcome) Underground underwear The Country Trust are encouraging children to celebrate spring by planting some pants! The Plant Your Pants campaign is designed to encourage everyone to bury a pair of cotton underpants, and then dig them up again two months later to discover what’s happened. Will the soil ecosystem have broken down all the cotton?! Anyone can get involved with Plant Your Pants – it’s free to register online and you can join with other ‘partici-pants’ by adding your experiment to an interactive map. Between 20 March and the big reveal in June, the Country Trust team, working with farmers and soil scientists, will send informative and fun updates that encourage partici-pants to use all their senses to explore the soil, and encourage positive action to improve its health. You can find out more about soil, and register to take part in Plant Your Pants at countrytrust.org.uk/plantyourpants EARTH DAY 2024 We’ve pulled together a great range of cross-curricular resources to help you raise environmental awareness with your class on 22 April this year. There are all sorts of lesson plans and activities for KS1 and KS2, plus some expert teaching tips for you to try out. See tinyurl.com/ tp-EarthDay ©The Country Trust RESOURCES Get grammar sorted! Start each day with a quick, fun helping of SPaG revision, courtesy of Plazoom’s Grammar Slam collection – five-step PowerPoint activities covering key word, sentence, text and punctuation skills fromAppendix 2, for all year groups. Find out more and try Grammar Slam for yourself at Bit.ly/PlazoomGS TODAY’S TOP