Teach Primary Issue 18.6

64 NEW ARRIVALS Effective ways schools can bridge language and cultural barriers to parental engagement 67 A GAME OF TWO CLAUSES Laura Dobson breaks down compound sentences 70 WAGOLL Peer inside the mind of the author, and help pupils understand how to write an awkward meeting 72 THE PUNCTUATION PROJECT Pie Corbett shares lessons and tips from a successful grammar programme 75 BOOK TOPIC Join Norman the honey-loving bear in Nadia Shireen’s The Bumblebear 80 BOOK CLUB We review five new titles that your class will love 6 | www.teachwire.net FEATURES 23 A NEW SPIN Bring geography to life with innovative recording ideas 29 WAYS OF GRIEVING Bob Usher and Tracey Boseley provide insights and strategies for supporting children with SEND to navigate bereavement 30 LET’S ROLL Discover different ways to use Sphero coding robots in the classroom 35 COLLABORATIVE LEARNING Get children working in harmony to boost academic and social skills, says Mark Martin 39 ALL IN IT TOGETHER A look at how one school adopted collaborative working across school staff, improving pupil behaviour and achievement 40 MONEY, MONEY, MONEY Add value to your next maths lesson by using coins to teach abstract concepts, suggests Aidan Severs 45 THIS WAY! School improvement advice for headteachers and SLTs – this issue we’re looking at pupil poverty 83 TO SPACE AND BACK AGAIN – IN ONE SCHOOL DAY Dr Nikhil Mistry explains why planetariums make perfect educational visits LESSON PLANS 86 FIND YOUR FUNNY BONE Explore comedy and laughter in the classroom through performance and humorous character creation PUBLISHERS: Joe Carter Sam Reubin Richard Stebbing EDITOR: Lydia Grove, lydia.grove@artichokehq.com GROUP ADVERTISING MANAGER: Samantha Law, samantha.law@artichokehq.com 01206 505499 SENIOR ACCOUNT MANAGER: Demi Maynard, demi.maynard@artichokehq.com 01206 505962 ACCOUNT MANAGER: Kim Richards, kim.richards@artichokehq.com 01206 505420 ART EDITORS: Richard Allen & Sarah Barajas ACCOUNTS: artichokemedialtd@integral2.com SUBSCRIPTIONS: subscriptions@artichokeHQ.com PUBLISHED BY: Artichoke Media Ltd. The views in this magazine are not necessarily those of the publisher. Every effort is made to ensure the veracity and integrity of the companies, persons, products and services mentioned in this publication, and the details given are believed to be accurate at the time of going to press. However, no responsibility or liability whatsoever can be accepted for any consequence or repercussion of responding to information or advice given or inferred. Copyright Artichoke Media Ltd. 88 GETTING INTO CHARACTER Sam Marsden shows how to use drama exercises to fuel creative writing 90 SING A SONG OF SEQUENCES Use new words, traditional tunes and simple melodic patterns to help children order events