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SPaG Gym Looking for a literacy workout for your class? Plazoom’s SPaG Gym offers 120 resource packs to get pupils’ brains buzzing. The bright, appealing worksheets cover the full punctuation and grammar national curriculum programme of study from Years 1 to 6, using an ‘understand, challenge, test, explain, apply’ approach. Visit plazoom.com/collections/spag-gym Breaktime News | Interviews | Ideas | Resources | Research 8 | www.teachwire.net TACKLING STEREOTYPES Premier League Primary Stars has released a comprehensive lesson, designed to empower pupils to understand, identify, and confidently challenge gender stereotypes. Visit tinyurl.com/ tp-stereotypes for more info, and to download your free resouces AND, ACTION! Sky and Adobe have launched free, ready-to-use resources to help pupils aged 8-18 produce, record and edit their own movie trailer, promoting arts education. Find out more and register at tinyurl.com/ tp-SkyEdit J ANUARY 3 INSTANT LESSONS... (You’re welcome) WickedWriters The National Literacy Trust’s annual writing competition is back for 2025. Run in partnership with Wicked Active Learning – the acclaimed cultural and social education programme for the UK production of the stage musical Wicked – the competition is open to all UK schools, for students aged 9 to 14, and runs from 13 January to 28 February 2025. This year, pupils are being asked to write persuasively about a positive change they would like to see in their local community. This could be anything from the environment to mental health to social justice – it just needs to be local! Making a positive change is a key theme in Wicked and is the subject of the song For Good . Entries are judged in two age categories: 9 to 11 (KS2/P6, P7) and 11 to 14 (KS3/S1, S2, S3). Find out more and sign up at tinyurl.com/tp-WickedWriters25 CURRICULUM PLANS Oak National Academy has launched free curriculum plans across nine subjects, including art & design, computing, citizenship, MFL, music, PE and DT. Visit tinyurl.com/ tp-OakCurriculum to explore the six curriculum principles RESOURCES TODAY’S TOP ©Matt Crockett