Teach Primary Issue 19.5

6 | www.teachwire.net PUBLISHERS: Joe Carter Sam Reubin Richard Stebbing EDITOR: Charley Rogers charley.rogers@artichokehq.com GROUP ADVERTISING MANAGERS: Samantha Law 01206 505499 Samantha.law@artichokehq.com Hayley Rackham 01206 505928 Hayley.rackham@artichokehq.com ADVERTISING 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. FEATURES 21 A DAY TO REMEMBER Make sure learning outside the classroom doesn’t stay there, and extend experiences with six simple steps 27 TRUE GRIT Use sports day as an opportunity to demonstrate how perseverance and resilience can fuel personal growth and success for pupils 30 FOOD, GLORIOUS FOOD Do your pupils know where meat comes from, or how bread is made? Talk through the basics and furnish them with skills for life 32 WHAT HAPPENED TO THE GOLDEN RULE? If we want to address the recruitment and retention crisis, we need to start treating our TAs as we’d wish to be treated ourselves 34 STANDARD PRACTICE What are the new digital and technology requirements, and what do they mean for primary schools and teachers? LESSON PLANS 74 SCIENCE Bring science into the real world, using sustainability and renewable energy to explain forces 76 RE Why should we care for the environment? Compare different worldviews to find some answers 78 COMPUTING Explore how children can develop critical thinking skills to identify true and false info online 62 CREATIVE READING It’s all well and good saying we need diverse books, but how do you get the most out of them? It doesn’t have to be complicated 65 IT’S KIND OF A FUNNY STORY... Use four simple questions to inject humour into original writing 66 WAGOLL Peer inside the mind of the author, and help pupils understand how to show characters at a turning point in the story 69 BOOK TOPIC Face up to big feelings and develop core speech and language skills with What if, Pig? 72 BOOK CLUB We review five new titles that your class will love