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Brilliant Activities for Reading Comprehension, Year 5 (2nd Edition) (PDF)

Brilliant Activities for Reading Comprehension Year 5 provides a variety of engaging, enjoyable texts that will grab pupils' attention, all linked to the 2014 National Curriculum. Activities range from simple factual recall and vocabulary work to more open-ended questions enabling the reader to provide a more personal response.

Brilliant Activities for Reading Comprehension, Year 6 (2nd edition) (PDF)

Brilliant Activities for Reading Comprehension Year 6 provides a variety of engaging, enjoyable texts that will grab pupils' attention, all linked to the 2014 National Curriculum. Activities range from simple factual recall and vocabulary work to more open-ended questions enabling the reader to provide a more personal response.

Busy Ant Maths: Teacher's Guide 3 (PDF)

The Busy Ant Maths programme ensures confidence from the start for teachers and pupils, embedding best practice across the school.

Busy Ant Maths: Pupil Book 3A (PDF)

The Busy Ant Maths Pupil Book 3A contains three levels of differentiated challenge built-in to each lesson as well as extra consolidation and extension activities to ensure rapid progression for every child.

Busy Ant Maths: Pupil Book 3B (PDF)

The Busy Ant Maths Pupil Book 3B contains three levels of differentiated challenge built-in to each lesson as well as extra consolidation and extension activities to ensure rapid progression for every child

Busy Ant Maths: Pupil Book 3C (PDF)

The Busy Ant Maths Pupil Book 3C contains three levels of differentiated challenge built-in to each lesson as well as extra consolidation and extension activities to ensure rapid progression for every child

Busy Ant Maths: Pupil Book 4A (PDF)

The Busy Ant Maths Pupil Book 4A contains three levels of differentiated challenge built-in to each lesson as well as extra consolidation and extension activities to ensure rapid progression for every child.

Busy Ant Maths: Progress Guide 3 (PDF)

The Busy Ant Maths programme is based on differentiation, to ensure that each pupil is completely catered for.

Busy Ant Maths: Progress Guide 4 (PDF)

The Busy Ant Maths programme is based on differentiation, to ensure that each pupil is completely catered for.

Busy Ant Maths: Homework Guide 1 (PDF)

The Busy Ant Maths programme ensures conceptual understanding and mathematical fluency from the start inside and outside the classroom.

Busy Ant Maths: Pupil Book 5A (PDF)

'Busy Ant Maths' is a flexible whole school programme for primary maths that ensures conceptual understanding and mathematical fluency from the start.

Busy Ant Maths: Pupil Book 5B (PDF)

'Busy Ant Maths' is a flexible whole school programme for primary maths that ensures conceptual understanding and mathematical fluency from the start.

Busy Ant Maths: Pupil Book 5C (PDF)

'Busy Ant Maths' is a flexible whole school programme for primary maths that ensures conceptual understanding and mathematical fluency from the start.

Busy Ant Maths: Homework Guide 3 (Busy Ant Maths)

The Busy Ant Maths programme ensures conceptual understanding and mathematical fluency from the start inside and outside the classroom. Homework is linked to the lesson plans in order to consolidate classroom learning, and the guide contains shared activities so parents can support their child’s learning. The Busy Ant Maths programme ensures conceptual understanding and mathematical fluency from the start inside and outside the classroom. The Homework Guide contains differentiated challenges to ensure that homework is provided for children of all levels. Homework is linked to the lesson plans in order to consolidate classroom learning, and the guide contains shared activities so parents can support their child’s learning. Written by an expert author team with over 50 years’ combined classroom experience, Busy Ant Maths is a flexible, whole-school mathematics programme that ensures conceptual understanding and mathematical fluency from the start. Supporting the 2014 National Curriculum, the homework guide provides you with differentiated homework exercises to support every child’s mathematical development.

The Children of the King (PDF)

A hauntingly beautiful wartime story with a ghostly twist - this is set to become a modern classic. It's the Second World War and, with London becoming an increasingly dangerous place to live, the Lockwood children are whisked away to the Heron Hall, to stay with their Uncle Peregrine in the countryside. But when they discover two strange boys hiding in a nearby derelict castle, the past and present collide. Those in the present will need to learn from the troubles of the past.

Collins Primary Geography Teacher's Book 5 (Collins Primary Geography Ser.)

End Game on Earth (PDF)

End Game on Earth

Go Dda, Twm (Pump Prysur)

Stori mewn cyfres newydd o straeon byrion gan Enid Blyton sy'n gyflwyniad gwych i anturiaethau'r 'Famous Five' yn Gymraeg. Yn y stori hon, mae'r 'Pump' yn gweld bachgen bach yn cael ei herwgipio ar y traeth, ac maent yn benderfynol o ddod o hyd iddo. Tybed a fydd Twm yn canfod yr ateb? Addasiad Cymraeg gan Manon Steffan Ros a chyfoeth o luniau lliw deniadol gan Jamie Littler. [One of the titles in a new series of Welsh-language short stories adapted by Manon Steffan Ros, and a perfect introduction to Enid Blyton's 'Famous Five' books for young readers, available in Welsh for the very first time. This story relates the endeavours of the 'Five' to find a little boy who is kidnapped on the beach.]

Greek Myths (PDF)

Greek Myths

I Was There: Alone in the Trenches (PDF)

I Was There... is a perfect introduction for younger readers into stories from the past, allowing children to imagine that they were really there. I Was There... Alone in the Trenches tells the incredible true story of a young girl lost in the trenches and how the soldiers she met there helped her find her family. Brilliantly reimagined by My Story author, Vince Cross, readers aged 7+ will love this vivid first-hand account of a child's experience of WWI. Released to coincide with major WWI centenary commemorations throughout the UK.

Jamie Johnson 7: Skills from Brazil (1st edition) (PDF)

Jamie Johnson. Before the packed stadiums. Before the international play. Before the bright lights. Jamie had to learn to play from the best. Jamie is in his last year of primary school and loves being the best footballer in school. He's the only one that could possibly lead the students to victory in their annual game against the teachers. Then it's announced that a new, Brazilian student will be joining mid-term. Will the new boy overshadow Jamie's skill? From the school pitch to the beaches of Rio, Jamie Johnson is going to learn there's more to being a great footballer than he ever imagined.

Jamie Johnson; Book 7: Skills from Brazil (PDF)

Before the packed stadiums. Before the international play. Before the bright lights. Jamie Johnson had to learn to play from the best. Jamie is in his last year of primary school and loves being the best footballer in school. He's the only one that could possibly lead the students to victory in their annual game against the teachers. Then it's announced that a new, Brazilian student will be joining mid-term. Will the new boy overshadow Jamie's skill? From the school pitch to the beaches of Rio, Jamie Johnson is going to learn there's more to being a great footballer than he ever imagined.

Jemmy Button (PDF)

Inspired by the life of Jemmy Button - a native of Tierra del Fuego who was brought to England in the mid-1800s to be 'educated' and 'civilised' by Captain Robert FitzRoy - this book illustrates Jemmy's bizarre encounters and his return back home. Collaborating across continents, without a common language, Valerio's precision and Jennifer's primitive style have resulted in a story unlike any other.

KS2 Discover & Learn: History Anglo-Saxons Study Book, Years 5-6 (PDF)

KS2 Discover and Learn: History - Anglo-Saxons Study Book, Year 5 and 6

KS2 Discover & Learn: History - Anglo-Saxons Activity Book, Year 5 and 6 (PDF)

KS2 Discover and Learn: History - Anglo-Saxons Activity Book, Year 5 and 6