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Top 5 Mental Maths Tips You Need To Know!

Transform Teaching Mental Maths from 'Drill and Kill' into Fact Fluency Fun for your kids with our Top 5 Mental Maths Tips! Turning Math Fear into FUNtastic Fluency! When you say Mental Maths to most people, they will probably turn a deathly shade of white and "Run For The…

Easy Pumpkin Soup

This Easy Pumpkin Soup is a favourite healthy, school-night recipe made from butternut pumpkin, or any type of pumpkin you like! It is delicious, hearty and so easy to make. Easy Pumpkin Soup Try it as a MEAT FREE Monday dish, or you can add bacon for a hearty meat version.…

Healthy Zucchini Sweet Potato Zoodle Noodles Recipe

Our zucchini sweet potato zoodle noodles recipe is healthy, meat free and packed full of vegetables. It is really quick and simple to make if you have a spirializer. This is a perfect recipe for busy teachers on a school-night and takes hardly any time at all to prepare. As an added bonus …

Math Anxiety is it REAL?

Math anxiety is real especially for people who hate math. Students and adults can fear math so much that they become mentally stressed and even traumatised to the extent that they refuse to actively participate in maths lessons. But math anxiety can also real for people who don't hate maths!…

Tray Baked Chicken

Cooking on a school night can be stressful and the last thing you want to do, especially after a busy day in the classroom, don't you agree? But you want to eat nice tasty dinners and save yourself money on ordering take out? Here's one of our favourites, taste guaranteed…

Saint Patricks Day Word Search

Celebrate St. Patty's Day, with our Saint Patricks Day word search. Help build student vocabulary of all things Saint Patrick, Pots of Gold, Leprechauns and Shamrocks. If your looking for thematic craft for kids for your next classroom activity, check out these Leprechaun Puppets, Pot's of Gold and Shamrock vegetable printing,…

Genius Muffin Tin Maths Center Activities {For All Ages}

These Muffin Tin Maths activities are a great way to learn number facts and times tables. Perfect math centers and Easy to differentiate. Your Kids will love it! Using a Muffin tin for maths is a fun activity to help your students build recall and fluency of maths…

Slow Cooker Moroccan Chickpea Stew

If you are looking for a simple slow cooker, budget friendly, healthy, meat free meal, then you need to add this Slow Cooker Moroccan Chickpea Stew to your meal plan. It is made using store cupboard staples, so you might not even need to go shopping to make it, and…

Easy Vegetable Frittata Recipe

This Easy Vegetable Frittata Recipe is an Italian-style egg based dish similar to an omelette or pastry free quiche. Vegetable Frittatas are healthy, quick and cheap to make and come in any combination you fancy. This simple frittata recipe is a real lifesaver after a tiring day at work, all you…

St Patricks Day Writing Prompt {FREE Printables}

Whether you celebrate St. Patrick's Day or not your students will enjoy these creative writing opportunities that cover St. Patrick's Day. Celebrate St. Patty's Day and ignite your students imagination with our St Patricks Day Writing Prompt templates. These fun writing prompts will help your students become better writers and give…

Maths Teaching Strategies

Teaching Numeracy Teaching strategies are the key to students' success. We all want our kids to succeed in the maths classroom and the type of strategies we use will determine if they are successful or not when teaching numeracy Being strategy focussed and using creative hands-on maths teaching strategies in…

How To Help Students Who Are Dyslexic

Do you have students who are dyslexic or displaying the signs of dyslexia? If you do then you need to know about the Dyslexie Font! Dyslexia is a language-based processing learning disability. It affects both adults and children and causes problems with accuracy & fluency in literacy, particularly difficulties in…

Over Pronunciation, Syllables & Dyslexia

Here's a great piece by Kelli Sandman-Hurley, Ed.D.dyslexia Expert and Advocate from Edutopia who talks about how syllables & OVER- PRONUNCIATION can mask morphological boundaries and hide the meaningful structures of words. She demonstrates this with the misspelling of the word "evry"... How many times have you seen the word every misspelled…

Let Kids Figure It Out!

There are some educators & parents who think that 'GOOD MATHS' in the classroom looks like a teacher demonstrating & explaining single specific math concepts in a step-by-step fashion to students. Followed up with lots of worksheets & even homework to practise what they have been shown! A very 'Traditional'…

Successful Students

So what's the magic ingredient to student achievement? The first question I ask when I meet a teacher whose students are successful is "How did you do it" then "What do you do that makes your students successful?" I realise all teachers work hard and then some so it's not…

Science Week Ideas

We kick off on Day 1 with: Science Lesson For Foundation -Y2 Changing Lands & Skies - Science Unit - Australian Science Teachers Association (ASTA) Here is an awesome website just for Australian Teachers! It is a partnership between from the ASTA & Education Services Australia. They have created a…

Is Minecraft Really Educational?

Call me cynical... but is Minecraft really educational or is it an attempt to make school look exciting? Well I was proved wrong by this interesting article in The Conversation which highlighted that schools are now designing curriculum in the key learning areas to Minecraft...READ MORE... Find out how to…

Making Technology Work

Technology, in its most basic form, can drive the best of us mad! And when you throw in 'NEW' technology, BYOD (Bring Your Own Devices) Wireless programs and the protocols, constraints & restrictions of Education Departments, then you could have an'Epic Fail' on your hands. Here's '5 tips to Help Teachers Who…