Over the last couple of months I’ve purchased a few sets of Jenga blocks from Smyths and Mr. Price. I had previously bought a big box of Jenga which I wrote times tables on and have used them tons of times with my class and they love them. I find it is a great way […]

On Wednesdays, I answer questions from teachers on my Instagram page. One of the most asked question topics is based around thematic units so I have decided to put together a series of thematic plans based around different topics. The first is based on 1916 as this is a topic that is good to cover […]

Myself and a number of my colleagues have been taking part in a lesson study with the PDST over the last few weeks. This involved a number of meetings with an advisor from the PDST and the members of the lesson study group (Myself and 4 colleagues). We decided on the topic of Area to […]

Hi everyone! My name is Kirstin from missmustardteaching and this is my third year teaching. This post is all about phonics and how to teach it. View this post on Instagram Some of our phonics activities from this week recapping the ou digraph. The children particularly enjoyed pyramid writing! #scottishteacher #teachersfollowteachers #teaching #teachersofinstagram #teacher #phonics […]

Educating Children Through Experiences It’s so important for children to have experiences and make memories as well as attend school to learn. Learning comes in all kinds of forms, and there are plenty of trips that can be educational too.  Here’s some ideas on where you can take the children in their summer holidays to […]

When my class were learning about weight, they found it a bit tricky to convert grams to kilograms – especially in fraction and decimal format so I’ve put together this revision matching activity which I’ll use as a station this week.

Restorative Practice; Building Relationships through Positive Communication   My personal definition of success as a teacher is that my students feel good about who they are, and what they do when they are in my room (and the hope is, by extension, in our world).  I left my happy classroom four years ago after doing a lot […]

G’day guys, My name is Aoife Condron, best known in the Instagram-Teacher-World as ‘Teacha_Efa’. I completed my B.Ed at St. Pat’s, back in the day when it was a three year degree course. Since graduating I worked in the same school in Ireland for five years. I was fortunate enough to be made permanent in […]

I’ve created two resources – one on area and the second on perimeter with 4-5 activities per resource which would work well for independent stations for these topics. Area         Perimeter The questions on perimeter use the same numbers and types of questions as the area resource.         The […]