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Penny Wise
For ages 8–11 years

PENNY WISE is ten. She wants to know what ‘money’ is really about and why grown-ups make such a fuss about it. So she decides to find out more and keeps a journal of her discoveries...

The ‘Penny Wise’ books develop the pupil’s interest and awareness of personal finance issues through Penny’s eyes as she writes about, and illustrates, her own experiences of money, its effect on her and her family, and her attempts to make sense of it. The books are fun, amusing and entertaining.

The 'Penny Wise' resource consists of four pupil books:
• Penny Wise finds out about Borrowing (NEW)
• Penny Wise finds out about Saving (NEW)
• Penny Wise finds out about Bills
• Penny Wise finds out about Taxes

There are also two teacher's books:
• Penny Wise finds out about Borrowing and Saving
• Penny Wise finds out about Bills and Taxes

Click here to download a sample as a pdf - 284k

PENNY WISE FINDS OUT ABOUT BORROWING
(Pupil’s Book) 24 pages A4, colour.
ISBN 9-781857-411027

1 copy £2.50 each

Pack of 10: £22.50

PENNY WISE FINDS OUT ABOUT SAVING
(Pupil’s Book) 24 pages A4, colour.
ISBN 9-781857-411768

1 copy £2.50 each

Pack of 10: £22.50

PENNY WISE FINDS OUT ABOUT BORROWING AND SAVING
(Teacher’s Book) 24 pages: £11.95
ISBN 9-781857 411126

PENNY WISE FINDS OUT ABOUT BILLS
(Pupil’s Book) 24 pages A4, colour.
ISBN 9 781857 411317

1 copy £2.50 each

Pack of 10: £22.50

PENNY WISE FINDS OUT ABOUT TAXES
(Pupil’s Book) 24 pages A4, colour.
ISBN 9 781857 411263

1 copy £2.50 each

Pack of 10: £22.50

PENNY WISE FINDS OUT ABOUT BILLS AND TAXES
(Teacher’s Book) 24 pages: £11.95
ISBN 9 781857 411218

SPECIAL OFFER
15 copies of each of Borrowing and Saving and a Teacher’s book

£64.45 (Saving of £15) includes p&p

SPECIAL OFFER
15 copies of each of Bills and Taxes and a Teacher’s book

£64.45 (Saving of £15) includes p&p

Tales with a Twist
Maths-based Fairy Tales
Lower KS2

How do you engage children in problem-solving activities? This collection of seven modern fairy tales offers the opportunity to teach mathematics and problem-solving with a creative approach.

Each of the stories focuses on an aspect of mathematics, linked to the Primary Framework, allowing children to use and apply their understanding through a familiar context of a fairy tale, with an entertaining twist.

Children become involved in the stories and are eager to solve the problems in order to continue the story and discover the outcome. Mathematical concepts are entwined with the fairy tales, offering children the opportunity to become absorbed in the story and embed their understanding, sometimes without even realising it.

These stories can be used to introduce a concept or to reinforce children's knowledge at the end of a topic.

Discover with your class how Romeo's hair doubles in length to save the stranded Rapunzel or how Snow White helps seven Funny Little Men to become more punctual and to tell the time..

Michelle Hopkins and Katherine Weiss
36 pages + CD £14.95
ISBN: 9 781857 411614

Mathematics in the School Grounds
Ages 5 – 11

There are four sections – Number; Measurement; Shape and Space; Data Work. Photocopiable worksheets provide additional resources for pupil work.

Zoe Rhydderch-Evans
60 pages, £9.50
ISBN: 1–85741–021–1

PerfectTimes
The Perfect Game to Master Multiplication Tables - Ages 4 +

PerfectTimes is a full colour card game which children find great fun. A set consists of factor and multiple cards for each of the 2 to 12 times tables, a storage wallet and rules of the various games that can be played.

The photocopiable teacher’s booklet contains mental methods, rules, time sheets, class logs, certificate and notes for parents.

To try the game before purchasing, log on to: www.perfect-times.co.uk


	Suitable for all ages 5+, mainstream and special needs

	Fluent learning of tables in a non-sequential way

	Mastery of division as well as multiplication tables

	Can be played individually, in pairs or groups

	Ideal for use at home or in After School Clubs

	Self assessing – children can check their own accuracy.

Wendy Fortescue-Hubbard
Special discounts are available on bulk orders – phone 01363 776888.

Perfect Times (Full pack 2 to 12 times tables) £12.65 inc VAT - ISBN: 1–85741–081–5

Perfect Times Teacher’s booklet £5.00 - ISBN: 1–85741–052–1

Perfect Times (Full pack + Teacher’s booklet) £20.28

Practical Activities, Investigations and Games - KS1
Ages 4 – 11

The emphasis is on gaining confidence through enjoyable independent learning, involving creative play, stories, games and practical tasks. Flexible enough to cater for all levels of development and ability.

John Seldon
96 pages £12.95
ISBN: 1-85741-075-0

Practical Activities, Investigations and Games KS2
Ages 7 – 11

Provides material for 65 activities, investigations and games, most of which can be changed, simplified or extended to suit all the class. Above all the activities are intended to be enjoyed.

Fran Ashworth
96 pages £12.95
ISBN: 1-85741-015-7

Also available:
Practical Activities, Investigations and Games KS3
Ages 11 – 13
£12.95
ISBN: 1-85741-020-3

Practical Activities and Investigations KS4
Ages 14 – 16
£12.95
ISBN: 1-85741-082-3

School Grounds Pack – Mathematics
Ages 7 – 11

Contains 25 photocopiable worksheets for 7–11 year olds. They can be used for individual, pair or small group work. There are five sections: Number; Pattern; Measurement; Shape and Space; Data and Trails.

32 pages £5.95
ISBN: 1–85741–097–1

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Celebrating Our Environment
Themes include threats to the environment, use of symbols taken from the world around us, the universe and our own built-up environment.

Elizabeth Ashton
64 pages £8.50
ISBN: 1–85741–067–X

Celebrating with Science
Provides material for nearly 30 assemblies about the wonder, beauty and complexity of life as revealed in science studies. Included are assemblies about touch, sight, hearing, taste, smell, the air we breathe, energy, food chains, natural treasures and many others. Each unit includes a story or poem.

Michael Beesley
64 pages £8.50
ISBN: 1–85741–041–6

Learning about Lifecycles using an Organic Garden

Learning about life cycles using an organic garden

This book uses the practical idea of growing small amounts of organic food at school in order to:

Meet all the learning objectives of QCA’s Science 5b Life Cycles’ unit.

Help children understand how some of their food is grown.

Reduce and recycle classroom waste.

Encourage understanding of our inter-dependence with other living things.

Recognise and help some endangered species in our immediate environment.

Encourage the teaching of ‘sustainable development’.

It also:

brings modern, relevant issues into the classroom

provides many photocopiable, practical activities

is easy for busy teachers to use

is fun for children.

Allan Randall and Ian Mitchell
64 pages £9.95
ISBN: 1–85741–079–3

Science in the School Grounds
Ages 5 – 11

Topics include: ponds; trees; grassed areas; wildflowers; waste-management; mini-beasts; weather; built environment.

Gill Thomas
60 pages, £9.50
ISBN: 1–85741–085–8

Teaching About Energy
Practical Activities for 7 to 11 Year Olds

Provides non-specialist teachers with interesting and fun activities, with an emphasis on sustainability and alternative technologies. Many of the activities have practical relevance and involve the use of inexpensive scrap materials. The six chapters deal with: sun; water; animals; plants; storing and conserving energy.

The activities include investigations, experiments, games, design-and-make projects and demonstrations. Also included are photocopiable sheets for pupils to use in class or take home. There are numerous helpful diagrams to illustrate the text.

Clare Eastland / Centre for Alternative Technology
64 pages £8.95
ISBN: 1–85741–088–2
TES Primary Schoolbook Award WINNER

Working Out & About

Working Out and About is an interactive CD Rom providing six curriculum-based projects for Key Stage 2. This pack will help teachers to develop their existing teaching to include the use of the school grounds. The projects offer opportunities to do ICT work with other curriculum areas both inside and outside the clssroom.

Initial work at the computer leads to work outside in the school grounds, and further work at the computer. The projects are based on literacy, numeracy, PSHE and other curriculum areas. To support the projects are a range of materials and worksheets that can be printed out as Word documents and can be adapted to suit the needs of a class or group. Comprehensive teacher’s pages give information, support and additional ideas to extend the activities.

Unit 1: An Art activity supports a story. Unit 2: Explore problems and feelings in this PSHE-based unit. Unit 3: Experiment with timelines and explore changes in your school and surroundings in this History-based unit. Unit 4: Become part of a journalistic team on a new gardening magazine. Unit 5: Carry out surveys in the school grounds, and write reports, in this Maths-based unit. Unit 6: This Literacy and ICT-based unit will help to produce a high quality School Guide.

Kate MacRae
CD ROM and Teacher’s Booklet, £9.95 (site licence)
ISBN 1–872865–31–3

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