Plan to Play

Peg dolls, dice and a ruler are all you need to get playful, cross curricular and begin to immerse your class in their own imaginations!

This episode is all about getting playful with one of the toughest areas for learning: Writing. In this episode I share how I’ve tackled Script Writing, Instruction Writing and Biography Writing - as well as offering some ideas for word games that you can play with your class over and over.

Slightly different to previous episodes, here I try to explain my plan to weave a sci-fi story into our equations unit, whilst still getting the kids outside and playing with number!

Masking tape on your carpet area of the classroom is eye catching, curiosity grabbing and can lead to a plethora of playful learning activities. Deviated from the usual format and rattled through 18 ideas here!

Another set of ideas for the classroom, this time focusing on angles and coding. From dance routines to drone displays, pac man in the woods to driverless technology, there’s such a lot of scope for depth and breadth of relevant learning with this area of maths!

Back again and getting playful with fractions and percentages. 3 quick activities that you can use and adapt over again for starters and plenaries and three activities that could span a maths unit or few weeks of work.

Time is such a tricky concept - why not 100 seconds? And 24 hours?? Hear about 3 quick starter activities that are playful and hands on before also considering how to bring sustainable learning into your teaching of time - all the while providing the pupils with choice, voice and opportunities to stretch their imaginations!