Essential Resources

Our resources are strongly grounded in what works in the classroom, giving teachers lesson plans, tools and strategies they need to make a difference. They support students’ learning through every stage of their schooling, ensuring students excel and can apply their learning to numerous meaningful contexts.

Engaging and of high interest, they are developed to provide students with the skills necessary to become analytical thinkers, problem solvers and idea generators, and to succeed in a multinational work environment.

Engaging texts to improve English comprehension

Story Seekers is designed to lift reluctant readers’ literacy skills through easy-reading, high-interest texts and engage learners with a background other than English. Written at an approximately 7-year-old reading level, the books have a strong appeal to 10- to 12-year old readers. The Activity Book offers teaching ideas and cross-curricular activities.

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Stimulate discussion and develop thinking skills

Thinking about Philosophical Issues offers timeless, relevant and engaging discussion plans and activities that centre on philosophical problems that are by their nature contestable. They are designed to stimulate discussion and help students to develop their skills of discrimination and reasoning.

Questions that get students thinking mathematically

Open-ended Problem Solving offers a bank of meaningful and challenging activities for the classroom. In using more than one strategy to answer a specific question, young mathematicians also learn that problems can be solved in more than one way and can have multiple solutions.

Ways to think analytically and critically about science

Through a variety of worksheets, games and practical experiments, Book 2 in the Science in the Real World series, helps students to think more deeply about the reasons behind an answer or experimental results. The activities show how their scientific skills apply to many aspects of their lives, not just to passing the next test.

Create an environment for innovative ways of learning

Wanting to combine flexible learning spaces with self-directed learning, innovative use of digital technology and collaborative teaching and learning? Digital Fluency – Innovative Learning opens the layers of learning and looks at fresh strategies and ideas to enrich the lives of both students and teachers.

Stimulate, investigate & consolidate science knowledge

Science Smart aims to spark scientific curiosity in Years 5–8, while covering the living, physical and material worlds, and planet Earth and beyond, interwoven with a nature of science focus. It’s designed to build key science skills related to investigation, critique, interpretation and applying science to the real world.

An insightful writing programme that engages boys

Writing Success for Boys connects the dots between boys and literacy, engagement in literacy, the rhythm of learning and master teaching. Fun and creativity occupy centre stage as the author shows how to draw boys into writing and inspire them to persist, no matter what fiction or non-fiction text type they are working on.

Building literacy learning and a love of reading

The JillE Read Aloud Books – Year 2 provide thought-provoking stories and colourful illustrations that are designed to capture students’ interest and imagination. Accompanying the books is The Power of Story, offering suggestions for introducing each of the 12 stories, bringing the reading to life, supporting understanding and responding to the text.