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    By Karen Edwards - 18 Mar 2024
  • Water-focused cross-curricular topics and science lessons.

    By Julie St Clair Hoare - 3 Mar 2024
  • Stimulating a real desire to read books has never been more important

    By Ruth Merttens - 9 Feb 2024
  • Chinese New Year lesson plans and stories

    By Julie St Clair Hoare - 1 Feb 2024
  • Are you looking for ideas for Safer Internet Day 2024? Try Hamilton's short blocks of activities for key stage 1 and key stage 2.

    By Julie St Clair Hoare - 24 Jan 2024
  • In the “four stages of competence” learning model, the learning journey starts with unconscious incompetence: you don’t know the things you don’t know that you don’t know! That was me; …

    By Claire Field - 17 Jan 2024
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Latest resources

  • If you want to know where each child is on any maths topic, and also have evidence of their progress, the new Hamilton Assessments are just what you need! Easily searchable by skill, each one takes a group of closely related skills and provides a set of assessment tasks taking between 30- and 45-minutes to complete.

  • Learn about the causes and effects of climate change, including the greenhouse effect, global warming and carbon footprints. Research the impact on plants and animals. Explore how children's rights are being affected and what can be done to help.

  • Read a selection of picture books featuring characters facing difficult situations. Look at verb tenses and use adverbials to improve descriptions. Draft, edit and present a descriptive piece inspired by the stories read. Start with the core unit to introduce key texts. Then select from comprehension, SPAG and composition units.

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