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These downloadable resources offer inspiration and top tips for creative lessons. They are designed to offer a huge variety of ideas and activities to try in the classroom, from top tips on teaching mental health and wellbeing through the arts to how to bring maths and science lessons to life.

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Ten top tips for teaching maths through the performing arts

These ten tips for teaching Maths through the arts at primary level are designed to give teachers a boost. You don’t have to be a trained performer to use the ideas below, and with any luck, they may help push your results graph a little further up the y-axis!

Key stage KS1, KS2

Topic Communication, Music, Drama, Maths

Top tips for teaching mental health and wellbeing

More and more people are recognising the positive influence the arts has on our mental health and wellbeing. It can be difficult for children to know how to express their emotions and feelings especially with the pressures surrounding young people with the rise of technology, social and academic pressures.

Key stage KS1, KS2

Topic Healthy Body, Communication, Wellbeing, Drama

Using the performing arts for behaviour management

Most teachers agree that the key to behaviour management is preventing the poor behaviour in the first place, rather than knowing what to do after it occurs. For that reason, there will be no advice here on how to punish a child through song, signal your displeasure using dance or give a good ‘telling-off’ in role as a drill sergeant!

Key stage KS1, KS2

Topic Communication, Music, Drama

Bringing art to life through movement & dance

An artist uses a range of different brushstrokes – sometimes dark, strong, heavy lines or perhaps light, free and indirect curves. All of these qualities can be transferred to movement/ dance. Rudolf Laban, esteemed dance & movement theoretician, categorised movement into four component parts: Space, weight, speed and flow.

Key stage KS1, KS2

Topic Healthy Body, Movement, Performing Arts, Music, Dance

Top ten safe science experiments to try at home

Being a parent is tough enough, but adding home schooling into the equation has produced a real mixed bag of results for families. You might be running low on motivation all these months in, and that’s ok. To try and provide a little spark, I’ve been picking the brains of my family members (who happen to be scientists) and searching the internet for inspiration for practical science experiments you can do at home. Here’s my Top 10.

Key stage KS1, KS2

Topic Communication, Science

Bringing books to life through drama

A book can give us the opportunity to visit places we may never be able to go, to learn about people we may never meet and to have adventures we could never have dreamed of - all in the space of an afternoon!

Key stage All

Topic Communication, Drama, Literature, Concentration, Performing Arts

Behaviour management through the performing arts

Working together, listening, focus and concentration are as important in the performing arts as they are in a classroom environment. This is why creativity can be such a powerful tool in achieving and maintaining positive behaviour in lessons.

Key stage All

Topic Communication, Drama, Concentration, Confidence, Teamwork, Performing Arts, Music

Making performance with SEN learners

A brilliant resource aimed at introducing some inclusive activities for SEN settings, and everyone, to try with their children. Featuring activity ideas for A Midsummer Nights Dream and A Christmas Carol, plus many more activities and warm-ups.

Key stage KS1, KS2

Topic Drama, Literature, Warm up, Concentration, Confidence, Performing Arts

Awesome Oracy

Talk helps build not only language and communication, but self-esteem and collaborative skills. Take a look at drama strategies to promote effective talk based on stories in your lessons. There are plenty of practical activities to help understand sentence structure - statement, question or command for SATs.

Key stage KS2

Topic Drama, Literature, Performing Arts