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.

iUgo – an award-winning planning tool

iUgo is an award-winning teacher planning tool with planners, curriculum coverage view, feedback function and curriculum-aligned eResources. Discover how iUgo can help you with a 30-day FREE trial!

JillE books to read aloud

Designed for reading to children, JillE Books are perfect for developing vocabulary and an awareness of sounds and rhymes. The books do this with a mix of highly visual illustrations and layout, rhythmical texts and humour. The award-winning author, Jill Eggleton QSO, is an internationally recognised literacy consultant and teacher.

Make literacy cool with Story Seekers

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.

Be organised, the 2019 Essential Planner is here!

Your personal organiser and teaching guide has arrived! The popular Essential Planner 2019 includes a spacious weekly diary with SOLO Taxonomy tips plus monthly and yearly overviews. It’s packed with relevant teaching ideas for English, mathematics, science, digital technologies and more, along with helpful teacher support templates.

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Engage all boys in the writing process

Research showing many boys are disengaged from the process of writing has laid down the challenge; Writing Success for Boys responds. Boys won’t be able to resist its inclusive, purposeful writing programme, which puts fun and creativity at centre stage. This resource cleverly connects the dots between boys and literacy, engagement in literacy, the rhythm of learning and master teaching.

Maths resources – written by teachers for teachers

Intentionally presenting each concept in a number of ways, the activities in Be Maths Smart! reinforce learning while keeping the work varied and stimulating. The series features an assessment rubric tracking the three progressions of higher order thinking (HOT) – surface, deep and conceptual with each activity.

Connect, collaborate and create with coding

Coding, or computer programming, is giving a computer step-by-step commands to tell it what to do. Let’s Get Coding unravels the mysteries of coding for teachers who would like to make it part of their classroom programme but have no idea where to start. Here you’ll find ideas to help you design your own coding activities, along with sample lesson plans.

Ways to develop high-quality musicians

SOLO Taxonomy in Music Education supports specialist and non-specialist practitioners who want to improve their practice by using SOLO in the music classroom. It gives you the structure to engage students in their own learning and to reflect on your own practice with the central vision of raising learner achievement through developing high-quality musicians.

Develop meaningful oral language skills

As a potential-based programme, Accelerate Progress with Oral Language responds to students' prior knowledge and experiences while supporting growth and development. Anchored by a clear routine and essential dimensions of effective teaching practice, recognises the importance of variety: it changes the motivation, igniters, focus and tasks regularly.