Jumpstart! Drama, Cremin

Suitable for use across a variety of subjects and for a wide range of learning styles, the book introduces teaching practitioners to a range of drama conventions and demonstrates how to use them in the primary classroom. Organised in five clear parts, this new edition of Jumpstart Drama covers the following topics:

• The relationship and link between drama and literacy
• Analysing both fiction and non-fiction texts through drama conventions
• Exploring poetry through drama conventions
• Developing role play and learning through imaginary worlds

With all activities connected to well-known texts, this fully updated second edition now reflects picturebooks and novels published in the last five years, and is ideal for busy primary teachers who wish to encourage their pupils in drama using texts in a dramatic and motivating way.

The authors show how developing such skills within the context of a wellbeing agenda aids children's motivation, their ability to concentrate and their willingness to explore, investigate and question, bringing huge benefits for children's sense of achievement, self-confidence and resilience. Drawing on a wealth of practical activities that include both creative and critical ways of thinking, chapters cover:

• Wellbeing in the Classroom;
• Emotional Resourcefulness;
• Relaxation and Meditation;
• Mindfulness and Reflectiveness;
• Being Well.

Jumpstart Wellbeing is a treasure trove of fun activities and ideas for building wellbeing and its constituent skills into the curriculum.

A wealth of practical activities in the book range from class and group discussions and formal debates to games, role plays, hot seating and thought tracking. This book enables teachers to deliver effective and imaginative PSHE lessons, encouraging children to:

- Share their views on issues that concern them such as bullying

- Learn to think for themselves and to make their own decisions

- Be aware of the dangers involved in drinking, smoking and drugtaking

- Understand their relationships with family and friends

- Explore social issues such as prejudice and discrimination

- Learn how to handle their emotions

Jumpstart PSHE is an essential classroom resource that will encourage the personal development of children and is the perfect solution for helping teachers deliver effective and imaginative PSHE lessons.

Specifically written to help teachers with the direct teaching of talk skills required by the National Curriculum, activities in the book encourage children to:

- participate in group and class discussions

- use exploratory talk and share a range of points of view

- use talk imaginatively to develop understanding

- develop individual presentational talk

- take part in active drama sessions

Jumpstart Talk for Learning includes a range of classroom activities that can be used in literacy lessons and integrated across the curriculum. This essential resource will help teachers develop children's use of talk to understand one another and get things done together.

History is an effective way to engage pupils in a topic and can act as a fantastic hook for learning. This book will enable you to make history a fundamental part of your classroom, to enhance not only the pupils' historical understanding but also to deepen their understanding in other subjects.

Areas covered include: -

• Egyptians
• Ancient Greeks and Romans
• Saxons, Vikings and Normans
• Stone Age
• Bronze Age
• Iron Age
• Tudors and Stuarts
• Victorians
• World War Two
• Post-War Britain

This indispensable classroom resource will celebrate history and give children the opportunity to experience the thrill of finding out about the past. It will be a lifeline to any classroom teacher looking to teach history in a fun and exciting way.

Specifically written to help teachers work within the guidelines of the new curriculum, activities in the book will help pupils to explore and learn a wide range of problem solving and independent thinking skills in an atmosphere of fun, mutual support and tolerance.

Sections within the book reflect key areas of the new curriculum and offer a treasure trove of ideas for building problem solving and thinking skills into daily teaching.and provide tried and tested methods of helping children 'learn how to learn'.

Areas include: -

• Building problem solving confidence
• Thinking and problem solving in literacy
• Thinking and Problem solving in science
• Problem solving in philosophy
• Emotional resourcefulness and life skills

Jumpstart Thinking Skills and Problem Solving will celebrate the joy of critical and independent thinking and become a vital resource for all classroom teachers at Key Stage 2 and 3.