Mar 03, 2021 World Book Day: Free readings live on Instagram for children By Rainbow Hub Team Here are some free live book readings for World Book Day courtesy of Whistles. Tomorrow (Thursday March 4th) at 4pm on Instagram you can...
Mar 02, 2021 It's World Book Day this Thursday! Check out the song from McGrammar and other free resources By Ruth Nossek This year's World Book Day takes place on Thursday 4th March. Designated by UNESCO as a worldwide celebration of books and reading, World...
Mar 01, 2021 Help children with their reading skills by turning on the subtitles By Ruth Nossek Did you know that turning on the (same language) subtitles while children are watching television can double the chances of a child...
Feb 11, 2021 Free theatrical stories from the marvellous Unicorn Theatre By Ruth Nossek I have written about productions from the Unicorn Theatre before - namely their brilliant theatrical reading of Roald Dahl's The Twits...
Feb 03, 2021 Five ways to 'express yourself' ... Free virtual sessions to support Children's Mental Health Week By Ruth Nossek This week is Children's Mental Health Week (1-7 February 2021). This year's theme is 'Express Yourself', and Place2Be (the children's...
Feb 02, 2021 Neverending Stories: a free downloadable pack to support storytelling at home with young children By Ruth Nossek The free downloadable storytelling pack, from the National Centre for Creative Writing, is crammed with tips and activities for engaging...
Jan 26, 2021 Watch a lesson from a Celebrity Supply Teacher! By Ruth Nossek As part of their offering to support Lockdown Learning, the BBC are showing their series of CBBC Celebrity Supply Teacher.Each episode...
Jan 19, 2021 Free Virtual School Library for children during lockdown, with a new book available each week By Ruth Nossek The Virtual School Library has been developed by the Oak National Academy in partnership with the National Literacy Trust. Every week a...
Jan 14, 2021 Words, words and more words: challenge yourself and your children to learn some new words this year By Ruth Nossek If you had fun reading Susie Dent's alternative Christmas dictionary article over Christmas with your family, you might want to take some...
Jan 09, 2021 Bowie: remembering the Starman ๐๐ถ๐ By Ruth Nossek For my 13th birthday my mum bought me the album The Rise And Fall Of Ziggy Stardust And The Spiders From Mars. This was my first...
Jan 06, 2021 Starting Monday 11th Jan: BBC to deliver a new educational offer to children, teachers and parents By Ruth Nossek New from the BBC to support lockdown learning from 11th January is a combination of educational content from BBC Bitesize online, CBBC TV...
Dec 23, 2020 Second to the right, and straight on till morning: a new all-star cast audio version of Peter Pan in aid of GOSH Children's Charity By Ruth Nossek An incredible all-star cast have come together to create a unique digital retelling of JM Barrieโs enchanting classic, Peter Pan, in...
Nov 20, 2020 Starting Friday 20th Nov: a new, weekly free online storytelling series from The Story Museum, Oxford By Ruth Nossek Stories from the Woodshed is a new, weekly online storytelling series coming from The Story Museum in Oxford, UK: the most amazing,...
Sep 29, 2020 A whole month of online science, ideas and creativity from IF Oxford ...๐งโ๐ By Ruth Nossek The IF Oxford Science & Ideas Festival is back - and this year (like many other things) it is online from 1-31 October - and anyone...
Sep 23, 2020 Enjoy special guests, draw-alongs and guessing games from Roald Dahl's Story Day! By Ruth Nossek If you missed Roald Dahlโs Story Day this year - it was on September 13th, and if he was still alive he'd have been 103! But it's not...
Sep 07, 2020 Watch Unicorn Theatre's disgustingly delightful reading of Roald Dahlโs The Twits By Ruth Nossek Sit down and get ready for a treat from the good people at the Unicorn Theatre - a new theatrical reading of Roald Dahl's book The Twits....