Teacher’s Guide 1

Peter Clarke has been a mathematics coordinator and deputy headteacher in primary schools in Australia and London. He has also worked as a mathematics advisor and has written many publications on primary mathematics. He also lectures on initial teacher training and postgraduate courses, and runs INSET at schools and conferences.Steve has many years professional experience of collaborative practice with the major educational publishers, editors, in-house designers and authors.His creative practice includes illustration, logo design, cover design and full series design including online resource.His primary passion is for children’s illustration and this is demonstrated in his creation of the new Collins Picture Atlas alongside the accompanying World Map and, more recently, the map of the United Kingdom & Ireland.

I received some sample Busy Ant materials and was very impressed, yet again the resources were of high quality and supports children’s understanding in an engaging way. The resources matched the national curriculum really well and have clear progression across units of work. The lessons have opportunities to be differentiated in 5 ways and the units are flexible and give teachers the opportunities to be creative. I am extremely impressed with the online planning tool and am really looking forward to implementing this scheme of work across years 3 and 4 and then into years 1 and 5 next year.Charlotte AngeliSenior Leader Chigwell PrimaryThis is a scheme of work that makes sense, gives pupils a consistently structured yet fun approach and will enable teachers to deliver an exciting and inspiring new curriculum from September 2014.Teach Primary magazine