Bill Laar – författare

Give your young children the best start to learning English with Jamboree Storytime’s interactive, play-based approach!

Jamboree Storytime is an exciting new series designed to introduce the English language to children aged 3–5. It nurtures and extends their developing awareness of stories and integrates this with language learning, through songs, rhymes, puppets and play-based activities. The series has been specifically developed to encourage a love of stories and reading in young children, and to begin to introduce the English language in an accessible and enjoyable way.

There are ten beautifully illustrated Readers in the series, each with a matching Activity Book with Stickers. The Activity Books with Stickers contain engaging activities such as matching and categorising, drawing and colouring, joining the dots, making things and listening.

Each Activity Book contains two pages of coloured stickers that can be used with the activities themselves or to help children consolidate their vocabulary.

To make the most of the Activity Books with Stickers, you will need the Activity Guides for Teachers and Parents that you can download for free from: www.pearsonglobalschools.com/JamboreeStorytime. The Activity Guides for Teachers and Parents contain a range of fun, play-based activities and will help you get the most out of your Jamboree Storytime resources.

 

 

Give your young children the best start to learning English with Jamboree Storytime’s interactive, play-based approach!

Jamboree Storytime is an exciting new series designed to introduce the English language to children aged 3–5. It nurtures and extends their developing awareness of stories and integrates this with language learning, through songs, rhymes, puppets and play-based activities. The series has been specifically developed to encourage a love of stories and reading in young children, and to begin to introduce the English language in an accessible and enjoyable way.

There are ten beautifully illustrated Readers in the series, each with a matching Activity Book with Stickers. The Activity Books with Stickers contain engaging activities such as matching and categorising, drawing and colouring, joining the dots, making things and listening.

Each Activity Book contains two pages of coloured stickers that can be used with the activities themselves or to help children consolidate their vocabulary.

To make the most of the Activity Books with Stickers, you will need the Activity Guides for Teachers and Parents that you can download for free from: www.pearsonglobalschools.com/JamboreeStorytime. The Activity Guides for Teachers and Parents contain a range of fun, play-based activities and will help you get the most out of your Jamboree Storytime resources.

 

 

Bill Laar and Jackie Holderness’ Reclaiming the Curriculum examines the nature of a broad-ranging, content-rich primary school curriculum and presents case studies that exemplify how it can be effectively delivered.Many schools believe that the value of their work is undermined by a test-driven agenda that limits the breadth of the education they provide – and who can blame them? In Reclaiming the Curriculum Bill and Jackie inspire teachers to escape such narrow confines by unearthing a rich seam of case study examples from schools who are broadening their provision with specialist content that transcends the core curriculum: taking pupils into the realms of exploration and enquiry while also providing for higher attainment in the core subjects.Featuring a variety of exciting initiatives, ranging from the development of an IT-enabled collaborative learning space to the artful application of storytelling across the curriculum, this book will embolden primary schools to identify and enhance their own creative practice and more effectively prepare pupils for the tests of life, not a life of tests. The 18 case studies – written by a diverse line-up of contributors including school leaders, teachers and special-ist coaches – are sourced from a mixture of different settings and offer detailed descriptions of the initiatives’ unique backgrounds: their genesis and inspiration, their underpinning aims and objectives, and the ways in which they were resourced, realised and, eventually, evaluated.At the beginning of each chapter, Bill and Jackie briefly summarise the educa-tional value of each example of curriculum development, the significance of specific aspects and the ways in which they are likely to help maintain full and relevant learning. Each case study then presents the contributors’ first-hand perspectives as they:describe in detail the structure that underpins the provision – including the number of staff involved and the time and resources allocatedshare interesting insights into the level of pupil involvement and, where relevant, the extent of parental and community participationpaint a vivid picture of how the initiatives have been made compatible with their school’s wider educational programmeprovide practical guidance, useful links and relevant resources to aid readers’ own pursuit of curriculum development.Suitable for primary school teachers and leaders.