Early career teachers: primary and early years
Please explore the resources on this page:
Statutory framework for the early year foundation degree Primary national curriculum Development matters Birth to five mattersMaths
Recommended websites
- Research review series: mathematics
- North West Three Maths Hub Newsletter Summer 2021
- NCETM
- Maths Hubs
- nrich
- Mathematical Association
- Association of Teachers of Mathematics
- STEM Learning
- National Numeracy
- UK Maths Trust
- NRICH – Events for Teachers and Students
- Early Years Educator
Recommended books
- Mathematics explained for primary teachers by Derek Haylock with Ralph Manning (6th edition)
- Understanding and teaching primary mathematics by Tony Cotton
- Children’s errors in mathematics by Alice Hansen
English
Science
- Reach Out CPD
- The Association for Science Education
- The Primary Science Teaching Trust
- The STEM Learning Centre
Primary science research update
OFSTED: Research Review: Science
Resources for schools
- Explorify
- Science and plants for schools
- The Woodland Trust
- Learning through landscapes
- BBC bitesize science
Computing
- National Centre for Computing Education provides CPD and resources
- Barefoot Computing provides free resources
- Code – it provides free resources
- Hello World – a free publication on computing education written by teachers for teachers
- Project Evolve – an online safety resources
- Childnet – an online safety resources
- Thinkuknow – an online safety resources produced by the Child Exploitation and Online Protection command centre (CEOP)
Music
Model Music Curriculum: Key Stages 1 and 2
Useful books
- Atkinson, R. 2018. Mastering Primary Music. London: Bloomsbury Academic
- Greenhalgh, Z. 2018. Music and Singing in the Early Years: A guide to singing with young children. London: Routledge
- Daubney, A. 2017. Teaching Primary Music. LA: Sage
- Burnard, P. and Murphy, R., 2017. Teaching music creatively. 2nd edn. Oxon: Routledge.
- Cotton, M. 1996. Agogo bells to xylophone: A friendly guide to classroom percussion instruments. London: A & C Black.
- Maddocks, A. and Voices Foundation, 2012. Inside Music: A Music Education Programme for Class Music Teaching (5 – 7). The Voices Foundation: London.
- Maddocks, A. and Voices Foundation, 2014. Inside Music: A Music Education Programme for Class Music Teaching (7 – 11). The Voices Foundation: London.
- Minto, D. 2009. Games, ideas and activities for primary music. Harlow: Person Education Ltd.
- Pope, D., 2019. Understanding Subject Knowledge for Primary Teaching. Chapter 6. Los Angeles: SAGE
Useful websites
- Primary Music Toolkit
- BBC Ten Pieces https://www.bbc.co.uk/teach/ten-pieces
- Tune Into listening
- Orff Society
- British Kodaly Academy
- Sing for Pleasure
- MERYC England (Music Educators and Researchers of Young Children)
- Voices Foundation
- Musical Futures UK
- Sing up
- KS1 music
- KS2 music
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