Road Safety Week Teaching Resources (Free and Premium)

Road Safety Week is an established week in the UK calendar. It was set up by Brake in 1997 and organised by the charity annually ever since. It takes place in November each year and aims to give everyone an opportunity to promote road safety in their community, school or company.  

Here at Pencil Street we have a range of free and premium teaching resources to help promote road safety for all age groups from EY, KS1 to KS2.  

Here are a few general ideas and a few ideas linked to resources get you started:

• Talk about road safety in your assemblies.
• Hold a special road safety assembly or open event for parents.
• Make a road safety display in the school. Display resources for road safety available (Ref 71-109)
• Mention Road Safety Week / promote road safety in your newsletter to parents.
• Challenge the children to create a road safety poster/leaflet/banner/film/play.
• Have a special PSHE or citizenship lesson on road safety.Integrate road safety learning into curriculum lessons. Plenty of resources available!
• Have a special guest in to talk about road safety, for example, a police officer, or drama group.

Road deaths are the biggest ‘accidental’ cause of death of children and young people. All kids and young people use roads and have experienced road danger; so it's the perfect topic for a project that can really engage them as well as save their lives, while also meeting curriculum goals.

Teaching Remembrance Day

Young children are usually excited to participate in activities that involve celebrations or the holidays. But while your children may look forward to Halloween, Thanksgiving, Christmas and Valentine's Day activities, you do not have to wait until the major holidays to add variety in your classroom.

Remembrance Day is observed in November (around the 11th), and this day commemorates members of the armed forces who have died in battle. Many students are unfamiliar with this day, but teaching Remembrance Day increases their awareness. If you're discussing World War I, World War II or other historical battles in history books, you can incorporate activities related to Remembrance Day.

At Pencil Street, we have plenty of resources available for teaching Remembrance Day.  These include fact sheets, worksheets, as well as classroom displays. And since many children have a parent or other relative in the armed forces, activities related to Remembrance Day are timely and appropriate.

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Teaching resource of the day

The resource for today is 1007-185. This is a very popular arge wall display featuring pictures of children,  showing different emotions and keywords associated with those feelings. Teachers can decide which words to use dependant on the age range they are teaching.

Remembrance Day Teaching Resources

Many special days and events occur during the school year. But while most children are excited to celebrate popular holidays, such as Thanksgiving and Christmas, they might ignore special days with a historical background.Remembrance Day is observed the Sunday nearest Veteran's Day and it commemorates those who died in World War I and World War II. Teaching Remembrance Day may not be a required part of your curriculum, but you might incorporate this event to broaden the minds and hearts of your students.

Pencil Street offers several resources and tools for teaching Remembrance Day. You can download worksheets that include Remembrance Day facts, as well as information on the significance of war memorials. If you're teaching vocabulary, you can download vocabulary worksheets which include words associated with Remembrance Day.

Teaching Remembrance Day can provide your students with a better understanding on the two World Wars, and perhaps develop their interest in historical events.

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Harvest Festival Tools for the Classroom

Harvest Festival is the celebration of food grown on the land and it's not uncommon for schools to host activities around this time. Harvest Festival creates the perfect opportunity to educate young children on the different crops grown in their local area. Plenty of teaching resources are available for children, each designed to pique their curiosity and stimulate their appreciation for the foods around them.

If you're looking for unique activities for your classroom, you can download a variety of themed worksheets. Worksheets appropriate for Harvest Festival include those that picture fruits and vegetables. Younger children can identify the different types of foods on the sheet. This can stimulate a classroom discussion, wherein children relate their favorite fruits and vegetables. Harvest Festival word searchers are also appropriate during this time of the year, as well as Harvest Festival picture cards and vocabulary sheets.

To make the learning experience more fun, you can pass out harvest-themed bookmarks or play a Harvest Festival bingo game. With so many fun and entertaining options, your students will look forward to harvest time every year.

Using the Olympics as a Teaching Tool

The 2012 Olympics offer a chance not only to learn about the host city, England, but also about the countries who are participating. It presents a unique way to study these countries while getting into the spirit of the games. Students can pick a country, create the flag, learn about the athletes who will represent that country, and present interesting facts about the culture of the people.

Students could also research about past Olympics and present their findings on how many medals and in which event their country did well. Who has hosted before? Who has never hosted? And, why that might be? With over 200 nations expected to participate, many are not well-known. It is a perfect opportunity to search for these nations and learn about their people. Watching the opening ceremonies together gives students a fantastic opportunity to pause and locate a country, perhaps placing a pin as each one is presented.

The Olympic Games present a unique and creative way for teachers to teach their students about their world and how we all come together in the spirit of competition. Finding Olympic teaching materials along with other related teaching resources to support this unit study is very simple. With kits and online worksheets that can be reproduced, you will find many Olympic teaching ideas to support any level of education.

Promoting a Better Learning Environment

Today’s teachers need all the help they can get. Pencil Street was created to make their jobs easier. Made up of primary educators, the resource center has been specifically created to promote a better learning experience and more effective classroom.

Visit the site to learn more about Pencil Street's Teaching resources, including classroom resources, design technology, geography resources, history resources, literacy resources, numeracy resources, PHSE and Citizenship, religious education, role play, science resources, and a variety of other topics and themes.

Buying from Pencil Street is easy. Buyers may buy bulk credit to use as needed, and student teachers are eligible to save 50 percent off Pencil Street’s already low prices. There are also school membership packages that allow multiple users to purchase as needed.

Pencil Street teaching resources are designed for the Early Years, Key Stage 1 and 2. Our high quality teaching resources are designed to empower teachers to better facilitate the learning process within the classroom. The displays are designed to follow and expand on the curriculum, and real life images, as well as cartoon characters, provide fun, interesting additions to worksheets and activity plans.
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