Poetry is often indirectly labelled as an intellectual’s domain.  It is seen as something like jazz music, people feel as if they should perhaps like it and might have some at home to show willing, and yet don’t truly enjoy.  Let’s be honest, when was the last time you picked up a poetry compilation just for pleasure?  I rarely do so and yet consider myself a great lover of poetry.  It isn’t really given the kind of space in general society as the novel and yet it provides so much pleasure for so many.  After all, what are songs but poems written to music? Read more

As communication and language is a prime area of the Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS), the importance of providing time and space for children to talk, listen and understand is paramount.  When I was offered the chance to trial the Clever Tiles by TTS, I was excited to explore the ways in which the resource could enhance play and learning. Read more

Reception and Year 1 children use the Illuminated Mark Making Boards to get to grips with a whole host of new skills. Read more

White Rose Maths explain how to use place value counters to develop conceptual understanding alongside fluency within times tables and multiplication. Read more

As outlined within Ofsted’s School Inspection Handbook (2019), primary schools need to ensure they deliver a broad and balanced curriculum, which includes the teaching of music. Learning to make music and play instruments are key aims of the primary music curriculum and the Rainbow Range is the perfect tool to support you. Read more

In this blog, we consider 8 ways that we can support our pupils and help raise achievement across the curriculum. Read more

Potion bottles are ideal for supporting children’s learning through play based and active hands on activities. Read more

In this blog we want to give you some simple activities that you can do with magnifiers and microscopes that will engage and enthuse children and help them to develop their scientific skills! Read more

At TTS, we have been reaching out to our educational experts and asking them to share some of their top tips and advice to support you at home. We hope this will help and give you some ideas to try. Read more

Here are 5 science activities you can try at home with your child. Read more

We know these are uncertain times for parents and it can be difficult to know what ‘home-schooling’ we should be doing. We have been in contact with lots of our parent and teacher experts to ask for their advice and top tips. Read more

In this blog, we asked the experts (teachers and parents) to share their advice for keeping healthy and happy whilst learning at home. Read more

Children learn to play from a young age and we often spend our time finding new toys or creations for them. The skills that children learn when they play that lay the foundations for future learning in school and beyond. Read more

Space is a topic that interests many children and with National Space Day on 1st May 2020, it is the perfect time to link your home learning to space! Read more

A simple to make Christmas felt fairy to make with your children, in the classroom or at home. Ideal for hanging on the Christmas Tree. Read more

An atlas is a lot like a photograph, it offers a  snapshot of our world at one particular moment in time as a static, unchanging entity. As we all know, our world doesn't sit still. Disputed boundaries shift, countries change their names and rising sea levels swallow up entire islands… so how do you take a picture of a moving landscape without it being out-of-date as soon as you've taken it? This is the issue we faced when commissioning a series of maps to be drawn for our new TTS Teaching Atlases. Working with industry experts, we finally came to a consensus; and it's more political than you first imagine. Read more