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Newly-matched readers for Red Rose Letters and Sounds schools
28 March 2024
Over 100 decodable phonics readers from the My Letters and Sounds phonics readers have been aligned to the Red Rose Letters and Sounds teaching progression, providing schools with a wide choice of fiction and non-fiction stories to use at home and in the classroom.
Continue reading...How the four P checks can help your pupils master handwriting
22 January 2024
Handwriting is a complex skill for children to learn. The physical nature of it can lead to some children taking longer to develop fine motor skills than others, making the teaching of handwriting a challenge. Problems with handwriting often stem from the physical side of writing, but these can be limited by laying secure foundations and instilling good habits early on.
Continue reading...How to set impactful primary school homework
01 December 2023
In this blog post, we explore how manageable homework tasks can nurture positive mindsets, develop good habits and reinforce the practice of basic skills learnt at school.
Continue reading...SATs: making the most of the home advantage
30 November 2023
In this blog post, we delve into the connection between passionate football fans and effective parental engagement. We’ll uncover how schools can leverage a ‘home advantage’ and outline what parents need to support their children.
Continue reading...Enhance your phonics library with 10 brand-new readers
15 September 2023
Arriving this autumn, 10 new Phase Two decodable books will provide some much-needed additional coverage of GPCs in the first nine weeks of phonics teaching.
Continue reading...My Letters and Sounds receives DfE approval
23 June 2022
Our brand-new phonics programme, My Letters and Sounds, joins the shortlist of SSP teaching programmes that are approved by the Department for Education.
Continue reading...Survey reveals impact of pandemic on young children’s handwriting
28 June 2021
We reveal the areas of handwriting that most concern teachers, and Michelle van Rooyen, an occupational therapist with a special interest in handwriting, shares her thoughts on the survey findings.
Continue reading...Unlocking handwriting with the WriteWell programme
25 June 2021
Help every child to achieve clear, confident and speedy joined handwriting with WriteWell, a complete course designed to guide children from their first steps in mark-making towards the development of secure, fluent and comfortable joined handwriting.
Continue reading...2020 Catalogue
07 January 2020
Discover the Schofield & Sims 2020 Catalogue, brimming with inspiring new resources to build children’s core maths and English skills and prepare them for the challenges of secondary school.
Continue reading...One to One Maths and the value of peer mentoring
08 February 2016
One to One Maths is an innovative peer-mentoring programme which works jointly with prisons and educational staff to encourage and empower prisoners with good numeracy skills to mentor prisoners who lack basic numerical ability.
Continue reading...Schofield & Sims partners with Forward Arts Foundation for National Poetry Day
23 July 2015
To celebrate National Poetry Day, Schofield & Sims author and poet Celia Warren has created a free assembly plan for schools to adapt and enjoy, on behalf of Forward Arts Foundation.
Continue reading...Updated reading records for the new National Curriculum
10 July 2015
Key features of the revised reading records include more space for adults’ comments, book review templates and phonics, spelling and vocabulary checklists linked to the new programmes of study for English.
Continue reading...Schofield & Sims partners with Springboard for Children
25 March 2015
Schofield & Sims is pleased to announce a new partnership with Springboard for Children, a charity providing one-to-one, multi-sensory literacy teaching for children and young people who are struggling to learn to read, write, speak and listen.
Continue reading...National Poetry Day collaborative resource
02 October 2014
To celebrate National Poetry Day Schofield & Sims has contributed to a free collaborative resource on behalf of Forward Arts Foundation on this year's National Poetry Day theme of 'Remember'.
Continue reading...Teach Primary Sound Phonics review
25 March 2014
High praise for Schofield & Sims Sound Phonics in review by John Dabell for Teach Primary magazine.
Continue reading...Free poetry resource for Shakespeare Week
18 March 2014
To mark the first ever Shakespeare Week, we’ve uploaded a FREE poetry resource on one of Shakespeare’s most notable works, his Eighteenth Sonnet.
Continue reading...National Curriculum 2014
13 January 2014
With curriculum change just around the corner, Schofield & Sims has a number of new resources available that fully meet the requirements of the 2014 primary curriculum. Our editorial teams are also hard at work revising popular existing titles to reflect changes in content and the removal of levels.
Continue reading...New lower school price for dictionaries
08 January 2014
With the importance of using dictionaries for checking both the meaning and spelling of words emphasised in the new National Curriculum, the Schofield & Sims dictionaries are now available at a new lower price for school orders.
Continue reading...Schofield & Sims to publish revised Maths Progress Papers
17 June 2013
Due to an unprecedented level of demand for Schofield & Sims Maths Progress Papers, which were taken out of print in 2000, we are pleased to announce that a revised edition of this series will be available from February 2014.
Continue reading...Teach Primary review of A Time to Speak and a Time to Listen
02 May 2013
A new review of the A Time to Speak and a Time to Listen poetry anthology and Teacher’s Guide has been featured on the Teach Primary website.
Continue reading...50% match funding available - on Schofield & Sims Sound Phonics
12 January 2012
Sound Phonics is the Schofield & Sims phonics resource for the Early Years Foundation Stage and Key Stage 1, fully compatible with Letters and Sounds and with any incremental phonics programme. We are now offering all UK schools 50 per cent match funding on the retail price of every Sound Phonics book purchased.
Continue reading...Super-jumbo size British History Timeline poster now available!
05 May 2011
This huge wall chart is a highly visible and easily legible 84 x 119cm - so the key timeline dates and the sequence of historical events are easy to see, even from the other side of the classroom.
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