June / July
End of School Year
Resources for the final weeks of the academic year
📅 June through mid-July
The last six weeks of summer term are a peculiar kind of demanding — reports to write, transitions to prepare, year-group changes ahead, classroom packing, and children whose attention has already moved on to summer. These resources support all of it.
End-of-year reports
If you only read one article on report-writing, make it this one.
Parent communication
The End-of-Year Report That Actually Helps
End-of-year reports take teachers hours and parents read them in 90 seconds. Here's how to write reports that actually mean something.
5 min read
Assessment & feedback
Feedback That Changes the Work
Decades of research on feedback in education converge on one uncomfortable finding: most feedback given in classrooms produces little or no improvement. Here's what actually works.
7 min read
Transitions
Preparing children for the next year — and the secondary jump.
Reception to Year 1 Transition Pack
The single biggest transition in primary — from play-based EYFS to a more structured Year 1 classroom. Activities, parent letter, classroom routines, and EYFS-to-KS1 staff handover sheet for the gentlest possible move.
Y6 Reading List — Books for the Year of Secondary Transition
Books for Y6 children — the year before secondary, where reading taste matters most and reading is the strongest predictor of secondary attainment. Calibrated for the Y6 cohort specifically — friendship, identity, change, growing up.
Teaching strategy
The Transition to Secondary School (And How to Support It)
Year 7 is the most academically vulnerable year in many children's school careers. Here's what Year 6 teachers can do to make it easier — and what gets it wrong.
6 min read
EYFS & early years
The Reception-to-Year-1 Jump
Children who thrived in Reception sometimes wobble badly in Year 1. The drop from play-based to sit-down learning is bigger than the curriculum suggests.
5 min read
Final weeks of term
When attention is short and the routines are slipping.
Warm-Up Activity Cards
Eight 5-minute warm-up games — print, cut and pull one at the start of every PE lesson.
30 Brain Breaks for Primary Classrooms
30 brain break activities organised by purpose — energising, calming, focusing, social. Each is 1-3 minutes, no resources needed. Print, laminate, draw one when needed.
Free bundle
The Starter Pack
18 of our best free resources spanning every subject — the universal entry point.
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