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The Jumpstart! books contain ‘quick-figure' ideas that could be used as warm-ups and starter exercises; as well as extended into lessons. Each book has more than 50 inspiring games and activities for Key Stage 1 or Key Stage 2 classrooms. Practical, easy-to-do, and entertaining, the ‘jumpstarts’ will appeal to busy teachers in any primary school.

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Jumpstart! Literacy Games and Activities for Ages 7-14

Jumpstart! Literacy: Games and Activities for Ages 7-14

1st Edition

By Pie Corbett
August 06, 2004

This collection of simple to use, fun, multi-sensory games and creative lesson starters will jumpstart pupils enthusiasm for literacy learning. The `jumpstarts' cover: Warming up the word - spelling and word games Syntactic gymnastics - creating sentences and written style Games to stimulate - ...

Jumpstart! Music Ideas and Activities for Ages 7 –14

Jumpstart! Music: Ideas and Activities for Ages 7 –14

1st Edition

By Kelly-Jo Foster-Peters
March 18, 2020

Children develop their musicality best through engaging and participating, and an effective and enriching music curriculum must focus on the development of practical music-making skills. Jumpstart! Music therefore contains a wealth of ideas and activities that will support any teacher as they aid ...

Jumpstart! Maths Maths Activities and Games for Ages 5-14

Jumpstart! Maths: Maths Activities and Games for Ages 5-14

3rd Edition

By John Taylor
May 29, 2019

This fully updated third edition of Jumpstart! Maths presents a collection of simple-to-use, multi-sensory games and activities which will jumpstart students’ understanding of mathematics in action. It will help students to explore and learn maths both through technology and without, in an ...

Jumpstart! Assemblies Ideas and Activities For Assemblies in Primary Schools

Jumpstart! Assemblies: Ideas and Activities For Assemblies in Primary Schools

1st Edition

By John Foster
December 06, 2018

This book contains a wealth of ideas for teachers to deliver engaging and informative assemblies in primary schools. The book gives a structure for any assembly that can be easily followed with minimum preparation and provides plenty of opportunities for children to learn interactively and reflect ...

Jumpstart! Poetry Games and Activities for Ages 7-12

Jumpstart! Poetry: Games and Activities for Ages 7-12

1st Edition

By Pie Corbett
October 24, 2008

A good poetry idea should help the children feel excited about writing and enable them to think of what to write - developing their imagination, creativity and writing skills. Jumpstart! Poetry is about involving children as creative writers through writing poems. The book contains a bank of...

Jumpstart! Drama Games and Activities for Ages 5-11

Jumpstart! Drama: Games and Activities for Ages 5-11

2nd Edition

By Teresa Cremin, Roger McDonald, Emma Longley, Louise Blakemore
July 19, 2018

Jumpstart! Drama contains more than forty engaging, practical, easy-to-do and highly motivating drama activities which will appeal to busy primary teachers who wish to enliven their practice and make more use of drama in line throughout their teaching. Suitable for use across a variety of subjects...

Jumpstart! Creativity Games and Activities for Ages 7–14

Jumpstart! Creativity: Games and Activities for Ages 7–14

2nd Edition

By Steve Bowkett
April 18, 2018

Jumpstart! Creativity contains over 70 games and activities that any primary teacher can use to quickly and easily boost students’ creative and critical thinking skills, allowing their thinking to flourish. Now in its second edition, the book contains fresh material that will help children to ...

Jumpstart! RE Games and activities for ages 7-12

Jumpstart! RE: Games and activities for ages 7-12

1st Edition

By Imran Mogra
November 20, 2017

This collection of simple-to-use activities will jumpstart students' understanding of the world's religions and belief systems. A wealth of activities, including discussion techniques, group tasks and thought experiments, guides the teacher in delivering stimulating and imaginative RE lessons. ...

Jumpstart! Philosophy in the Classroom Games and Activities for Ages 7-14

Jumpstart! Philosophy in the Classroom: Games and Activities for Ages 7-14

1st Edition

By Steve Bowkett
October 03, 2017

This collection of inspiring and simple-to-use activities will jumpstart students' understanding of philosophy, and is a treasure trove of ideas for building philosophical enquiry into the curriculum. It offers teachers a range of quick, easy and effective ways for developing children’s ...

Jumpstart! Study Skills Games and Activities for Active Learning, Ages 7–12

Jumpstart! Study Skills: Games and Activities for Active Learning, Ages 7–12

1st Edition

By John Foster
May 17, 2017

Jumpstart! Study Skills presents a collection of engaging and simple-to-use games and activities that will jumpstart students’ understanding of working independently and as part of a group and how to develop the study skills necessary to succeed at school. Providing teachers with a range of ...

Jumpstart! Wellbeing Games and activities for ages 7-14

Jumpstart! Wellbeing: Games and activities for ages 7-14

1st Edition

By Steve Bowkett, Kevin Hogston
August 29, 2016

This collection of engaging and simple to use activities will help teachers to develop children’s mental and emotional wellbeing while also including the thinking skills necessary for learning. The authors show how developing such skills within the context of a wellbeing agenda aids children’s ...

Jumpstart! Apps Creative learning, ideas and activities for ages 7–11

Jumpstart! Apps: Creative learning, ideas and activities for ages 7–11

1st Edition

By Natalia Kucirkova, Jon Audain, Liz Chamberlain
August 09, 2016

This collection of engaging and simple to use activities will jumpstart students’ learning and help the busy teacher to reinvigorate their teaching through the use of mobile apps and activities that can be used in the classroom. A wealth of practical activities and advice on how to incorporate ...

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