Use these images of the front and back cover of The Christmas Wish in conjunction with the ‘Explore the story’ lesson in the Snow topic.
Reward your Early Years and KS1 storytellers with our The Christmas Wish themed certificate.
Reward your KS2 storytellers with our The Christmas Wish themed certificate.
Use these text-only resource sheets to explore the language of The Christmas Wish and examine some of the author’s writing techniques.
Help the children to understand the story structure by asking them to create a story map for The Christmas Wish.
Hear a slightly longer version of Captain Scott's wife being interviewed. This gives a taste of what it would have been like back in Great Britain while Captain Scott and his team were adventuring in the South Pole.
Our podcast for the Snow topic sees the wife of Captain Scott being interviewed and gives a taste of what it would have been like back in Great Britain while Captain Scott and his team were adventuring in the South Pole.
These edited extracts are a challenging read and make for pretty grim reading but they could be tackled by older children with adult support.
Use this text-only ebook to explore the language of The Christmas Wish and examine some of the author’s writing techniques.
Use this game as a fun way to recall what children have learned about Captain Scott.
Catch Clare Bevan's rhythm and rhyme bug with these perky poems. Perfect for chanting aloud, learning off by heart and as inspiration for the children's own poetry.
Ask the children to critique the storytellers in their class and give each one two things that they thought were great and one thing they think might be improved.
Perfect for your Christmas production or scaled-down class assembly production, our editable playscript can be adapted for as few or as many children or you need to accommodate.
A step-by-step guide to using The Christmas Wish .kmz file in Google Earth™.
Get a goose-eye view with ‘The Christmas Wish Google Earth™ tour file’.
Some festive writing borders inspired by The Christmas Wish.
Hone those colouring, cutting and sticking skills with these alphabet and festive symbol paper chains.
Talk through the events in The Christmas Wish using this story map.
Who might live in a house like this?
A wordsearch inspired by The Christmas Wish.
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A simple story structure sheet for Space Story.
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Cut out the sentences and arrange the main events of Space story: Miss Wacky's day out in the correct order.
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Read through the closing thought with the children and talk about the ideas in it.
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Let the children demonstrate how well they’ve understood Space Story: Miss Wacky’s Day Out with these comprehension questions.
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Teach personification in poetry with this charming poem from Joshua Seigal.
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Talking about the size of the universe is a great time to improve children’s vocabulary relating to size.
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Develop children’s understanding of the main characters in Space Story with these fun crew profile sheets.
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Write the character’s own thoughts and ideas inside the outline; write other people’s thoughts and ideas about the character on the outside.
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Play this fun game to help with the concept of position and movement.
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Practise number skills with these space-themed activity sheets for KS1.
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Use this sheet to develop children’s subject vocabulary and support writing activities.
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Learn about the Father of Science, Sir Isaac Newton with this short biography.
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Our space fact cards are packed with information about all of the planets in our solar system.
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Our downloadable space fact card templates make great class displays and are perfect for children to use when presenting their findings to the class.
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These image-only space fact cards are ready for children to add their own facts. Use on the whiteboard or on tablet computers.
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Reinforce number bonds with these space-themed activity sheets for KS1.
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This collection of nebulas will be great inspiration for music, art and poetry.
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Show the children the risk assessment form you use for school visits.
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Introduce children to Isaac Newton’s discoveries and develop listening skills at the same time with this entertaining radio play.
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Our ‘Storytelling prompts’ for Space story: Miss Wacky's day out are the perfect accompaniment to your storytelling lessons. These prompts come with keyword phrases from the story.
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Our ‘Storytelling prompts’ for Space story: Miss Wacky's day out are the perfect accompaniment to your storytelling lessons. These prompts come with keywords.
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Our ‘Storytelling prompts’ for Space story: Miss Wacky's day out are the perfect accompaniment to your storytelling lessons. These pictorial prompts come without any text.
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Use our step-by-step guide to setting up a Twitter account.
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Recreate our Space Story adventure with this editable playscript.
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Information and activity ideas based on Add Hox: Spaceman Scientist by Cleo Mussi.
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The transcript of Episode 2 of Amadeus Jones' radio play to use alongside ‘The fall guy’ from the Space topic.
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