Product Description: Nine tales of the supernatural and extraterrestrial featuring centaurs, dragons and vampires. A teacher of English, Bowkett is the author of three novels including "Spellbinder", "Gameplayers" and "Dualists".

Product Description: Being emotionally resourceful provides a sound platform for developing other skills across the curriculum and results in improved behaviour and higher standards. Self Intelligence is designed to develop emotional resourcefulness in yourself and the children you teach...read more

Nige, Brian, Steve, Anna, Anthony, Kevin and Neil are the Double Dare Gang - a group of ordinary kids from an ordinary town who have the most wonderful adventures. Extracts and examples from this book are used in the StoryMaker manual to exemplify many of the accelerated learning techniques.

Product Description: The Double Dare Gang books 'The Allotment Ghost' and 'The Frankenstein Steps' are an integal part of StoryMaker. Extracts and examples from these books are used in the StoryMaker manual to exemplify many of the accelerated learning techniques...read more

Product Description: This book is part of an educational package called StoryMaker Catch Pack, which uses fiction as a resource for learning. Who is the mysterious presence haunting Shadowfane Manor? What is Lord Belvedere's awful secret? How does Kohn Chill wreak his terrible revenge on his tormentors? Where can you meet monsters, ghosts, vampires, werewolves, invading hordes...read more

Product Description: The Double Dare Gang books 'The Allotment Ghost' and 'The Frankenstein Steps' are an integral part of StoryMaker. Extracts and examples from these books are used in the StoryMaker manual to exemplify many of the accelerated learning techniques...read more

Do you make wishes? And could they ever come true? Perhaps they might in ways you never expected... This enchanting poem encourages children to let their imagination take flight with the thought-provoking idea 'If I were...'

The nations of the Emperor Kuo-Chin and the Stone King have been at war for a very long time. There seems to be no hope of ending the fighting and the suffering - until Kuo-Chin meets Dojen the Wanderer. Can this old man with his strange ways and simple wisdom find an answer to this terrible problem?

Providing a comprehensive introduction to Emotional Intelligence, this guide explores what is meant by the concept and includes sections on: how to chill out, developing the senses, seeing things from different viewpoints and dealing with feelings.

Product Description: Young people are entering a world that requires more than straight 'A's (if it ever did) and yearns for the well rounded, multiply intelligent, creative and mature individual that can manage change and complexity without getting upset, petulant and stomping off in a huff...read more

Coaching Emotional Intelligence in the Classroom is a practical resource to help Key Stage 2 and Key Stage 3 teachers explore and understand a range of concepts, principles and techniques gathered under the term ‘emotional intelligence’, and the way that this powerfully influences pupils’ behaviour and learning in the classroom. Creative activities are suggested throughout, leading towards a more explicit focus on coaching methods to help pupils become independent, creative and effective learners able to set goals, generate ideas, solve problems and arrive at reasoned decisions. This book focuses on five key areas: self-awareness innovative and inventive thinking independent enquiry collaborative learning communication skills. Dealing in an engaging way with social and emotional aspects of learning, personalised learning, thinking skills and social inclusion, the authors offer teachers all of the necessary tools to help pupils build life- and people-skills which will extend beyond school. It will be of interest to all practising teachers, teaching assistants and school counsellors working with young people.

Product Description: Jumpstart! Thinking Skills and Problem Solving presents a collection of simple to use, multi-sensory games and activities which will jumpstart students’ understanding of problem solving in action. If you are one of the thousands of teachers looking for a range of practical and fun ideas to engage pupils in effective proactive learning, then this is the perfect book for you...read more

Product Description: Why should children learn to write fluently? What difference will it make to them and the opportunities available to them later on in life? The ability to communicate clearly, accurately and persuasively is a vital life skill. Deficiencies in motivation and thinking skills pervade the challenge of improving children's literacy levels...read more

Product Description: Thinking skills are the cornerstones of effective learning. When children are familiar with their 'thinking toolkit' they will engage more actively and confidently with the knowledge and information you teach them. In this brand new edition, author and education consultant Steve Bowkett offers 100 tried and tested activities and techniques to help children become more creative, analytical and flexible in their thinking...read more