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Primary Lesson Starters

Find short starter clips for use on interactive whiteboards in your classroom, covering primary maths, science, French, history, and literacy

There are 150 videos in this series, of which the following 149 are currently available to view online.

3 mins Character Glimpses
A primary lesson starter designed as a creative stimulus for developing characterisation in KS2 lessons.
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3 mins Character Viewpoints
A Key Stage 2 lesson starter on literacy and characterisation, looking at the fairytale of Cinderella.
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3 mins That Fatal Sneeze
Help Key Stage 2 pupils understand structure and narrative with this lesson starter for English and media lessons which uses archive black and white footage.
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3 mins Rescued by Rover
A Key Stage 2 English and media lesson starter using archive black and white footage, to help pupils understand structure and narrative.
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3 mins Problem-Solving - Football Problems
Help Key Stage 2 pupils understand problem solving in maths, by using this lesson starter about a football activity.
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3 mins Problem-Solving - Is It a Bargain?
This fun Key Stage 2 maths lesson starter gets pupils to use their mathematical ability to work out if so called 'special offers' are in fact good deals.
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3 mins The Suitcase Dance
A second world war evacuee's suitcase is the stimulus for a cross-curricular dance lesson in this Key Stage 2 lesson starter.
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3 mins Dance - Moving Like Magnets
Magnets inspire movement in this fun Key Stage 2 lesson starter as Year 3 pupils explore the properties of magnets to create dances.
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3 mins Theatre Lights
An inspiring lesson starter aimed at getting Key Stage 2 science pupils to think about how light can be used in a theatre to create mood.
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3 mins Questions About Light
This Key Stage 2 science lesson starter asks questions about light through the medium of a story and encourages further discussion on the subject.
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3 mins Algebra - What's the Pattern?
A Key Stage 2 maths algebra lesson starter based around how many people can sit at a birthday party table.
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3 mins Algebra in Action
A Key Stage 2 maths lesson starter on algebra, using a story of a cold apple seller who can't afford a scarf.
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3 mins History - Food Rationing
This short video combines archive footage and personal accounts of life on the home front during the Second World War, to explore why and how rationing was introduced.
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3 mins History - Living with Rationing
This primary classroom resource combines archive footage and personal accounts of life on the home front during the second world war, and explores the impact of rationing.
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3 mins How Electricity is Used
This Key Stage 2 classroom resource gives pupils the opportunity to explore the different ways electricity can be used, using a theatre as the setting.
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3 mins Things that Use Electricity
This primary science resource for Key Stage 2 pupils is designed to get children thinking about what items in our homes use electricity.
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3 mins Pizza Fractions
This primary maths resource, aimed at Key Stage 2 pupils, is designed to get children thinking about fractions.
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3 mins Fractions Out Shopping
This Key Stage 2 maths lesson starter uses supermarkets and packaging as a starting point to look at fractions, decimals and percentages.
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3 mins Primary Writing - The Railway Children
This KS2 English lesson starter draws on a scene from The Railway Children to inspire writing activities for Year 5 and 6 children.
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3 mins Primary Writing - Charlotte's Web
This KS2 English lesson starter uses E. B. White's book Charlotte's Web to help pupils learn how to write persuasively.
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3 mins Primary Writing - It's Unfair
A lesson starter and starting point for KS2 English pupils on opinion-writing.
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3 mins Primary Writing - 9/11 New York
This unique KS2 English lesson starter focuses on pupils' written and spoken responses to the events surrounding 9/11 in New York.
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3 mins Primary Writing - Double Act
An extract from Jacqueline Wilson's Double Act provides writing opportunities for KS2 English students.
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3 mins Primary Writing - Lily & Ermine
An animation presents KS2 English students with the chance to undertake creative writing.
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3 mins Different Writing Styles: Wood Fired Oven
Inspire creative writing in a Key Stage 2 class with this short video about a traditional pizza-making restaurant.
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15 mins The Victorians
Help Key Stage 2 history pupils explore a different aspect of life in Victorian Britain in each of these five dramatised lesson starters.
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4 mins The Victorians - The Workhouse
Show Key Stage 2 history pupils the harsh conditions inside a Victorian workhouse, with this short lesson starter.
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4 mins The Victorians - Brunel's SS Great Britain
Key Stage 2 history pupils can find out about Isambard Kingdom Brunel's iron sailing ship in this short video about Victorian Britain.
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4 mins The Victorians - Florence Nightingale and the Crimean War
Reveal to Key Stage 2 history pupils Florence Nightingale's work during the Crimean war, with this dramatised short video .
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4 mins The Victorians - The Great Exhibition 1851
A Victorian printer talks excitedly about the forthcoming Great Exhibition of 1851 and the displays on offer, in this short Key Stage 2 history video.
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4 mins The Victorians - The School Room
Experience life in a Victorian classroom, with this dramatised short video for Key Stage 2 history pupils.
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1 min Victorian School: Ironbridge
A Year 5 class experiences life in a Victorian school, as part of a Key Stage 2 history trip.
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3 mins Victorian Street: Ironbridge
A Year 5 history class takes a school trip to an open-air museum in Ironbridge, to discover life in Victorian England.
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4 mins KS2 French - L'avenir et moi
Give Key Stage 2 French learners a sense of life abroad for their peers, as French-speaking pupils from the Caribbean island of Martinique discuss their likes, dislikes and hopes for the future.
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4 mins KS2 French - Qu'est-ce que tu préfères?
Key Stage 2 French learners can get a sense of pupils living in Martinique, as they discuss personal likes and dislikes in this short video.
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4 mins KS2 French -Matis et son grandpère
In this short video, Key Stage 2 French pupils can get a sense of how life used to be in Martinique, as a local boy interviews his grandfather.
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4 mins KS2 French - Voici ma ville
Key Stage 2 French learners can watch a tour of Fort de France, the capital of the French-speaking Caribbean island of Martinique.
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4 mins KS2 French - Voici mon école
Follow 10-year-old Arnaud as he gives a colourful guided tour of his school in Martinique, in this short video for Key Stage 2 French learners.
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4 mins KS2 French - Une Chasse au Trésor
Make Key Stage 2 French learning fun with a treasure hunt on the Caribbean island of Martinique. Primary pupils can learn words like chemise (shirt) and poubelle (dustbin), as well as directions and numbers.
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4 mins Primary French - Deux Jeux de Mains
Ideal for Key Stage 2 French lessons, this short video uses two clapping games to teach numeracy and literacy.
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4 mins Primary French - La Parade des Metiers D'avant
This colourful short video makes an ideal Key Stage 2 French lesson starter by following Ecole Plateau Didier pupils taking part in a special parade during carnival time on the Caribbean Island of Martinique.
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4 mins Primary French - Le Carnaval en Martinique
Designed for Key Stage 2 French learners, this video looks at carnival time on the Caribbean island of Martinique.
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4 mins Primary French - La Musique et les Instruments
This resource for teaching French gives Key Stage 2 pupils the chance to learn about their peers in Martinique. In this video, the children talk about their music.
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4 mins Primary French - Le Chemin de L'ecole
In a video to support Key Stage 2 pupils learning French, two schoolchildren describe their route from home to school on the Caribbean island of Martinique.
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4 mins Primary French: Papyon Volé une Chanson du Carnaval
Give Key Stage 2 pupils a rich insight into life on the French-speaking Caribbean island of Martinique, with this short video showing children singing in a local carnival.
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15 mins Playground Games, Let's Go, Pocket Money
These nine short dramatised videos are designed for starting Key Stage 2 French lessons. As a primary modern languages classroom resource, this supports the KS2 framework for languages.
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15 mins Healthy Eating, Let's Start a Café, Portraits
This collection of short dramatised videos is designed for starting Key Stage 2 French lessons. As a primary modern languages classroom resource, it supports the KS2 framework for languages.
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4 mins Primary Spanish - ?Que noticias hay?
In this Key Stage 2 Spanish lesson starter, Toni and fellow pupils from the Escuela Primaria talk about life where they live in Mexico.
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4 mins Primary Spanish - El Pasado y el Presente
Show Key Stage 2 Spanish learners what local Mexican life was like 20 years ago, as schoolboy Jose Carlos interviews a local shopkeeper in Cosoleacaque, Mexico.
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4 mins Primary Spanish - Un recorrido de mi ciudad, Cosoleacaque
In this short video for Key Stage 2 pupils on Spanish culture, 10-year-old Mexican pupil Paula gives a tour of her local city, Cosoleacque.
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15 mins Primary Spanish - iBienvenido a Mexico! 1
Introduce a Key Stage 2 Spanish class to the culture and language of Mexico with five short videos filmed in Cosoleacaque, Mexico.
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15 mins Primary Spanish - iBienvenido a Mexico! 2
This second part of a two-part primary series, created to help Key Stage 2 pupils learning Spanish, comprises five short videos filmed in Mexico.
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4 mins Primary Spanish - Que Hice Ayer?
Entertain Key Stage 2 Spanish learners with this fun short videoon using the past tense, which shows Mexican schoolchildren playing a game of charades.
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4 mins Primary Spanish - La cultura folclorica de Veracruz
This video designed for Key Stage 2 Spanish sees Mexican schoolgirl Ingrid discuss musical instruments and costumes typical to her culture.
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4 mins Primary Spanish - Aqui esta mi escuela
Give Key Stage 2 Spanish pupils a sense of life in a Mexican school, with schoolboy Edgardo giving a tour of his school in Escuela Primaria, in Cosoleacaque, Veracruz, in southern Mexico.
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4 mins Primary Spanish - El Colas - Una cancion tradicional
For upper Key Stage 2 pupils learning Spanish, this video shows schoolchildren in Veracruz, Mexico, performing the traditional song, El Colas. To help with teaching the song in class, the song lyrics appear as subtitles.
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4 mins Primary Spanish - El camino de la escuela
Designed for Key Stage 2 pupils learning Spanish, this short video follows a pupil, Kiabet, on his journey from home to school in Cosoleacaque, Mexico.
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4 mins KS2 Spanish - Cómo hacer una piñata
In a creative idea for teaching Key Stage 2 Spanish, this short video shows how to make a piñata (brightly-coloured decoration).
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4 mins KS2 Science -Air Resistance
This practical science lesson idea demonstrates to Key Stage 2 pupils how air resistance works, using homemade parachutes and eggs.
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3 mins KS2 Science - Sliding Objects
Introduce Year 4 science pupils to the forces behind sliding objects, using a game of tug-of-war.
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3 mins KS1 Science - Changing Movement by Force
Help Key Stage 1 science pupils discover how the shape of an object can be changed with pushing, pulling, stretching and kneading, with this everyday example that can be practised in class.
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2 mins KS1 Science -Stopping Moving Objects
Explore the forces of moving objects, using a demolition ball as an example, in this Year 1/2 science lesson idea.
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4 mins KS2 Science - Pushing and Pulling
Watch these real-life examples of forces at work, as this Key Stage 1 science lesson starter demonstrates the physics behind pushing and pulling objects.
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3 mins Seeing in the Dark
This short lesson starter for Year 1 science pupils gives a clear example of how light is needed to see, with a man taking his dog for a walk in the woods.
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3 mins How Light Travels
Reinforce Year 6 science learners' understanding that light comes from a source, with this short Key Stage 2 lesson starter which includes a question to spark further debate.
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4 mins KS2 Science - Making Shadows
This creative lesson idea for Year 3 science involves using a shadowgraph theatre to explain to Key Stage 2 pupils how light creates shadows.
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3 mins How We See Light
Give Year 6 science pupils a sense of what life is like if you can't see properly, based on the Key Stage 2 science learning objective 'we see light sources because light enters our eyes'.
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4 mins KS1 Science - Light and Seeing
Help Key Stage 1 science pupils investigate what happens when light is excluded from the human eye, and pose questions for further discussion.
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4 mins Combating Cyberbullying: Posting Pictures without Consent
Teach primary and secondary PSHE pupils the risks and impacts of cyberbullying. This classroom resource can open discussion around Every Child Matters issues including e-safety, anti-bullying and personal and social skills.
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4 mins Combating Cyberbullying: Inadvertent Bullying
This primary and secondary lesson starter resource demonstrates to Key Stage 2-4 pupils how people's intentions can be misunderstood in emails and texts.
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4 mins Combating Cyberbullying: Suffering in Silence
This classroom resource helps primary and secondary PSHE pupils learn effective ways of dealing with cyberbullying. This lesson starter addresses human health and safety and supports Every Child Matters.
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3 mins KS2 Science - How to Muffle Sound
This short video for Year 5 science shows a man's comedic attempts to block out noise as he tries to get to sleep. This enables pupils to learn about sound, materials and noise insulation.
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3 mins KS2 Science - Changing Sounds
This short video designed for Year 4 and 5 science pupils uses drumming to illustrate the way pitch and volume can vary according to different factors.
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3 mins How We Hear
Show Year 2/3 science pupils how our ears help us to locate sounds, with this short video showing two children playing hide-and-seek in the woods.
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4 mins KS1 Science - Describing Sounds
Challenge Year 1/2 science pupils to think about how different sounds can make you feel, from a physical processes perspective.
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4 mins KS1 Science - Listening to Sounds
This practical Year 1 science lesson idea gets a class to match sounds to their sources. Present an array of images and their accompanying sounds, for children to learn and recognise the associations.
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2 mins Different Writing Styles: Fireworks
This Key Stage 2 creative writing lesson starter uses fireworks to spark the imagination of primary pupils.
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2 mins Different Writing Styles: Fire Walking
Reveal the science behind walking on fire with this short video which gives a starting point for Key Stage 2 creative writing.
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3 mins Persuasive Writing: School Uniform
Help Key Stage 2 pupils learn persuasive writing skills with this lesson starting video on the topic of school uniform.
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2 mins Persuasive Writing: Our Neighbourhood - Negatives
Develop the persuasive writing skills of Key Stage 2 pupils with this short literacy lesson starter about negative aspects of a neighbourhood.
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2 mins Persuasive Writing: Our Neighbourhood - Positives
This lesson-starting idea involves showing Key Stage 2 literacy pupils a short video about neighbourhoods, to help them practise persuasive writing skills.
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5 mins Persuasive Writing: Keeping Pets
Pets are the inspiration in this short Key Stage 2 lesson starter, designed to help KS2 pupils develop their persuasive writing skills by creating a for-and-against argument.
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3 mins Persuasive Writing: Anti-Smoking
In a Key Stage 2 literacy class, use the subject of smoking to inspire KS2 pupils' persuasive writing activities.
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4 mins Post-War Britain: Immigration - New Neighbours
To help a Key Stage 2 history class learn about immigration into Britain since 1945, this short video looks at the mix of cultures in one area of Bristol.
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4 mins Post-War Britain: Immigration - Race Relations
For Key Stage 2 history pupils, this short video focuses on racism in Britain during the 1960s, in the context of immigration to Britain.
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4 mins Post-War Britain: Immigration - Changing Churches
For a Key Stage 2 history lesson idea, teach primary pupils how immigration has affected religion in Britain.
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15 mins Post-War Britain: Immigration
Four Key Stage 2 history lesson starters highlight different aspects of immigration into Britain since 1945.
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4 mins Different Writing Styles:Glass Blowing
Challenge Key Stage 2 pupils to write creatively with a short video exploring the art of glass blowing.
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2 mins Different Writing Styles: Fires Out of Control
The subject of out-of-control fires can inspire creative writing among a Key Stage 2 literacy class.
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3 mins Different Writing Styles: Fire Poi
Start a Key Stage 2 creative writing activity with this short video on the art of fire poi.
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4 mins Primary Spanish - Las cuatro estaciones
Key Stage 2 Spanish pupils can learn about the four weather seasons in Mexico with this short video, as pupil Ulysses discusses the weather associated with each season in Veracruz.
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1 min Heat: Naughty Balloons
An experiment with balloons can show a Key Stage 2 science class how colour affects heat absorption.
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1 min Scientific Enquiry: Paper Loop
The principles of the mobius strip are demonstrated by scientist Dr. Mark Biddiss in this lesson starter for Key Stage 2 science.
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2 mins Forces: Rocket Launch
Teach primary pupils how much air pressure is needed to move objects of varying size, with this Key Stage 2 science lesson idea.
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3 mins Astronomy: Observatory Trip
Amateur astronomer Bill Forest gives a primary class a tour of an observatory in this lesson starter for Key Stage 2 science.
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15 mins Primary French - Bienvenue en Martinique! 2
This is the second of a two-part series filmed on the Caribbean island of Martinique, which primary teachers can use as starters in French lessons.
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15 mins Primary French - Bienvenue en Martinique! 1
Primary teachers can use this collection of short videos, filmed on the Caribbean island of Martinique, as starters in French lessons.
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3 mins Storytelling: Raja's Secret
Stimulate creative writing in a Key Stage 1 class with this classic Punjabi tale using shadow puppets.
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4 mins Storytelling: Key in the Sea
For Key Stage 1 creative writing lessons, this short video tells a simple and dramatic story performed using puppets.
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4 mins Storytelling: Aladdin
Start a Key Stage 1 creative writing lesson with this short video telling the tale of Aladdin.
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3 mins Storytelling: Miserly Farmer
Use this short video with Key Stage 1 pupils to stimulate creative writing and storytelling in the class.
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3 mins Storytelling: Red Riding Hood
Give Key Stage 1 pupils a starting point for creative writing, using a video of the well-known tale of Red Riding Hood.
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15 mins Primary Science: Sound and Hearing
These five creative ideas for Key Stage 1/2 science lesson starters introduce the concept of sound and hearing in imaginative and varying ways.
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15 mins Primary Science: Forces - Pushes, Pulls and Friction
Five science lesson starters for Key Stages 1 and 2 provide creative introductions to physical forces - pushes, pulls and friction - with questions posed at the end of each section to develop thinking and exploration.
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15 mins Primary Science: Light - How We See Things
Discover five different approaches to starting Key Stage 2 science lessons, on the subject of How We See Things, with a question posed at the end of each video to provoke discussion.
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15 mins Fractions, Decimals and Percentages
See six new maths lesson ideas for primary pupils, including puzzles on fractions, decimals and percentages.
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15 mins Selflessness, Charity, Stealing - and More
This classroom resource contains seven videos to start Key Stage 1/2 lessons on moral beliefs and values. They can be used with an interactive whiteboard to help primary pupils learn about personal and social skills.
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15 mins Literacy: Using Story Starts
This video shows three Key Stage 1 and KS2 teachers using specially-designed whiteboard resources to teach literacy.
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15 mins Division, Volume and Other Topics
This classroom resource for Key Stage 2 maths presents eight dramatised situations highlighting maths problems to be used as starters for primary lessons on fractions, decimals and percentages, or numbers and algebra.
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15 mins Story-writing - Nine More Dramatised Clips
Stimulate creative writing among primary pupils with these nine short drama sequences designed for use as a classroom resource with Key Stage 1/2 learners.
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15 mins Problem-solving and Other Topics
This classroom resource for KS2 maths presents eight dramatised problems for use with an interactive whiteboard. This resource addresses fractions, decimals and percentages; shape, space and measures; and numbers and algebra.
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15 mins Changing State, Micro-Organisms and Other Topics
This classroom resource provides seven Key Stage 2 science lesson starters for use with an interactive whiteboard when teaching about topics such as materials and their properties, or physical processes.
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15 mins Honesty, Lateral Thinking and Other Topics
These six short lesson-starting videos are designed to enhance Key Stage 2 pupils' thinking skills and encourage creativity. This classroom resource encourages pupils to compare, contrast and evaluate information.
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15 mins Using Science Lesson Starters
Four Key Stage 2 science teachers show how they use videos from the lesson starters 'Changing State, Micro-Organisms and Other Topics' in the classroom.
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15 mins Teeth, Springs, Rocks and Other Topics
This classroom resource comprises seven short Key Stage 1/2 science videos designed for starting lessons on life processes and living things, materials and their properties, or physical processes.
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15 mins Children in World War II
This video features short clips of British and German film-makers' home movies taken during the second world war, which can be used as Key Stage 2 lesson starters.
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15 mins Story Writing - Seven Dramatised Clips
Watch seven short videos designed for use on an interactive whiteboard when teaching literacy at KS1 and KS2.
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15 mins Weather Around the World
Show primary geography pupils this series of five short videos filmed in five different climatic regions. Each short video shows details of the local climate and its significance in that region.
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3 mins Multiplication - Piggy Buys Apples
Introduce multiplication skills to Year 3 pupils with this fun video which sees Piggy trying to work out which box contains the most apples.
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1 min Multiplication and Division: Sharing Puppy Food
Puppies are the focus as this short video poses a maths problem for Year 6 pupils, using division in a fun way.
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1 min Multiplication and Division: Seats on a Train
This video helps Key Stage 2 pupils develop maths skills by challenging them to calculate how many people can be seated on a train.
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3 mins Angles: Pirate's Lost Treasure
Pirate Kate has lost her map and needs to find her hidden treasure, in this fun drama which provides an idea for use in Key Stage 2 maths lessons.
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2 mins Fractions and Percentages: Packed Lunch Survey
Introduce Year 5 pupils to fractions and percentages using live-action video which shows a class taking part in a survey on what they're eating for lunch.
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2 mins Percentages: Sharing a Cake
Key Stage 2 maths pupils can explore percentages using the example of a cake shown in this video.
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2 mins Division: Loading Up the Getaway Car
Help Key Stage 2 pupils improve their division skills with this engaging video depicting a thief planning to rob a bank, for primary maths.
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2 mins Division: Dice Factory
Give Key Stage 2 maths pupils a practical example to help them practise division, as someone places a large order for some dice in this live-action video.
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2 mins Evaporation and Condensation - Robinson Crusoe Makes Drinking Water
Show primay pupils how a desert-island castaway uses evaporation and condensation to collect drinking water, in a video ideal for use in Year 5 science lessons.
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2 mins Sound: Changing Pitch - Playing the Guitar
Creatively demonstrate changes in pitch to Year 5 pupils by playing this short video in which the same piece of music is played on a range of stringed instruments.
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2 mins Habitats and Food Chains - Fox and Hedgehog
Use this playful short video to show Year 4 science pupils how different stages along the food chain are interdependent, and how the chain can be broken when one link is disrupted.
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2 mins Properties of Fabrics - The Cross-Country Run
Reveal to Year 3 science pupils how a range of materials can be applied to a variety of purposes, with this quick-to-use resource.
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1 min Reducing Friction - Skid Pan
Show Year 4 science pupils a practical example of how friction works, as a driving instructor drives a car around a test track in wet conditions, in this live-action video.
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2 mins Micro-Organisms - Making Bread and Cheese
Teach Year 6 pupils how micro-organisms can be beneficial in food production, with this short documentary.
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1 min Muscles - Using a Longbow
Show Year 4 science pupils how muscles work with this film depicting archers firing arrows at a target.
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1 min Writing a Mystery Story - Jewellery Box
The opening of a jewellery box has unexpected consequences, in this short video designed to stimulate primary pupils' creative writing activities.
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1 min Writing an Adventure Story - Desert Island
Give Key Stage 1/2 literacy pupils a storytelling starter with a video about a Robinson Crusoe-style character who finds himself washed up on a remote island. He seems to be alone but there are clues he may not be...
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1 min Writing Historical Fiction - Robin Hood
A strange character dressed in Lincoln green is spotted in the woods, in this short drama designed to stimulate Key Stage 1/2 literacy pupils' creative writing activities.
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3 mins Writing a Horror Story - Dinosaurs
A young boy takes a trip to a museum to look at fossils, in this video designed to encourage Key Stage 1/2 literacy pupils' creative writing ideas.
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2 mins Writing an Adventure Story - Science Lab
Discover an apparently deserted science lab, in this live-action drama created to help primary literacy pupils strengthen their creative writing abilities.
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2 mins Writing a Ghost Story - Cave
An eerie underground dwelling is discovered and it seems to be haunted, in this set-up designed to help a Key Stage 1/2 literacy class with creative writing activities.
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2 mins Writing a Ghost Story - Graveyard
Inspire a primary storytelling activity with this live-action video in which the graveyard of an old rural church seems to hold secrets.
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15 mins Writing Skills - Fire
Stimulate Year 3 to Year 6 pupils' writing skills with six short videos looking at the uses of fire.
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2 mins Personal Writing: Buffet Steward
This funny short film about a bored buffet-car steward on a train is designed to be a starting point for a primary literacy descriptive writing activity.
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2 mins Personal Writing: Two Sides of Jane
An entertaining short film about a woman with two very distinct personalities, which Key Stage 2 pupils can use as a starting point for descriptive writing.
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2 mins Personal Writing: Manchester Poem
A poet discusses his inspirations and writing methods in this short film designed to stimulate Key Stage 2 pupils' descriptive writing activities in a literacy lesson.
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3 mins Work on the Farm
A visit to a Devon farm for pupils and teachers from an urban primary school is the subject of this video for use in Key Stage 1 and KS2 science lessons.
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15 mins KS2 Persuasive Writing
Enhance Key Stage 2 pupils' persuasive writing activities with five short videos, designed to spark their imaginations and begin activities.
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15 mins KS1 Story Starts
Stimulate the imaginations of Key Stage 1 pupils in literacy lessons, encouraging creative writing skills with five short videos.
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20 mins Teaching Past, Present and Future
A series of short video clips for use in the classroom as activity starters. The clips look at the future of education and the role of teaching.
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4 mins KS2 History - The Immigrant's Story
Present Key Stage 2 history pupils with a first-hand account of illegal immigration into Britain. This video presents a wealth of cross-curricular opportunities spanning citizenship and geography as well as history.
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