What's new
Our curriculum development team is introducing many new innovative and exciting features to the service to help teachers and pupils maximise their use of the resources delivered each week to their school.
Every school term week Espresso subscribers receive new modules, curriculum-related news stories and educational websites (see our weekly newsletter to find out what's in the latest broadcast). Here's some of the new resources we have created over the last term to add value to the Espresso service.
ModulesEspresso modules are substantial collections of resources covering a particular curriculum topic. Our modules feature full-screen video, plus multimedia activities, printable worksheets, useful websites, and many other resources. Love reading with Espresso (English, KS1 & KS2)
Pirates Resource Box (English, KS2)
Electricity (Science, KS2)
Exploring non-fiction: Fireflies Plus (English, Foundation & KS1)
Musical stories (Music, KS2)
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This collaboration between Espresso and the popular website LoveReading offers extracts from best-selling children’s books providing opportunities to use high-quality texts for both sentence level and text work. With six new titles added every half-term you can be sure your pupils will find a title to engage their interest.
Shiver me timbers! With our new Pirates collection you can find sound effects, music and images to help create your own stories, treasure maps and digital artwork. Just be careful not to run into Blackbeard on your adventures!
For all budding scientists our there our latest module will provide just the spark. Looking at the history, making and uses of electricity, pupils will also have the opportunity to build their own circuits. This module includes a record sheet for recording observations as well as a glossary explaining scientific terminology. 
Our Fireflies Plus resource has been updated with three new topics: ‘Going Somewhere’, ‘World Instruments’ and ‘Unusual Buildings’. Designed to be used alongside or independently of the Oxford Reading Tree series, these resources will provide you with plenty of opportunity to foster discussion and explore non-fiction texts.
Develop your pupils’ ear for music with this exciting new module. Looking at rhythm, dynamics, pitch, tempo and timbre and the effect these can have on music as well as providing practical examples, this module will have your pupils creating their own composition in no time.
Healthy eating and fitness is a key concern for schools and our latest module will help to support your staff in this key area. Looking at the different aspects of a healthy lifestyle: keeping fit, healthy eating and emotional wellbeing, this module is perfect for supporting the Healthy schools agenda.Using the news
New features which help teachers and pupils maximise their use of the resources delivered each week to their school.
Assemblies - Learning (News 1 & 2)
The Assembly resource continues to grow with this recent addition. The Learning assembly looks at how children view themselves as learners and asks children to reflect on the many things that they have already learnt. There are opportunities for paired discussions, for children to think about things they would like to learn about in the future and how they could become better learners.
StaffroomSupport information for teachers, including lesson plans which show how Espresso can be used to meet National Curriculum requirements, plus links to national frameworks for literacy, numeracy and QCA schemes. New look Staffroom Brand new features include the start of a partnership with the Teachers TV channel, offering a wide range of resources for professional development. Teacher TV features and relevant Espresso pages will be linked together, and a regular teaching news bulletin are coming later this term. We also offer for the first time Espresso resources cross-referenced to cross-curricular planning themes on the Curriculum mapping page taken from those used by the International Primary Curriculum (IPC). We plan much more focus on the cross-curricular use of Espresso in the coming year and believe that Espresso is an ideal partner for any school seeking a more creative curriculum. |
We’ve been decorating! The Staffroom and Community areas have been re-designed, bringing them together in one easier to access, planning and Professional Development area.
