A fresh new edition of this highly acclaimed & strong selling dictionary. This book allows students to use phonic attack to find both regular & irregular spellings. Students can look up a word as it sounds
- if they are correct they will find it in black if they are wrong they will find it in red with the correct spelling in black alongside. Designed for use from Key Stages 1 to 3 the School Spelling Dictionary is ideal for improving spelling & writing.
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Everyone's favourite world-famous fashion icon HELLO KITTY is starring in her very own fiction series! Come join Hello Kitty & her friends in a brand new series all about fun & friendship! Hello Kitty & her friends are going on a school trip to the adventure park but Fifi isn't as excited as everyone else! Will she tell her friends what she's scared of before it's too late? Each book in the series will be a collectible adventure with a fun lesson about how to be a great friend. ...

School Wars tells the story of the struggle for Britains education system. Established during the 1960s & based on the progressive ideal of good schools for all the comprehensive system has over the past decades come under sustained attack from successive governments. From the poorest comprehensives to the most well-resourced independent schools School Wars takes a forensic look at the inequalities of our current system the damaging impact of spending cuts the rise of free schools" & the growth of the private sector in education. Melissa Benn explores too the dangerous example of US education reform where privatization punitive accountability & the rise of charter schools have intensified social economic & ethnic divisions. The policies of successive British governments have been muddled & confused but one thing is clear: that the relentless application of market principles signals a fundamental shift from the ideal f quality education as a public good to education as market-controlled commodity. Benn ends by outlining some key principles for restoring strong educational values within a fair non-selective public education system." ...

As the new school year begins Jack Sheffield prepares for an even more eventful year than usual. A new teacher is appointed & before long tongues start to wag. Meanwhile five-year old Madona Fazackerly makes her mark in an unexpected way life changes dramatically for Ruby the caretaker & in the village Coffee Shop Dorothy Humpleby plans a dirty weekend. It's 1983
- the era of the new CD player Microsoft Word the Mc Donalds Mc Nugget cabbage patch dolls the threat of a miners' strike & a final farewell to the halfpenny piece. Jack has to manage a year of triumph & tragedy.
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Although only children at the time the Second World War had a permanent effect on the schoolboys who lived through the conflict. Watching a country preparing for war & then being immersed in the horrors of the Blitz brought encounters & events that some will never forget. Now in their seventies & eighties many are revisiting their memories of this period of upheaval & strife for the first time. As he fully immersed himself in rural life in the little village of Pulborough the author witnessed some extraordinary events from finding an injured German airman in the woods to watching Bailey bridges being erected in the fortified village & observing the Battle of Britain raging overhead. After four years of highs & lows evacuation had a lasting effect & although he could not wait to return to London the author moved back to Sussex as soon as he was old enough. Due to it proximity to the south coast West Sussex was a dangerous place in the wartime years & this poignant book documents events indelibly inscribed on a generation's minds. ...

Flora was born on the first day of term in the new school year which might be why she's a very special mouse indeed
- a mouse who
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In a political & economic climate in which school performance is made public it is dangerous for schools to allow others to speak on their behalf. Performance tables & inspectors' reports can only tell a partial story. Sometimes they get it wrong. It is futile for teachers to complain that they are misrepresented. Self-critical & self-confident schools are information rich. They know how to tell their story for themselves & they welcome the external account as another source of evidence another view on policy & practice. This book illustrates how schools can tell their own story. It draws on work with the National Union of Teachers to demonstrate a practical approach to identifying what makes a good school & the part that pupils parents & teachers can play in school improvement. ...

Schott's Miscellany" makes few claims to be exhaustive or even practical. It does however claim to be essential. It will afford you great wisdom in the morning several conversational bons mots for the afternoon & many an enlightened smile after dark. Where else can you find packed on to one page the thirteen principles of witchcraft the structure of military hierarchy all of the clothing care symbols a list of the countries where you drive on the left & a nursery rhyme about sneezing? Where else but " Schott's Miscellany" will you stumble across John Lennon's cat the supplier of bagpipes to the Queen & the brutal methods of murder encountered by Miss Marple? An encyclopaedia? A dictionary? An almanac? An anthology? A treasury? An amphigouri? A commonplace? A vade-mecum? Well
- yes. " Schott's Original Miscellany" is all these & of course more. A book like no other " Schott's Original Miscellany" is entertaining informative unpredictable & utterly addictive."
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If Schott's Original Miscellany" could claim to be essential then it is only logical that the distillation of ten years consideration of little known but important facts & the small details that make life fascinating should appear under the title " Schott's Quintessential Miscellany". & like its predecessor it is entertaining informative unpredictable & utterly addictive." ...

The Success Workbook complements the Success Revision Guide & provides questions to help children test their understanding & find areas of weakness on topics in a fun context. * Quick tests allow children to rehearse the skills & knowledge they have * Highlight any areas where further revision may be needed * Consolidate learning & prepare pupils for SATs ...