Making School Memories: Bake Off
Type: All | Category: Making School Memories | Date: 9th April 2018
What’s your show-stopper? Are you cocoa loco for a technical challenge? Do you even know what an even bake is? Leavers’ Books tackles food technology and enters the kitchen with ideas for a sweet (or savoury) school memory. Can you impress the judges when you bake your socks off?
Then vs. Now: Fashion
Type: All | Category: Then vs. Now | Date: 19th March 2018
This goes deeper than expressing yourself via. your backpack with patches, badges and the use of a black marker pen. We look back at the 90s era of fashion with a mixture of pride, wonder and contentment – but what do the children of today think about our clothes?
Making School Memories: Victorian Experience
Type: All | Category: Making School Memories | Date: 12th March 2018
We’re going back in time, back to the 1840s! Many people think it’s wise and easier to host a Victorian experience away from the school – but we’re here to tell you otherwise. This month’s Making School Memories has a host of ideas and reasons why you should transform your classroom and ditch the...
Making School Memories: Paint the Walls!
Type: All | Category: Making School Memories | Date: 12th February 2018
This isn’t your average maintenance job! Time to get creative this month with a brilliant lesson idea that doubles up as brilliant yearbook content – what more could you want?
Easy World Book Day Costume Ideas for Children
Type: All | Category: Teaching | Date: 5th February 2018
Boys and girls have so much fun in fancy dress, so here is Leaver’s Books’ list of many cheap, quick, and easy to prepare costumes that children, students and teachers can all dress up as for World Book Day.
Then vs. Now: 90s Problems
Type: All | Category: Then vs. Now | Date: 15th January 2018
We all usually look back to your youth with fondness – but you can’t help but look a little closer sometimes and remember those little niggles that would drive you up the wall; or upon reflection you realise how bad those ‘good’ days were! We humorously take a look at some of our favourite...
Making School Memories: No Pens Day Wednesday
Type: All | Category: Making School Memories | Date: 8th January 2018
There will be no need for students to whisper on this day - No Pens Day Wednesday is designed to encourage your class to actively talk to one another. It’s time to make a memory of a truly unique day; one that the students will not stop talking about!
Then vs. Now: Christmas Presents
Type: All | Category: Then vs. Now | Date: 18th December 2017
This month’s Then vs. Now gets all festive! What were the best selling Christmas toys from past generations? Whilst we look at that, let’s also discuss if they were in fact any good – and if we would still play with them today!
Making School Memories: Staff Christmas Panto
Type: All | Category: Making School Memories | Date: 11th December 2017
Can’t find the time to plan a panto for your school? Leaver’s Books have done the work for you! That’s right, this month’s Making School Memories blog has it all – the script ready to download, the cast, and everything in between to ensure the kids have a wonderfully fun Christmas seasonal send-off!
Making School Memories: Visitors to Your School
Type: All | Category: Making School Memories | Date: 13th November 2017
Stuck for ideas on visitors to your school? Look no further, as Leavers Books’ looks at unusual activities that can be used to help children develop inside the classroom and suggest a host of amazing professions and people you can play host to!