Books in Lucky Duck Books series

Not You Again! by Fiona Wallace and Diane Caesar has been one of our most successful publications. Many teachers have used it for playtime behaviour and have asked for something similar for use in the classroom. Fiona Wallace has worked on a companion book of copiable worksheets, and here it is, with even more pages and new activities to teach on-task behaviour in the classroom. This resource offers teachers and their pupils a welcome alternative to sanctions and punishment it TEACHES appropriate behaviour by methods that we would choose to teach other skills. It is suitable for primary and special schools and, in the secondary phase, up to age 13.

Write Dance is a lively, innovative, and above all, fun approach to developing prewriting and writing skills using movement. More Write Dance uses music, instructions and illustrations to help teachers guide children on how to refine and develop their drawings to achieve fluent letter strings. This new edition includes:- greater guidance on foundation movements, letter groups and joins more teaching materials to help children learn to write- a fully revised introduction that outlines the theory behind the programme- more guidance for practitioners on using Write Dance in their setting.Described by the author as ′an adventure with letters!′ the book and audio CD will help children of all abilities to develop their writing, creativity and motor skills.Ragnhild Oussoren is the creator of Write Dance and gives workshops in different countries. The Write Dance method has been so successful that it is practiced in six languages all around the world.

From the author of our best-selling Circle Time for the Very Young comes another practical and exciting resource. Using the Circle Time framework Margaret has developed active ways to deliver elements of the PSHE and citizenship curriculum. Using her ingenious format the author has presented four themes: " personal education " health education " social education " citizenship. Each theme has 10 topics to cover the entire school year, and at two age levels on facing pages. This delightfully illustrated and practical book will not be left lying around in the staff-room it is a pick-up-and-use publication! Margaret Collins is a former headteacher of an infant and first school. She is now Visiting Fellow in the School of Education at the University of Southampton. She researches children′s perceptions of health education topics, writes and co-writes teaching materials for children, books and articles on personal, social, health and citizenship education (PSHCE).