Resources for a new primary teacher

annabelinda_2

Some of the large department stores and Marks and Spencer are good sources of sample fabrics. I collected a whole load of curtain samples at one year (think it was August when they were getting in the new season's stock) for a friend who was teaching and she was able to use it for collages, costumes etc. I have found large yogurt pots ( esp I think Rachel's organics whose labels can be removed to leave a clear container) to make good pencil pots
Good luck!

Pip26

Hope you find all the replies to your post useful - this is great site!!!! as you can see - people do genuinally help one another & are great, as you can see from responses!!

Is late & have been v. busy today!!!! - but will prob. have some links that will help ... give me a bit of time to sort out & will post or p.m.

Good luck!!!!!

natmummy

My son has a new teacher starting at his school in September Yr 1. I hope she is as enthusiastic as you sound. Don't know which part of the country you're in but I'm in cheshire and my local library is having two big book sales over the summer. My 5 year old son bought 4 books last week for £1.75 in addition to those he was borrowing. We're definitely going back for more.

I also buy a lot of books from thebookpeople.com and redhousebooks, both offer great vaule for money.


Unfortunately because I'm new to the forum I can post links, where I get stuff from to help my son and his class. If you can private message me I've got lots more info I can pass to you, but my final suggestion is to register yourself on your local netmums website and place an ad in their nearly new (free and wanted sections) and on the noticeboard section and I reckon loads of local people would volunteer to give things that perhaps their older kids no longer read or use. Anything that isn't suitable for the classroom could perhaps be sold at a school fundraising event and the money used to buy items for the class. Try and get the PTA involved. It's also always worth trying to get freebies from big companies or small local companies interested in their local community.


Hope all this helps
natmummy