Tuesday, September 11, 2012

Teaching News

Teaching News

Resource Site of the Week: Primary Teacher Resource Centre

Posted: 10 Sep 2012 10:00 AM PDT

This post is the second in our series highlighting great sites where teachers can discover quality resources to use in their classrooms.

The Primary Teacher Resource Centre (PTRC) was established in 2006. It is created by Craig who has been a teacher for 10 years. He is currently an assistant head teacher is South West London where he is responsible for Assessment and Curriculum. He also teaches a year 6 class for two days a week.

Craig started by selling vocabulary packs on eBay but as time went by and the number of resources being sold was increased, he set up a website using Microsoft Publisher. Today, the site has a more professional look, selling over 300 display and teaching resources aimed at the primary classroom and most of them available for instant download. A wide range of resources are available, including vocabulary packs and other teaching and display resources. The vocabulary packs are some of the most popular resources but recently the ‘Back to Basics’, ‘Magic at Maths’ and ‘Great at Grammar’ activity teaching resources have proved extremely popular and there are free samples of these available on the website.

A number of free resources are also available, as well as an extremely useful discussion forum with over 1500 active members.

In the future, Craig plans to continue producing resources requested by visitors to the site, as well as expanding their range of Guided Reading Plans. Plans are currently available for 10 titles and Craig would love to hear what texts are being used by teachers across the country. The site also recently won the @TheoPaphitis Small Business Sunday award.

Craig has kindly offered a discount for readers of Teaching News throughout September. Just enter teachingideas10% at the checkout and 10% will be taken off their total. Visit the site here.