At Show-me, we believe that behind every moment of learning is a teacher making it happen. That’s why we’re proud to celebrate National Thank a Teacher Day on Wednesday, 18th June 2025. This is a special opportunity to shine a spotlight on the incredible people who inspire, support, and shape […]
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Reimagine Waste: World Environment Day with Show-me
Discover What You Can Do to Make an Impact this World Environment Day The 5th of June marks World Environment Day. Show-me is taking action, but we need your help. From the depths of our oceans to our stunning landscapes, plastic waste has infiltrated every corner of our planet. At […]
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Celebrating National Creativity Day with Show-me
The 30th of May marks National Creativity Day – a celebration of imagination, innovation, and the countless ways creativity shapes our world, from the classroom to the workplace and beyond. At Show-me, we believe creativity is at the heart of a happy, thriving classroom. From bold whiteboard ideas to colourful […]
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Become a Show-me Product Tester
Join a group of teachers who get sneak previews of new products to give feedback and advice in exchange for money off and free Show-me products. How does this work? Typically this is in the form of simple, short surveys but sometimes we send free products for testing. We want […]
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Looking to Make Sustainable Choices This School Year?
Making more sustainable choices is likely on your radar. However, with cuts to school funding and climate awareness, the pressure to keep costs down and look after the planet is increasing. How can teachers and educators find time to add yet another task to their enormous list of responsibilities and […]
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What is the DfE’s New Sustainability and Climate Change Policy?
The Department for Education (DfE) published its sustainability and climate change policy paper in April, some of which it has already started to implement earlier this year. The strategy brings together short, medium and long term climate actions in English education settings from early years right through to higher education. […]
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Five Ideas for Practising Using Nouns and Determiners
The current Primary Curriculum puts a detailed knowledge of English grammar high on the list of skills that schools, curriculums, and exams expect children to have before leaving primary school. This means there is now a demand for practising using nouns and determiners! There is an entire SAT paper devoted […]
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All You Need to Know About Grammar: What is a Determiner?
What is a determiner? Determiners are words that specify a noun – that is, they point out whether the noun is already known in the sentence. For example, the dog is known to the readers, a dog is being introduced for the first time. They can pick out a particular […]
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What Does Fluency in Maths Mean?
When fluency was first discussed as one of the three main aims of the National Curriculum for mathematics (DfE, 2013), I used to think it was about speed of recall of basic facts such as number bonds to 10 and 100, doubles of numbers to 10 and knowing the multiplication […]
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All You Need to Know About Grammar: What is a Noun?
Nouns name people, places and things, and we can’t have a sentence without them. It can sometimes be tricky to tell them apart from other word classes though, but that’s where determiners come in. So lets answer your question, what is a noun? Lets Get Into it… What is a […]
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