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Key Stage 2 Literacy pack focusing on Reduce, Reuse and Recycle

These resources have been developed by experienced teachers as part of Resource Futures’ Waste Education Projects. They have been tried and tested in 100s of schools and are perfect for integrating waste education into the primary curriculum.

This pack is based on the popular Oxford Reading Tree text 'Scrapman' by Carolyn Bear. It contains two weeks of Literacy activities suitable for pupils throughout KS2, including work based on non-fiction texts such as leaflets and posters.

 

Literacy activities include:

• Sequencing charts
• Diary and letter writing
• Poster design
• Study of fonts, text and content of leaflets
• Writing frames
• Persuasive writing
• Note taking
• Presentation planning

Teachers' Resource book (printed) - £25.00 plus VAT and P&P

'Scrapman' basic resource set  (big book, small book, teachers' resource CD, leaflets) - £65.00 plus VAT and P&P

For further information or to place an order, please e-mail us or call 0117 914 3456. 

Project Synopses

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Resource Futures helps WRAP understand recent reductions in food waste

Resource Futures has recently helped WRAP to estimate how much household food waste has decreased nationally in recent years, with the recently published “Synthesis of Food Waste Compositional Data 2010” To see the report, click here.  

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