It’s our 6th Birthday!

This week we’re celebrating our 6th birthday – and what a six years it’s been!   We have met so many amazing people, doing amazing things in and beyond their classrooms. We’ve trained and up-skilled hundreds and hundreds of teachers, and...

Creating lessons beyond Roald Dahl Day

This week marked Roald Dahl’s 100th birthday – we hope your classroom had fun celebrating!  Have your class been inspired to read more Roald Dahl? Why not use this to create a topic for debate? Have them read a book from another author such as David...

“Moving Fish” – Lesson idea

The Korkotak website gives a great step by step guide on making moving fish. We particularly like this idea for younger students. Although, we would recommend changing the colour of the paper to represent mammals rather than fish for example grey for dolphins or...

Roald Dahl… An Introduction

Roald Dahl day is 13th September, and gives a fantastic opportunity to bring the marvellous world of Roald Dahl into your classroom. A great way to introduce Dahl to your students would be to download the free party pack for your class. Simply head over to the...

Bringing Roald Dahl to your classroom

It is no secret that Roald Dahl was one of our best loved children’s authors. Along with novels, he wrote poetry, short stories and screen plays. On the 13th September he would have celebrated his 100th birthday, and so, here at Elsium HQ we’ve compiled  a...