Blog highlights & featured articles
Putting Empathy into Action: PSHE with Leena & Zach
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Big imaginations start small: Discover now>press>play for 2-3 Year Olds
New immersive audio stories for 2-3s! Support EYFS prime areas with role-play, creativity, and playful learning.
A Creative Vision for the New Primary Curriculum: Why It’s Time to Think Bigger
5 reasons onboarding with now>press>play was easy
Create Partnership Trust: Diversifying lessons and supporting all pupils' learning through immersive audio
Are you sitting comfortably? An argument for audio stories in the early years
Oracy Opportunities: Our resource to get your children persuading, presenting and performing
Five ways to develop oracy in your classroom
World Environment Day: 7 fun activities focused on appreciating and protecting the environment
Innovative Learning at Amity International School, Abu Dhabi
#Experience100 celebration!
Announcing Story Starters — new literacy and writing content for KS2
We have been selected for the HundrED Global Collection 2024!
Introducing our first Deaf characters into now>press>play Experiences
Conway Primary School: Exploring diversity in early years and KS1 with now>press>play
Get your EYFS children talking, making and role-playing with our new Recap, Create & Play resource
Our partnership with the National Grid and new Experience
9 Experiences to bring the Climate Crisis to life in your school
Lanchester EP Primary School: Supporting speaking and listening for all children
Marshfield School: Embedding transferrable skills across the curriculum
Front Lawn Primary Academy: Using now>press>play follow-on resources to introduce vocabulary and retain knowledge
Grangetown Primary School: Using sensory learning to enhance the life experiences of disadvantaged children
Poverest Primary School: Using now>press>play to meet key curriculum objectives
World Maths Day: 7 fun, practical activities for your classroom
Star Primary School: Using now>press>play to bring life experiences to disadvantaged children
Bring Maths into the real world with these learning Experiences
Put PSHE in context this Children's Mental Health Week
Safer Internet Day Resources: PSHE support for KS1 & KS2
Five Tips on How to Save Money and Increase Your Return on Your Investment with Edtech
Chinese New Year: KS2 Teaching Resources and Inspiration
7 festive learning Experiences to try this Christmas
How to inspire creative learning with our follow-on Writing Opportunities
5 Immersive RE Lessons for World Religion Day
How our Reading Comprehension follow-on resources are inclusive
A free silent disco playlist, and 9 creative ways to use wireless headphones in the classroom
Springfield Primary School Jersey: Visiting Anglo-Saxon Britain with now>press>play
Exceptional Explorers Competition — the winners!
5 Approaches for Teaching Mental Health in Your School
Black History Month: Celebrating Harriet Tubman with now>press>play
5 inspiring Britons to celebrate this Black History Month
Making EYFS vocabulary fun with our Word Mats follow-on resources
Fascinating KS2 Grammar & Punctuation follow-on resources
Who says grammar and punctuation revision can't be fun? Find out how our new resource helps make this subject engaging and accessible.
Extol Trust: How now>press>play works across a Multi-Academy Trust
Academy schools from the Extol Trust explain how they use now>press>play to maximise their curriculum and increase student engagement.
LEO Academy Trust: The benefits of using now>press>play across a trust
Recap, Discuss & Quiz: Our go-to resource for deeper learning
Our brand-new primary school resource Recap, Discuss & Quiz helps teachers embed learning across the KS1 and KS2 curriculum.
Upcycle your teaching this Recycle Week with now>press>play
Help your school celebrate Recycle Week with now>press>play's immersive KS1 and KS2 Experiences and follow-on resources.
Chiltern Primary School: Helping students engage in school after COVID-19
How Chiltern Primary School uses now>press>play's Experiences and follow-on resources to make learning fun, memorable, and inclusive following the pandemic.
This summer get your class writing and being creative with our Exceptional Explorers Competition
Exceptional Explorers Competition — deadline extended!
Immersive Experiences for the Platinum Jubilee
Glebe Primary School: Hearing impaired provisions
How to maximise now>press>play over a half-term block: embedding the Stone Age
Rakegate Primary School's experience of our engaging drama-based resource
We had an incredible time at Bett UK from 23-25 March
New TES podcast! The Power of Sound: how to use audio in the classroom
Staffordshire University Academies Trust: Expanding pupils' experiences and saving teachers' time
Copperfield Academy: Harriet Tubman and Mary Seacole Case Study
Why different schools in the Spencer Academies Trust use now>press>play
Fallings Park Primary School: Using now>press>play as part of a Wellbeing Provision
Orchard Primary: Diving into Diwali with now>press>play
Spotlight Sessions: what did we learn?
KS2 History: Honouring Anne Frank
Our first day at school: now>press>play's transition experiences
Making new school friends
Top 5 reasons for schools to blog
Five ways to mark VE Day in the classroom
Good luck with your SATs!
SATs results are important — but they're not everything. In the words of one primary school headteacher, here's why.
Sinking of the Titanic Anniversary
And now relax... 5 tips for teacher wellbeing during your break
What makes an outstanding headteacher?
SATs Don't Have To Be Boring!
Helping children dream big and love science — with astrophysicist Brooke Simmons
Whitefield Primary School: COVID recovery and catch up with now>press>play
CPD Webinar: The Power of Sound for Immersive Learning
Greenmount Primary School: Inspiring Boys' Quality Writing
CPD Webinar: Move to Learn, How to Embed Active Learning
Fuse Storytelling with STEM this Science Week
CPD Webinar: Navigating Online Safety in a Pandemic
Marshfield School: Meeting Florence Nightingale in KS1 history
Top 10 now>press>play immersive school trip destinations
Our lockdown resource: now>press>play At Home
Iris in Year 3 wrote her own now>press>play during lockdown
Birchwood and Lanchester EP: Helping create a Y6 Transition Experience with now>press>play
Use Constructive Imaginative Play to Get Your Children Talking
now>press>play outlines the four areas imaginative play develops in primary school children, including social & emotional, language and creative skills...
Record Your Own Audio Story
5 Ways to Engage Reluctant Writers with Creativity
Energise writing by tapping into your pupils’ creativity. 5 easy ways & starting points to engage your most reluctant writers and get them inspired.
Gender Equality Collective's Nicole Ponsford on her latest projects & Edtech 50...
Cubitt Town Junior School: Keeping SATs revision playful
Woodland View Primary School: Creating engaging topic learning with now>press>play
Thorpedene Primary School: Encouraging engagement in a broad and balanced curriculum
Stephanie Champney is Deputy Headteacher at Thorpedene Primary School, a three-form entry school in Southend. Stephanie explains how they have used now>press>play to raise literacy and engage students.
Rachel Orr: Bringing EYFS lessons to life with now>press>play
Education Consultant and ex-headteacher Rachel Orr explains how she used now>press>play to nail her EYFS Gingerbread Man class, and why she would recommend now>press>play for early years education.
Donna Shah: Teaching Online Safety with now>press>play
Computing specialist Donna Shah explains how her primary schools are teaching online safety with now>press>play and the benefits of using it in your school.
Chisenhale Primary School: Embedding now>press>play across the KS2 curriculum
In 2013-14, we piloted our Subscription service at Chisenhale Primary. Read on to discover how now>press>play has helped their lower ability groups in Maths and Literacy.
Crab Lane Primary School: Providing an exciting stimulus for basic skill development
now>press>play has inspired children of all ages through its engaging and imaginative format. The Experiences anchor themselves to key areas of the National Curriculum and provide an exciting stimulus for basic skill development.
Launch of the Edtech50 Schools Project
Our Partnership with the National Literacy Trust
Our collaboration with the International Primary Curriculum
"When Anna met Alice" - how we collaborated with Fieldwork Education and The IPC
"High Ability Not Necessarily High Achievers" - A Conversation with Denise Yates, Potential Plus UK
