Teaching Resources

Through this short scheme of work, designed for Key-Stage-2-aged students, learners will have the opportunity to explore the reality faced by wild animals who are kept and made to perform in the circus.

Featuring fun facts and activities about the ocean and its’ wildlife, this pack can be used alongside Jay Vincent’s book The Shark Who Barked to help bring the book to life, or as standalone teaching resources.

This scheme of work, created in partnership with Last Chance to Paint (founded by artist John Dyer), explores Kenya – home to the Big Five (lions, leopards, elephants, rhino and buffalo).

Created by Born Free, to accompany a zoo visit, this resource pack provides students and educators with the information they need to understand the issues of keeping wild animals in zoos.

Through a series of lessons and engaging activities and group work, your learners will discover where tigers are found, their diet, characteristics and the threats they face, both in the wild and when held in captivity for our entertainment.

A set of fun, interactive sessions which will enable your student(s) to learn all about one of our closest relatives - gorillas!

Watch Creature Discomforts with your KS1 student(s) as the perfect starting point for writing a diary entry, from the perspective of an animal in a zoo.

Watch short film Creature Discomforts, with your KS2 student(s) as the perfect starting point for writing a diary entry, from the perspective of an animal in a zoo.

This worksheet is perfect for KS2 aged children. Follow the story of Pablo the leopard and compare his life in a circus with the life he could have been leading in the wild.

This worksheet is perfect for KS1 aged children learning about the worlds’ ocean.