Primary School Brain Boxes

Teaching Children about their Amazing Brains!

The DCSF increasingly recognise the importance of building learning power and developing emotional intelligence.

Excellence and Enjoyment 2003 aims to:

“help children to develop as confident, enthusiastic and effective learners…provide opportunities for all children to fulfil their potential…provide teaching that meets the needs of children as learners”

The Every Child Matters agenda aims to ensure that every child gets to see and realise their potential: “be healthy, stay safe, enjoy and achieve, make a positive contribution, achieve economic well-being”

2020 Vision, the Gilbert Review recommends that all schools develop: “an explicit focus on learning how to learn…where pupils take ownership of their learning”

“personalising learning requires an understanding of how children learn and develop…engaging pupils as active participants in learning”  

The Optimal Learning Group have created two Brain Boxes, one for Foundation and Key Stage 1 (4 to 6 years olds) and another for Key Stage 2 (7 to 11 years old) which will help pupils, teachers and parents understand about the young learning brain and its needs, to ensure that every child DOES meet their full potential.

What is a Brain Awareness Week?

It is a week dedicated to increasing our understanding of the human brain - how it thinks, learns and remembers. The pupils in your Primary School are the first generation of children who will get to write a manual for their brain. They will discover how to use their brains to learn and achieve in the classroom and in their lives. A Brain Awareness Week gives your school the opportunity for pupils, staff and parents to participate in a range of exciting activities to learn about the amazing human brain.

A brain box provides you with 5 books in an age range to do just this plus 2 more FREE BOOKS, one for staff and parents and the second containing all the details and information you will need to plan and run a successful Brain Awareness Week in your school.  

Each box is exceptional value at only £100!

Each box contains a wealth of easy to use photocopiable resources in booklets that cover:

For children:

• Understanding brain cells and mapping out the brain (the triune brain)
• How your brain learns best (learning styles)
• We are all gifted and talented - in different ways!!! (multiple intelligences)
• Thinking about thinking and problem solving
• A Day to Remember - strategies for memory and recall

Find out about learning stars, brain cells and how your amazing brain works!

Each book is supported by animated PowerPoint presentations provided on a CD. The CD also contains some programmes and games for children to use which develop memory.

There are also two more books and PowerPoint presentations aimed at staff and parents. Finally, there are two superb sets of full colour posters for use with the children when teaching them about their amazing brains.

Discover how you learn best, that thinking is fun and your hot spots!

The box contents are flexible enough to be used in a variety of ways:

• As the materials for a week dedicated to increasing our understanding of the human brain — how it thinks, learns and remembers. (For example, a Brain Awareness Week)
• As part of your PSHE work
• To accompany and support the Government’s SEAL material
• As stand-alone activities throughout the year
• During the first days of the new academic year when teachers and children get to know each other and discover the joys and ways of learning together

The pupils in your Primary School are the first generation of children who will get to write a manual for their brain. They will discover how to use their brains to learn and achieve in the classroom and in their lives.

If you want your school to be a place where teaching and learning is fun, a place where children understand their role in the learning partnership and a happy place to be, you need the brain boxes!

To order a brain box, simply download the order form below and fax to us on 0116 2791199
or call us on 0116 279 1111.

If you would like to know more about the brain boxes, please call us on 0116 279 1111.