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With over 40 years of teaching experience and skills in computer graphics and resource design you will find great lesson plans, units of work, display materials, school policy's, instructional video's and resources to help with interviews and observations.
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The goal is to provide great resources for teachers and school leaders, ensuring outstanding value for money and quality.
With over 40 years of teaching experience and skills in computer graphics and resource design you will find great lesson plans, units of work, display materials, school policy's, instructional video's and resources to help with interviews and observations.
If you would like us to make a resource for you or just to give some feedback we would like to hear from.
Contained within this pack is a unit of work based on the famous children's book 'Something Else'.
Within it are the resources for each lesson, detailed and easy to follow plans and the slides to accompany it.
This is a very engaging plan that allows the children to explore the structure of the book, the unusual language choices, the characters depicted and the thought provoking message within.
The children will explore the grammar throughout the text and how the story is created through a variety of engaging and exciting activities. There is a focus on deeper questioning and opportunities to discuss the underlying message of the story through role play and P4C activities.
This a script for a Year 2 whole class assembly based on Castles. It has a link to a song about castles, short description about what the set should look like and the lines each child performs.
This is an observation lesson for a Year 3 class. The Learning intention is ‘To explain the life cycle of flowering plants, including pollination, seed formation and seed dispersal’.
It contains the plan, resources and the full smart board slides. I got excellent feedback from this lesson observation and you can always amend it if you want to make it more/less challenging depending on your class.
With an informative presentation, this resource which help you to teach an interesting lesson on the Ancient Egyptian's Social Organisation resulting in the class collaboratively making a Success Criteria for the main activity: make a creative job advert for on of the roles in Ancient Egyptian times. Includes a pyramid poster for reference and a help sheet with some ideas and examples.
Before you read on, these are not short sentence stems or phrases that you join together with other random statements to make up a comment. These are full and comprehensive teacher comments that are differentiated for all levels and abilities in any class. Below is a Mathematics exemplar for you to read and decide if this is appropriate to your school report card layout before you commit to investing your money.
You will get differentiated comments for Mathematics, Reading, Writing, Science & Technology, Computing, Topic, ICT and Art & DT.
Also with this resource you get 'Next steps' statements for the core subjects.
Each core subject comment is between 650-680 characters (including spaces).
"(Name) writes with confidence across the curriculum and it is clear she has made outstanding progress this year through using a widening range of punctuation and connectives. She has developed her ability to write with flare and improved her understanding of alliteration and similes. She has a wonderful imagination that she is becoming more confident at articulating through her increasing vocabulary range. She is keen to experiment with word order and embraces the creative side to writing.
This is a very interactive and creative lesson on Cinquain poems for a differentiated Y4 class. The resource comes with all the activities, lesson plan, ppt and the videos.
This plan is straightforward and ideal for a standalone lesson for an observation or interview lesson.
It allows for the teacher to model positive practice, is challenging, creative for all differentiated groups and is an active lesson.
This Powerpoint can be used as training for Teachers or Teaching Assistants and is a useful reminder of what Behaviour Management is and how we can implement effective strategies. The discussions and 'script' for what do say to children when you would like them to show better behaviours for learning will encourage a consistent whole school approach.
A fantastic two lesson sequence about the Afterlife and Mummification. The first Smart Notebook gives the opportunity to either present a wealth of fascinating information on what the Ancient Egyptians believed about the afterlife or else print it for the students to highlight and make notes. The lesson concludes with the pupils comparing and identifying what the Ancient Egyptians would have taken into the afterlife and what they themselves would take with them.
The second lesson involves the students mummifying a doll such as a Barbie. Pictures and a script is included for the teacher to read which instructs the children on how to embalm the body (with herbs), preserve it with natron (salt) etc. An incredibly memorable learning experience which could be followed up with an Instructional writing task.
This is a clear and detailed plan for a Year 2 Mathematics lesson on doubles up to 10 and 20.
It is an observation/lesson plan that is very engaging, practical and challenging for all abilities. The activities are focused on encouraging the development of problem solving skills through interactive activities that require the children to work cooperatively and use technical vocabulary to explain their thinking.
SEN and EAL children have also been differentiated for. There is a clear focus on the use of other adults in the room to challenge and scaffold. Throughout the lesson there are good opportunities to formally assess and develop thinking further.
A very easy to follow and exciting weekly plan with resources and notebook slides.
It has a variety of differentiated and challenging activities for a Year 2/3 class, that will engage and progress all learners using texts and visuals.
As a teacher you will be able to pick up this plan and get going without minimal preparation without the sacrifice of quality of learning.
A 6 week Unit of Work for Electricity including planning, presentations and activities. Interactive, practical and engaging, focusing on developing Scientific Inquiry skills (such as identifying and classifying, fair testing) in addition to content. Children learn about complete circuits, how to make a circuit and a switch, conductors and insulators as well as how to conduct and investigation. Originally designed for Year 4 students but could easily be adapted for older or younger pupils. Designed for the new English National Curriculum although relevant to other curriculums too.
Exciting, engaging and differentiated Unit of Work made up of 5 English lessons originally designed for Year 3 and 4 pupils although they could easily be adapted for younger pupils. During the week, the students will explore recounts and learn to write their own based on a short video of a robbery. Planning, resources and Smart Notebook for the week included. Everything you need for a fun week of learning.
Simple but fun activity for children to pick a word and put it in to a proper sentence. There is an additional challenge to use a conjunction to extend their sentence.
Fun activity for those children who are on support for spelling stages. The students must find the correct rule for changing a word form a singular to a plural. There is then an extra challenge for those more able.
Lesson includes learning objective, lots of information about communication in Ancient Egyptian times relating to the Rosetta Stone, what people wrote on, who could learn to write. The activity involves the pupils answering three questions, writing their own name in Hieroglyphics and an extension task. Hieroglyphic alphabet printable is included.
These sentence stems are a great way to get students to reflect on their own and their peers learning. They can be easily utilised for setting a particular focus for self/peer assessment time and is an effective way to introduce this reflective and independent approach to learning with confidence.
Four tried and tested whole school policies, covering ‘Anti-Bullying’, ‘Teaching and Learning’, ‘Child Protection & Safeguarding’ and ‘Behaviour, Discipline and Exclusion’.
They are detailed policies that have evolved over the many years of use. Like all school policies, they are a working document that should be tailored to the needs of your school.
They were developed for a primary school setting in the UK and can be easily adapted for any setting working with young people.
These are differentiated report writing comments to help you write your reports! It includes comments for Reading and Writing ( approximately 75 words long) with targets, Topic (approximately 150 words long) which includes Science Art, DT, Geography, IT and PE) with a target, individual comments for the following subjects; IT, PE, Music, DT, RE, History, Geography, Art (approximately 40 words long) and a whole class set for Maths (approximately 150 words long) with targets.
Here is an example of a Reading comment:
(Name) reads confidently and with expression. He can understand all of the text that he is reading and can recall the main points in order. He is able to identify interesting words that the author has used and is beginning to think about their purpose in the text. (Name) can say whether or not he likes a text and can give reasons for this. This year, he has developed his ability to deduce how a character is feeling; referring back to things they have said or done in the text as evidence.
To comment on how the author wants me to respond to the text.
To read between the lines using evidence from the text.
Example of a PE comment
Jessica is developing her ability to use her skills to improve her performance. She has some understanding of tactics and is starting to use this during lessons. She has also demonstrated good control and co-ordination in gymnastics and dance.
This resource is the autumn planning for spelling, with links to resources and other activities to secure the reading and spelling of words with suffixes –ed and –ing.