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Our flexible and engaging classroom templates are designed specifically for KS3-5 students, and cover a range of oracy skills. With a renewed focus on oracy from Ofsted and the DfE in 2023, spoken language is one of the cornerstones of teaching and learning in the National Curriculum, and key to school improvement. Using our oracy templates, you’ll be able to provide your KS3, GCSE and A-level students with a solid foundation in communication skills that will benefit them throughout their academic and professional lives: teach students how to structure their ideas and arguments effectively and coherently encourage students to listen actively and respond positively to different points of view help students to develop their critical thinking skills build confidence in public speaking. Our templates come with clear teaching instructions and examples, making it easy for you to incorporate them into your lesson plans. Suitable for small group or whole-class activities, these oracy activities help to develop students’ language skills and their overall confidence in speaking in class. The oracy templates are customisable, so you can adapt them to suit the needs of your learners, the topics you are teaching, and your teaching context. Our templates cover a range of skills, from active listening to persuasive speaking, and can be easily adapted to suit different subjects and learning levels. Whatever your subject area or year group, you’ll find ideas for modelling effective group discussion, using different types of questions, including Socratic questions, and helping students to recognise different tones of voice through role-play activities. Whether you’re a new or experienced teacher, our downloadable whole-school oracy templates will enhance your teaching and benefit your students. These oracy skills are based on an established oracy framework and oracy-based pedagogy from Voice21 and Oracy Cambridge which focuses on four foundational oracy skills for young people: physical, linguistic, cognitive, and social and emotional. What’s included? There are 15 printable templates included in this 40-page downloadable pack, ranging from oracy starters and icebreakers to classroom activities and complete lesson ideas to develop students’ speaking skills. Introduction for teachers Oracy skills template Now you’re talking template Recognising tone templates ABCD template Taboo template ‘Speak like an expert’ template Word dice template Fortune teller templates Socratic questioning template Hexagon templates Summarising templates Think, pair, share template Debating skills templates Pick and mix oracy Oracy tracker templates About the writer Sarah Davies is a former Head of English and lead examiner, now an assistant headteacher in a MAT and an ECT (Early Career Teacher) Mentor. She’s also the author of Talking about Oracy (John Catt, 2020).

Reading SATs practice for KS2 will ensure your class is well-prepared for the English reading papers in their key stage 2 reading SATs at the end of primary school. This pack of SATs papers aims to practice reading comprehension skills through a range of fiction and non-fiction texts and poems and 10 practice papers differentiated at three levels. Based on past papers and perfect for SATs revision, the reading assessments can be used as practice tests in class or for home learning. This pack of SATs practice papers is the perfect revision tool for the KS2 reading tests. What’s inside? Introduction (page 4) 10 text extracts and 10 English SATs practice question papers (page 5) Each practice paper contains: English National Curriculum aligned content domain coverage Text extract SATs questions (differentiated as sets A, B and C) Marking scheme and answers (sets A, B and C) Featured texts: The Explorer – Katherine Rundell Wonder – R J Palacio Matilda – Roald Dahl Artemis Fowl – Eoin Colfer Goodnight stories for Rebel Girls – Elena Favilli & Francesca Cavallo Who Was Marie Curie? – Megan Stine Who Was Anne Frank? – Ann Abramson The Short and Bloody History of Highway Men – John Farman Throwing a Tree – Thomas Hardy The Sailor’s Consolation – William Pitt

Diversify your KS3 English curriculum with 12 lessons on 6 brilliant short stories, from wonderful writers including Alex Wheatle, Langston Hughes, Dorothy Koomson, Bali Rai, Jeffrey Boakye and Kit de Waal. Our KS3 short stories teaching pack celebrates the work of Black and Asian writers and the short story as a unique form of literature. Introduce your students to a range of exciting literary voices they may not have encountered before with an engaging and inclusive scheme of learning, plus lesson plans and classroom resources. Engaging and accessible for year 7, 8 and 9 readers, these powerful short stories have been specifically chosen to encourage more reading for pleasure and to be more representative and inclusive. About the selected stories and authors All the selected stories are written by Black British and British Asian authors, with the exception of the celebrated Black American short story writer, Langston Hughes, whose unforgettable 20th-century story, ‘Thank you, Ma’am’, also features in this anthology. The other five stories are contemporary, 21st-century stories and include new writers such as Jeffrey Boakye. The settings range from New York in the 1950s to a science-fiction future world. Some of the stories have more familiar family or teenage contexts, but all share a focus on relationships and explore themes of race, identity and belonging, love and loss, and redemption. The collection is divided into three groups for thematic teaching, allowing teachers to dip into the teaching pack to complement an existing scheme of learning, or to teach the stories as a complete short story anthology. What’s included in the teaching pack? Written by two experienced English teachers, the teaching pack includes a detailed scheme of learning with lesson plans, teaching notes, differentiation suggestions and homework activities, as well as printable classroom resources. The 109-page photocopiable teaching pack is student-facing for use in the classroom, and is accompanied by 12 PPT lessons for classroom delivery, and 6 complete short stories for reading in class. Each lesson includes: Do now activity Starter activity 3-4 main lesson activities Plenary Extension or homework tasks Many of the activities are carefully scaffolded, with differentiated, ladder up support and sentence starters for writing tasks, as well as a range of stretch and challenge suggestions for early finishers and higher-attaining students. The pack includes a lovely range of fun and creative tasks, as well as a focus on developing learners’ reading comprehension and analytical writing skills. It also includes drama activities and engaging speaking and listening tasks to encourage lots of animated, on-topic classroom talk. There’s also a list of diverse reading recommendations so teacher can encourage more reading for pleasure, and a word bank to help with disciplinary literacy and vocabulary development.

Designed to support struggling readers aged 11-14 whose reading attainment has fallen behind their expected level, Fix it reading is a KS3 literacy intervention programme based on practical, evidence-based reading comprehension strategies. Fix it reading supports struggling readers, by building their confidence and enjoyment in reading. The Fix it reading teacher handbook, for experienced English teachers, non-subject specialists, literacy coordinators and TAs, will take you step-by-step through the 12-week programme, with detailed lesson plans and practical CPD guidance on how and why these reading comprehension strategies work for literacy intervention. The Fix it reading student workbook provides everything students need to catch up, including engaging texts to read, classroom activities and worksheets. It’s been designed to support Pupil Premium students, as well as students whose progress in reading has been negatively affected by Covid-19 school closures. It also supports learners whose reading age doesn’t correspond to their chronological age, and younger learners who have transitioned from primary school but are not at the expected level for their reading. The lessons are devised for 1:1, small group and whole group intervention sessions or as a complementary resource in English classes. Key features of this reading intervention programme: The 60-page teacher’s handbook includes 12 detailed lesson plans, starter and plenary ideas, homework tasks and evidence-based teaching notes and CPD guidance. The accompanying 69-page student workbook builds learners’ reading and literacy skills and includes carefully selected texts to engage struggling readers. It also includes worksheets and activities to develop their independent reading skills and reading fluency, and word reading and decoding strategies to develop their vocabulary skills. Includes fiction and non-fiction texts on a range of engaging themes, with extracts from accessible young adult novels chosen to appeal to key stage 3 learners like City of Ghosts, Home Ground, and The Hound of the Baskervilles. It also includes graphic novels, news articles, websites, and fact sheets to anticipate some of the text forms and genres of writing English students will encounter at GCSE. Complements our popular KS3 writing intervention programme, Fix it writing, which develops students’ writing skills and provides targeted learning support for students.

Structured intervention support to improve students’ writing Fix it writing has been designed to support English teachers, non-specialist teachers and teaching assistants in identifying and ‘fixing’ problems in students’ writing. It’s ideal for targeted support and intervention sessions at KS2 and KS3. The photocopiable, downloadable teacher handbook provides a structured sequence of 26 teaching sessions and resources, with detailed guidance on how to deliver these sessions to develop students’ core skills. It includes chapters on: writing and punctuating sentences; planning, organising and linking ideas and paragraphs and choosing effective words. The photocopiable student workbook includes all the classroom activities and resources to accompany the teacher handbook, enabling students to improve and build on their core writing skills. You may also be interested in Fix it reading, Teachit’s reading intervention programme for KS3 students. What’s inside the teacher handbook? Introduction (pages 4-25) Progression in writing: a framework Summary of the Fix it writing skill focuses Making sense of students’ writing Setting targets and planning sessions Fix it session structure Getting the most out of Fix it Chapter 1: Writing and punctuating sentences (pages 26-36) Session 1: Capital letters and full stops Session 2: Ending sentences Ways to improve Chapter 2: Using conjunctions (pages 37-49) Session 1: Varying conjunctions Session 2: To suit purpose Ways to improve Chapter 3: Using commas (pages 50-66) Session 1: Lists and clarity Session 2: Clarity and effect Ways to improve Chapter 4: Varying sentences (pages 67-82) Session 1: Sentence starts and word order Session 2: Varying for effect Ways to improve Chapter 5: Expanding sentences (pages 83-97) Session 1: Adding detail Session 2: Relative clauses Ways to improve Chapter 6: Using verbs (pages 98-108) Session 1: Identifying verbs Session 2: The past Ways to improve Chapter 7: Generating and sorting ideas (pages 109-120) Session 1: Non-fiction Session 2: Fiction Ways to improve Chapter 8: Sequencing and organising texts (pages 121-132) Session 1: Non-fiction Session 2: Fiction Ways to improve Chapter 9: Organising paragraphs (pages 133-144) Session 1: Topic sentences Session 2: Writing paragraphs Ways to improve Chapter 10: Cohesive devices (pages 145-157) Session 1: To suit purpose Session 2: Comparing and contrasting Ways to improve Chapter 11: Linking paragraphs (pages 158-171) Session 1: Adverbs and determiners Session 2: Making comparisons Ways to improve Chapter 12: Writing formally (pages 172-180) Session 1: Choosing the right words Session 2: Choosing the right tone Ways to improve Chapter 13: Choosing effective words (pages 181-190) Session 1: Setting and atmosphere Session 2: Creating atmosphere/characters Ways to improve

Our EAL toolkit is designed for teachers and teaching assistants who don’t have a background in teaching English as an additional language to support EAL students in mainstream classrooms at key stage 3 and key stage 4. What’s included? The 74-page toolkit includes: general classroom strategies to support EAL learners an outline of the challenges faced by international new arrivals fun and engaging EAL teaching ideas EAL activities for new arrivals who are total beginners printable EAL support resources and EAL displays for classrooms a CPD PowerPoint for staff training and meetings a glossary of English language teaching terminology a list of EAL websites for teachers with links to EAL assessment materials. This EAL toolkit will be invaluable for subject teachers, form tutors, heads of year and SENCos who wish to develop their understanding of the learning approaches you can use to support EAL pupils. How does it support EAL learners? The toolkit recommends general classroom strategies to support EAL learners, such as setting up a buddy system with a student who speaks the same home language. It also includes fun and engaging EAL teaching ideas, such as games, songs and role-plays, helping EAL students to feel less anxious about taking part in whole-class activities. It suggests EAL activities for new arrivals who are total beginners, such as labelling images and diagrams, and for those who have a more advanced level, such as adding complexity to sentences. It includes printable EAL classroom resources, such as an alphabet letters mat, phonics mats, word mats, flashcards, sentence builders and writing frames that can also be used as templates for you to make your own, along with printable EAL support resources that could also be used as EAL displays for classrooms, such as an irregular verbs list, a tenses table, a list of easily confused words or homophones, a list of prefixes and suffixes and a list of common verbs used in academic writing. It demonstrates how to adapt worksheets for EAL learners in order to support them with both language development and subject knowledge. It offers advice on how to pre-teach vocabulary before a reading or listening activity and how to help students who are learning English as an additional language identify key words and learn new vocabulary from a reading or listening text. About the writer Our EAL toolkit was written by Anna Czebiolko, currently a secondary head of EAL. Since starting to work with EAL learners in 2009, she has worked with children in every year group from nursery to sixth form. She also has experience of coordinating EAL provision in a large secondary academy.

Designed to support students preparing for the AQA GCSE, our revision workbook Conflict and Tension 1918-1939 revision workbook features revision tasks to cover the complete course. The workbook includes content summaries, recap tasks and exam-practice questions in a variety of styles, ensuring students can revise independently and build confidence for their exam. What’s included? content summaries in a variety of formats recap activities keyword and timeline tasks exam-style questions. What’s inside? Introduction to this workbook (pages 4-5) Topic 1: Peacemaking (pages 6-17) The aims of the ‘Big Three’ Clashes between the ‘Big Three’ The Treaty of Versailles: Did the peacemakers achieve their aims? Who was satisfied with the Treaty of Versailles? Was the Treaty of Versailles fair? How did Germany react to the Treaty of Versailles? What happened at the rest of the peace conferences? Topic 2: The League of Nations and international peace (pages 18-30) The aims of the League What did America’s absence mean for the League? How did the structure of the League undermine it? Was the League doomed to fail? What was the role of the League’s agencies? How successful was the League in the early 1920s? What was the effect of the Great Depression on world peace? What was the impact of the Manchurian Crisis on the League? What did the Abyssinian Crisis show about the League? How did the Disarmament Conference of 1932−34 go so wrong? Topic 3: The origins and outbreak of the Second World War (pages 31-41) What were Hitler’s aims as Chancellor of Germany? Hitler’s foreign policy Why did Britain and France follow a policy of Appeasement? How was Appeasement a cause of WWII? Who was to blame for the Second World War? Exam practice (pages 42-48) Question type 1 – Source A is critical/supportive of X. How do you know? Question type 2 – How useful are these sources for a historian studying X? Question type 3 – Write an account of… Question type 4 – X was the main reason for Y. How far do you agree with this statement? Appendix: Further notes and ideas on sources in this pack

Dyslexia toolkit aims to help subject teachers, form tutors and teaching assistants to support dyslexic students in the mainstream classroom at key stage 3 and key stage 4. Whatever your role in supporting students with dyslexia, this toolkit will give you understanding, tangible ideas and practical strategies to enable young people to realise their full potential. What’s included? This 56-page toolkit includes: information about neurodiversity, the strengths of neurodivergent people and some of the challenges they face information about dyslexia and how to identify it in the classroom a CPD PowerPoint for staff training, parents’ evenings and senior leadership meetings advice on avoiding sensory overload games to develop learners’ short-term and working memory templates for sentence starters, task maps and writing planners to reduce the load on learners’ working memory guidance on chunking tasks into manageable steps to help students to process information dyslexia strategies for reading writing strategies for students with dyslexia information about the link between a weak working memory and spelling difficulties, plus dyslexia spelling strategies strategies for supporting students with dyslexia in the maths classroom top tips on harnessing dyslexic strengths such as empathy and problem solving How does it support dyslexic students? Dyslexia toolkit offers dyslexia-friendly strategies that can be used with the whole class so that neurodivergent learners are not put on the spot. There are also approaches that can be carried out in small groups, and suggestions for how dyslexic students can support their classmates, fostering a supportive learning environment and helping young people to feel empowered. Information and activities are provided to raise awareness of what it feels like to have dyslexia, and ways are suggested of playing to dyslexic learners’ strengths. The toolkit includes tick lists for learners to articulate their own areas of challenge and learning preferences, and it provides printable resources to help students to plan written tasks. There is also a step-by-step guide for students to reading for comprehension and an overview of pros and cons of assistive technology such as electronic readers. About the writer Dyslexia toolkit was written by Dr Helen Ross, a leading voice on dyslexia within UK education. She is an experienced public speaker, international consultant and researcher, and contributor to a wide range of publications; Helen is also dyslexic. She supports families, teachers and organisations to better understand the implications of dyslexia, neurodiversity and special educational needs and disabilities (SEND). In this toolkit, Helen draws on her experiences as a classroom teacher, SENDCo and dyslexia expert to help you to understand what dyslexia is, which aspects of learning can be affected by dyslexia and what you can do to support dyslexic learners.

English homework activities for year 7 is designed to ensure you have all your homework activities for year 7 English in one place. Including differentiated tasks for reading, writing and SPaG, there’s a task for every week of the school year. Whether you use it as a homework workbook or dip in and out, it’s perfect for teachers, home tutors and teaching assistants of year 7 students. The pack is identical to the Home Learning for year 6 – English pack on Teachit Primary: it has been specially adapted for year 7 students to consolidate KS2 prior learning. What’s included 39 photocopiable tasks, differentiated where appropriate mapped to the NC objectives for year 5/6 answers where relevant teacher’s tick list to keep track of work set. What’s inside Teaching notes (page 4) Section 1 – student section Reading resources (pages 5-36) Comprehension resources Book review resources Poetry performance resources Different genres resources Figurative language resources Writing resources (pages 37-67) Resource – proofreading Resource – assessing a piece of writing Resource – describing characters Resource – describing settings Resource – the plot Resource – the big write Resource – a newspaper report Resource – persuasive writing Resource – formal or informal? Resource – a précis Resource – advice for year 6 Resource – your school report Spelling, punctuation and grammar resources (pages 68-100) Resource – prefixes and suffixes Resource – homophones Resource – using a dictionary and thesaurus Resource – a conversation Resource – parenthesis Spelling resources Resource – passive verbs Resource – relative clauses Resource – lists Resource – modal verbs Resource – avoiding ambiguity Resource – the perfect tense Resource – expanded noun phrases and independent clauses Section 2 – teacher section Teacher’s tick list (pages 101-103) Answers Reading (pages 104-110) Comprehension resources Figurative language resources Writing (pages 11-112) Proofreading resources Spelling, punctuation and grammar (pages 113-129) Resource – prefixes and suffixes Resource – homophones Resource – using a dictionary and thesaurus Resource – parenthesis Spelling resources Resource – passive verbs Resource – relative clauses Resource – lists Resource – modal verbs Resource – avoiding ambiguity Resource – the perfect tense Resource – expanded noun phrases and independent clauses

What’s included? KS3 Comprehension contains 6 self-contained text extracts with reading comprehension worksheet questions, accompanied by model answers. This pack is versatile enough to be used in class, or as a sequence of homework tasks, end-of-term/year assessments and cover lessons. KS3 Comprehension helps students complete the transition from primary to secondary level and provides an effective introduction to 19th century and early 20th century literature. The extracts are suitable for year 7 and year 8 reading comprehension lessons and can be used to supplement existing schemes of work. NB – this pack is an adapted version of Teachit Primary’s ‘Comprehension’ pack, containing newly commissioned KS3 curriculum questions, replacement texts and a selection of supporting resources. What’s inside? Introduction (pages 3-4) Extract 1 – Five Children and It by E. Nesbitt (Pages 5-10) Extract 2 – The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by Frank L. Baum (pages 11-17) Extract 3 – Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll (pages 18-23) Extract 4 – Odin’s Reward by Mary H. Foster and Mabel H. Cummings (pages 24-30) Extract 5 – The Canterville Ghost by Oscar Wilde (pages 31-38) Extract 6 – Great Expectations by Charles Dickens (pages 39-45) Additional resources to support reading comprehension (page 46)

Aimed at addressing gaps in prior learning – particularly after the COVID-19 school closures – Basic maths skills – support to improve students’ numeracy is perfect for both the transition to year 7 and for intervention sessions throughout KS3 and KS4. The pack is divided into five units: number, algebra, ratio and proportion, geometry and measures and statistics. Each unit features ready-to-photocopy worksheets, teaching notes and answers. A tracking tick list is also included. Improve students’ numeracy skills and ensure they have all the knowledge they need to access the full secondary curriculum. What’s included? 39 worksheets to fill gaps in prior learning and form a solid base for progress Answers included Perfect for intervention at KS3-KS4 or to support Y7 transition What’s inside? Student’s section N1 number: number and place value (pages 5-9) Read, write, order and compare numbers up to 10 000 000 Use negative numbers in context Solve number problems N2 number: calculation (pages 10-21) Long multiplication Long division Short division Mental calculations Common factors, multiples and prime numbers BODMAS Addition and subtraction multi-step problems Four rules problems Use estimation to check answers N3 number: fractions, decimals and percentages (pages 22-30) Simplifying fractions Add and subtract fractions Multiply proper fractions Divide fractions by whole numbers Multiply numbers up to 2 decimal places Written division methods up to 2 decimal places Fraction, decimal and percentage equivalence RP ratio and proportion (pages 31-36) Relative sizes Percentage calculations Scale factors Unequal sharing A algebra (pages 37-43) Use simple formulae Linear sequences Express missing number problems algebraically Working with two variables GM1 geometry and measures: measurement (pages 44-53) Units of measure Convert between miles and kilometres Area and perimeter of squares and rectangles Area and volume formulae Area of triangles and parallelograms GM2 geometry and measures: properties of shape (pages 54-61) 2D shapes 3D shapes Parts of the circle Angles GM3 geometry and measures: position and direction (pages 62-63) Translation and reflection in four quadrants S statistics (pages 64-68) Pie charts and line graphs The mean Teacher’s section and answers Teaching notes and curriculum mapping (page 69) Tracking sheet (pages 71-73) Homework answers (pages 72-91)

Mastering vocabulary – Spanish offers research and evidence-based approaches to accelerating vocabulary acquisition for KS3-4 students. It includes differentiated PowerPoints, collaborative learning activities and photocopiable resources to support comprehension skills for students in years 9, 10 and 11. The resources draw on: cognitive research into memorisation examiners’ reports from reading and listening papers vocabulary lists from all exam boards best classroom practice by experienced teachers. Suitable for any exam board, this pack covers approaches to learning, vocabulary starters, games and revision, as well as exam strategies. What’s included? Includes vocabulary starters, games, revision, learning strategies and exam tips. Differentiated resources for years 9-11. For use with AQA, Edexcel and Eduqas/WJEC exam boards. What’s inside? Introduction (pages 3-4) 1. Learning strategies (pages 5-17) 10 tips for memorising vocabulary Memory challenge template Word wheel template False friends quilts 2. Vocabulary starters (pages 18-42) Word play starters: opinions Triangle puzzles: time expressions Make the link: synonyms, antonyms and connected words 3. Vocabulary games (pages 43-52) Verb games Snakes and ladders: decodable verbs Speedy verb race 4. Vocabulary revision (pages 53-68) Take 10 words Revision quiz cards Pick ‘n’ mix worksheets Exam Tips (page 69)

A practical toolkit for supporting students with handwriting difficulties at key stage 3 and key stage 4. Dysgraphia toolkit is intended to help young people develop the fine motor skills they may be lacking and offers a full dysgraphia intervention programme targeting specific areas of need. What’s included? This 71-page toolkit includes: information about neurodiversity, the strengths of neurodivergent people and some of the challenges they face information about dysgraphia and the difficulties in obtaining a dysgraphia diagnosis a CPD PowerPoint for staff training, parents’ evenings and senior leadership meetings handwriting assessment tools for you to monitor and record students’ specific difficulties display resources on writing posture and pen grip general classroom strategies, including whole-class warm-ups activity ideas and games for practising visual motor skills and fine motor skills letter tracing worksheets and cursive writing patterns worksheets How does it support dysgraphic students? Dysgraphia toolkit offers time-effective and straightforward ways of diagnosing and supporting dysgraphia in teens. It suggests warm-ups and motor skill activities that are helpful not just for teaching students with dysgraphia but for teaching all young people, and it presents simple ways of supporting dysgraphia in the classroom, without the need for special equipment – although examples of assistive technology are suggested where appropriate. The intervention programme that it proposes does not need to be followed systematically and can be dipped into by subject teachers and teaching assistants in the mainstream classroom. The toolkit presents arguments for and against print and joined/cursive writing and recommends that at secondary school students should not be required to adopt one or the other as long as their handwriting is legible and pain-free. It outlines the additional challenges faced by left-handed students and suggests specific support strategies. Finally, it includes editable handwriting worksheets that can be adapted for any age group and printable handwriting practice sheets for older students. About the writer Dysgraphia toolkit was written by Abigail Hawkins, who runs SENDCO Solutions, an SEN consultancy, and SENsible SENCO CIC, a not-for-profit networking support group. She has been a SENDCo for over 25 years and has taught a multitude of subjects across all phases, from two-year-olds to adults. Abigail works with software companies developing supportive software for SEN and 51ºÚÁÏ purposes, has developed and delivers a teaching assistant apprenticeship programme. She has authored several books on SEN and exclusions, and runs a support network for over 10,000 SENDCos. Abigail has a no-nonsense, practical approach to SEN issues faced by schools, believing that many high-incidence needs can be met in the classroom with basic teaching tweaks.

Christmas activities for EYFS, KS1 and even KS2! 30 pages of Christmas colouring sheets and Christmas craft activities. Colour, cut out and build templates of Christmas elves, Father Christmas, Christmas trees, wreaths, tree ornaments and Christmas stockings. Find Christmas-themed colour-by-numbers or make gift tags and Christmas bookmarks. Or children may like to colour a Nativity scene or an Advent calendar. Festive fun for EYFS and key stage 1 in the run-up to the holidays! What’s inside? Colour and build an elf Colour and build Father Christman Make a stand-up Christmas tree with decorative ornaments Make a cone Christmas tree Colour a festive wreath Colour by numbers - festive wreath Decorate a Christmas tree Make a 3D Christmas stocking Make Christmas baubles Make an elf hat Colour Christmas wrapping paper DIY holiday gift tags Build a Father Christmas gift box Create Christmas finger puppets Make a 3D Christmas tree topper Colour the Nativity scene Colour Christmas bookmarks Customise Christmas cards Colour and cut out an Advent calendar

Help your children achieve punctuation perfection with our KS2 teaching pack. Featuring animated clips from Professor Punc and ideas and resources for the teaching of commas, colons, apostrophes, speech marks and parentheses, this pack will give your punctuation teaching a bit of pizazz! What’s included? 23 supporting resources includes introductory activities, main teaching points, plenaries, assessment opportunities, extension ideas and home learning tasks links to the curriculum. What’s inside? Section 1: Punctuating direct speech (pages 1-15) Teaching ideas Dialogue difficulties – punctuating direct speech Look who’s talking! – turning scripts into narratives Direct or reported? – types of speech Who said what? Punctuation pitfalls – direct speech Rules of speech Section 2: Possessive apostrophes (pages 16-23) Teaching ideas Professor Punc’s misplaced apostrophes Don’t be addled by apostrophes! Section 3: Extending sentences: using commas beyond lists (pages 24-33) Teaching ideas Subject / object / verb cards Subordinating connectives discussion game Adverb acting Can I use commas to mark clauses? Section 4: Extending sentences – inserting parentheses (pages 34-40) Teaching ideas Professor Punc’s parentheses! Punctuation for parentheses – a fan Don’t be puzzled by parentheses! Building complex sentences Section 5a: Linking clauses with semi-colons (pages 41-51) Teaching ideas Clause confusion – using semi-colons Using semi-colons Semi-colons – right or wrong Section 5b: Linking clauses with colons (pages 52-54) Teaching ideas Colon conundrums Section 6: Keeping things ticking over (pages 55-62) Teaching ideas Punctuation fan Punctuation prowess Spelling, punctuation and grammar mistakes

Teachers’ toolkit comprises a range of creative, engaging and effective approaches to support secondary teachers across all subjects, offering instant inspiration and adaptable approaches to enrich your classroom practice. The pack consists of tips and photocopiable templates on 10 themes: classroom management, formative assessment, self-assessment, icebreakers, starters, plenaries, learning strategies, growth mindset for students, time management and wellbeing for teachers. Dip into these ideas to enhance your teaching, support your professional development and improve your wellbeing. You’ll find 49 pages of teaching tips, CPD guidance and templates to help you to develop as a teacher. What’s included? 10 collections of teaching tips and templates Including icebreakers, starters and plenaries, time management and formative assessment For use in any subject. What’s inside? Introduction Classroom management Formative assessment Self-assessment Icebreakers Starters Plenaries Learning strategies Growth mindset for students Time management Wellbeing for teachers

This pack comprises ideas, game boards, cards and teaching notes for 20 different games which can be used to support and enliven your teaching across key stages and subjects. Simply fill in the blanks with your own questions and/or keywords and let the games begin! What’s included? 20 adaptable game ideas and templates PowerPoints for Hexbusters and Who wants to be a millionaire? Game templates in this pack Challenge track Chase game board Chatterbox Connect five Cube Diamond nine Dominoes Fast talking Heads and tails Hexagons Hexbusters Learning grid Ludo Matching Pen and dice game Ping pong revision Snakes and ladders Taboo Top Trumps Word puzzle

Prepare your Higher tier GCSE students for their maths exam with our GCSE Higher maths - key skills revision pack. This student revision pack comprises 15 worksheets, each featuring 15 GCSE exam-style questions and answers to revise and practise essential skills. Questions include space for workings. Modelled on questions from past papers, this practice paper pack is great for assessment, for identifying learning gaps, as an independent revision resource or for weekly homework tasks leading up to the exam. The pack features calculator and non-calculator questions and covers key topics covered in past papers including fractions, decimals, percentages, quadratics, trigonometry, simultaneous equations, inequalities, indices, angles, averages and spread, graphs and probability, helping students hone their problem-solving skills and improve their GCSE exam practice and performance. GCSE Higher Maths - key skills revision is relevant for all exam board specifications including AQA and Edexcel, making for perfect exam preparation for your GCSE Higher tier students. Key features: 15 papers of 15 exam-style questions Answers and explanations included Space for workings

Practice makes perfect! Including eight GPS practice papers and accompanying spelling assessments, PowerPoints featuring key terms and examples and a set of engaging quick-fire challenge cards, GPS SATs practice for KS2 has all you need to prepare your children for their KS2 GPS tests. What’s included? eight SATs-style practice papers, spelling assessments and answers PowerPoints featuring key terms and examples challenge cards marking guidance. What’s inside? Introduction (page 3) GPS question papers (pages 4-214) GPS spelling tasks and answers (pages 214-246) Challenge cards (pages 247-273) G1 Grammatical terms and word classes G2 Function of sentences G3 Combining words, phrases and clauses G4 Verb forms, tense and consistency G5 Punctuation G6 Vocabulary G7 Standard English and formality PowerPoint screenshots (page 274)

Our Year 6 maths assessments pack is designed to prepare children for their end-of-year maths tests and to help year 6 teachers assess children’s understanding of national curriculum objectives. All the questions are presented in the style of KS2 maths SATs papers and a mark scheme is included. The pack includes 10 test papers in total, eight of which are based upon a specific mathematical strand and two of which are KS2 SATs practice tests. Test papers included in the assessment pack: Paper 1: Number and place value Paper 2: Number and calculation (addition, subtraction, multiplication and division) Paper 3: Fractions, decimals and percentages Paper 4: Ratio and proportion Paper 5: Algebra Paper 6: Measurement Paper 7: Geometry (properties of shapes and position and direction) Paper 8: Statistics (charts and data) Paper 9: KS2 SATs practice test (arithmetic) Paper 10: KS2 SATS practice test (reasoning) These printable diagnostic maths tests can be used in the classroom or for home learning. Tracking sheets are included to enable teachers to quickly identify gaps in children’s understanding of the maths curriculum. Perfect for ensuring children are well-prepared for their final maths assessments at primary school.