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A shop which mainly offers secondary school mathematics materials such as worksheets, revision materials and investigations. Also on offer are English Language resources in particular advice on essay writing. Finally, the shop also offers materials geared towards career education such as giving students advice on how to compose CVs, university personal statements and covering letters with templates and model examples provided.

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A shop which mainly offers secondary school mathematics materials such as worksheets, revision materials and investigations. Also on offer are English Language resources in particular advice on essay writing. Finally, the shop also offers materials geared towards career education such as giving students advice on how to compose CVs, university personal statements and covering letters with templates and model examples provided.
GCSE Business Studies Teaching Pack
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GCSE Business Studies Teaching Pack

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This bundle contains a set of very useful resources to assist with teaching lessons and activities on GCSE Business Studies. It includes a set of powerpoints which recap key material from the course and help students revise effectively, a series of workbooks for pupils to use in-class and for independent study covering the main content on the course and templates for creating a CV and covering letter for students to use in-class or to actually help them apply for a job.
Secondary School Student Covering Letter Template
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Secondary School Student Covering Letter Template

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This resource is a very useful covering letter template for secondary school students to use as a guide/framework for completing their own CV. It’s a straightforward, easily adaptable template which is equally effective for KS3 or KS4 pupils. It could be used in PSHE lessons (such as when learning about the world of work or completing a mock job application), as a form time activity, KS3 and GCSE Business studies lessons or as part of an enterprise activity/day.
Secondary School Student CV Template
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Secondary School Student CV Template

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This resource is a very useful CV template for secondary school students to use as a guide/framework for completing their own CV. It’s a straightforward, easily adaptable template which is equally effective for KS3 or KS4 pupils. It could be used in PSHE lessons (such as when learning about the world of work), as a form time activity, KS3 and GCSE Business studies lessons or as part of an enterprise activity/day.
Mega KS3 and GCSE Self and Peer Assessment Bundle
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Mega KS3 and GCSE Self and Peer Assessment Bundle

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This bundle contains a huge collection of resources to assist KS3 and GCSE students engage in self and peer assessment. It includes a set of templates to help students examine their own progress, including ones which could be used as part of a progress meeting or parents evening with teachers. There are also frameworks which pupils can use to peer assess a piece of work, including a specialised one for appraising a piece of writing. A CPD session on peer and self assessment is also provided as well as a comprehensive bank of assessment for learning activities to use with KS3 and GCSE students in any subject.
KS3 Homework Peer Assessment Template
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KS3 Homework Peer Assessment Template

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This resource contains a handy template to enable KS3 pupils to peer assess a piece of homework in any given subject. Students are guided to appropriately assess the work against the marking criteria and encouraged to provide constructive feedback through using the 2 stars and a wish model where pupils highlight 2 things their peers and have done well and something which could be improved on. This works excellently as part of a starter or plenary activity and builds higher-order thinking skills among students whilst encouraging them to be reflective learners.
KS3 and GCSE Coursework Self and Peer Assessment Template
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KS3 and GCSE Coursework Self and Peer Assessment Template

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This is a very useful template which enables KS3 and GCSE students to self and peer assess a piece of coursework, project or other extended piece of work in any subject. It effectively scaffolds pupils through the process of self/peer assessment by guiding them to comprehensively assess the piece of work on a number of areas including structure, use of key words, presentation, spelling and grammar, quality of sources used and referencing. Students are encouraged to respond to peer feedback and set achievable targets for themselves and be reflective learners.
Progress Meeting/Parents Evening Self-Assessment Student Template
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Progress Meeting/Parents Evening Self-Assessment Student Template

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This resource contains a comprehensive self-assessment template for students on measuring their progress and behaviour to complete in consultation with their teacher or form tutor. This could be used as part of a individual progress meeting with teachers or completed at/in advance of a parents’ evening for students. It is adaptable for any subject and effectively guides students to consider their progress in lessons including identifying areas they are confident in and need to improve, whether they are meeting behaviour and homework standards whilst setting achievable targets to be agreed with their teacher or form tutor.
KS3 and GCSE Self-Assessment Progress Template
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KS3 and GCSE Self-Assessment Progress Template

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This is an incredibly useful resource which KS3 and GCSE students can use as a template to self-assess their progress in any given subject. It provides a framework for pupils to examine the areas of their learning they feel confident in and those that they struggle with using a traffic-light system whilst also encouraging them to set achievable targets in order to meet their learning needs. Students can stick this in this books for easy reference and complete as a plenary activity.
KS3 and GCSE Traffic Light Self-Assessment Template
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KS3 and GCSE Traffic Light Self-Assessment Template

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This resource contains a very useful template for KS3 and GCSE students to self-assess effectively using a traffic light model. Pupils are guided to think of something positive they achieved in the lesson (green), something to think about (amber) and to think what they could improve on (red). Students are provided with an example to scaffold their way through the process. This template can be used in any subject as part of a plenary activity and can easily be adapted to enable students to peer assess each other.
Secondary School Self-Assessment Template
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Secondary School Self-Assessment Template

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This is a handy template which secondary school pupils (KS3 and GCSE) can use to self-assess the amount of effort they have put into their work and engagement within the lesson for any subject. This is useful in setting clear expectations for behaviour and participation for students, encouraging them to become more reflective learners and be active in improving their behaviour and contribution to the lesson where appropriate. Students could put this in their exercise books and grade themselves for effort as part of a plenary activity.
Glossary of Higher and Further Education Key Terms
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Glossary of Higher and Further Education Key Terms

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This is an excellent resource containing a comprehensive, 10-page glossary of all the key terms used in higher and further education, with each term clearly defined with examples. This could be used in a secondary school PSHE lesson involving careers when teaching pupils about further study options to give them a flavour of what’s involved in higher and further education. It would also work well as part of a taster session delivered by colleges and universities and could be adapted to become a collaborative learning activity where pupils are provided with the key words without definitions and work together to define them. Finally, this would be really useful as a handout for any sixth form student considering applying to university.
Model UCAS Application Teaching Personal Statement
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Model UCAS Application Teaching Personal Statement

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Ideal for sixth form or mature students: this model personal statement is a sure-fire method of helping with an application to go to University. The resource is a model personal statement for a secondary school maths teaching course. The personal statement gives students an idea of what to include in and how to structure their own personal statement, possibly using it as a template. It is easily transferable to applying to a degree course of any subject. Could be used as part of a careers, citizenship or PSHE lesson or as a teaching tool to help structure university applications in colleges and other education providers. It can also be an incredibly useful item to support any individual who is planning to apply to university by themselves.
Sixth Form Student How To Reference and Cite Sources Handout
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Sixth Form Student How To Reference and Cite Sources Handout

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This is a very useful resource for sixth form and university students on how to reference and cite sources in their work. This handout is especially useful for students to consult when completing essays and assignments and is written in a friendly and accessible manner. It is applicable for use in any subject. The handout covers all the different ways on how to correctly cite sources in work/essays, how to reference different types of sources (i.e. books, journals and websites) in a bibliography with examples, referencing efficiently, how to put references in alphabetical order and an example of a correctly formatted reference list.
Sixth Form Student How to Proofread Your Work Handout
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Sixth Form Student How to Proofread Your Work Handout

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This is a useful tutorial for sixth form/university students on how to proofread their work, which they can keep for reference when completing homework, coursework and exam questions. It is applicable to most subjects, especially ones that involve essay writing. The handout includes how to proofread different types of work, common errors to watch out for and how to spot them, annotated examples of work that has been proofread and a definitive checklist of things to look out for when proofreading your work.
Sixth Form Student Personal Statement and CV Pack
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Sixth Form Student Personal Statement and CV Pack

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This bundle contains a set of resources to help sixth form students in applying to university and securing a job. They are of use to both teachers who support sixth form students in their university application (especially form tutors) and for students themselves for personal use. It includes a guide on how to create the ideal personal statement for university applications (including an annotated example), a template for students to create their own and a set of model personal statements for Teaching, Chemistry and Nursing courses in addition to a template for students to compare prospective university courses. These are complemented by a template for students to create their own CV and model personal and academic examples, along with a chart for students to track their progress when applying for jobs.
Preparing for University Resources
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Preparing for University Resources

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A set of very useful resources to help students prepare who have an interview/offer for a university course. They would ideal to use in tutor time or for any professional supporting students with their university application. It includes a guide on how to create a personal statement for university, a model example of one (with commentary) and other model examples of personal statements for teaching, nursing and chemistry courses. There’s also a template for creating a model CV and model examples of academic and professional student CVs. Students are also provided with a handout explaining the university grading system and a template for comparing prospective university courses.
UCAS Application Resources
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UCAS Application Resources

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This bundle contains an excellent set of resources for use during sixth form tutor time to help students with their UCAS application. It includes a template for students to complete their own personal statement and examples of model ones for Teaching, Nursing and Chemistry courses. Students are also provided with a template to complete their own academic CV with a model CV to reference/structure from. It concludes with a template for students to compare prospective university courses and an informative handout explaining the university grading system.
Writing a UCAS Personal Statement Resources
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Writing a UCAS Personal Statement Resources

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This bundle contains a set of very useful resources to help sixth form and mature students write their UCAS personal statement. Students are provided with an annotated model personal statement, examples of ones from courses such as nursing and teaching and a cheat sheet with handy hints and tips for students to write their own personal statement. This is supplemented by a model academic CV which students can adapt to structure their own CV and use as an aid/accompaniment to writing their own personal statement. The bundle concludes with a handy template for students to use when comparing prospective university courses.
Writing a UCAS Application Resources
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Writing a UCAS Application Resources

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This bundle contains a wealth of resources to help sixth form students and their teachers prepare for and apply to university. This pack includes guidance on how to write a personal statement, providing a template for students to complete their own as well as a model personal statement with commentary. These are further supplemented by examples of personal statements for Nursing, Chemistry and Primary Teaching Courses. The bundle also contains handout explaining the university grading system, a template for comparing university courses when deciding which one to apply to and templates for and examples of creating a model CV and covering letter.
A Level Writing Essays and Personal Statements Resources
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A Level Writing Essays and Personal Statements Resources

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This bundle contains a wealth of resources to help sixth form students with their essay writing skills and with applying to university. It contains a set of tutorials on essay writing techniques including how to be critical, paraphrase and write different styles of essays (with word banks included for each type). Also included is a model essay, and handouts for students summarising the main points of good essay writing and top tips for writing a first class essay. It has ample resources to assist students with applying to university. It has a template for creating their own personal statement, a model personal statement (with annotation and commentary) and three other examples of model personal statements applying for chemistry, nursing and primary teaching degree courses.