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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 Maths Higher Extension Assessment Questions
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GCSE Maths Higher Extension Assessment Questions

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This resource contains a set of extension questions for GCSE Higher Maths (which are grouped by topic) which are good at stretching pupils (especially more able students) and summatively assessing their knowledge of topics. The questions progress in difficulty and encourage pupils to think deeper and reflectively about what they’ve learned including evaluating, conjecturing, considering special cases and explaining/justifying. This resource would also work well as a plenary activity or to be set as homework.
Supporting KS3 and KS4 Students with Autism CPD
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Supporting KS3 and KS4 Students with Autism CPD

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This powerpoint contains an insightful and extremely detailed CPD sessiononhow to support KS3 and KS4 students with autism. As well as being very relevant due to the increased number of students with autism diagnoses, this resources contains a wealth of practical advice on how best to support autistic students including understanding their thought processes, signs and indicators pupils may have autism, how to structure lessons and tailor communication and resources to cater to pupils’ needs and tips on effective behaviour management.
Huge Collection of Assessment for Learning Activities
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Huge Collection of Assessment for Learning Activities

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This resource is a powerpoint which contains a comprehensive, extremely useful bank of examples of 70 different assessment for learning (AfL) activities which can be used with secondary school pupils in any subject. They would also work well for use in form time. The activities encompass starters, main body activities, collaborative learning, homework tasks and plenaries and are designed to engage pupils, boost communication skills and encourage cross-curricular links. Each activity is presented with an explanation of how to use it as well as pedagogical tips on how best to integrate it within a lesson. A set of useful websites and links is also provided.
Blooms' Taxonomy Posters/Wall Display
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Blooms' Taxonomy Posters/Wall Display

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This resource contains a handy set of posters for Blooms’ taxonomy, with each poster corresponding to a different level of the hierarchy. It works great as a wall display in your secondary school classroom whatever your subject. Each poster contains the expectations students must meet in order to satisfy and meet the objectives of each level of Blooms as well as key vocabulary and terminology associated with it. It also encourages students to self-assess by asking them questions and guiding them to analyse their learning.
GCSE Maths Foundation Revision Resources
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GCSE Maths Foundation Revision Resources

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This bundle contains a comprehensive, high-quality set of resources to help teachers prepare and deliver lessons for GCSE maths foundation and to enable students to revise effectively for it. It includes a set of powerpoints on whole lessons on topics such as linear equations, pie charts, probability, nets of 3-D shapes and interior/exterior angles in a polygon and a wealth of exam questions/tests including specific sets for relative frequency, averages and fractions, decimals and percentages. These are complemented by a set of extension questions to challenge students and handouts for students to use to revise ratios, area of 2-D shapes and area and circumference of a circle.
GCSE Maths Higher Revision Resources
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GCSE Maths Higher Revision Resources

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This bundle contains a comprehensive, high-quality set of resources to help teachers prepare and deliver lessons for GCSE maths higher and to enable students to revise effectively for it. It includes a set of whole lessons on topics such as scatter graphs and correlation, translations, relative frequency and standard form as well as a considerable bank of exam questions and tests including specific sets for quadratics, acceleration and velocity, triangular numbers and relative frequency. There’s also a set of extension questions to test students, a glossary of key terms to help pupils with exam technique and a collection of investigations into topics like compound interest, probability, factors and areas of triangles.
Secondary School Lesson Planning Template
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Secondary School Lesson Planning Template

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This is an excellent, time-saving resource in providing a flexible, easy-to-use template for secondary school teachers to plan a lesson for any subject. The template can be adapted and is extremely comprehensive, allowing for all relevant information (class size, objectives, assessment, homework, cross-curricular links) to easily be recorded and noted whilst providing space for timings, relevant learning activities and transitions.
Problem Solving Activity Template
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Problem Solving Activity Template

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This is a very useful resource which contains a flexible template for students to use during problem-solving activities (i.e. investigations, discussions, rich tasks) and can be used in any subject across the secondary school curriculum. The template guides students through the process of problem solving through structured questions and prompts. It lends itself well to collaborative learning and can be used as a tool to facilitate discussions among students. Furthermore, it is also an effective resource for self assessment as it encourages students to reflect on their learning.
KS3 Maths Assessment Descriptors
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KS3 Maths Assessment Descriptors

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This is an excellent resource of the old level descriptors pupils have to meet/fulfill in KS3 Maths. It’s very useful in helping teachers formatively assess pupils’ progress and acts as a aid for self and peer assessment. Each level is structured by clear outcomes of operations and activities across all 4 areas (number, geometry, algebra, data handling) students must be able to complete to meet the criteria for achieving the level. As well as boosting cross-curricular links I also used this resource as a poster/wall display and a handout for pupils to self and peer assess their progress.
Collection of Secondary School CPD Sessions
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Collection of Secondary School CPD Sessions

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This bundle contains a set of CPD sessions for secondary school teachers. It consists of a series of interactive and engaging CPD powerpoints on peer and self-assessment, intervention strategies for borderline students, autism and how best to support students with autism. They contain a wealth of evidence-based practical advice and strategies to use in the classroom and encourage collaboration and discussion.
Blooms and Peer/Self Assessment Resources
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Blooms and Peer/Self Assessment Resources

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This bundle contains a set of resources designed to promote higher-order thinking skills in students and encourage reflection and collaboration. It consists of a series of templates to help students self and peer assess a piece of work (including a specialised one for evaluating a piece of writing), collaborative learning tasks involving the definition of key words in KS3 Maths, Literacy and Humanities, a plenary activity involving Blooms’ taxonomy and a learning mat on Blooms’ thinking hats to use as a resource for pupils in class in any subject.
Lesson Planning and Assessment Templates
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Lesson Planning and Assessment Templates

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This bundle contains an excellent set of time-saving templates to help teachers plan lessons and assess pupils. Included in this bundle are some flexible templates which can be used to plan lessons and structure learning activities and facilitate effective behaviour management. It also contains a set of student-friendly templates pupils can use to self and peer assess work (including a specialised one for evaluating a piece of writing) and a framework to help guide students through problem-solving activities like investigations and rich tasks.
Secondary School Lesson Planning Templates
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Secondary School Lesson Planning Templates

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This bundle contains some extremely useful resources to help secondary school teachers with their lesson planning. These materials can be used in any subject across the curriculum. It contains flexible, time-saving templates for planning behaviour management and learning activities, a set of differentiated assessment for learning starters, main body and plenary activities, a series of peer and self assessment templates and Bloom’s taxonomy resources to promote higher-order thinking skills and reflective learning among students. These are complemented by an adaptable collaborative learning activity involving key words and a self-audit of subject knowledge for GCSE maths teachers.
KS3/KS4 Peer and Self Assessment Resources
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KS3/KS4 Peer and Self Assessment Resources

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This bundle contains a comprehensive set of resources to help secondary school students self and peer assess whilst promoting higher-order thinking skills and encouraging them to think reflectively. Pupils are provided with a learning mat containing guidance, frameworks and key phrases to use when self or peer assessing a piece of work and a set of templates to peer and self-assess, including a specialised framework to evaluate a piece of writing. Also included in the bundle is a powerpoint containing a CPD session on self and peer assessment.
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.