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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.
PSHE Study Skills and Applying for a Job Resources
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PSHE Study Skills and Applying for a Job Resources

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This bundle contains a wealth of PSHE resources which will assist students with developing study skills and revising effectively and also life skills in applying for a job. These resources could also easily be used in form time. It has a set of interactive powerpoints which advises pupils on building study skills and revising effectively by using certain techniques and methods. This is complemented by a set of resources aimed at helping pupils learn how to apply for a job. Pupils are provided with model examples of CVs and a covering letter and given a template to help them create their own. There is also a template to help pupils structure their job search. These resources could be used in a mock environment in the classroom and also in their actual job search.
Tutor Time Revision and applying for a job resources
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Tutor Time Revision and applying for a job resources

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This is a comprehensive set of interactive, informative and engaging activities to be delivered in and completed by pupils in for time. The bundle contains a set of powerpoints on revision/study skills and techniques, a motivational activity showing pupils examples of those who succeeded in adversity and a collaborative learning activity to test pupils’ knowledge of key words in any given subject. It also has a set of PSHE resources including model examples and templates to help pupils create their own CV and covering letter as well as a chart to help students organise their job search.
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.
Autism in the Secondary School CPD Powerpoint
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Autism in the Secondary School CPD Powerpoint

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This powerpoint contains a comprehensive CPD session which aims to educate staff about autism and why it’s becoming increasingly relevant in education. It includes an overview of Autism, the different types of autism (varying by intensity and support needed), the neurology and science which underpins it, signs and indicators of it in pupils and how best to support autistic students in the classroom.
Developing KS3/KS4 Study Skills Resources
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Developing KS3/KS4 Study Skills Resources

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This bundle contains a set of resources which is aimed at helping KS3 and KS4 students to build good study skills and revise effectively. It includes a set of interactive powerpoints which aim to assist pupils in developing study skills whilst giving them handy strategies and techniques when revising and a motivational activity illustrating examples of many famous people who succeeded through adversity. Also included are a set of templates to help pupils self and peer assess a piece of work and improve their exam technique.
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.
Assessment for learning starters, activities and plenaries
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Assessment for learning starters, activities and plenaries

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This resource contains a huge collection of assessment for learning activities including starters, activities to be used in the main body of a lesson and plenaries. The activities are generic and can be applied to most subjects. An overview of each activity is provided including how to use it in class and they are grouped according to how they are supposed to be completed (alone, in pairs or groups) and what type of resource is needed to deliver them (exercise book, handout, whiteboard, worksheet, post-it notes). These exercises are great for collaborative learning, self and peer assessment, building higher-order thinking skills and cross-curricular links (especially literacy and numeracy).
GCSE Maths Foundation Extension Assessment Questions
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GCSE Maths Foundation Extension Assessment Questions

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This resource contains a set of extension questions for GCSE Foundation 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.
Behaviour Management Template
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Behaviour Management Template

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This is an brilliant, time-saving template to help teachers plan and structure their behaviour management strategy for each class. It’s appropriate for use by teachers of any subject. The template provides an excellent, flexible framework for planning behaviour management incorporating seating plan, rules and expectations, class information, rewards and sanctions, start and end lesson routines and initial, secondary and final responses to poor behaviour. Context and guidance is also provided on how to use the template effectively. This has proven very popular with teachers across all departments in my school.
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.
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.
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.
Lesson Planning Template
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Lesson Planning Template

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This is an effective, time-saving template to help plan and structure any learning activities teachers plan to deliver. It’s suitable for use across any secondary school subject. Using a food analogy, it provides a recipe card and the ingredients for planning a successful learning activity. It’s organised into sections with useful key questions/prompts for teachers to consider when considering the length, materials needed, appropriate structure and intended outcomes of each learning activity.
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.
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.
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.
KS3 and GCSE Maths Algebra Resources
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KS3 and GCSE Maths Algebra Resources

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This bundle contains a set of materials to help teachers plan and deliver lessons for KS3 and GCSE Maths on Algebra topics. Included in the bundle are full lessons on constructing and solving linear equations, rearranging formulae, a bank of exam questions for quadratics, acceleration and velocity and general set for KS3 algebra topics. It also contains a set of investigations which involve significant algebraic content on topics such as convergence, compound interest and factors.
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 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.
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.