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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 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.
KS3 and GCSE English Writing Resources
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KS3 and GCSE English Writing Resources

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This bundle contains a set of resources to help teachers plan and deliver lessons on non-fiction/fiction writing, creative writing, speeches, essays and grammar/punctuation in KS3 and GCSE English. It has a set of writing mats that assists students through helpful prompts and frameworks with their in-class work and homework as well as revision. There are specialised mats for non-fiction writing and grammar/punctuation. 2 full lessons on persuasive writing and magazines are also provided, along with a template for peer and self-assessing a piece of writing, a guide on writing different types of essays and some mock exam writing questions.
KS3 Maths Translations of 2-D Shapes Whole Lesson
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KS3 Maths Translations of 2-D Shapes Whole Lesson

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This powerpoint contains a whole lesson on translations of 2-D shapes for KS3 and GCSE foundation pupils. It covers how to translate 2-D shapes, column vectors, properties of shape, symmetry and co-ordinates. It can be delivered in an interactive manner, with plenty of opportunities for pupils to discuss and consolidate knowledge. There are also strong cross-curricular links with literacy and art.
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.
KS3 and KS4 English Grammar, Punctuation and Writing Resources
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KS3 and KS4 English Grammar, Punctuation and Writing Resources

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This bundle contains an excellent, comprehensive set of resources to help plan and deliver lessons in KS3 and GCSE English on grammar, punctuation and writing. It includes a set of specialised learning mats (which can used for students in-class and for homework/revision purposes) on punctuation and spelling, grammar, writing at KS3 and KS4 and non-fiction writing. It also has 2 powerpoints containing full lessons on writing magazines and persuasive writing, a template for pupils to peer and self assess their own writing, a collaborative learning activity for pupils to test each other on key words relating to grammar and punctuation and some KS4 mock exam questions on writing for pupils to attempt.
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.
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.
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.
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.
GCSE Maths Acceleration and Velocity Worksheet
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GCSE Maths Acceleration and Velocity Worksheet

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This resource contains a set of questions and revision notes for pupils on acceleration and velocity-time graphs in GCSE Maths (Mechanics). Pupils are provided with worked examples and formulae to calculate the acceleration and displacement from a velocity-time graph before attempting a set of questions themselves. This resources builds strong cross-curricular links with literacy and developing pupils’ knowledge of mathematical notation and formulae.
KS3/GCSE Maths Exam Question Key Terms Glossary
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KS3/GCSE Maths Exam Question Key Terms Glossary

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This is an incredibly useful resource for students of a glossary of all the key words and terminology used in exam questions in KS3 and GCSE Maths. This is excellent for improving students’ exam technique, as a revision aid and developing their literacy skills. A definition is provided for each key word alongside a worked clear example. In my practice I gave this to pupils as a handout and it was very helpful for revision purposes and greatly improved their exam technique.
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.
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.
Huge GCSE Maths Higher Resources Pack
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Huge GCSE Maths Higher Resources Pack

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This bundle contains a comprehensive amount of resources to help plan and deliver GCSE Maths Higher lessons. It includes a set of powerpoints containing full lessons on topics such as Interior and Exterior Angles of a Polygon, Standard Form and Probability, a bank of exam questions on Quadratics and Relative Frequency and a collection of starters on Probability topics. Also in the bundle is a series of investigations which aim to boost literacy higher-order thinking skills into topics like Factors, Square Numbers, Compound Interest and Areas of Triangles and a glossary of all key words and terminology that pupils can keep to use for revision.
Boosting Literacy skills in KS3 and GCSE Maths Resources
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Boosting Literacy skills in KS3 and GCSE Maths Resources

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This bundle contains a set of resources for KS3 and GCSE Maths which aims to boost students’ literacy skills and build strong cross-curricular links. It has several varied resources including lists of key terms and formulae in KS3 and GCSE Maths to help students become more familiar with key words and notation, a set of 6 investigations on topics such as square numbers, compound interest and factors which support students in building their mathematical fluency and communication skills and a collaborative learning activity involving key words to promote discussion and team work and a template for peer assessing a piece of work.
Set of KS3 and GCSE Maths Whole Lessons
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Set of KS3 and GCSE Maths Whole Lessons

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This bundle contains a comprehensive set of powerpoints containing whole lessons for KS3 and GCSE maths topics. All the lessons are interactive and include activities for students to complete, whilst promoting cross-curricular links, self and peer assessment and collaborative learning. Examples of topics included are Relative Frequency, Constructing and Solving Linear Equations, Drawing and Interpreting Pie Charts, Interior and Exterior Angles in a Polygon, Scatter Graphs and Correlation, Sample Space Diagrams and Standard Form.
Comprehensive Bank of KS3 and GCSE Maths Exam Questions
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Comprehensive Bank of KS3 and GCSE Maths Exam Questions

6 Resources
This bundle contains a huge bank of exam questions and revision for KS3 and GCSE Maths. It includes exam questions on topics such as Relative Frequency, Quadratics, Area and Circumference of a Circle, Straight Line Graphs, Averages, Equations, Fractions, Decimals and Percentages and Probability. These can be used in class for revision purposes and improving exam technique or to summatively assess pupils.
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.