slides give some ideas on how teachers can use students' mobile phones to their advantage. Make sure they have credit on their phones and you have permission from your head !

Template to help students keeps a daily tab on their lives throughout this defining moment in our modern history. Lesson to accompany this journal. Students simply add as they progress and can copy and paste items they think will be of interest in the future.

If you're in a school where this is an issue, it might be as well to show this slant on the liberal use of orange.

Year 7 assembly with 14 simple ideas or plans for the summer holidays. Some original, some inspired by an Italian teacher.

170 RANDOM LINKS to whet the appetite of a learner, either at home or in school.

 Pupils consistently display a thirst for knowledge and understanding and a love of learning, including when being taught as a whole class or working on their own or in small groups. This has a very strong impact on their progress in lessons. With this in mind I devised an independent project for Year 7s (but it could run across the whole school). On our school VLE I posted the attached tasks. Each Year 7 student was given a scrap book and told to complete as many tasks as they wanted. For each completed task, the student receives a gold coin sticker. I organised it through tutor groups so the form with the most coins wins a trip out of school in the summer term. Parents love this as it gives students something to do in the holidays and on weekends. Activities are often London based as this is our nearest city but this can be adapted to any place in the world. Get your departments on board and help develop a thirst for knowledge in your school!

50 more questions for your form group. Answers included and ready to go.

Straightforward intro to New Year with 3 resolutions to use punctuation correctly. Worksheet, answers and resolution documents included.

8 ideas to make LOCKDOWN a little bit more bearable .

31 slides with links to spark interest in an eclectic mix of stuff.

More questions to intrigue your classes and improve their General Knowledge. Adaptable and visual, answers on the slides.

Ideas for format and resources as we move from physical presence to cyber -presence. If you find this useful share with everyone.

Using an already extant board (thanks), I’ve put together a game which students can play using their old exercise books/trivial pursuit cards/questions gleaned from the net/adults. Two versions uploaded. PPt editable and a pdf. All here.