Hello and Happy Christmas to you! Here is an excellent quality Christmas quiz packed with lots of high quality Christmas fun and many high quality engaging images. 3 rounds: Christmas films, Christmas songs, Christmas itself + 2 extension activities if you need them. No work required, PowerPoint is ready to use - let one of your students hit the return button as you focus on other things. Plus lots of very funny Christmas cracker jokes throughout to get you and the kids laughing and enjoying yourselves ! Get into the wonderful Christmas spirit, enjoy !! Best wishes, Barclayfox Christmas fun, xmas fun, christmas quiz, christmas quizzes

End of year quiz (which doesn’t mention Christmas). Powerpoint no preparation work required, project and go. 70+ slides. Round 1: Observation (video round) Round 2: Pop Music Round 3: Bingo Round 4: A to Z alphabet knowledge quiz (Maths, English, Science, Geography, History). Still teaching but with a fun element added to bring the year to a close. Happy Teaching Barclayfox

Great fun Christmas activities, complete and ready to use. Lots of engaging and fun activities and an excellent primary activity of building and firing straw** air powered rockets** in the classroom (no need to go outside). Please don’t stop reading! This is not a lesson only for science teachers - all instructions are in teh PPT and are simple for students to follow…it fantastic fun for all ! A story is woven and as part of the lesson the learners build rockets to save Christmas from Safcut - who is Santa’s evil brother. All instructions are included and the lesson teaches the learners almost automatically, this is NOT a lesson only for our friends the science teachers (although it’s excellent for them too!) - any of us can use this fun and imaginative lesson. Who is Safcut? What’s his plan? Can your class save Christmas? Lesson length: Fantastic fun ! Very flexible length, there are activities you can miss out and on the other hand there is a Christmas cracker based extension. So, the lesson can easily last anywhere between 0.5 hour and 1.5 hours depending on your needs. Better than a quiz: This is definitely not a Christmas quiz, it gets the learners out of their seats, keeps them focused and engaged as they work in teams building and creating. It’s a great lesson you can use with all ages from 6 to 16 and it won’t go out of date so you can use it for years to come, which makes it excellent value at this price ! Skills and learning: As well as being great fun and entertaining it is also educational and it includes: literacy, SMSC, team working skills, cooperation, physical building skills, questions with answers, activities with answers, play ball game, what engineers do, identify parts of a rocket, joke telling etc High quality lesson, great for teachers of any subject !!! Happy Christmas ! Happy teaching ! Barclayfox. . . . . . . Key words: Christmas: activities, Christmas activity, Xmas, saving Christmas, Santa’s evil brother, quiz, Xmas. Practical, team work, fun, entertaining, engaging, SMSC, literacy, happy kids, fun learning, rockets, air power, pressure, balloons, elf, elves, sleigh, reindeer, Christmas maths, Christmas English, Christmas PE, Christmas History, Christmas Geography, Christmas PSHE, Christmas RE, Christmas French, Christmas German, MFL, Christmas Sociology, Christmas Psychology, Christmas Physics, Christmas Chemistry, Christmas Biology, Christmas Design technology, Christmas product design, Christmas engineering, drama, ICT, media, computer science, art, business, EBacc, BTec, Progress 8.

Complete lesson, for the first time you meet any new class, including your tutor group. Use this lesson multiple times during your first week! Use it at the beginning of every year. Great for new teachers and experienced teachers. I have been using this very successfully for over a decade in a wide variety of schools (including two “tough” schools). It provides an interesting and highly structured introductory lesson and has ensured good behaviour - even in groups that other teachers consider to be badly behaved. Happy Teaching Barclayfox

This is a series of 5 lessons that expertly and fully delivers all the points within the NEW KS3 specification SoW on the light topic. These PowerPoints and their varied and interesting activities keep lower ability students engaged while allowing differentiation for higher ability. I’m sure you’ll find them very useful. For more lessons designed to meet the new KS3 and KS4 specifications please type Barclayfox into the tes resources search engine to see all my lessons. ACTIVITIES: Practical experiments, demonstrations, anagrams, picture puzzles, differentiation, gap fills, matching activities, up and about, self and peer assessment, quizzes, videos, questioning, literacy etc etc etc. All answers are provided. Great variety, fun and engaging. SPECIFICATION POINTS – COVERS ALL OF KS3 LIGHT SPEC - SOME ARE LISTED BELOW: * Light travels in straight lines. * Light travels much faster than sound. * Speed of light. * Calculations of speed. * We see things because they reflect light into our eyes. * Shadows are formed when light is blocked by an object. * Recall how fast light travels. * Investigate whether light travels in straight lines. * Understand reflections, absorption and scatter. * Understand “refraction” is when light changes direction and speed as it enters another medium. * Work well as a team member during a “refraction” experiment. * How lenses correct our sight * Refractive index – and calculations * How can we show all the colours that make up white light? * Predict the colour that results when different colours are added together * How do coloured filters affect white light? * Understand that different colours are caused by light waves having different “frequencies”. * Be able to name the parts of the eye. * Understand the “function” of parts of the eye * etc etc etc All resources are included in these great lessons, there is nothing for you to do but print the activity sheets (if required) give the kit lists to your technicians and enjoy teaching it. Thank you for looking, your feedback would be much appreciated! :) Happy teaching, Barclayfox.

Lesson for the first time you ever meet any class in any subject. Complete lesson, ready to use, you only need to spend 2 minutes personalising the ‘who am I’ PPT slide provided. All Key Stages: KS2 to KS5. ALL subjects: yes, really, all subjects and you can use it with your tutor group too ! 12 new classes this week ? Easy, no effort, no pressure, no stress, great lesson, give this lesson 12 times this week ! Best £5 you’ll spend this year ! The first lesson with a new class is the most important lesson you will ever teach. You need to give this lesson to each of your new classes. Assuming you have 12 classes this year and your teaching career lasts 20 years that is a lot of classes, and all so easy! I’ve lost count of the number of times I have delivered this lesson, this truly critical lesson. It has been used and improved a huge number of times over many years. During the lesson you will accomplish all these important things: Sort out the seating plan during the lesson. Learn names. Introduce yourself to the students. Get to know each student. Set and agree class rules. Rewards - find out which rewards they care enough about to try and get. Set expectations of behaviour and ensure students recognise your authority as the teacher. Help learners understand why work ethic is so important. Learn about individual learners needs. Learn about their individual likes (helps build relationships) Learn about their individual dislikes (helps build relationships) Start to build those all important relationships. Start to coach / motivate the students about learning. Happy teaching ! Yours, Barclayfox . . . . Key words: back to school, first lesson, ice breaker, first time meet, complete first lesson, first secondary lesson, first maths lesson, first English lesson, first science lesson, first French lesson, first history lesson, first geography lesson, first tutor group lesson, first lesson in, introduction, classroom expectations, setting standards, start up lesson, new class introduction, meeting your new class for the first time, new teacher, new class, back to school, meet the teacher, B4L, behaviour for learning, behavior for learning, behaviour management, behavior management, setting expectations, class rules.

This is a powerpoint navigated lesson that works on many levels. It leads students to consider what they want to improve and then gives them a simple but magical tool to do it in the form of a scorecard. Particularly useful for tutor time, or for New Years Resolutions or for any reflection and target setting or goal setting. It can be focused on school targets and be used to encourage students to take responsibility for their own learning and achieving progress. Useful for students and also for teacher’s - I’m much more organised and self disciplined now I use my scorecard ! :-) Could even be used as an active assembly - each student would simply need a scorecard and a pen to participate. Both the Powerpoint and excel files are fully editable. Happy teaching Barclayfox.

Christmas science quiz - Biology, Chemistry and Physics. Ready to use - no prep required. 5 rounds: Chemistry - game. Pop music - activity. Christmas Physics. Christmas Biology. World Tour. Flexible duration - use the rounds you prefer. Full Powerpoint is over 100 slides . Suitable for year 7 to year 11 inclusive. Best wishes, Barclayfox

This is a highly entertaining Christmas lesson full of fun activities. Complete and ready to use, easy! There’s nothing like zombies to capture the imagination of your students ! The lesson includes a fully explained activity where students build and fire simple catapults made from lolly (popsicle) sticks. This is done in the classroom (no need to go outside). You do NOT (not!) need to know how to build the catapult, the lesson carefully guides students so they can have the joy of discovering how to do it themselves without help ! A story about an invasion of zombie Santas is told. Christmas is in jeopardy! The learners have to try to save Christmas by defeating the zombie horde and finding a cure to turn the zombies back into humans. Easy to use: All instructions are included and the lesson teaches the learners almost automatically, any of us can give this fun and imaginative lesson. Fun: How can we stop the zombie horde? How do we cure the zombies turning them back into people? Can your class save Christmas? Lesson length: The length of the lesson is very flexible depending on your needs. There are add and delete activities so the lesson can easily last anywhere between 0.5 hours and 1.5 hours depending on what you want. Happy learners: This lesson gets the learners out of their seats, keeps them happy, focused and engaged as they work in teams building and creating. There’s nothing like zombies to capture the imagination of students! Which teachers and age groups: It’s a great lesson that teachers of any subject can use with all ages from 6 to 18. Value It won’t go out of date (like a quiz might) so you can use it for years to come, which makes it excellent value at this price ! Skills and learning: As well as being great fun and entertaining it is also educational and includes: literacy, numeracy, SMSC, team working skills, questions with answers, physical coordination skills, activities with answers, play ball game, joke telling etc High quality, ready to use lesson - great for teachers of all subjects! Happy Christmas ! Happy teaching ! Barclayfox. Key words - does this help people who are searching? Christmas English, Christmas Geography, Christmas Geog, Christmas History, Christmas French, Christmas activities, Christmas activity, Xmas, saving Christmas, Christmas literacy, quiz, quizzes, Xmas, practical, team work, fun, entertaining, engaging, SMSC, literacy, happy kids, fun learning, catapult, elf, elves, sleigh, reindeer, Christmas maths, Christmas English, Christmas English language, Christmas English literacy, Christmas PE, Christmas PSHE, Christmas RE, Christmas French, Christmas German, MFL, Christmas Sociology, Christmas Psychology, Christmas Physics, Christmas Chemistry, Christmas Biology, Christmas Design technology, Christmas product design, EBacc, BTec, Progress 8, Christmas engineering, drama, ICT, media, computer science, art, business.

Lesson for the first time you ever meet any class - complete lesson. Use it over and over again during week 1 Complete lesson, ready to use, you only need to spend 2 minutes completing the ‘who am I’ slide in this powerpoint. Key Stages: KS3 and KS4 and KS5. (You could even use it with KS2). ALL subjects: yes, really, all subjects and you can use it with your tutor group too ! Use this lesson to : Reduce the stress and pressure. Improve your experience of the first ever lesson with a class. Improve your learners experience of their first ever lesson with you. The first lesson with a new class is the most important lesson you will ever teach. You need to give this lesson to each of your new classes. Assuming you have 12 classes and your teaching career lasts 20 years you can use it 240 times! I’ve lost count of the number of times I have delivered this excellent lesson, this truly critical lesson. It has been used and improved a huge number of times over many years. During the lesson you will: * Sort out the seating plan. * Learn names. * Introduce yourself to the students. * Get to know the students. * Set and agree class rules. * Rewards - find out which rewards they care enough about to try and get. * Set expectations of behaviour and ensure students recognise your authority as the teacher. * Help learners understand why work ethic is so important. * Learn about individual learners needs. * Learn about their individual likes (helps build relationships) * Learn about their individual dislikes (helps build relationships) * Start to build relationships. * Start to coach / motivate the students about learning. This is an excellent lesson - I use it with every new class and whether you are a new teach or a very experienced one this is a small investment for a great lesson to improve your experience and outcomes when you meet a class for the very first time. Happy teaching ! Yours, Barclayfox Key words: back to school, first lesson, ice breaker, first time meet, complete first lesson, first secondary lesson, first maths lesson, first English lesson, first science lesson, first French lesson, first history lesson, first geography lesson, first tutor group lesson, first lesson in, introduction, classroom expectations, setting standards, start up lesson, new class introduction, meeting your new class for the first time, new teacher, new class, back to school, meet the teacher, B4L, behaviour for learning, behavior for learning, behaviour management, behavior management, setting expectations, class rules.

This lesson takes the students on a journey. It leads students to consider what they want to improve and then gives them a simple but magical tool to do it in the form of a scorecard. Particularly useful for tutor time, or for New Years Resolutions or for any reflection and target setting or goal setting. It can be focused on school targets and be used to encourage students to take responsibility for their own learning and achieving progress. Useful for students and also for teacher’s - I’m much more organised and self disciplined now I use my scorecard ! :-) Could even be used as an active assembly - each student would simply need a scorecard and a pen to participate. Both the Powerpoint and excel files are fully editable. Happy teaching Barclayfox.

Use this for all your new classes. Use it over and over again during the first week of the new school year. Use it again next year. Use it no matter what subject you teach. This complete lesson will give you and the class you have never met before a positive, fun and very useful first lesson together.

Too many of my students were making mistakes with significant figures and writing answer to the wrong number of sig figs. This skill is more important under the 9-1 spec so I wrote this worksheet with answers to help fix this problem. Happy Teaching Barclayfox