I would like to introduce a brand new concept in thinking. Thinking Scarves. For a long time I was a huge fan of thinking hats... until a teacher one day wrote to me and said she did not like Thinking Hats as the Black Hat was very negative and could help to reinforce negative stereotypes about the colour black. In contrast, "White" was seen as a straight down the line, honest hat. The facts, pure and simple, without and falsification or misinterpretation. I then thought I am a teacher. Why not simply reinvent the whole system - forget about hats - scarves are the answer. With scarves, you can share them between friends, creating a closer bond between the thinkers. Make a thinking system which works perfectly in a primary school environment. Green - What is positive - makes you feel good? Red - What is negative? What makes you feeling angry or upset? Purple - what are your general feelings towards a character? Like purple, feelings can be hard to define. Gold - Make 'n' Shake - Follow your dreams and all the streets will be paved in gold. Blue : Facts - Facts, like the sea and sky can appear endless. Guide: No scarves, just a handy bag to carry all the scarves in and organise them into some sort of order. I would love other people's opinions on this concept.

You could print off and laminate the photos to make an interesting, eye-catching display about Walk to School Month. I have extended this presentation to include walking, a keeping health creative writing prompt and a car free day. I have also added a teacher guide explaining 31 different ways of using these photo flash cards in the classroom. The photos could also be used as prompts for creative writing, factual writing or descriptive writing.

I love to get the students really talking about an issue. I saw another teacher do it and thought that this looks really effective. My Walk to School Week teaching resources are designed to get the students to think about why we should walk to school, what are the alternatives and the benefits and the costs of walking to school using different modes of transport. They are also designed to get students really talking, listening and expressing their own ideas. My teaching resources could be printed out and made into an eye catching, thought provoking display or used as a whole class discussion stimulus. I am now making a new series of resources like this, so that teachers and students can get a lot more out of every lesson.

Want to inspire your students? These pictures form the basic parts of a story to get them thinking. The pictures can be simply mixed up to change the story. The different pictures from the different stories could all be mixed up to create a really interesting mash-up of different stories. A real challenge is to see if a class can create a whole story from all the different images in the presentation!

I have created a conversation lesson on how to achieve your goals. They could be printed out and placed on the wall. They could also be used in a single lesson prior to or during SATs or GCSE revision to help students achieve their fullest potential. Each slide has an idea, a linked picture and a discussion point for the class.

Test Your Research Skills Smokefree UK – Quiz 3 Example questions 1. When did Wales go smokefree? ______________________________________________ 2. What is the penalty for an employer that fails to prevent smoking in a smokefree place? __________________________________________________________________________ 3. What is the penalty for an employer who does not display the required no-smoking signs? __________________________________________________________________________

Information Gap 1 - Looking for a Job Get the students working in pairs. Give one person of each pair the Student A page and the other the Student B page. There are four different jobs being advertised in the local paper. However, there are ten gaps on each page. Students should ask each other questions to find out the information that is missing from their page, then write it down, asking for spellings as necessary. Encourage them to communicate verbally to get the answers, rather than letting each other look at their pages! When all the students have finished, bring the group back together and ask checking questions to elicit the answers, as well as to find out how much the students have understood about the other material in the adverts.

"Empowering women isn’t just the right thing to do – it’s the smart thing to do.” - Barack Obama 25 Facts To Share And Discuss In The Classroom. There is a lot still to be done to achieve. This presentation focuses on the key issues women around the world are facing. Students can compare and contrast their lives with these facts? How many are true for British women? How many would they consider were developing world problems. They can then investigate and find their own answers.

17 Panda photos, complete with 31 different teaching activities and an animal writing prompt workbook. I wanted something teachers and students would enjoy together. The photos of the animals in the writing prompt can also be used for another 31 teaching activities on their own.

This is a great resource to show at the same time the World Rugby Cup is on. Discuss the actions on the playing field, the different aspects of the game and how the players are feeling in each photo. You could look at it directly as a presentation and discuss the different activities being shown in each of the photos. I also added a PowerPoint to show you 31 different ways you could use this teaching resource in your classroom. You could print off and laminate the photos to make an interesting, eye-catching display about Rugby. The students could also take the laminated photos and sort them into different groupings. The students can then discuss what they think each one was saying or thinking. The photos could also be used as prompts for creative writing, factual writing or descriptive writing.

Keeping Healthy is a major issue in every school. This presentation helps you to discuss it clearly with your class. The clear visual prompts are a great starting point. You could look at it directly as a presentation and discuss the different healthy activities being shown in each of the photos. You could print off and laminate the photos to make an interesting, eye-catching set of story prompts. The students could also take five of the laminated photos and create them into a story . The photos could also be used as prompts for creative writing, factual writing or descriptive writing.

This is a fun creative writing worksheet. The students are simply shown a paper bag with a funny expression on its face. They then need to imagine they are the paper bag and write a story about why it feels like it does. They have to imagine why it is feeling happy, sad, scared etc... using their senses as a cue. What might the bag be seeing, hearing, smelling, touching and tasting to give it the expression it has on its face. This will help the students to become more creative, write more detailed descriptions and organise their work better. This is a perfect way of preparing for the KS1 SATs tests and the KS2 SATs tests. You could look at it directly as a presentation and discuss the different feelings Mr Paper Bag being shown in each of the photos. You could print off and laminate the photos to make an interesting, eye-catching set of story prompts. The students could also take five of the laminated photos and create them into a story . The photos could also be used as prompts for creative writing, factual writing or descriptive writing.

Test Your Spelling Skills Just Vowels - Mixed Emotions 2 Fill in the gaps to spell fifteen different emotions: Examples 1. _ o _ e _ _ 2. _ i _ e a _ a _ e 3. e _ e _ _ e _ i _ 4. _ u _ _ Complete with an answer sheet

Test Your Spelling Skills Just Vowels - Mixed Emotions 1 Examples Fill in the gaps to spell fifteen different emotions: 1. a _ _ _ _ 2. _ o _ _ i e _ 3. a _ _ a i _ 4. _ a _ Complete with answer sheet