A blank biography writing template for students to record their research information. Get your students to don their interviewer hats and create bios on each other or, if they have access to texts or the internet, get them researching famous people from a topic you’re studying! Categories include: Background, key life events, achievements, interesting facts and key quote. NEW RELATED RESOURCE: Biography Booklets for Years 1-8! Happy teaching & learning! Be purposeful teachers Who are in control Feel inspired And knows they’ve done enough. ☆ If you found this product helpful, please leave a review below! @attheminute.teaching

Studying famous figures or incredible people in the community? Get your students writing biographies full of facts and anecdotes! Want to get to know your students that much better? Get them to craft autobiographies all about them! NEW RELATED RESOURCE: Biography Booklets for Years 1-8! This pack includes: Child-speak success criteria for biography and autobiography writing Differentiated sets of success criteria with three levels of challenge Display posters with WALTs and success criteria Mini success criteria for students to stick into books Editable text fields so you can customise to suit your learners When you purchase this resource, you will be able to download a pdf which has a link to give you access to a Google Drive folder with: A 26-page Google Slides presentation with editable success criteria (+ pdf version) A 2-page Google Doc with full list of differentiated success criteria (+ pdf version) This resource can be used to assist with planning as it outlines text features of biography and autobiography writing to be covered in lessons and provides progression options for learners of different abilities. It does not provide additional materials e.g. explanatory slides, exemplars or lesson plans. Students would benefit from whole class/small group modelling of how to use success criteria before attempting to use the success criteria independently. There are 3 levels of differentiation for some resources. The easiest level is suitable for Year 2 students (age 6), the mid level is suitable for Year 3-4 (aged 7-8), and the high level is suitable for Year 5-6 (ages 8-10+). Ready to start teaching biography writing? Here’s a helpful planning template for your students to record their information on: Biography Template Looking for other writing resources? Check out these sets: Success Criteria for Recount Writing Success Criteria for Narrative Writing Success Criteria for Letter Writing Success Criteria for Persuasive Writing Success Criteria for Instruction Writing Success Criteria for Explanation Writing Success Criteria for Descriptive Writing Happy teaching & learning! Be purposeful teachers Who are in control Feel inspired And know they’ve done enough. ☆ If you found this product helpful, please leave a review below! @attheminute.teaching

Oh the dreaded start of term goal setting! Forget the fancy wall displays that go untouched for the rest of the year! Keep this goal setting chart in an easy-to-access place and get your students to track each time they take an action towards achieving their goals by colouring in a square of the border! Happy teaching & learning! Be purposeful teachers Who are in control Feel inspired And knows they’ve done enough. ☆ If you found this product helpful, please leave a review below! @attheminute.teaching

Get set for the new school year with these ready-to-go printable activities! NOW ALSO INCLUDING: Back to School booklet! Here’s a little bit about each of the worksheets included: Goal setting template Oh the dreaded start of term goal setting! Forget the fancy wall displays that go untouched for the rest of the year! Keep this goal setting chart in an easy-to-access place and get your students to track each time they take an action towards achieving their goals. 23 Takes for 2023 - Getting to Know You Worksheet - UPDATE 11/01/24: 2024 version now added! Sick of the same old ‘All About Me’ worksheets that you do EVERY year? Well, here’s a fresh one! It’s the same but different. No more “Choose 3 adjectives to describe yourself” …hooray! Just “3 must-have items for surviving lockdown”. Oh. Such fun. Recipe for Me - Getting to Know You Activity Get your students thinking abstractly - what makes them special? A cup of love, a splash of the giggles, a can of worms and a tinkle of trouble? Flour, eggs and milk are fine too. Summer Highlights Template - Surfboard Surf’s up! Time may be up for the holidays but don’t let that stop you riding the wave of summer into your start of term activities! Students can write about or draw the highlight of their holiday. PDF comes with a blank version for colouring in. Summer Recount Writing Frame - Ice Creams Your #1 go-to start of term writing topic: Summer holiday recounts! What screams summer more than ice cream? PDF includes wide and narrow-lined versions. Summer Recount Writing Frame - Jandals Your #1 go-to start of term writing topic: Summer holiday recounts! That footwear you see lining the borders is 100% “jandals”. “Sandals”, “flip-flops” and “thongs”? Ahhh yeah nah mate. PDF includes wide and narrow-lined versions. Summer-Themed Senses Recording Chart Get students generating vocab beyond ‘yellow sun’ for their summer recounts. Give students this recording chart to brainstorm what they saw, heard, smelt, felt and tasted. Challenge them to add a range of interesting adjectives and verbs. What Fills My Bucket Create a colourful classroom display with buckets of possibilities. Use this as a one-off activity or make a weekly time to show gratitude and get students to write a post-it message for a peer to ‘fill their bucket’. Happy teaching & learning! Be purposeful teachers Who are in control Feel inspired And know they’ve done enough. ☆ If you found this product helpful, please leave a review below! @attheminute.teaching

Start the new term off with a bang! This booklet contains a range of activities from art to designing an app, to coding and sharing a powerful message with the world! There are 18 printable worksheets that can be used as stand-alone tasks or as a series of activities to get students engaged and excited about the school year ahead. 2024 & 2025 covers included. Check out the 10 activities included in this pack: Pixel selfie - Okay, so we don’t all have a flash camera. Colour in the squares to show what a pixelated photo of yourself would look like! Do you think you could recognise yourself? Design your own denim jacket - Personalise your denim jacket with colours, patches, patterns and text to represent you! Goal setting - Aim high this year and set yourself some challenging, but achievable goals. Set two personal and two academic goals and outline how you will work towards achieving them Holiday storyboard - What adventures did you get up to over the holidays? Did you have some exciting moments or a series of unfortunate events? Draw or describe a moment, then show what happened 10 seconds before and after it! Design an app - What problem could be easily be solved with the swipe of a screen and push of a button? Find a solution for your target audience then design an easy-to-use UI (user interface) for your app! Create a character - Time to head to the character selection screen! Turn yourself into a character for an adventure video game. What are your character’s special abilities and what are their secret weaknesses? My sphere - Where do you sit in this big-little world? Who are the people who influence you and, in turn, you influence back? Write their names in the appropriate circle: Invent a game - You make the rules! Invent a game that could be played with your classmates, complete with an equipment list and diagram of how it works! Encode it - Can you speak the language of computers? In this task, you will need to write a message to a buddy BUT you may only use two symbols: 0 and 1. Message to the world - This is your chance to speak up! What message do you think the world needs to hear? S-t-r-e-t-c-h out your text to touch the lines. Hope your students love it! Be purposeful teachers Who are in control Feel inspired And know they’ve done enough. ☆ If you found this product helpful, please leave a review below! @attheminute.teaching

WHOOSH! WHIZ! BANG! What’s more fun than creating your own superheroes to fight evil and save the world?! PDF includes 3 different templates - choose your preferred weapon! Bonus: Storyboard Templates! Once upon a time they lived happily ever after. Okay, well hopefully your students’ creations come out a bit more developed than that! Use these storyboard templates for retelling known stories, sequencing events and creating original narratives! Comes in 2 versions: Blank and with a space for captions. Happy teaching & learning! Be purposeful teachers Who are in control Feel inspired And know they’ve done enough. ☆ If you found this product helpful, please leave a review below! @attheminute.teaching

Need a writing frame for an assessment or piece of published writing? This 12-page resource includes 3 blank writing frame templates; narrow lines and picture box, wide lines and picture box, and full page narrow lines. Bonus: Also includes a diary writing template, summer-themed borders and heart borders, perfect for Valentine’s Day letters! Happy teaching & learning! Be purposeful teachers Who are in control Feel inspired And know they’ve done enough. ☆ If you found this product helpful, please leave a review below! @attheminute.teaching

We want to promote curiosity in our learners right? Where better to start than by constructing questions! Instead of writing 10 questions starting with ‘What’, get students to use the sentence starters on this grid - easy! Comes with 2 copies per page. Happy teaching & learning! Be purposeful teachers Who are in control Feel inspired And know they’ve done enough. ☆ If you found this product helpful, please leave a review below! @attheminute.teaching

Ready-to-go editable slides for your students to See Think Feel & Wonder about the topic of Climate Change! The prep is all done for you - simply assign the Google Slides to your students on Google Classroom and your students will be all set to go with thought-provoking picture prompts and tables to record their responses. Easy! If you’re looking for an engaging way to introduce a new topic to your students, ‘See Think Feel Wonder’ is the way to go! It’s a way to spark discussions and unearth students’ prior knowledge and perceptions. The aim is to encourage students to dig deeper than just surface-level observations and GET CURIOUS about the world around them. The pictures in this resource include: Transport, deforestation, farming, bush fires, glacier melting, factory pollution and protest for climate change. Photo credit to the following Pixabay artists (in order of pictures): makabera, MariaGullestrup, NickyPe, rauschenberger, shivaphotographyy, Picography, stevePB (2), Manubird, cubicroot How I recommend using these Google Slides: Complete the Bus Stop activity outlined in the printable version with students either just discussing their ideas or recording their responses on post-it notes. Show students the Google Slides and model how to fill in the ‘See Think Feel Wonder’ charts, ensuring that you are specific about your personal expectations of length/quality of responses. Make the slides available for students to complete independently through the ‘Create an Assignment’ function on Google Classroom (explained below). Look at the assignments once they have been submitted by your students and use this information to identify prior knowledge, misconceptions and possible areas to explore further in following lessons. If you haven’t used the ‘Create an Assignment’ function in Google Classroom before, you can check out instructions on Google support. There are also a bunch of videos out there you can watch on Youtube if that’s easier for you! The most important thing is that when you first create the assignment, you select ‘Make a copy for each student’. This means that your students will all get their own copy of the slides with their name added to the document title. You and the student will be able to edit their copy of the document and, importantly, your students will not be able to edit your original copy of the slides (yes, I have made this mistake before!). Please note: When you purchase this resource, you will download a PDF which gives you access to the Editable Google Slides. After clicking the link, you will be prompted to ‘Make a Copy’ of the resource which will automatically save to your personal Google Drive. Please ensure that you are signed into your Google account to enable this. Enjoy! Be purposeful teachers Who are in control Feel inspired And know they’ve done enough. @atm.teaching

Ready to dive into Biography Writing with your students? My students LOVE making little books (often for comics) so I figured why not turn Biography Writing into booklet form too?! I’ve created several versions to help you differentiate for students of varying writing abilities. When you download this, have a scroll through to pick out what’ll work best for your students! This resource contains 97 pages with multiple versions: Year 1-2 booklet (8 pages x4 versions with sentence starter prompts) Year 3-4 booklet (8 pages x2 versions) Year 5-6 booklet (10 pages x1 version) Year 7-8 booklet (12 pages x2 versions) *Product last updated 27/06/23 (removal of square bordering and update of some fonts) Biography Writing is great fun in that students get the opportunity to research a significant person of interest or influence. The trouble is that Biography Writing tends to get quite research-heavy. That’s why it’s important to make the recording of facts and writing up of information fun and achievable! Using booklets gives students ownership of their writing and chunks the task into manageable bite-sized sections. And of course, the chance to colour in and add illustrations! You can even turn it into a group project by divvying up the pages amongst group members before securing them together into a full booklet! I recommend printing out two pages per A4 sheet to make A5-sized booklets. Trim off any excess paper around the border before stapling or hole-punching and securing the pages together. Let me know how your students get on with it! Happy writing! If you’re after a biography planning template, check this out or if you’re looking for success criteria for biography writing have a look at this! Be purposeful teachers Who are in control Feel inspired And know they’ve done enough ❤ If you found this resource helpful, leave a review and star rating on the product page!

Blank Venn diagram perfect for illustrating similarities and differences between two things. Happy teaching & learning! Be purposeful teachers Who are in control Feel inspired And know they’ve done enough. ☆ If you found this product helpful, please leave a review below! @attheminute.teaching

Get your students thinking abstractly - what makes them special? A cup of love, a splash of the giggles, a can of worms and a tinkle of trouble? Flour, eggs and milk are fine too. Looking for other start of term activities? Check out this new Back to School Activity Booklet! Happy teaching & learning! Be purposeful teachers Who are in control Feel inspired And knows they’ve done enough. ☆ If you found this product helpful, please leave a review below! @attheminute.teaching

Create a colourful classroom display with buckets of possibilities! Use this as a one-off activity or make a weekly time to show gratitude and get students to write a post-it message for a peer to stick on their poster and ‘fill their bucket’. Happy teaching & learning! Be purposeful teachers Who are in control Feel inspired And knows they’ve done enough. ☆ If you found this product helpful, please leave a review below! @attheminute.teaching

Who doesn’t love a bit of colouring in?! This resource contains 7 original hand drawn houses inspired by the colourful houses on the island of Burano. If you’re after a wall display for your classroom, you can get your students to cut out their houses and then stick them up in a row to make a piece of collective artwork - teamwork makes the dream work, right?! I instantly fell in love with the island of Burano on my whistle-stop trip there last year. I loved how despite being a seemingly random array of colours and a little wonky, everything just looked so in place. Perfectly imperfect. I’m super excited to create more classroom resources inspired by my travels! Here’s what I’ve created so far - hope you find something that takes your fancy! Alphabet Wall Display | Travel Inspired Classroom Decor | Venice | Bright Theme Alphabet Wall Display | Travel Inspired Classroom Decor | Venice | Blush Theme Word Wall | Alphabet & Sight Words | Travel Inspired Classroom Decor | Venice Number Wall Display | Travel Inspired Classroom Decor | Venice | Bright Pastels Student Name Tags for Desks | Travel Inspired Classroom Decor | Venice | Burano Enjoy! Be purposeful teachers Who are in control Feel inspired And know they’ve done enough. ☆ If you found this product helpful, please leave a review below! @attheminute.teaching

Looking sharp in your #ORIGINAL denim jacket! This fun back to school activity will get your students’ creative juices flowing! Learn about what makes your students unique and create an eye-catching wall display for your classroom…it’s a win-win! This PDF contains 16 versions of my hand-drawn denim jacket design worksheet so you can take your pick on which one you’d like to use! Variations include: Cut & paste patches Design own patches Front/back of jacket About me prompts Display version Blank version Portrait/landscape These are designed to be printed out A3 size and cut out to make classroom displays. Enjoy! Be purposeful teachers Who are in control Feel inspired And know they’ve done enough. ☆ If you found this product helpful, please leave a review below! @attheminute.teaching

Sick of the same old ‘All About Me’ worksheets that you do EVERY year? Well, here’s a fresh one! This worksheet has 23 questions for students to answer about themselves which will give you a great insight into what makes them tick (and what gets on their nerves)! These can be used as a wall display or tucked away for students to reflect on later in the year. *24 Takes for 2024 now added! Looking for other start of term activities? Check out this new Back to School Activity Booklet! Good luck for the new school year! Be purposeful teachers Who are in control Feel inspired And know they’ve done enough. ☆ If you found this product helpful, please leave a review below! @attheminute.teaching

Happy Valentine’s Day! Here’s what you’ll find inside this free resource pack: Make Your Own Gift Vouchers template Valentine’s Day Maths word problems Heart bordered writing frames Heart templates Now, get out there and spread the love! Be purposeful teachers Who are in control Feel inspired And knows they’ve done enough ❤ ☆ If you found this product helpful, please leave a review below! @attheminute.teaching

A blank printable KWL grid for students to record what they Know (K), Want to know (W) and Learnt (L) about a topic. KWL charts are ideal to use in Reading lessons before and after reading a non-fiction text or watching an informative video. You can also use them at the beginning of a Science, Humanities or Topic unit of work to gain insight into your students’ prior knowledge. Not to mention, it’s a fantastic tool for your students! By prompting them to activate their prior knowledge, they’ll be primed to connect existing and new knowledge and actively engage with the information that comes their way! This resource comes in portrait and landscape versions. Happy teaching & learning! Be purposeful teachers Who are in control Feel inspired And knows they’ve done enough. ☆ If you found this product helpful, please leave a review below! @attheminute.teaching

Give your students the opportunity to get creative with these four design tasks! These worksheets are designed for students to complete independently and can be used as a start of term or fast-finisher activity. The tasks provide a great opportunity to promote discussion around personal preferences and the need to back up your views with reasons. Students will need a basic understanding of ‘bird’s-eye view’ and keys to complete the first two tasks. This pack includes: My Dream Classroom Design Are your students looking with envy at the class next door wondering why they didn’t get brand new modern learning furniture? You may not be able to change anything but what’s wrong with dreaming? Get those future designers err…designing! My Dream House Design Dream big or create a cosy hideaway - either goes! Get your students working on their bird’s-eye view drawing skills and throw in a key for those fast-finishers! My Dream Day at School Get an insight into what your students really rate at school - who knows, they may come up with some brilliant ideas! If not, well I’m sure they’ll enjoy the chance to be the master planners! Rethinking the Class Timetable Are your students always moaning about having Maths first on a Monday? Do they wish there was more time for PE? Let them be the master planners and come up with a new class timetable! Happy teaching & learning! Be purposeful teachers Who are in control Feel inspired And know they’ve done enough. ☆ If you found this product helpful, please leave a review below! @attheminute.teaching