A great resource to use with upper school children (KS2) at the start of the year to help reinforce the skills and qualities needed to be a responsible monitor and buddy in their final years of primary school life. If you can, please share some examples of this work on Twitter/X @InTechnicolour or on Instagram @TeachingInTechnicolour

Another variation of the resource I’ve uploaded called ‘My Community’ A simple task that can be used to find out about your pupils and their lives.

A simple format for a fun getting to know you game. Children can use this to come up with their own options and read them to small groups or the whole class.

Class Values Lettering: Kindness Respect Trust Dignity

This is a perfect resource to use at the start of a new school year to establish what kind of teacher you want to be for your children. Using YouTube clips of Miss Honey and Miss Trunchbull, get the children to think about their teaching and nurturing styles. The images used within this resource are not my own and were sources through free use image sites. Please tag me in your posts so I can see your children’s wonderful work. Twitter/X - @InTechnicolour Instagram - @TeachingInTechnicolour

Simple lettering to display in class with an important message.

A simple resource to use to get to know your class and their community inside and outside of school.

A great way to discuss the different emotional vocabulary needed on a day to day basis, by linking it through the commonly used emojis found all around us. Asking the children to discuss the emojis and to justify this based off the facial expressions of the emojis is a good lesson in understanding that difficulty of reading an emotion on the surface. For more examples, check my Instagram - @TeachingInTechnicolour Thank you for using my resource :) Nicholas

A fun way to round up a term or a year by filling the brain with sentences all about the children’s favourite memories so far. It can be doodled within and children can write in different colours to make the brain really pop! For more examples, check my Instagram - @TeachingInTechnicolour Thank you for using my resource :) Nicholas

A set of three songs for use during LGBT History Month. Proud by Heather Small Brave by Sara Bareilles Fight Song by Rachel Platten These could also be used at different points throughout the year. Examples of work can be found on Teaching In Technicolour Instagram. If sharing examples of work please tag @InTechnicolour on Twitter and @TeachingInTechnicolour on Instagram. If you have time, please return to review. Thanks so much. Nicholas :)

This resource can be used in many ways around the time of Valentines Day. Examples can be found on Instagram with the handle @TeachingInTechnicolour

Rather than focus on a “New Year, New Me” … why not explore a “New Year, Healthiest Me” by focusing on what you can and can’t control! We all hope that our years are straight forward and carefree but as we know, life can throw us curve balls so being equipped with strategies to support your emotional regulation can help us deal with these unexpected difficulties better. This resources includes: Planning Sheet Examples and strategies Learning Intention and Success Criteria Model piece of writing List of words to describe the year ahead Bunting template

A resource designed for inward reflection around Christmas time. To look beyond the materialistic aspects of Christmas and find what makes our own heart grow, just as The Grinch’s had. Christmas can be overwhelming for many adults and children and focusing on the things that make us happy, content and loved during these times can be helpful. A word mat is provided as a guide to support those in sentence creation. Adapted this year (2022) to include the idea of thinking about parts of our bonnie wee Scotland that makes our hearts grow, to be used as Christmas cards for those newly settled in Scotland.

Here is a kindness advent calendar that you can use from the 1st to the 25th of December. Each day has a kind act that requires no cost. They are all about how we can use our words, thoughts and actions to brighten the days of others in this month.

Large RESPECT lettering to be decorated by the children. Followed by a Respect Acrostic Poem template. After this there are word starters to help with the creation of the poems. Make sure you play a wee bit of Aretha Franklin when they are working away! Find out what it means to them!

What do you love about yours? How do you want your classroom to feel? Important questions to ask on your first week back to school with your new learners. Make the right start back by having your children fill these out and decorate them for an early display of pupil voice. Examples can be found on Instagram @TeachingInTechnicolour.