The goal is to provide great resources for teachers and school leaders, ensuring outstanding value for money and quality.
With over 40 years of teaching experience and skills in computer graphics and resource design you will find great lesson plans, units of work, display materials, school policy's, instructional video's and resources to help with interviews and observations.
If you would like us to make a resource for you or just to give some feedback we would like to hear from.
The goal is to provide great resources for teachers and school leaders, ensuring outstanding value for money and quality.
With over 40 years of teaching experience and skills in computer graphics and resource design you will find great lesson plans, units of work, display materials, school policy's, instructional video's and resources to help with interviews and observations.
If you would like us to make a resource for you or just to give some feedback we would like to hear from.
Before you read on, these are not short sentence stems or phrases that you join together with other random statements to make up a comment. These are full and comprehensive teacher comments that are differentiated for all levels and abilities in any class. Below is a Mathematics exemplar for you to read and decide if this is appropriate to your school report card layout before you commit to investing your money.
You will get differentiated comments for Mathematics, Reading, Writing, Science & Technology, Computing, Topic, ICT and Art & DT.
Also with this resource you get 'Next steps' statements for the core subjects.
Each core subject comment is between 650-680 characters (including spaces).
"(Name) writes with confidence across the curriculum and it is clear she has made outstanding progress this year through using a widening range of punctuation and connectives. She has developed her ability to write with flare and improved her understanding of alliteration and similes. She has a wonderful imagination that she is becoming more confident at articulating through her increasing vocabulary range. She is keen to experiment with word order and embraces the creative side to writing.
These are differentiated report writing comments to help you write your reports! It includes comments for Reading and Writing ( approximately 75 words long) with targets, Topic (approximately 150 words long) which includes Science Art, DT, Geography, IT and PE) with a target, individual comments for the following subjects; IT, PE, Music, DT, RE, History, Geography, Art (approximately 40 words long) and a whole class set for Maths (approximately 150 words long) with targets.
Here is an example of a Reading comment:
(Name) reads confidently and with expression. He can understand all of the text that he is reading and can recall the main points in order. He is able to identify interesting words that the author has used and is beginning to think about their purpose in the text. (Name) can say whether or not he likes a text and can give reasons for this. This year, he has developed his ability to deduce how a character is feeling; referring back to things they have said or done in the text as evidence.
To comment on how the author wants me to respond to the text.
To read between the lines using evidence from the text.
Example of a PE comment
Jessica is developing her ability to use her skills to improve her performance. She has some understanding of tactics and is starting to use this during lessons. She has also demonstrated good control and co-ordination in gymnastics and dance.
This Powerpoint can be used as training for Teachers or Teaching Assistants and is a useful reminder of what Behaviour Management is and how we can implement effective strategies. The discussions and 'script' for what do say to children when you would like them to show better behaviours for learning will encourage a consistent whole school approach.
This a script for a Year 2 whole class assembly based on Castles. It has a link to a song about castles, short description about what the set should look like and the lines each child performs.
Four tried and tested whole school policies, covering ‘Anti-Bullying’, ‘Teaching and Learning’, ‘Child Protection & Safeguarding’ and ‘Behaviour, Discipline and Exclusion’.
They are detailed policies that have evolved over the many years of use. Like all school policies, they are a working document that should be tailored to the needs of your school.
They were developed for a primary school setting in the UK and can be easily adapted for any setting working with young people.
This is a 'Teaching and Learning' policy for a primary school and covers all aspects of a school policy and outlines the responsibilities by all stake-holders.
It is a comprehensive document that is adaptable to any school or organisation involved with working with young people.
This is a power point presentation to help you clearly explain what 'Book Week' is at your school and what activities are taking place.
It is done in a clear and fun way to engage the children during an assembly or in classes, using visuals and images of some of the most famous children's authors. You will also be able to tailor and use the activities to your liking, reducing the stress of planning an entire book alongside your other commitments.
This resource includes a blank IEP document template which can be used by Teachers, Teaching Assistants, Learning Support Assistants or Additional Education Needs Coordinators to identify a pupil's Individual Educational Needs and plan for how to meet these with targets and strategies. It is designed to be shared with parents. There is also a Powerpoint explaining the purpose of the IEP and how to complete it.
Very effective resource used throughout or at the end of a lesson as a self or peer assessment tool to evaluate learning. This is a formative and cooperative way of assessing a students understanding, and a great motivator for students of any age.
It is a very effective tool to encourage students to identify their own next steps in learning, as well encouraging them to share their reasoning with the teacher and peers.
Most effective when used as permanent working-wall and referred to consistently, especially during plenaries.
This display lettering is to encourage a more positive approach to learning from mistakes and a growth mindset approach to recognising our areas of weakness and focusing on improving them.
A description of how I use this resource is contained within the pack and the approach taken to maximise the engagement of students.
These sentence stems are a great way to get students to reflect on their own and their peers learning. They can be easily utilised for setting a particular focus for self/peer assessment time and is an effective way to introduce this reflective and independent approach to learning with confidence.
This resource allows students in your class to respond to work or material that is on display in your classroom.
It is a great stimulus to encourage engagement with the displays as these can sometimes become just like wallpaper. By providing this little area that contains guidelines and suggestions, it encourages students to think about the learning and post comments on the wall for their peers and teachers to assess and allow deeper thinking skills to develop.
This is an 'Anti-bullying' policy for a primary school and covers all aspects of a school policy and outlines the responsibilities by all stake-holders.
It is a comprehensive document that is adaptable to any school or organisation involved with working with young people.
This is a 'Behaviour, Discipline and Exclusions' policy for a primary school and covers all aspects of a school policy and outlines the responsibilities by all stake-holders.
It is a comprehensive document that is adaptable to any school or organisation involved with working with young people.
This is a 'Child Protection' policy for a primary school and covers all aspects of a school policy and outlines the responsibilities by all stake-holders.
It is a comprehensive document that is adaptable to any school or organisation involved with working with young people.
This is a Year 2 Curriculum overview for the academic year. It contains links to the ENC and the potential topics that would complement the core subjects.
This is an assembly to showcase learning in the IPC topic, 'Toymakers'. It contains the script with each child having their own speaking part and the ppt which can be edited to suit all learning that took place during your unit.
A ppt with a series of activities that develop an awareness of the classroom rules and some get to know you activities.
There are activities that involve Art/DT that can then be used make a display.
This resource provides a lovely and very effective way to develop reflective skills among the pupils in your class. By providing a variety of sentence stems that encourage the student to focus on a particular area of their learning or ability, you can scaffold the development of this difficult skill.
This resource can be used in any subject, glued in to a book or used as part of a permanent display in your classroom.
There are some many ways you can use this resource to get your students really thinking about their learning and can be used to stimulate peer and whole class discussion.