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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.

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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.
Ancient Egypt Artefacts Lesson
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Ancient Egypt Artefacts Lesson

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This resource includes a presentation provoking discussion about what Ancient Egyptian artefacts could have been used for in every day life. There are pictures for the students to stick into books or present on a poster and sentence stems to support if necessary provoking enquiry and encouraging the pupils to justify their reasoning. There is also a visual presentation with facts showing the main surviving artefacts from Ancient Egypt.
Ancient Egypt Homework Project
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Ancient Egypt Homework Project

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Students choose from nine homework project tasks linked with the topic, Ancient Egypt. They aim to get 15 stars by choosing a range of 3, 4 and 5 star activities which are organised into three categories; Literacy, Kinaesthetic and Investigative. There are a wealth of open ended tasks that encourage the student to take ownership over their home learning, with the option of completing more tasks if they wish to. The other benefit of the projects are that they allow for independent learning and others that encourage the parents to get involved.
Reading Comprehension Lesson
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Reading Comprehension Lesson

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This resource contains a Smart Notebook with the Learning Objective, modelling many examples to the students of how they should scan, locate and read to find the answers to the question. It also includes the printable extract from the text, 'Gowie Corby' and questions which have been differentiated three ways. It is suitable for Key Stage 2.
Report Writing Comments
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Report Writing Comments

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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.
Blank IEP and Powerpoint
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Blank IEP and Powerpoint

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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.
Behaviour Management Training  Powerpoint
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Behaviour Management Training Powerpoint

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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.
Autumn Term Spelling Plan
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Autumn Term Spelling Plan

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This resource is the autumn planning for spelling, with links to resources and other activities to secure the reading and spelling of words with suffixes –ed and –ing.
Phonics: Singular to Plural Activity
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Phonics: Singular to Plural Activity

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Fun activity for those children who are on support for spelling stages. The students must find the correct rule for changing a word form a singular to a plural. There is then an extra challenge for those more able.
Phonics: Long 'O' sound activity
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Phonics: Long 'O' sound activity

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Simple but fun activity for children to pick a word and put it in to a proper sentence. There is an additional challenge to use a conjunction to extend their sentence.
Full Guided Reading Scheme
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Full Guided Reading Scheme

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This scheme has broken down the reading assessment indicators for the ENC and has nine separate descriptors for the teacher to assess against. It contains independent activities for the other groups to engage in while the teacher works with one group. This is designed to take minimal preparation time but maximum impact for learning.
Report Writing Comments (full comments NOT short sentence statements!).
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Report Writing Comments (full comments NOT short sentence statements!).

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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.
'Whole School Policy' Bundle
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'Whole School Policy' Bundle

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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.
Who Wants To Be a Millionaire (France)
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Who Wants To Be a Millionaire (France)

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A 'Who Wants To Be A Millionaire' themed quiz on everything French. This students can play in teams, independently teacher V's the class, etc. All the questions and answers have been created but they can be easily changed to suit the level and interest of the pupils. It is also a great formative assessment tool at the end of a lesson or topic.
How Can I Grow Up Healthy and Strong? (Unit of Work)
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How Can I Grow Up Healthy and Strong? (Unit of Work)

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This is an entire unit of work on the topic of Healthy Living, suitable for Year's 1, 2 and 3. With nine detailed and easy to follow lessons, the class will explore a variety of areas that include food, exercise, and medicines. The students will draw on learning from English, Mathematics, Science and Art so that they make connections and are excited by the learning taking place. For the teacher, this is a unit of work that comes with the resources and slides, with minimal preparation, without the loss in quality of learning.
English weekly plan on texts by Julia Donaldson
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English weekly plan on texts by Julia Donaldson

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A very easy to follow and exciting weekly plan with resources and notebook slides. It has a variety of differentiated and challenging activities for a Year 2/3 class, that will engage and progress all learners using texts and visuals. As a teacher you will be able to pick up this plan and get going without minimal preparation without the sacrifice of quality of learning.
Past and Present Guided Reading Activity
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Past and Present Guided Reading Activity

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A simple yet effective guided reading activity that develops students knowledge of past and present words and research skills. Rather than using rote learning to develop this knowledge it is done alongside any text that you are using in class or the pupil finds exciting. It can be done as an independent or group activity during guided reading, English or as a withdrawal activity.
Guided Reading Tasks (5)
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Guided Reading Tasks (5)

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Within this pack are five guided reading tasks to develop comprehension. They are based on books by Roald Dahl but can be easily tailored to suit any book you are using in the class and can be used again and again. The resources encourage the students to really think about what they have read and use a variety of skills to answer the questions. They encourage the development of predicting, awareness of sentence structure and recall through writing and art.
Reflection Sentence Stems
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Reflection Sentence Stems

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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.
Book week power point with activities
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Book week power point with activities

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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.