This is a bundle of 6 crosswords with answer sheets on the following subjects: Soft skills Rights and Responsibilities Work Ethic Interviews Growth Mind-set Customer Services

This is a bundle of 5 crosswords with the answer sheet, on the following subjects: British Values Prevent Duty Equality and Diversity Democracy Rule of Law

These are 6 pictures i designed for students to describe to each other. They can sit back to back or facing each other as long as the picture is hidden. The student holding the image must describe it to the other student who must then draw as instructed. They must not use words to describe the item, like “boat” or “tree”, but rather describe lines and shapes. These can also be used for team working activity, where one person describes it to a group of people, who must between themselves, draw the image - this means learners discuss among themselves where they think lines should go, they might delegate one person to do one stage each, or elect someone to draw with others guiding.

This is a set of 24 scenario cards, 12 Person A and 12 Person B. Any Person A card can be used with any Person B card which creates a range of scenarios between them. Person A has an issue which is effecting them at work. Person B is someone at work and have different responsibilities. The learners can role play these or they can be used as discussion prompts. The subjects cover bullying, personal problems, work issues and motivation. They can be looked at in terms of work ethics, equality and diversity, appropriate behaviours, policies and procedures and problem solving.

This activity is great for teaching customer service skills, communication skills and problem solving. There are 8 customer cards and 8 staff cards. The customer cards have a scenario that the customer needs sorting. The staff card has information to set the background/attitude of the staff. Any staff card can be put with any customer card, so there are numerous combinations that can be used. These can be used to role play a scenario, where the learners can then feedback on their experiences. The learners can also either role play or suggest a better way of dealing with the situation, and analyse what went wrong in the examples.

This is a little activity to get learners thinking about the pros and cons of working for yourself. In groups, they discuss what they think would be a positive and what would be a negative. They can use them as discussion prompts, or to rate the positives from least important to most important. These activities are great opportunities for generating discussion and debate among the learners.

I designed this to record week by week attendance for individual learners and the overall classes, enabling me to flag any issues with learners, and to compare to previous years. The spreadsheet is colour coded to show increases and decreases in attendance for each learner. I have included a 2 page instruction on how to use the spreadsheet and the chart, and how to personalise it for your courses/groups. There is also instructions on how to connect the learner to their page on EBS/ProMonitor or whatever software you use which contains their contact details/profile etc. I use this spreadsheet as my ‘desktop’, using it to navigate to different systems and to compile reports for area review meetings etc.

Are you a tutor with lots of groups and struggle to remember what subjects you’ve covered? I have that problem so I use a tracking sheet. This one is almost blank; fill in the subjects along the sides and tick them off when you’ve done them (copy and paste tick).

A quick little feedback form I designed to evaluate my lessons.

I teach a cohort of predominantly male students. I use this when discussing bullying to make them aware of how their comments could be taken by other students. We also discuss how they might be subjected to sexual harassment, and how they might be accused of it. I find this session also breaks the ice as they become quite passionate about some subjects that emerge from the discussion, so I use this early in the year. At the end there is a link to a video about sexual consent.

For equality and diversity, or disability awareness, this card sort activity encourages learners to experience completing an activity with a disadvantage. Afterwards, they discuss the activity, how they felt, what adjustments could be made to make the task accessible. You will need a deck of cards. The instructions are included with the activity.

I have designed some top trump cards to use for an activity - you can type into the white boxes to fill in your own information. I use mine for a career game but these can be used for anything. Put any picture or clipart in the top box and information in the others.

A nice little worksheet for learners to think about what makes them who they are. This is where they can acknowledge what they are good at, what type of person they are, what they value and what interests they have. This can be used to think about personal statements, CVs, writing applications or used for self esteem or self respect lessons.

A short questionnaire for learners to find out what sort of mindset they have. I use this at the beginning and end of a session on Growth Mindset to see if their attitudes have changed.

These are cards with various soft skills, designed to aid discussions and activities relating to employability skills, soft skills and transferable skills. These can be used as prompts for learners to think of situations they have dealt with in order to evidence it for interviews or CVs, Personal Statements and Application Forms.

Use the scenarios provided or create your own and use the worksheet and calculations to work out how long it will take the drunk person to be under the legal limit to drive. Designed to create awareness for youngsters who might be tempted to drink and drive, or drive the morning after a binge drink.

An activity for learners to discuss different signs and risks of radicalisation. They can discuss which ones they think are signs of it, and which are not. All the cards can either be a sign of radicalisation or not. They could be set a task to roleplay a scenario with some of the cards, or brainstorm in groups, other reasons for this change of behaviour. The end goal should be that the learners have an idea of what Prevent is for and to recognise signs of radicalisation. They should know the procedure within your establishment for reporting concerns.

These 9 cards describe various scenarios which indicate safeguarding problems. Learners can use these to discuss risks, problems arising, things that might help. These get discussions flowing about the problems and to consider how people they interact with daily might be facing these problems. A good introduction to advise them what to do in these situations.

These cards are designed to get learners thinking about different, common, mental health disorders. In groups, learners research one disorder and present back to the class. Or, in groups, learners brainstorm what they know about the disorder - symptoms, changes of behaviour, things that might help. Or tutor could describe scenarios for the learners to match with the disorder.