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I aim to design inspiring, educational resources to appeal to students and teachers alike.
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This resource contains a fully editable, simple text, 36 slide PowerPoint presentation on the Jewish Festival of Hanukkah (also known as the Festival of Lights) which is celebrated for eight days, usually between the end of November and the end of December. Hanukkah commemorates the re-dedication of the second Jewish Temple in Jerusalem and the miracle of the menorah lights.
The PowerPoint explains what Hanukkah is and why and how it is celebrated. It includes:
Why Hanukkah is commemorated - the story of King Antiochus IV, Mattathias, Judah and the Maccabees.
The restoration and rededication of the Second Temple.
The miracle of the menorah and its significance.
Hanukkah food - fried food cooked in oil eg latkes and doughnuts
Hanukkah Games - the dreidel, gelt (chocolate coins)
The PowerPoint also contains a hyperlink to a short and lively 5-minute video about Hanukkah.
This resource is appropriate for primary pupils and older SEN students. It will help to contribute to the pupils’ ‘Spiritual, Moral, Social and Cultural’ learning (SMSC) and will help to actively promote the British Values of mutual respect and tolerance of those with different faiths and beliefs.
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This is a resource for authors to keep an account of the numbers of sales and earnings each day. It will provide valuable data that will help to inform authors how to most effectively manage their business and, hopefully, show the growth and trends in their business.
This excel work-book will:
Keep accounts of daily / weekly / monthly and yearly sales figures and numbers of products sold
Record sales figures in graph format
Provide averages of products sold and sales figures for each day of the week
Provide averages of products sold and sales figures for each week of the year
Provide averages of products sold and sales figures for each month of the year
Provide averages of products sold and sales figures for each year
It will enable authors to analyse:
Which days are the best for sales
How TES sales or individual sales impact on numbers of products sold
Observe trends in sales throughout the year
The workbook has been set up to input figures until December 2021
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This Chinese New Year lantern riddles resource contains 4 pages of riddles with answers and a template for pupils to make up their own riddles.
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This resource contains a fully editable, simple text, 52-slide PowerPoint presentation on the life of Saint David and Saint David’s Day celebrations. This resource is appropriate for primary pupils and older SEN students.
The PowerPoint focuses on:
The life of St David
His contribution to the spread of Christianity in Wales
How Saint David’s day is celebrated in Wales and by Welsh communities around the world
The emblems of Wales - the daffodil, the leek, the National Welsh flag, Saint David’s cross
The PowerPoint also contains hyperlinks to a short video about Saint David (7 minutes), to the Saint David’s Day parade in Cardiff (5 minutes) and the Welsh national anthem.
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Saint David’s Day Presentation
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This resource contains a variety of PowerPoint presentations suitable for assemblies throughout the year. Never be short of an assembly again!
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This resource contains a Chinese New Year animal zodiac-themed battleships team game on an interactive PowerPoint. It is a fun way to reinforce coordinates in the first quadrant. There are three different grids to provide hours of fun! It can be administered to a whole class and includes a team score sheet.
Suggestions for use:
- Divide group/class into teams.
- Teams take turns to choose a coordinate.
- The scoring system is 2 points for a pig as it is the Year of the Rat and 1 point for all other animals.
- A 'thumbs down' means no point scored.
This resource is appropriate for primary aged pupils and older, SEN students.
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This resource contains a set of 5 Chinese New Year animal zodiac-themed worksheets on finding and locating coordinates in the first quadrant. Answers for all the worksheets are provided. The worksheets contain sections for what went well, targets for improvement, the level of support provided to the pupil and pupil self-evaluation.
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This resource contains a fully editable and informative PowerPoint presentation and a PowerPoint quiz on Thanksgiving Day which takes place in the USA on the third Thursday in November.
The presentation focuses on:
The History of Thanksgiving Day - The Pilgrim Fathers
The Thanksgiving Meal
Macy's Parade in New York
The tradition of turkey pardoning by the President of the USA
It also contains hyperlinks to the Thanksgiving Parade in New York, President Obama's final 'turkey pardoning' and a short video on the history of Thanksgiving Day
The accompanying 33 question quiz is a fun way to check pupils' understanding of why and how Thanksgiving Day is celebrated. Sample questions include:
On what day is Thanksgiving Day in the United States of America?
Which King of England tried to make everyone follow the Church of England religion
What was the name given to people who would not follow James I demands to follow the Church of England religion?
What was the name of the ship on which the Pilgrim Fathers sailed to America?
Which President proclaimed the first national Thanksgiving Day?
In what year was Thanksgiving Day made a national holiday for the whole of the United States?
Which department store organised the first Thanksgiving Day parade?
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This resource contains a fully editable and informative PowerPoint presentation on the World Para Athletics Championships which took place in the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park stadium from the 14th to 23rd July 2017.
The PowerPoint includes sections on:
the Para Athletic classification system
the events
inspiring past paralympians - Dame Tanni Grey-Thompson and David Wear
a profile of GB’s top performers and their achievements - Johnnie Peacock, Paul Blake, Sara Cockcroft, Richard Whitehead, Kadeena Cox, Sophie Hahn and Aled Davies
The PowerPoint also contains 6 hyperlinks to changes at the Queen Elizabeth Olympic stadium; a guide to Paralympic athletics; highlights of the 2015 Para World Championships at Doha, Qatar in October 2015; an interview with the inspirational Tanni Grey-Thompson and a preview of the forthcoming World Para Athletics Championships.
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This resource contains 6 differentiated worksheets (12 worksheets in total) on William Shakespeare's quotations from Macbeth, Hamlet, Romeo and Juliet, As You Like It, Merchant of Venice, Henry IV, Antony and Cleopatra and more! The task is to find the missing words either by general knowledge, research or deduction. The worksheets are differentiated and answers are included. They are ideal for World Book Day and William Shakespeare Week.
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This is an informative and fully editable, simple text 60-slide PowerPoint presentation on the life and work of William Shakespeare.
The presentation focuses on - his birthplace and parentage; his family; references to and excerpts from well-known plays – Hamlet, Macbeth, Midsummer Night's Dream; The Globe Theatre, Shakespeare Memorial Theatre; the Puritans' banning of theatres and plays; The Royal Shakespeare Company; Shakespeare's contribution to the English language; his use of literary techniques and poetic devices; his burial place; his former home New Place -his former home; list of his plays in chronological order.
The presentation also includes hyperlinks to engaging short clips (3 minutes) of Macbeth – film and opera versions and William Shakespeare's annual birthday celebrations in Stratford-Upon-Avon.
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This resource contains a pi-themed partner coordinates game. It is an ideal maths resource for Pi Day which takes place on 14th March. Pupils have to locate the pi symbols and circles by choosing coordinates in the first quadrant. 1 point scored for a pi symbol - two points if they locate a circle. There are 10 grids.
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This resource is a fully editable and informative 75-slide PowerPoint presentation on the life and work of William Shakespeare, The Bard of Avon. It is an ideal resource for World Book Day, William Shakespeare Week and Shakespeare’s birthday. The presentation focuses on:
His birthplace and parentage
His family
References to, and excerpts from, well-known plays – Hamlet, Macbeth, Midsummer Night’s Dream
The Globe Theatre and Shakespeare Memorial Theatre
The Puritans’ banning of theatres and plays
The Royal Shakespeare Company
Shakespeare’s contribution to the English language
His burial place
New Place
Shakespeare Week
Shakespeare’s Annual Birthday Celebration in Stratford
There are hyperlinks to engaging short clips (3 minutes) of MacBeth – film and opera versions. There are also links to Shakespeare’s birthday celebration parade in Stratford and an entertaining stage debate about which word to stress in the phrase ‘to be or not to be’ involving Prince Charles, Benedict Cumberbatch and David Tennant.
A simple text version of this resource, more suitable for primary / older SEN pupils, is also available.
William Shakespeare Simple Text Presentation
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Shakespeare - Set of 45 Quotes Posters
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This resource contains a set of 50 A3 size winter posters showing stunning images of winter flora and fauna, weather and landscapes. It is an ideal resource for display purposes and to use to promote discussion and creative writing.
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This resource contains a fully editable, 52 slide PowerPoint presentation on the life of Saint David and Saint David's Day celebrations.
The PowerPoint includes:
- The life of St David
- His contribution to the spread of Christianity in Wales
- How Saint David's day is celebrated in Wales and by Welsh communities around the world
- The emblems of Wales - the daffodil, the leek, the National Welsh flag, Saint David's cross
The PowerPoint also contains hyperlinks to a short video about Saint David (7 minutes) and to the Saint David's Day parade in Cardiff. (5 minutes).
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This resource contains a PowerPoint presentation and a set of texts and comprehension questions on Saint David and Saint David's Day.
PowerPoint Presentation
This is a fully editable and informative 52 slide PowerPoint presentation on the life of Saint David and Saint David's Day celebrations.
The PowerPoint focuses on:
- The life of St David
- His contribution to the spread of Christianity in Wales
- How Saint David's day is celebrated in Wales and by Welsh communities around the world
- Welsh emblems - the daffodil, the leek, the National Welsh flag, Saint David's cross
The presentation also includes hyperlinks to a short video about Saint David (7 minutes), the Saint David's Day parade in Cardiff (5 minutes) and the Welsh national anthem.
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This resource contains a set of six texts and comprehension questions with answers on Saint David's Day.
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This is a short presentation on Prince Philip
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This resource contains a fully editable and informative 70-slide PowerPoint presentation on the life and work of Prince Philip. It focuses on his family, his background, how he met Princess Elizabeth, his naval career, his interests and hobbies and his contribution in supporting Queen Elizabeth II in her role and duties as monarch.
The PowerPoint contains several links to videos about Prince Philip's life and achievements.
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This is a Christmas themed worksheet on alphabetical order - to the second and third letter.
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This is a fully editable Christmas-themed PowerPoint lesson on alphabetical order, in which Santa’s elves visually demonstrate and explain alphabetical order up to four letters. It is an ideal resource for introducing/consolidating alphabetical order in the Christmas period.
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This Winter Olympic sports puzzle pack includes fourteen puzzles - three differentiated word searches, four differentiated anagram worksheets, three differentiated winter sports puzzles and four differentiated crosswords. All the puzzles are Winter Sports themed.
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The Winter Olympics Beijing 2022 - Presentation
The PowerPoint focuses on:
the history of the Winter Olympics
the events in the Winter Games
Team GB's performances and achievements in past Olympics
Eddie the Eagle
GB's ten gold medallists
Beijing 2022
the Venues and Stadiums
The presentation includes hyperlinks to several short videos about winter sports, GB's ice hockey gold medal, Eddie the Eagle's ski jumping, John Curry and Jayne Torvill and Christopher Dean's ice-dances and the amazing snowboarders, Jamie Nicholls and Katie Ormerod, in action.
The Winter Olympics -60 Question PowerPoint Quiz
This resource contains an editable, 60-question PowerPoint quiz on the Winter Olympics.
Questions focus on:
the history of the Winter Olympics
the events in the Winter Games
GB's performances and achievements in past Olympics
The quiz contains 60 questions, with three possible answers, with varying degrees of challenge. It can be administered in a variety of ways - to individuals or teams. Answers can be found by clicking on the snowboard image on the bottom right-hand corner of each slide. An answer sheet is provided to allow individuals/teams to record answers.
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This resource contains an editable, 115-slide PowerPoint presentation on the Winter Olympics and the 2022 Olympic Winter Games at Beijing, China and a 60 question quiz on Olympic Winter sports.
Presentation
The PowerPoint focuses on:
The History of the Winter Olympics
The events in the Winter Games
GB's performances and achievements in past Olympics
Eddie the Eagle
GB's ten gold medallists
Beijing 2022
The Venues and Stadiums
The presentation contains several hyperlinks to Olympic winter sports, Eddie the Eagle's ski jumping, John Curry and Jayne Torvill and Christopher Dean's ice-dances and the amazing snowboarders, Jamie Nicholls and Katie Ormerod, in action.
Olympic Winter SportsQuiz
The quiz contains 60 questions, with three possible answers, with varying degrees of challenge. Questions focus on:
The history of the Winter Olympics
The events in the Winter Games
GB's performances and achievements in past Olympics
The quiz can be administered in a variety of ways - to individuals or teams. The answers can be found by clicking on the snowboard image on the bottom right-hand corner of each slide. Answers can be given either as you go through the quiz or at the end. An answer sheet is provided to allow individuals/teams to record their answers.
Sample questions:
Where were the first modern Olympic Winter Games held in 1924?
How many sports were there in the first modern Olympic Winter Games held in 1924?
When was the last time that the Winter Games and Summer Games were held in the same year?
Which two events does the biathlon include?
What event has been an Olympic sport for men since the Winter Games began and allowed women for the first time in Sochi 2014?
In which event do athletes race down an ice track singly or in pairs, sliding on their backs?
Which monarch has competed in five Winter Olympics?
How many gold medals has Great Britain won in the Winter Olympics?
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This resource contains:
1. A 50 question PowerPoint quiz on Black History Month (African-American Month) celebrated in the UK in October and the USA in February.
2. A fully editable and informative 85 slide PowerPoint presentation on Black History Month.
The quiz contains 3 multiple choice answers. It can be administered in a variety of ways - to individuals or teams. Answers can be given either as you go through the quiz or at the end.
Sample questions:
1. Where can most black Americans trace back their original roots to?
2. What was the name of the operation that helped slaves escape to the North of America during the mid-1800s?
3. Who refused to give up her seat to a white passenger?
4. Which British Member of Parliament, led the anti-slavery movement in the UK?
5. What was the name of the anti-slavery book written by American author, Harriet Beecher Stowe?
The Powerpoint presentation focuses on:
The origins of Black History Month
The Slave Trade
The Abolition of Slavery
The Civil Rights Movement
Influential people in the civil rights movement - Rosa Parks Harriet Tubman, Martin Luther King, Nelson Mandela
Significant events - The Great March on Washington, salute at 1968 Olympics, Civil War
The debate about Black History Month
The PowerPoint also contains hyperlinks to Bob Marley's 'Buffalo Soldiers,' Martin Luther's 'I have a dream' speech, Nelson Mandela's story and an interview with Morgan Freeman explaining why he does not want a Black History Month.
These resources will contribute to the students' Spiritual, Moral, Social and Cultural (SMSC) development by learning about the history and heritage of communities and the lives of those that overcame the challenges they faced.
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