A task card for teaching the dig for the first time. I am going to use this with the pupils in groups of 3, with one coach, feeder and worker.

This volleyball lesson is a comprehensive lesson plan for ball familiarisation and the ready position in volleyball for complete beginners. It will be most appropriate for year 7 volleyball lessons OR for year 8 lower ability. The lesson includes: fun tasks for students to complete to familiarise themselves with a volleyball, tasks to teach the ready position and game play. This was created to save time for busy teachers and is made so teachers with little/no volleyball experience can teach it just as well as those with lots. You should be able to teach a lesson with minimal preparation and I made these so in most cases they can be just picked up and taught. This lesson has all, most and some outcomes, clear teaching points, afl opportunities and clear explanations of the tasks. There are no timings included as each school can vary in terms of lesson time. They should provide enough tasks for lessons of 40 minutes and above.

Help your students to think creatively when linking agilities such as balances, forward rolls and backwards rolls by varying the start and ending positions. Progressive, guided task students can complete independently and self differentiate. Perfect for a lesson on rotation, forward rolls or routines. Any more able students you could get to independently find their own! UPDATED - THE FILE SHOULD HOPEFULLY NOW OPEN! Includes: Clear editable text instructions (the font is fully embeded) Clear high quality illustrations An assessment level (old national curriculum level 5) Need teaching cards for rolls? Check out my resource here Check out my other gymnastics resources here

This indices BINGO activity is a really fun way of practising index laws. Skills are most appropriate for foundation GCSE and include multiplying, dividing and raising a power to a power (brackets). Show the questions on a Smart Board or projector. Your students will love it and won’t realise how many questions they are answering! This product includes: ★ A PowerPoint display with instructions, student choice bingo numbers and 40 questions ★All 40 numbers on screen for students to make their own 4 by 4 grid and pick their own numbers (saves on printing) ★32 unique student cards (4 per page of paper to save on printing) ★ Answers for the teacher to check if students have crossed off the right numbers! This indices maths bingo is useful for revision, prior learning checks, assessment for learning activities, a starter, a plenary or just a fun activity at the end of the lesson. Click here for more indices activities, including worksheets and a foldable revision guide.

Differentiated worksheets on Enlargements for students to complete in class. Skills include positive enlargements, negative enlargements and fractional enlargements all colour coded for difficulty. This is most suitable for Challenging KS3 students and Higher Tier GCSE. I also have a one suitable for KS3 and Foundation tier which only includes positive and fractional scale factors (The questions are different on each version so if you buy both products there are no duplicates). In this product 4 levels of difficulty have been included: Blue (easy) -Enlarge an object by an integer scale factor from a centre of enlargement Gold (medium) -Enlarge an object by a fractional scale factor from a centre of enlargement. Red (hard) -Enlarge and object by a negative scale factor from a centre of enlargement Purple (challenging) Describe fully an enlargement; work out a scale factor and centre of enlargement. Updated - fixed a couple of wrong answers. If you need more transformations worksheets check out my bundle here

This netball lesson is a comprehensive lesson plan for footwork and pivoting in netball for beginners. It will be most appropriate for year 7 netball lessons OR for year 8 lower ability. The lesson includes: learning the names and areas of the position, how to make decisions when passing, game play, AFL quiz quiz trade cards, instructional cards for positions and for centre pass set up (which could also be used as display posters). If you want to assess the quality of my work check out a free lesson on passing and receiving in netball (year 7) here. This lesson is the 4th in my year 7 series. Find lesson 3 on footwork and pivoting here and the SOW/set of lesson plans for year 7 here. This was created to save time for busy teachers and is made so teachers with little/no netball experience can teach it just as well as those with lots. You should be able to teach a lesson with minimal preparation and I made these so in most cases they can be just picked up and taught. This lesson has assessment levels, clear teaching points, afl opportunities, a set of instructional cards, a set of plenary cards and clear explanations of the tasks. There are no timings included as each school can vary in terms of lesson time. They should provide enough tasks for lessons of 40 minutes and above. The assessment levels are old national curriculum levels but the levels can be easily changed to reflect your own schools assessment models. Click here for other Netball lesson plans

A treasure hunt for students to complete in class. Answers and student record sheet included. They have to describe the following types of transformations: -enlargements -rotations -reflections -translations

A lesson on rotations for use in a secondary transformations lessons. Power point and work booklet for teaching rotations are included. Skils covered are rotating a shape around a given point on a square grid, rotating a shape about a set of coordinates and describing the rotation. Time saving resource for busy teachers! You should be able to teach a lesson with hardly any preparation (mainly printing!). Fully differentiated objectives (blue =easiest, gold=medium, red=harder) This resource includes: • A PowerPoint • Differentiated Work booklet that includes self-assessment sections The PowerPoint includes everything you need to teach rotations, including animated examples. The lessons use the following format: • Objective and levels • A “how to teaching portion” with animated examples • An AfL miniwhiteboard quiz • Answers to all the booklet questions • Plenary (with answers) The powerpoint and booklet are currently set up for GCSE maths grade, however you can edit the grades to reflect KS3 or your own schools assessment criteria. In the word booklet if you change any grade (e.g the blue section) it should automatically change the rest of that colour into the same grade. This will take up a whole lesson (between 45mins to 1h 15 dependent on how many questions the students get through)

A set of differentiated worksheets on transformation with a mixture of reflection, enlargement, translation and rotation questions for each difficulty. If you have used my other Transformation worksheets or my unit of work on Transformations this set of worksheets will be good for consolidation or revision. This product will also be included in the Transformation unit of work so if you have purchased it you can download it at no extra cost. There are 12 questions for each difficulty with full solutions - There is at least 3 questions on each topic per colour. The following objects are covered: Blue (easy) *Rotating shapes: rotating a shape on a square grid Translations: translating a shape on a square grid Reflections: reflecting a shape in a given mirror line Enlargements: Enlarge an object by an integer scale factor from a centre of enlargement Gold (medium) *Rotating shapes: rotating a shape around given coordinates Translations: translating a shape using vectors Reflections: reflecting a shape in a given line such as x=1 or y = -2 Enlargements: Enlarge an object by a fractional scale factor from a centre of enlargement Red (hard) Describe fully a reflection, translation or rotation Combine transformations Combine transformations and describe the single equivalent transformation If you are after more practice for specific topics see my Transformations differentiated worksheets resource. Click here for other transformations resources. Coming soon: Transformations end of unit test.

Powerpoint lesson with a work booklet and tick or trash AFL activity on the Order of Operations (BIDMAS/BODMAS). Skills covered include - using order of operations without brackets or indices, using it with indices and brackets, inserting brackert into questions to make them correct. Time saving resource for busy teachers! You should be able to teach a lesson with hardly any preparation (mainly printing and maybe some cutting!). Fully differentiated objectives: Blue:Know and use the order of operations with simple calculations (no brackets) Gold:Use the order of operations with more complex calculations including brackets and indices Red:Insert brackets into questions to make them correct, work out questions with more than one set of brackets. This resource includes: • A PowerPoint • A differentiated Work booklet that includes self-assessment sections • A tick or trash activity (this could be done alone or in pairs, or in groups!) The PowerPoint includes everything you need to teach order of operations, including animated examples. The lessons use the following format: • Objective and levels • A short starter that can lead into a discussion about BIDMAS • A “how to teaching portion” with animated examples • An AfL miniwhiteboard quiz • Answers to all the booklet questions • Plenary (with answers) The powerpoint and booklet are currently set up for GCSE maths grades, however you can edit the grades to reflect KS3 or your own schools assessment criteria. In the word booklet if you change any grade (e.g the blue section) it should automatically change the rest of that colour into the same grade. This will take up a whole lesson. I also have a differentiated set of worksheets on Order of operations available here.

Adding and subtracting fractions Treasure hunt. 3 different difficulties for adding and subtracting fractions included with these treasure hunts. Adding and subtracting fractions with common denominators, adding and subtracting fractions with uncommon (multiple) denominators and adding and subtracting fractions with uncommon denominators. Answers and student record cards included. Easy (blue) -Adding fractions with the same denominator -Subtracting fractions with the same denominator Medium (gold) -Adding fractions where one denominator is a multiple of the other -subtracting fractions where one denominator is a multiple of the other Hard (red) -Adding fractions with different denominators -Subtracting fractions different denominators Check out my other fractions resources: Adding and subtracting fractions mazes Adding fractions worksheets Subtracting fractions worksheets Adding and subtracting fractions worksheets

Gymnastics lesson plan - rotations. This is a comprehensive lesson plan on rotations in gymnastics. This lesson is most suitable for students on their first unit of gymnastics (year 7). The lesson includes: Warm up Prior learning The 3 axis of rotations and examples Independent/teacher led tasks AFL Objectives and levels Organisational points See here for a SOW for year 7 This lesson was created to save time for busy teachers and is made so teachers with little gymnastics experience can teach it just as well as those with lots. You should be able to teach a lesson with minimal preparation and I made these so in most cases they can be just picked up and taught. All lessons have levelled outcomes. The levels are the old national curriculum levels 3-8 however they are easily editable and changeable to your own assessment levels. Each lesson has assessment levels, diagrams, differentiation , clear teaching points, clear task explanations and afl opportunities. This lesson should provide enough tasks for lessons of 40 minutes and above. It follows on from my gymnastics lesson 1- basic shapes(free) . Which you can also use to assess the quality of my work. I also have task cards for rotations which will go really well with this lesson and can be purchased as a bundle here and a free variations in rolls task card here. Check out my other gymnastics resources here

This Christmas maths codebreaker uses skills learnt in multiplying 4 digits by 2 digits, Rounding to decimal places, rounding to significant figures and simplifying fractions to reveal Christmas jokes. Make your students feel like a spy trying to crack a code in a fun and novel way for students to practise rounding, multiplying and simplifying fractions. UPDATED 16/12/19 - fixed the code box on rounding to decimal places. It was showing the incorrect on on the question sheet. Each skill has a different sheet, so there are 4 total worksheets all with awesome Christmas clip art and answers included. The skills included here are normally taught/covered in lower KS3 but could be used for any year group as a fun consolidation. Students need to answer the questions and find each corresponding letters in order to reveal a christmas joke. Great starter for lessons or to give to early finishers. Suggestions for use: Give to students to do by themselves (self differentiated or teacher chooses) Give for homework Use as a collaborative task - (pairs/3s work out a column each) See here for a FREE Christmas codebreaker that uses multiplcation skills. If you would like more Christmas themed maths activities please click here.

A fun 10 card treasure hunt for students to practice identifying congruent shapes on a square grid. Skills covered are: Identifying a pair of congruent shapes that have been either rotated, reflected or both. Student record card and solutions included. Use as a starter, AfL activity or plenary in a lesson on congruent shapes. Great for a recap for GCSE students. Students need to start on any random card and note down the letter on their recording card (first page). They answer the question on that card then find another card that has the answer on (they then note down that letter and so on). Suggestions for use: ★Print them off on A4 and scatter them around the room (students love getting out of their seats!) ★Print the cards off 4 to a page and give them to students individually to do on their desk

A fun 10 card treasure hunt for a finding angles in parallel lines lesson. Skills covered are: finding multiple missing angles in a set of parallel lines and giving reasons. Student record card and solutions included. Use as a starter, assessment for learning activity or a plenary in a lesson on parallel lines or angles. Difficulties include ★ Red (hard)finding multiple missing angles in a more complex set of parallel lines and giving reasons Students need to start on any random card and note down the letter on their recording card (first page). They answer the question on that card then find another card that has the answer on (they then note down that letter and so on). Suggestions for use: ★Print them off on A4 and scatter them around the room (students love getting out of their seats!) ★Print the cards off 4 to a page and give them to students individually to do on their desk Click here for more parallel lines resources, including foldables, worksheets, treasure hunts, lessons and tick or trash activities. U6FE

A set of differentiated worksheets for finding a percentage of an amount. Skills covered are finding percentages of amounts in multiples of 10%, multiples of 5%, multiples of 1%, multiples of 10% where calculations may involve decimals, multiples of 5% where calculations may involve decimals, multiples of 1% where calculations may involve decimals, percentage increase and decrease. Fantastic to use in lessons where you have a lot of different stages of learning (or over a few lessons!). Also great to give to students for homework and they could pick the difficulty they wanted to do! Included is a PDF version and a Powerpoint version where the text within the tables are editable. Difficulties include (for whole number calculations): ★ Blue (easy) – Finding percentage of amounts in multiples of 10% ★ Gold (medium) - Finding percentage of amounts in multiples of 5% ★ Red (Hard) Finding percentage of amounts in multiples of 1% Difficulties include (for decimal calculations): ★ Blue (easy) – Finding percentage of amounts in multiples of 10% ★ Gold (medium) - Finding percentage of amounts in multiples of 5% ★ Red (Hard) Finding percentage of amounts in multiples of 1% ★ Purple (challenging) Finding percentage increase and decrease of amounts using a mixture of all the skills above. There are approximately 60 blue questions, 60 gold questions, 60 red questions and 30 purple questions in these worksheets. Each topic is colour coded by difficulty. Full solutions included in the same format as the questions to make it easier to mark! Also included is a contents page so you can quickly look up what you need! Click here for more percentage resources.

These self-checking, no-prep printable maze worksheets will give Year 5 students a fun way to practise Multiplying 2-Digits by 2-Digits. These maths mazes can be used for class work, warm-ups, additional practise, homework or you can give them to early finishers. Included: ★3 mazes (labelled at the bottom left) ★Answer Key for each maze Features: ★Easy to use ★Self-checking ★At least 9 questions for students to answer ★Engaging ★Markl at a glance ★Full solutions This is a more engaging way of reviewing 2 digit multiplication. It is great because students can self-check the answers and most of the time they don’t realize they are answering multiple questions. Students work their way through the maze, coloring the correct answers and following the path to the next question. =±=±=±=±=±=±=±=±=±=±=±=±=±=±=±=±=±=±=±=±=±=±

Adding fractions with uncommon denominators. A set of no frills worksheet, good for students that need lots of practice with adding fractions. Hard difficulty on adding fractions. Both denominators are different. 4 x sets of worksheets each with 20 questions on and an answers sheet included. 80 questions in total. Find more fractions worksheets here Want something a bit different? Click here for adding fractions with uncommon denominators mazes