Dive into the spirit of Charles Dickens’ classic novella with this engaging GCSE English Literature revision board game, designed to make exam preparation interactive and fun! Tailored for groups of 4-6 players, this game will not only add competition and enjoyment to a self-running group activity, it will, if laminated, provide you with a resource that you can use year-on-year with your classes and revision groups… …AND IT’S COMPLETELY FREE! The instruction booklet details how to play so simply print the A4 booklet double-sided, fold it on the dotted line and your students will be able return to the instructions again if they need help or clarification. If you’d like to see how the game works, please check out the instruction booklet preview. By downloading this resource, you will gain access to: x1 A3 three-piece game board. x6 question & answer cards (to be printed double-sided): * x30 Plot, Character, Theme, Quotes and Context cards (x150 questions in total) * x20 Spirit’s Challenge cards x6 themed game counters x1 instruction booklet Game preparation: You will need to print the game board, cards, counters and instruction booklet according to their specified paper size in the file name (laminating the board, cards and counters if you plan on using it again). IMPORTANT: Print the question cards double-sided so that each question ‘card’ is backed. This also makes trimming much quicker! You will need a six-sided dice and one minute timer to play this game. This can be virtual or physical.

The Behaviour Matrix is a simple yet effective way to manage behaviour in your classroom. Simply enter each pupil’s name into the designated spaces for your class and display the PowerPoint on your Interactive Whiteboard. Once you do, an epic title screen will appear, accompanied by a cinematic sound effect, signalling to the class that the ‘Matrix’ is now active. The behaviour screen will automatically appear (no need to advance the PowerPoint manually). You can update a pupil’s status at any time by pressing the button to the right for rewards or to the left for sanctions. Pupils can move in both directions during a single lesson which has been shown to promote individual responsibility. With sanctions and rewards clearly labelled across the top of the screen, pupils will easily see their current status; note that the labels are editable and can be customised to align with your school’s behaviour system. Every time a sanction or reward is given, a corresponding cinematic sound effect will play. This means that during independent tasks, pupils will be alerted by sound if they are being rewarded for their work or sanctioned for poor behaviour. Additionally, with a clickable traffic light system at the bottom of the screen, you can indicate whether pupils are allowed to talk or not. Clicking the amber button in the centre will initiate an epic 3-second countdown, signalling that conversations must stop within that time. Use the status buttons effectively once the lights turn ‘red’ and the corresponding sound effect plays to reinforce expectations. To allow talking again, simply click the ‘green’ light to deactivate the red light, play the ‘green’ sound effect and illuminate the green light. There are 38 pupils spaces in the template provided. Simply delete any superfluous names and status boxes for your classes. Tip: Save a different matrix for each class and pin the PowerPoints on your ‘open menu’ to enable swift access for each class you teach. This system really works and is highly regarded by pupils in my own classes!

Welcome to 'The Shadow of Duality: The Revision Revision Board Game for The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde. This group revision board game is an entertaining way to revisit Robert Louis Stevenson’s The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde for GCSE English Literature. Groups of 4-6 players will face seven different categories of question cards and choice of pathways across the board, each presenting different outcomes and dilemmas along the way (aimed at replicating not only the duality of man but also the impact of individual choice and reputation). The seven categories of questions are: Plot (recapping the plot and its development) Character (exploring key characters’ personalities and traits) Themes (examining the key themes and their impact) Quotes (identifying key quotes and their speakers) Challenge (timed challenges to test your knowledge under pressure) Virtues (exploring virtuous aspects like the actions of Dr Jekyll) Vices (examining sinful or vicious aspects like the persona of Mr Hyde) Not only are there questions to answer, the choice to pursue Virtues and Vices questions bring individual choices. Virtues questions provide an opportunity to aid others whilst Vices questions provide an opportunity to place the self first, much like Dr Jekyll’s pursuit of the egotistical desire to be recognised in the field of Science. By purchasing this game, you will receive: x1 printable two-page A3 game board x7 printable decks of 24 question and answer cards (168 questions in total) x6 printable Jekyll-and-Hyde-themed game counters x1 printable A4 game instructions (folded) Please Note: Players will require a six-sided dice and access to a timer to play (NOT included). In order to play the game, simply print and laminate the game boards, card decks, game counters and instructions. Be sure to print the game cards double-sided! Plus, by laminating, you can reuse the resource in the future! Replay the game as many times as you wish or even send the question cards home as additional revision if you so wish. Do your students have what it takes to uncover The Shadow of Duality?

Welcome to ‘The Beast Within’: The Lord of the Flies Revision Game for GCSE English Literature. Designed for group revision, the aim of the game is to be the first to reach ‘The Beast Within’ by answering relevant questions on William Golding’s Lord of the Flies. Groups of 4-6 players will face six categories of questions: Events: Testing knowledge of the plot and the development of key themes and concepts. Quotations: Testing knowledge of key quotations from the novel. Symbols: Testing knowledge of key symbols and symbolism in the novel. Themes: Testing understanding of the impact and development of key themes. Analysis: Testing ability to analyse key concepts, themes, and ideas, similar to GCSE English Literature exams. Beast: The ultimate test of knowledge, including advanced ideas such as Darwinism, Freudian Theory, and Biblical Symbolism. This is to encourage knowledge that will aid the pursuit of GCSE Grades 8-9. By purchasing this game, you will receive: x1 Printable A3 Game Board x6 Printable Decks of Question Cards (24 cards - 144 questions in total, all with answers included) x6 Printable Lord of the Flies themed game counters x1 Printable A4 Game Instructions leaflet (folded) In order to play the game, simply print the instructions, game board, tokens and question cards according to their specified paper size (ensuring that question cards are printed double-sided to be able to identify their categories on the reverse) and, for additional durability, laminate them for future use before cutting them out using a paper trimmer. The game also requires the use of a six-sided dice (either physical or virtual). Replay the game as many times as you like with your students and you could even send the questions home as additional revision material should you so wish! Do your students have what it takes to uncover The Beast Within?

Welcome to the Feedback Hub! Fully customisable for whichever subject you teach, this is an incredibly speedy way to mark your pupil’s work. Begin by loading in the names of your pupils into the ‘Class List & Data’ tab, type in your criteria and begin marking. What the ‘Feedback Hub’ does is it reads the scores you load into the ‘Class List & Data’ table and, at the touch of a button, presents you with a score breakdown, a WWW and an EBI target, all in a clearly presented printable criteria for you to return with the child’s work. All names and scores are loaded from a drop-down menu in the pupil name selector. NO NEED TO WRITE ANY COMMENTS YOURSELF! By saving one of these for each of your classes, you only need to make a copy for each piece of work and you will have a pre-named, automatically-dated criteria whenever you need it. This will save you hours!

These A3 Autism Awareness posters come in printable PDF format. Covering each of the key needs of people with Autism, they can be displayed simultaneously or rotated so there is a different focus each week. By purchasing this resource, you receive two different versions of the poster pack: Teacher’s Pack - for display in your classroom or around school. Staff Pack - for use by SENCOs or for Staff Room display.

This is a lesson with a difference. This Creative Writing lesson, ‘Swansong,’ is accompanied by a movie to provide a backstory and inspiration for the children as they begin to write on a topic that has been featured all too regularly in our news feed in recent years. By purchasing this pack, you get: A lesson PowerPoint (fully animated, timed and ready to use). This also includes the aforementioned movie. A success criteria for self and peer assessment. Six images to provide additional inspiration for your pupils to use. This lesson can be used across a variety of year groups but is recommended for classes between Year 6 and Year 10.

Mornings can sometimes be a little hectic for varying reasons so getting important information to our classes can be a little challenging at times but, with this digital classroom noticeboard, the children can read the day’s important information at their leisure. Simply change ‘Your Teacher’ to your own name, add the day’s notices, choose someone in your class to be crowned ‘Yesterday’s Class Hero’ and you’re good to go - the date updates itself so no annoying admin!

Citizen, welcome to the TimeMaster’s Guild. ‘TimeMaster: 2023 Edition’ is a video-game-style PowerPoint designed to quench that thirst for games during Tutor Time or Golden Time. Classes begin by selecting their character, Hydra or Firefly, before being immersed in space-age animated graphics, fully interactive games and bass-hungry Cyberpunk music… This will seriously light up your classroom! The game includes: A general knowledge quiz A minesweeper challenge An anagram solver challenge A sharpshooter challenge Does your class have what it takes to become a TimeMaster?

Designed for English essays and Creative Writing, these automated writing criteria operate in Excel and, using a simple colour-flag tick box system, each will total up the score out of 40 for you. When you have finished marking, simply add it to your print queue and go on to your next piece of work. It will be down to the children to give themselves a WWW and EBI comment based on the colour flags they have received for this particular work. You could even make a copy of each tab to return to later! Both criteria are fully editable and have been proven to save time.

Prepare for seven rounds of competitive in-class fun thanks to this PowerPoint-based English game show. Designed to look like a TV show, the game covers seven rounds of questions in preparation for SATS or 11+ English exams. Topics covered: Comprehension (including small printable text extract) Creative Writing Spelling (x2 dictation rounds using an AI voice) Vocabulary Punctuation Sentence Structure To begin, split your class into four teams with four hot-seats at the front of the room. The class all play along in their books and will take it in turns to sit in their team’s hot seat at the front of the room. There are three lifelines and a steal button for each team and, thanks to some macro coding, you can use the coloured-controls at the foot of the PowerPoint screen to record all scores. Don’t forget to click ‘enable content’ when you first load the file to enable this feature! Complete with moving backgrounds, TV hosts, sound effects and interactive clickable buttons, this game has been a huge hit with my Year 6s and I hope it can be for yours too!

This PowerPoint based rewards board is designed to reward positive behaviour, placing additional focus on collective class responsibility. It is fully animated with moving backgrounds, sound effects and nine editable boxes to showcase your clear expectations. It follows my own school’s behaviour rewards system (House Point and Commendation) but you can change it to your own tiered system. You can also change any of the behaviours to suit your own expectations. To use: Present the PowerPoint on your projector or IWB. Use the plus and minus buttons on each behaviour expectation to place the corresponding number in the Rewards Panel at the bottom of the screen. E.g. the ‘Kindness’ plus button will add the ‘1’ and the ‘Kindness’ minus button will remove it. Once boxes 1-4 are filled in, the class are rewarded with a House Point. Once all boxes (1-6) are filled in, the class are rewarded with a Commendation. The red boxes are for poor behaviour and clicking the plus signs on any of the red boxes will freeze boxes 4 and 6 (thus preventing the class from receiving their reward); this MUST be a temporary measure to encourage positive behaviour from those who have not met expectations yet. Use any of the red minus buttons to remove the ‘Frozen’ icons. By encouraging collective responsibility from the class, it places the responsibility for good behaviour on all children. Publicly celebrating good behaviour and using individual children’s behaviour to dictate the outcome has frequently encouraged results. For this to to work fully, it is vital that you demonstrate that you are more interested in rewarding the positive!

Available for free, this Black History Month ‘TV gameshow’ is designed for four contestants (pre-arranged or volunteers) to participate in a Black History quiz in front of an assembly audience. Containing twelve questions on a broad range of Black History topics, it concludes with a powerful quotation from James Baldwin to really drive home the thought.

The premise of this third and final part of the ‘Escape’ video game series is to provide the children with a creative opportunity to write the ‘final chapter.’ A dramatic title screen reveals a simple fjordic timelapse video and the instruction to write the next section of the story. Once the children finish, they use the ‘automated marking rubric’ to identify which are the key areas they need to improve.

After Escape comes Escape II: The Masked One. Children in Year 6 were begging for the installment of the ‘Escape’ video game series after they completed the first. This time, this interactive PowerPoint-based ‘video game’ sees the wife of Agent CSL0109 deployed in the Arctic North, seeking information on the whereabouts of Dr E. Cooper and the elusive ‘L.’ The only problem is, she is not alone… the Masked One is hunting her! As with the first game, children play along in their activity booklets, completing comprehension questions designed to test the key comprehension skills. The whole game takes about an hour to play and is full of interactive on-screen controls, cinematic cuts and dramatic music. Most significantly, adopting a ‘one mark per minute rule’ provides the children with 30 minutes to complete the comprehension in their groups and the game-screen reveals the whereabouts of ‘the Masked One.’ If the screen is active for more than 30 minutes, it is Game Over but, if all children launch their escape pod in time, the whole class will be airlifted to safety in an epic final scene. This resource series has proven incredibly popular with every Year 6 group. Even now, they are begging for more. NOTE: This game is Part 2 of a three-part series!

Covering Comprehension, Creative Writing, Vocabulary, Punctuation, Spelling and Syntax, this version of Trivial Pursuit is designed for revising SATs/11+ English, spread out over 280+ questions! This pack includes: Question cards Steal cards to keep children engaged Game counters An A3 Trivial Pursuit game board Printable rules Six comprehension extracts Create your own question cards by printing in colour, trim the paper down, stick the two sides of the question card together, laminate them, trim them again and you’ve got a reusable resource to use every year!

Yes, one whole year! Designed for digital displays, these futuristic-looking MP4 files can be looped on your school’s information displays, embedded in your lesson PowerPoints or simply played on your interactive whiteboard.

‘Greetings. Welcome to Bell Hollow Hospital…’ You have been tasked with repairing a damaged energy cell at the heart of an abandoned hospital with a terrifying past. As you progress through the levels, gather evidence to help solve the mystery behind the deadly disease known as ‘the Reaping.’ Answer questions on the evidence you find, describe the setting in your evidence log and crack the code to gain access to the facility. A resource that took weeks to make, ‘Escape’ is a PowerPoint-based ‘horror’ video game complete with sound effects and music, moving elements and on-screen controls. The children play along in their activity booklet which contains everything you need: an ongoing comprehension, writing task and exam strategy puzzle. Everything you need is right here. SATs/11+ English can be a bit of a slog for many children. This video game is designed to combat that impression and make it a lot more engaging.