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End of the Year Positive Mindset Quotes: Fun and Relaxing Colouring Pages
These “End of the Year” doodle colouring pages are a wonderfully relaxing and fun resource for your students to help calm and relax them during the crazy end of year period!
They work great for morning work or early finishers!
The end of the year is when students are hyper and us teachers are just exhausted! You’d be amazed at the wonders it can do just by giving students some time to wind down and relax by colouring in – no matter what their age - it is something that is very therapeutic. There’s also a special colouring page for teachers to keep you smiling and calm too :)
There are 4 different colouring pages to choose from (plus an extra one US equivalent, and one just for teachers, so 6 in total!) Students can just colour in using whatever colours make them happy, but there is also plenty of white space available for students to add their own doodles too!
So help keep calm and order in a really fun way at the end of the year, and give your students the opportunity to just relax, and enjoy themselves – they deserve it and so do YOU!
Summer holiday activities for teens to keep them busy over the summer!
As a teacher you can give this pack to your students / tutor group at end of the year for them to complete over summer and bring back next school year. This makes a good starting point for back to school discussions. This is also great if you are a parent /carer who is looking to keep your own children entertained with fun and educational activities while at home!
When traveling or over the holidays, young people will undoubtedly be glued to technology. That’s fine for a while, but it is healthy to give them a variety of activities to be doing whilst reflecting on their experiences, hence the reason I created this resource.
The activities in this pack are simple and fun to work through, require no preparation from you and will entertain them when traveling and over the holiday period (be that a vacation or even a stay-cation!) They’re versatile enough for any experiences!
Product includes:
• Vacation plans
• Diary / poetry / story writing
• Sites to see
• Road trip Bingo
• Airport Bingo
• People Bingo
• Build your own Bingo Boards
• Gift ideas
• Photo diary
• Vacation word search
• Book reviews
• Noughts and Crosses
• Hang man
• Notes pages
You can print these off and even put them in a special binder so your young ones can complete them when they like. There are plenty to choose from and I think the option of choice is important in making sure they enjoy doing these!
The pages have been designed to be all black and white so they can be coloured in – an extra fun and relaxing element, plus it allows them to personalise their booklet!
Finally, this makes a great keepsake for the future to remind your young ones of their summer holidays! So get them off their technology for a while and encourage them to really observe and reflect on their experiences with this quality resource!
Exit Tickets Galore - Bundle!
Exit tickets are a quick, easy, fun and effective way of providing you with useful feedback to assess student progression and understanding. This bundle includes 4 different exit ticket sets in 27 styles, giving you lots of variety for use in your classroom! (Total value £17)
Bundle includes:
• Social Media Exit Tickets
• Emoji Exit Tickets
• Social Media Exit Tickets 2: mobile phone style
• Plenary Cards
Your students will enjoy filling these out at the end of your lessons and you will be able to assess their understanding effectively: win, win!
Test knowledge and understanding with these Entry Tickets
Your students will really enjoy reflecting on their previous learning with these entry tickets into your lesson! It also allows you to quickly assess students and find any areas where students might need further assistance. These work for any class and any subject and they are so simple to use!
You will receive 2 different sized tickets for your convenience. Some come with ready made prompts for you and some are plain so you can provide your own prompts.
You can use these to test their knowledge of the previous lesson or topic, recap keywords, check understanding of a homework assignment, see what questions they still have on a particular topic - or whatever else you would like to review!
You can also use these entry tickets to target specific students to do individual or group work to differentiate and help them progress (see front cover of resource!)
Reward Students with 35 #Hashtag, Superhero Praise Cards
Are you looking for some modern and fun ways to reward your students and encourage positive behaviour?
These cards are very unique as ‘regular’ praise post cards all have the cute detail on the back of them, which, let’s face it is rather useless when you want to display the note as the image gets hidden anyway!
These cards are rare as they have the cute design on the side where you write your special notes, meaning the design isn’t wasted and looks adorable when on display!
The other thing that makes these special is that these don’t just focus on rewarding academic achievements - with these praise cards, all students can be rewarded on their best personal qualities too.
Simply print them onto card and write straight onto them. You could also edit them by overlaying a text box and typing straight onto the resource if you prefer. You can hand these straight to students or write their home addresses on the back and post them like a post card!
They include both the modern #hashtag trend that students are so familiar with as well as an awesome superhero call out theme that suits both boys and girls and a wide range of ages!
Your teenagers will think you are so awesome for writing them these praise cards and it will encourage positive behaviour in your lessons! They’re definitely cool enough to display in their lockers or on display boards to remind them of their awesome achievements and personal traits. Enjoy!
This written activities resource for reading material will encourage your students to review and reflect on their reading material in imaginative and creative ways, and these work with any book, novel or short story!
The activities are differentiated into a total of 24 activities: 12 brief and 12 more extended tasks (making them suitable for a variety of year groups and ability levels) and are self explanatory for students to complete meaning no preparation needed from you! Students could select their own tasks or they can be chosen for them as a class activity. These work great for tutor times after students have completed reading a book. These would also make great homework tasks too if you’re ever stuck for ideas!
These can be used for a variety of age groups and abilities and requires no preparation. Instructions are on each worksheet and students can be as thorough and creative as they like depending on their ability.
Simply pick and choose some or all of the activities for your classes, or even set some for homework!
This resource pack contains everything you need to help break the ice with your students. This would be ideal for any new class whether they are just new to you or even new to each other! Although it is great for the start of the academic year, many of us deal with casual admissions and students who join late in the year. These resources will be great for helping you get to know them better and for them to integrate into the group.
You will find physical activities to get them up and about, moving and talking to one another and finding things in common, helping the group to improve their social skills in talking, bonding and making new friends.
Enjoy getting your group of students to begin bonding and making friends!
Social Media Profile Templates - ‘all about me’ or write about fictional characters / famous people!
The use of social media is very much a part of students’ lives in this day and age. Use this to your advantage in your lessons by encouraging them to tell you and their peers all about themselves at the beginning of the year or writing about a famous person or character from a book, using a format they love and are familiar with: social media!
In this pack you will find ‘all about me’ templates for 3 different social media platforms and all text is editable. You can give all 3 for your students to complete as they each cover different elements, or you can pick and choose which they complete: the choice is yours, or theirs!
You can use these to learn more about your students at the beginning of the year and first day of school. It is also helpful for other students to read these and learn more about each other and find common interests too!
You could also use these for writing profiles of characters they are reading about in books, or for someone famous they are studying in class!
A complete editable 19 month Teacher Planner 2016-2017 in a bright neon effect and gorgeous graphics! Also comes with FREE updates for life! This planner has been thoughtfully designed to ensure that:
• It’s glowingly fun – the sheets have a unique and classy style with awesome neon effect graphics. Planning needs to be made as fun as possible, right?!
• It’s pretty ink-saving - the sheets have lots of white space to keep ink costs down. The color still prints nicely in grey scale anyway which makes the entire document great for photocopying!
• It’s editable – the titles and graphics are fixed for you, but all the personal text and line markings are fully editable! Simply put a text box wherever you like to type and effortlessly personalize your pages! Alternatively, you can print them off and write by hand too, that’s my personal preference ;)
This editable planner is ideal for secondary school teachers who manage a range of different classes, but will work well for teachers with one class too. You can print multiple of some pages and none of others to customise your planner to meet your needs! Also, this is updated every year for free so there’s no need to keep spending more every year for a new teacher planner!
Product includes:
• A manageable amount of 90+ pages of useful sheets. Aside from the calendar, pages are not dated to provide you with maximum flexibility.
• Header pages for each category to organise your planner neatly - calendars with spaces for your own notes (June 2016 - December 2017. 19 months to cover international teachers!) and 2 register options (one with 30 spaces, one with 15 for class size flexibility). You can print as many as you need!
• Student information (Polaroid pics, medical needs, birthday lists, student jobs)
• Parent/carer information (contact details, contact log, parent/teacher preparation sheets)
• Lesson plans (yearly, monthly, weekly, daily, and individual options) Covers days with 5-7 lessons!
• Personal notes (monthly what’s happening, important dates, to do list, lesson evaluation record, useful websites, staff meeting notes)
All you need and more! Simply pick and print what you would like in your own teacher binder, and get super organised this school year!
Do you want to educate your students about the dangers of Cyber Bullying? It is a rising problem among teenagers and young people in this age of social media, so this resource will offer your students the opportunity to consider the dangers and effects of cyber bullying by encouraging them to discuss and reflect on realistic scenarios.
I have used this resource on different groups of students from year 7-10 and it has proven effective for all ages. It’s interesting that each age group has brought out its own conversations from this resource.
I find it shocking how many young people (especially those below the required age of 13 to even have a social media account) are suffering from cyber bullying online and don’t yet have the skills to handle it. This resource has made a significant difference to my students and I can only hope they go on to spread the word to others!
I hope that my resources save you hours and hours of time: something we always sacrifice so much of as teachers. ❤
This resource pack contains fun Halloween activities for your tutor group!
The worksheets are simple and fun to work through, require no preparation from you and will be sure to entertain them for the week leading up to Halloween! You can select which activities you would like students to complete, or you can offer them the independence to choose their own in class or for homework!
Product includes:
• Spooky cartoon strip
• Design a scary monster
• Write a spooky story
• Scary book review
• Halloween word search (comes with answer sheet)
• A witch’s wishes
• Acrostic poetry for Halloween Night
Your students are bound to enjoy these creative Halloween themed activities which will stretch their imaginations whilst having fun!
So, you’re sick? Off on a course? Out on a school trip? Or maybe you are the supply teacher and no cover work has been set, or the students finish the work far too early. Either way, there is always the hassle of setting inspiring cover work to keep the students on task and interested while still making the lesson worthwhile.
Fear not, as in this quality, compelling resource there are over 50 lesson ideas that can conveniently be used for any subject; the best part is, they don’t need any preparation on your part!
Included are extra black line worksheets (ideal for saving you money on printing) to accompany the lesson plans if you want to use them, with clear step by step directions for what students need to do on each.
Product Includes over 50 different lesson activities including:
• Creative writing
• Character analysis
• Comic strip
• Website designing
• Debating
• Design own theme park
• Robot designing
• Superhero designing
• Creating jingles
• Sentence starters and endings
• A day in the life of
• Design own sport
…and more!
Remember, these activities have been uniquely designed in a way that they can be appropriate for any subject area without needing to adapt the resource! Each lesson plan actually contains a variety of different options as well, offering so many alternatives and extension ideas! They are so simple, easy and ready to use for any subject with no preparation needed.
So next time you’re panicking about what to set your students, ensure you download this resource and save yourself loads of stress and time! Simply hand to the cover teacher and be on your way, no other work from you is required!
Minimal preparation for maximum fun!
Do you want to teach your students about the 400 year old tradition of why we light bonfires and set off fireworks on 5th November?
This resource will teach your students about the our History of the Gun Powder plot and why 400 years later, every 5th November fireworks are set off and bonfires are lit!
The PowerPoint and worksheets are simple and fun to work through, require no preparation from you and give plenty of activities to fill the week leading up to Bonfire Night!
You can go through the PowerPoint first to give students background information, and then either work through these activities together or give students the choice on which ones to complete. You could even set some for homework and encourage some research and background reading on the topic too!
These doodle colouring pages are a wonderfully motivating, encouraging and fun resource for your students to ease them back to school with the right mind set!
The beginning of the year is a great time to get students motivated and ready for their missions ahead. You’d be amazed at the wonders it can do just by giving students some time to colour in these motivational thoughts – no matter what their age - it is something that is very therapeutic and inspiring.
There are 5 different colouring pages to choose from. So get your students motivated and ready to take on new challenges this school year, by giving them the opportunity to just take time to settle in, get mentally pumped and enjoy themselves. Start the year as both you and your students mean to go on – relaxed, motivated and enthusiastic!
Do you want to teach your teenage students how to improve their growth mindset and develop a more positive attitude to life as well as their education? Then this motivational and inspirational set of posters and task cards is for you!
Product includes:
• 10 Positive Attitude Growth Mindset Posters
• 10 Positive Attitude Growth Mindset Colouring Pages
• 32 Positive Attitude Discussion Prompt Task Cards
• Task Card record sheet
This unit includes 10 high quality Positive Attitude posters with motivational quotes that inspire higher level thinking. These can be printed and laminated to put up on walls or shown on a whiteboard to be used as a teaching resource. There are also black and white versions of these which would make for a lovely relaxing colouring activity or for extension tasks!
Also included are 32 task cards with discussion points on positive attitudes whereby students can work in pairs or groups to collaborate and share their thoughts in improving their thinking patterns. These will look amazing in colour but can also work well in grey scale too if necessary.
These cards can be printed out and handed to pairs or groups to discuss and record on their Task Record Sheet which also offers them the opportunity to reflect on their learning and implement practices to have a positive attitude. Alternatively, these cards could be used in a big class discussion which would make an interesting debate.
So look forward to debating and discussing the importance of growth mindset, having a positive attitude and becoming more resilient individuals with your students using this modern and unique resource!
Great for Social Skills and PSHCE (Physical, Social, Health, Citizenship Education) lessons.
Come November and December, it can be a tough time to keep students (and yourself!) motivated in the run up to the holiday season. If you want some fun and quality Christmas and New Year activities to use with your tutor groups that they will enjoy and relate to, then this is the resource for you! It comes with attractive, enjoyable and creative activities that will last weeks running up to the Christmas holidays and even when they return in the New Year too!
This resource will encourage students to look at Christmas over the world, show kindness, reflect on the end of one year and start of another.
These can be used for a variety of age groups and abilities and require no preparation from you at all. Instructions are on each worksheet and students can be as thorough as they like depending on their ability.
These are fun to do and they make wonderful keepsakes for students to look back on when they are older!
Are you fed up with those scrappy sheets of paper stuck on your door to inform students of important notes such as when you have moved rooms or if there is a test going on?
Well look no further, these quality door signs will look fabulous all year round and will save paper too!
These are really unique as depending on where you work, you might have to share your classroom, so these door signs are not only gorgeous, but can adapted for ANY teacher and room! Simply laminate or put into a plastic sleeve, pop on your door then write straight on the plastic with a white board pen. These signs have space to write the teacher name, date, lesson and where the class needs to go to. Each type of sign comes in 3 different and quality styles.
There are also a set of testing signs as well, so passers by know to keep the noise down! So much better than those scribbled notes and much more environmentally friendly too!
Loony Laws: A Year’s supply of weekly weird laws from around the world!
Whether you are teaching about laws or just want something fun to start/end your lessons with, this resource is guaranteed to give you and your students a laugh!
You’d be amazed at the weird, dumb and strange laws there are around the world and your students will love learning these new weird and wonderful facts! They are encouraged to reflect on why they think these laws came to pass in the first place as the answers are NOT included! I did try and find the origins but some are just a mystery it seems! Some are so bizarre, it is bound to stir up some creative writing and class discussions!
This resource includes over 40 different laughable laws and can be shown on the whiteboard, enough for one a week (Weird Wednesdays, maybe?!) for a whole school year!
Enjoy bringing some laughter and learning into your room with these weird and wonderful laws from around the world!
Halloween Resources Bundle
Get 3 fun Halloween resources for teens and save over 10%!
Product includes:
• Halloween Activities for teens
• Halloween Colouring pages for teens
• Photoshop tutorial on how to turn anyone into a zombie
So ‘treat’ your students to some fun activities this Halloween with this bundle of unique ‘tricks’!
Christmas Traditions Around the World: DIGITAL WORKBOOK
This ‘Christmas around the world’ DIGITAL resource is really easy to use in your classroom – there are 8 unique “digi-tivities” (including some examples of each) which involve students undertaking independent research of Christmas traditions around the world and then reflecting on their learning in a range of creative ways!
As each of the activities do not specify countries, students are free to investigate a great number of Christmas traditions around the world which can be differentiated to their age, ability or your lesson plans! As these can be done independently they would make great homework tasks too!
As this resource is a DIGITAL WORKBOOK, students can work on an electronic device to edit the PowerPoint document on screen!
This is fantastic for:
✔ saving paper
✔ saving time and resources printing and photocopying
✔ increases likelihood of homework being completed
✔ increases student engagement
✔ enables students to be proud of the presentation of their work!
They can simply upload their digital workbook to your school portal, email it to you, save it to your Google classroom, whatever you like!
Resource includes:
• Christmas traditions around the world research graphic organiser
• Interview (prompted and open for differentiation)
• Christmas Postcard
• Tourist adviser blog post
• Christmas Quiz
• Merry Christmas languages
• Christmas Creative Writing
• Christmas Menu
• Blank for independent extension work
So enjoy having your teens research and learn about a wide variety of Christmas traditions around the world with this no-prep digital workbook resource!
For the printable version, click here: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/christmas-traditions-around-the-world-11169008