A great resource to use as an ice breaker; ideal for a new tutor group. This encourages students to get up and about communicating with others to extract information and find things in common, breaking the ice and begin bonding with one another! Find more here: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/getting-to-know-you-ice-breakers-11095014

Blogging is very much a part of students’ lives in this day and age. Use this to your advantage to engage them further in your lessons, by getting them to write information on any topic using these awesome and realistic looking blog templates! In this pack you will get 2 blog planning iPad/tablets: one to plan designing their blog, and another to plan their blog post. You will also get 3 blog templates on a computer monitor, one with headings, one with just guidelines and one completely blank for maximum creativity potential! Your students will really enjoy planning and writing their own blog posts on any topic with these. These will work for any class and any subject and they are so simple to use. Use them for cover lessons, homework or classwork! These would look fantastic on display boards too. Your students will definitely think you are the most awesome teacher ever when you pull these out in your lesson! Get yours now!

If you are moving to remote learning via Google Classroom and are wanting to do check ins with your students to check on their well-being, then these Google Forms are an effective way of doing this. This set contains 4 different attractive Google forms for you to use with your students. Simply post them on Google Classroom to get a check in and take attendance at the same time! The forms included are: • Morning Meeting Google Form Check In: check on your students’ well-being and how they are feeling, and give them an opportunity to share important information with you and have that 1:1 attention if they need it. • Afternoon Meeting Google Form Check In: check on your students’ well-being and progress on the day. You can compare how they’re feeling from the morning, discover what they have learned and enjoyed, and what they’ve found challenging so you can cater to their needs in the future. • Initial Remote Learning Google Form Check In: Gain an understanding on your student’s learning environment at home. In your classroom you can control the learning environment, but once it comes to remote learning that is out of your hands. Learn what kind of device, internet access and study space they have as well as what their initial concerns are. • Interim Remote Learning Google Form Check In: As remote learning is a new playing field for many of us, it’s important to regularly check in on your students to see how they are finding the experience. With this form you will learn what they are finding valuable and gain an insight into what might help improve their remote learning experience in the future. You can still be the caring teacher you love being, even without being able to see your students face to face with these well-being check in forms for remote learning.

If you are a form tutor or are required to write a reference for your students, then this resource will really help you out! This should help make the process of writing UCAS / Job references for your students much easier for you, whilst giving your students the opportunity to take ownership of their reference. This is especially helpful if you are a new tutor and haven’t had the opportunity to learn much about your students yet, as they will tell you everything you need to know with this resource! Oftentimes, students can be very modest with their achievements and abilities and so this resource will really help to tease out their best qualities enabling you to simply lift content from their notes into your own reference. This is a 2 page resource which could be printed double sided. One side is for students to fill out and the other is a guide with some examples to help direct them and ensure they consider all their achievements and qualities. I hope this saves you lots of time and makes the reference writing process much smoother and more efficient!

If you are now exploring the new world of distance learning, chances are you, your students and their parents are all in a bit of a panic right now as everything is so new! At least you can have communication with your students via tools such as Google Classroom, but how are parents and guardians coping with this new home schooling life? You can control the environment in your own classroom, but you cannot control their study space or environment at home, so this is where you need some parental feedback. Now the tables have turned, so it is important to reach out to parents and find out how they’re getting on and what they’re seeing at their end. You can’t see your students right now so it’s harder for you to gauge how they’re doing. Getting parental feedback is paramount to everyone’s success. These Google forms will gain you valuable insight into a range of areas. The forms included are: • Initial Parental Information: gain an overview of what environment their child has for studying at home: in particular what kind of devices, internet access, and study space they have access to. • Schedule Parental Information: gain an overall insight into how much support the parents are realistically able to offer at home, judgment free, and how much digital time they would prefer / are able to offer their child every day. • Interim Parental Feedback: Find out how parents are coping with home schooling and how they feel their children are really doing. Get valuable feedback on specific lessons / activities / topics that are going well, and which are more challenging. With this form you will learn what is working best and gain an insight into what might help their distance learning experiences in the future.

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!

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!

Autumn Themed Writing Paper: wide and tight lines A fun 32 paged pack of Autumn themed writing paper pack, ideal for any themed creative writing activities. These come in both colour and black line and in wide and tight lines making them suitable for a range of ages and abilities. I hope your students enjoy using this Autumn themed paper this season!

Character Education Morning Meeting / Tutor Time Printable Journal on RESILIENCE. This is 1 of a 10 part series that includes: resilience, courage, self-confidence, self-respect, tolerance, leadership, respect, empathy, honesty and compassion. I’m so glad you are looking to teach Character Education! Character development and socio-emotional skills are the critical foundation needed for our students to succeed in school and in life. This morning meeting printable journal pack is a powerful and easy way to help strengthen your core curriculum for a responsive classroom. It ensures your students get the opportunity to learn how to be resilient and never give up by repetition and deep discussion. In order to ensure Character Education can be integrated into your busy timetable, this resource has been designed to make it as easy to deliver as possible! This resource is a structured printable journal with 20 powerful quotes and 60 thought provoking writing prompts. No prior knowledge or experience from you is required to teach it. If you choose, you can also download the Resilience Digital Whiteboard pack to go with it if you want to encourage group discussion or go paperless instead. Product includes: • 21 pages of Resilience Morning Meeting Journal • Mindful Coloring page front cover for the journal • 60 thought provoking writing prompts that go far beyond “what do you think this quote means” and instead encourage deep personal reflection on their own lives and the world. • 20 powerfully themed quotes based solely on Resilience. That’s enough for every working day of the month, allowing you to do different Character themed months all year long if you get the whole set of 10 (coming soon). So help build your students’ resilience in 5 minutes every day, and encourage them to be all that you know they can be! Great for Character Education, Social Skills, Life skills and PSHCE (Physical, Social, Health, Citizenship Education) lessons.

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!)

Explore more of growth mindset mentality with these motivational, inspirational and relaxing zen doodle colouring pages with quotes by Shakespeare! There are 6 (1 free bonus page included!) different colouring pages to choose from in this set, and all these inspiring quotes are by Shakespeare himself: great for teaching Shakespeare units or for celebrating his birthday on April 23rd! Most teachers have used these to create a calming and inspirational atmosphere in their rooms by displaying the finished sheets on the wall during the tests, which students love. So take some time out of a hectic day to give your students the opportunity to just focus, motivate and enjoy themselves today – they deserve it (and so do you!)

These worksheets are a fun Agony Aunt / Uncle style that allows your students to demonstrate what they have learnt in a fun and relatable way. They also provide you with great feedback to assess student understanding. You can use these in English lessons to get students to reflect on characters in any book. Students can consider the struggles the characters face, whilst providing the opportunity to offer them advice too. These would also work well when teaching Life Skills topics such as Cyber Bullying or Stress Management. Once they have learnt the skills you have taught them, they can make up scenarios and offer appropriate advice as an Agony Aunt / Uncle in a magazine! They could even take it in turns to write up scenarios for their peers and challenge one another to offer advice on how to deal with the problem. This will work with so many different scenarios and skills! To personalise their own column, they have the opportunity to be creative and draw their own caricature of themselves as an Agony Aunt / Uncle! *UPDATE* Now also includes: • Q&A boxes without lines • Whole page for one Q&A to allow for more detail • An editable document for students to type onto the resource Your students will love this resource and really feel like a pro sharing their newly learned expertise in their own magazine column!

These Character Education doodle colouring pages on "Resilience" are a wonderfully relaxing resource for your students, and colouring and displaying these quotes will encourage them to keep going through the hard times. This complements the Character Education: Resilience teaching unit for teens perfectly! I’m a big advocate for colouring therapy for students and adults, and I already have quite an extensive collection of different quote colouring pages available! They are wonderfully relaxing and especially effective for growth mindset as all quotes are inspirational and positive! Not only are these resilience colouring pages ideal for decorating the classroom, but you’ll be amazed at the wonders it can do just by giving students a few minutes to wind down and relax by colouring. In this unique set, you will get 5 different quotes on resilience. Students can just shade in using whatever colours make them happy, but there is also some white space available for them to add their own doodles too! So take a few minutes during a tutor time, morning meeting, indoor break, or give to early finishers, and let your students wind down and colour while reflecting on positive quotes. Help your students build resilience and be all you know they can be!

Valentine's Day Activities for Teens This Valentine's Day Activities for teens resource pack contains fun activities for teenagers and young students, ideal for tutor time or PSHE. 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 Valentine's Day! 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. Encourage your students to think about those they care about (family, friends, partners or even pets!) and reflect on how they can show love in creative and loving ways whilst developing their literacy skills! Product includes: • Love Poem • Build-a-Love-Bear • Show Them You Care • The Perfect Date • Acrostic Love Poem • Valentine's Day Word Search (and answers) • The Language of Love (in different languages!) Your students are bound to enjoy these creative Valentine's Day themed activities which will stretch their imaginations whilst having fun! These will work really well with the new Valentine's Colouring Pages for teens which have quotes all about love and friendship: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/valentine-s-day-colouring-pages-11195344

Explore more of growth mindset mentality with these motivational, inspirational and relaxing zen doodle colouring pages with quotes by Martin Luther King Jr - great for MLK / Black History Month. There are 5 different colouring pages to choose from in this set, and all these inspiring quotes are by Martin Luther King Jr himself: great for teaching Growth Mindset on MLK day or during Black History Month! Most teachers have used these to create a calming and inspirational atmosphere in their rooms by displaying the finished sheets on the wall during the tests, which students love. So take some time out of a hectic day to give your students the opportunity to just focus, motivate and enjoy themselves today – they deserve it (and so do you!)

Christmas Colouring Pages: fun and relaxing for teens! These Christmas colouring pages are a relaxing and fun resource for your students to colour and maybe even decorate the classroom with for the Christmas season! They work well for tutor time or early finishers. You’d be amazed at the wonders it can do for young peoples’ well-being just by giving them some time to colour for a while – no matter what their age, it is something that is very therapeutic and inspiring. There are 6 different Christmas colouring pages to choose from. Students can just shade in using whatever colours make them happy, but there is also white space available for students to add their own doodles too if they choose! So give your students the opportunity to relax and have fun decorating their classroom or lockers etc. with these unique Christmas quotes colouring pages!

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!

Encourage your students to reflect peacefully on Remembrance Day with these quote colouring pages for big kids. There are 5 different quotes to choose from. Students can just colour in using whatever shades make them happy, but there is also some white space available for them to add their own doodles too! So teach your students about the significance of Remembrance Day (see teaching resource) and also give them the opportunity to sit in silence and reflect on those who lost their lives so that we could live.

Explore more of growth mindset mentality with these motivational, inspirational and relaxing colouring pages: great for the testing season too! These “Don’t Stress The Test” doodle colouring pages are a wonderfully relaxing and motivating resource for your students to help calm and encourage them during the dreaded exam process. The testing period is such a stressful time and you’d be amazed at the wonders it can do just by giving students a few minutes to wind down and relax by colouring in – no matter what their age. It is something that is very therapeutic, and the fact that these colouring pages contain motivational quotes, well that gives them a much needed confidence boost before the test! There are 5 different colouring pages to choose from. Students can just shade 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 take a few minutes away from the testing period and give your students the opportunity to just relax, motivate and enjoy themselves – they deserve it!

Growth Mindset Inspirational zen doodle Colouring Pages and Posters - great for positive thinking and when taking tests! Most teachers are very concerned about their students during the testing period, and have found immediate positive results on student well-being with these motivational colouring pages. Most teachers have discovered that by giving students some time before a test to mentally relax with these colouring pages, it has had an immediately positive effect on student focus and motivation - try them for yourself now! There are 5 different colouring pages to choose from in this set, and the fact that these contain motivational quotes too, well that gives most students an immediate and welcomed confidence boost before the test! Most teachers have used these to create a calming and inspirational atmosphere in their rooms by displaying the finished sheets on the wall during the tests, which students love. Now take a few minutes away from the testing period and give your students the opportunity to just focus, motivate and enjoy themselves today – they deserve it!