This is a page of various strategies that can help boys achieve more. The New Welsh Curriculum expects independent and resilient learners so this may help when planning lessons. Raising standards in boys has always been challenging but experience and research has shown me that it is all about engagement. Every learner needs to be a participant in their own learning and as teachers we need to be facilitators for this. Sitting at the front of the classroom expecting learners to engage does not work with our multi media smart phone learners. These tips will help any teacher engage with their learners.

This resource is an ideal way of teaching how the food chain works. The mobile is easy to construct but gives the learner the opportunity to discuss other food chains while they are making this one. As a Welsh Curriculum resource it is part of the Science and Technology strand. What Matters: The world around us is full of living things which depend on each other for survival. Achievement Outcome: I can describe how living things compete for specific resources and depend on each other for survival.

10 tips garnered from a range of resources that will help parents to help their child with reading.

Learning mat to support English learning of clothes. Picture and word with box to look, cover, write and check. Can be printed off for use as a homework.

This resource supports the safety in the science classroom lesson but can also be used as a stand alone sheet.

This is a simple template that uses boxes to teach facial proportions. It is ideal for all age groups and links into art and design.

A simple single resource that asks the learners to name the textile equipment shown. Ideal as a whole class or individual activity.

Weekly sheet to put up in staffrooms, year/pastoral offices where any adult can raise concerns about a year 11 student in relation to their learning.

Understand complicated nets Draw own net of a rectangle shape for their money box.

Powerpoint developing the brief and analysing current money boxes.

Lesson 1 - Learning Health and safety expectations in workshops. Series of slides to support students introduction to the workshop and rules that apply. Supports mental health safety

Lesson 2 Developing and creating a front cover for the project. Its been left open for you to add your own designs so that your style of teaching can be accomodated.

Powerpoint that can be added easily to lesson 3 or 5 if the learners are progressing well or stand alone if needed. Discusses specifications and gives support on what to write to complete a specification list. Especially good for lower ability as well as challenging higher level learners.

What mentoring is. Examples of what young people think of Mentoring Success with mentoring Types of mentoring - there are so many now so a few used.

What is a link learning Mentor? Why is it useful How it benefits schools and students

Useful for school leaders or Govt Education department education workers. What a gifted and talented Co-ordinator will do. I aim to start by looking at the aims of the Gifted and Talented Programme within the EIC. Next I will look at the Vision and then relate it to reality. I will then move on to show where we are at present and have used the information received in the Strategic plan to help with this. I will then move on to the future and what effect a co-ordinator will have on the LEA, the school and governors, the parents and the pupils.

Fully completed threshold application that can be used for guidance.

Worksheet and support sheet to support learners in working out what they wear on a daily basis. This is an introduction to textiles as from there you can discuss materials.

This is a complete lesson helping the learners to think about how block printing can be used and developed. Starting off with a simple Polyblock print it looks at Maori designs and progresses to look at French artist Jean Dubuffet and his work, culminating in a piece of the learner’s own work and an evaluation. The lesson includes, aims and objectives, relevant Youtube videos, example of work and self assessment through evaluation.

An English Scheme of work written for KS3 on the book Buddy by Nigel Hinton. Novels and short stories: Buddy. ‘Buddy is a young boy who comes from a poor home, he is neglected by his parents and is often picked on at school for being poor. He lives at home with his parents. It all starts when Buddy wants some money to go on a school trip, but he knows that he is unlikely to go as he was unable to go on previous school trips because his parents do not have the money. When his mother tells him she does not have any money to give him, Buddy ends up stealing the money from her purse.’