Hello and Welcome to my shop! I have a mixture of resources based on my experiences. Mostly, you will find resources for the Primary-Curriculum which have been developed in accordance with my experience teaching Primary. Secondly, you will find music-related resources developed in accordance with my musical training (BA Music - Oxford University). Finally, you will find GCSE A-Level appropriate resources that I developed when I was a student. I hope you will find something of use to you. :)
Hello and Welcome to my shop! I have a mixture of resources based on my experiences. Mostly, you will find resources for the Primary-Curriculum which have been developed in accordance with my experience teaching Primary. Secondly, you will find music-related resources developed in accordance with my musical training (BA Music - Oxford University). Finally, you will find GCSE A-Level appropriate resources that I developed when I was a student. I hope you will find something of use to you. :)
A collection of 4 worksheets on expanded vocabulary. Each worksheet looks to target different skills and includes a different activity for variation.
The 4 worksheets are as follows:
Wordsearch - ideal starter or plenary activity. Wordsearch involves 16 ambitious vocabulary words. Answers are provided on a separate sheet.
Cut and stick - ideal for younger children. Matching the less ambitious word to a more ambitious alternative. Worksheet completes with a written application task which could be used to push certain learners forward.
A-Z activity - excellent starter or plenary activity. Could be expanded out to include dictionary / thesaurus skills. Could be completed as an individual or in teams. Could be made into a competition / race for added variation.
Application writing worksheet - worksheet comes in two parts to allow for differentiation. First half involves simple sentences with simple adjectives underlined so students have to re-write and swap out the underlined words for more ambitious vocabulary. Second half has simple sentences with no adjectives. Students must add their own.
Worksheets would work best in conjunction with the Expanded Vocabulary lesson also available from the shop, however, they would also work as standalone activities.
The variety of worksheets ensures they are applicable and appropriate for a range of ages, development stages, and purposes.
Easy accessible layout.
A 30-question quiz on synonyms and expanding vocabulary designed for primary-aged children. The quiz is structured in four rounds, with each round asking a different type of question to help keep children engaged. The four rounds are as follows:
Multiple-choice
True or False
Odd one out
Sense or non-sense, multiple choice
30 questions allows for every child in a typical class to 30 to answer at least one question each.
The quiz is highly interactive. To answer each question, students can physically select the answer they wish on an interactive whiteboard or computer device and that will reveal the answer. The incorrect answers will disappear to leave only the correct answer. Answers are provided for all questions.
All questions are multiple-choice to make the quiz more accessible to a wider range of learning needs and levels. All questions are short and simple. Bogus options are designed to include common words with simple phonic sounds to allow younger children more independence to read for themselves.
The quiz focuses on common descriptive words such as big, small, fast, slow, tall, short, happy, sad etc. to ensure that the words are more relevant and applicable to every life. This will help the quiz feed into future writing and reading activities.
Colour and simple animations are used throughout to make the quiz more aesthetically engaging.
**Lesson three in a series of six lessons on musical instruments and instrumental families. Lesson three is on The Brass Family.
This lesson forms part of a series designed to teach children about musical instruments and instrumental families without the need for music resources or specialist musical knowledge. The lessons are designed to be accessible to students from all musical backgrounds.
Although the lesson does form part of a series, it can also be used a stand-alone lesson on brass instrument and does not need to be used in conjunction with other lessons in the series.
This lesson pack contains a presentation and 6 worksheets.
Presentation
The presentation is best used to teach students about the brass family. The lesson presentation is structured as follows:
overview of instrument families
overview of the brass family - key instruments, common features etc.
Deeper look at the trumpet
Deeper look at the trombone
Deeper look at the french horn
Deeper look at the baritone and euphonium
Deeper look at the tuba
Comparison of brass instruments
Three activities
The presentation finishes with three different activity suggestions to consolidate knowledge.
The presentation includes questions and short activities throughout to allow students to take an active part in their learning.
The presentation is long enough and detailed enough that it could be separated across two lessons for lower ability learners. If this is the case, I would suggest splitting into two lessons, starting the second lesson with the comparisons between instruments.
Worksheets
The lesson pack comes with 6 different worksheets, each a different activity as follows:
cut and stick
wordsearch
times table sheet
unscramble activity
fact file writing activity
true or false quiz
All worksheets except the fact file writing worksheet would make excellent starter or plenary activities to frame the lesson.
A whole lesson on conjunctions aimed at children in upper-primary school / lower high school (Yr4-8 England) (P5-7 /Scotland). The lesson takes the form of a highly interactive presentation which is structured as follows:
What is a conjunction?
Examples of Conjunctions
Application of conjunctions into sentences
Activities
Section one on “What is a conjunction”? encourages the children to find their own answer through discussion. A recap is provided of clauses - main and subordinate clauses and how conjunctions interact with these to form sentences.
Section two on examples of conjunctions aims to help students create a word bank of different conjunctions that they will be able to apply to their writing. This is delivered by showing pupils examples of sentences with conjunctions and guiding them through identifying the conjunction in each case. By including sentences at this point, it helps the students to already start to develop their application and understanding of how conjunctions fit into sentences.
Section three on application of conjunctions into sentences is broken down into small chunks. The section is structured by different purposes a conjunction may have in a sentence for example: comparison, adding information, giving a reason etc. At each point at least three examples of conjunctions are given including an example of how they fit in a sentence. Students are encouraged to take an active part in their learning by the section being structured with various pause points do students to have a go themselves. The section aims to cover many examples of conjunctions but in a way that is relevant to writing. Small chunks help the volume of information to be less overwhelming. Every conjunction mentioned has at least one example sentence included.
Section four includes 3 different activities.
The first activity is a writing activity. To help engage students, the activity includes a highly relatable, relevant and interesting topic. Students are asked to reflect on a recent problem they had and write an “agony aunt” newspaper article describing the problem and solution using conjunctions.
The second activity is a scavenger hunt activity which involves students searching for conjunctions in different books. This activity does not involve any writing and is designed as an active learning task. It could easily be completed as individuals, pairs, or teams.
The final activity is a game of Simon Says that has been adapted to include different types of words including conjunctions. This game helps to add fun to your lessons whilst reinforcing the topic and encouraging leadership and listening skills.
The whole lesson aims to be relevant to student experiences and interests and applicable beyond the lesson throughout. Students are encouraged to take an active part in their learning as the lesson is interspersed with many opportunities for engagement through questions, short tasks, longer tasks, and games.
Colour and
A lesson designed to teach children of a primary age about adjectives. The lesson takes the form of a highly interactive presentation to be worked through in class. Throughout the lesson students are encouraged to take an active part in their learning through questions, short and long tasks, and activities. The presentation is broken down into small increments as to not overwhelm children with too much information at once. The structure is as follows:
Defining adjective
Examples of adjectives
How adjectives are used in a sentence
Why adjectives are used
Different ways adjectives can be used
More worked example of using adjectives
Three short application activities at the end.
Examples are used throughout. All examples include relatable content.
Colour used to provide some visual aids.
Wordsearch covering five woodwind instruments and key features of woodwind instruments. This activity helps develop spelling and knowledge of key words associated with woodwind instruments.
Great starter or plenary activity.
This resource is a 59 slide presentation on the events that occurred under Thatcher as Prime Minister. The presentation is organised into four sections: political, economic, social and foreign policy and each section describes what changed and what continued in each of those areas under Thatcher. Much SFD is included in the presentation. In the political section information is given regarding Thatcher's ideology, the Labour Party, divisions within the Conservative party, issues with Northern Ireland and why Thatcher was successful in the 1983 and 1987 elections. In the economic section information is given regarding Thatcher's economic beliefs, monetarism, privatisation, deregulation, issues with unemployment, inflation and economic realignment. In the social section information is given on the sales of council houses, the poll tax, the Miners strikes and industrial disputes and social opposition to Thatcher (section 28, Faith in the City, the Arts for example). In the foreign policy section information is given on the Falklands War, Thatcher and Europe, the Special Relationship under Thatcher and Thatcher as an international figure. This resource could be used to teach students in the classroom or could be used as a revision resource. It can be used to cement knowledge of SFD as much is provided in the presentation.
This is a 51 slide presentation covers content on the political, social, economical and foreign policy developments in Britain under the Conservatives in the years 1951 - 1964. The presentation gives detailed summaries including SFD and uses colour and images to work as visual aids for students. The presentation could be delivered to a class as part of teaching or it could be used as a revision resource for students.
Presentation on the political, economical, social and foreign policy developments in Britain under Harold Wilson 1964 - 1970. The presentation includes brief summaries on the different developments including SFD and images to provide a visual aid for students. The presentation could be used to teach information to a class, provide students with some extra reading so they can access further SFD or be used as a revision resource.
73-slide presentation which covers research methods content for AQA A Level Psychology - content from both year 1 and year 2. The presentation uses colour, tables and diagrams to provide visual aids for students. It could be used to teach a class the research methods content but best used as a revision resource (slides could be printed off as flashcards for example.)
Tables/bullet points provided outline the successes and failures of Thatcher during her time as Prime Minister (1979 - 1990.) The content is organised into four sections covering: political successes and failures, economic successes and failures, social successes and failures and successes and failures in Thatcher’s foreign policy. The tables/bullet points use SFD and dates where possible. The resource could be provided as a revision resource for students or used in lesson as a cut and stick activity where students organise each point into either a success or failure under the four headings: political, social, economical and foreign policy. Each section ends with a small summary of overall successes/failures along with a judgement on the extent of success in that area.
This resource is a 44-slide-long presentation giving summaries on the political, economical, social, and foreign policy developments under John Major as Prime Minister. The resource uses colours and tables to provide visual aids for students and the summaries are complete with SFD. Ideal as a revision resource for students but could also be used to teach a class.
This resource provides a 96-page-long summary of four key areas of psychology: memory, social influence, attachments, and psychopathology. The resource gives a detailed overview of the four key areas. Specific attention is payed to giving summaries of key psychologists and studies involved in each topic area and key terminology involved in each topic area. The resource would be appropriate to use either as a presentation for teaching or revision, or as revision cards for students. The combination of topics is specifically suited to students who are studying A Level Psychology with AQA, however, the information will be compatible with any exam board / level.
Ideal for students studying GCSE Biology, this quiz has quick-fire questions designed to test and refresh student knowledge on the digestive system, enzymes, types of cells, sampling living things, and diffusion. The resource would be an ideal classroom activity for revision, consolidating knowledge, or assessing student strengths and weaknesses. Students could peer mark and discuss answers to encourage collaborative learning.
This resource is a small pack of four worksheets about adjectives. Each worksheet is designed to give children a chance to use adjectives, write adjectives, and come up with their own adjectives. The four worksheets are designed as follows:
A fill-in the blank worksheet where students can write an adjective of their choice at the correct place in the sentence.
A reading exercise where students can read a passage of text and circle every adjective they can find.
A matching exercise where students can draw a line between an image to the most appropriate corresponding adjective.
A creative exercise where students are given a series of images and asked to write 3 adjectives that they could use to describe each image.
These worksheets look to incorporate both reading and writing into helping students to learn and develop their adjectives. The worksheets would be best used in conjunction with a teaching resource on adjectives such as the adjectives presentation, also available.
A collection of six worksheets about nouns. Designed for primary school aged children. Each worksheet covers the following:
Types of nouns ‘fill in the blank’ activity. Involving reading, writing, and memory recall. Answers provided.
Matching activity - match the type of noun to its definition.
Spot the nouns reading activity - short passage of text where children can underline/circle all the nouns they spot.
Organise the nouns cut and stick activity - series of nouns given and a table with each type of noun. Children to organise each noun under the correct heading in the table to show what type of noun it is: concrete, abstract, collective, or proper.
Writing nouns activity - children to write five of their own each type of noun: concrete, abstract, collective, or proper.
Spot the different types of nouns reading activity - short passage of text where children can colour code all the nouns they spot depending on their type.
The worksheet pack would be best used in conjunction with the presentation on nouns, also available.
This resource is a detailed presentation covering the topic of social influence within psychology. The presentation provides both theories and studies into social influence with points of evaluation for each. Over 40 studies are included within the presentation. The presentation covers: research into explanations and types of conformity, Asch’s Study of Conformity, Zimbardo’s Prison Experiment, Milgram’s base-line study into obedience, Milgram’s variations, Socio-Psychological factors on obedience, dispositional factors theory of obedience, research into resistance to social influence, minority influence, research into social change. The presentation concludes by providing flashcards covering key studies and terminology for this topic. The design and style of the presentation is such that the whole document could be used as flashcards.
This presentation provides a detailed analytical account of the first movement to Hector Berlioz’ Symphonie Fantastique. The presentation covers analytical points of interest within the work regarding the melody, harmony, texture, tonality, rhythm, metre, tempo, sonority, and dynamics to aid students in their ability to answer essay questions. Also covered is a chronological account of analytical points of interest within the music to help prepare students to answer listening questions on this works. The presentation also includes contextual information surrounding the work, including links to works of a similar style. The style of presentation is so that it could easily be converted into flashcards for revision after the presentation has been used for teaching.
This presentation provides a detailed analytical account of Prelude, The City, Marion, The Murder, The Toys, The Cellar, Discovery and Finale from Hermann’s score for the film Psycho. The presentation covers analytical points of interest within each piece regarding the melody, harmony, texture, tonality, rhythm, metre, tempo, sonority, and dynamics to aid students in their ability to answer essay questions. Also covered is a chronological account of analytical points of interest within each music to help prepare students to answer listening questions on these works. The presentation also includes contextual information surrounding the work, including links to works of a similar style. The style of presentation is so that it could easily be converted into flashcards for revision after the presentation has been used for teaching and score annotations for example.
This presentation provides a detailed analytical account of Petals by Kaija Saariaho. The presentation covers analytical points of interest within the piece regarding the melody, harmony, texture, tonality, rhythm, metre, tempo, sonority, and dynamics to aid students in their ability to answer essay questions. Also covered is a chronological account of analytical points of interest within the music to help prepare students to answer listening questions on these works. The presentation also includes contextual information surrounding the work, including links to works of a similar style. The style of presentation is so that it could easily be converted into flashcards for revision after the presentation has been used for teaching and score annotations for example.