For the teacher, this is quick and easy revision activity that requires a one-time set up and then it can be used time and time again! Very little effort is required by you and the students can happily spend all lesson playing the game (if you let them) leaving you free to do what you fancy! My students love it and I get chance to sit down with the students who need extra help, or catch up on a bit of marking. My science version of the board game and some sample question cards are freely available to view and download at https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/science-revision-board-game-free-version-11445205 This resource pack contains: - THE BOARD GAME TEMPLATES: 1. Blank with no text, graphics, shortcuts or colours. 2. Black and white version with shortcuts and logo. 3. Colour version with shortcuts and logo. 4. The colour full version which is how I use it with classes. THE QUIZ CARD TEMPLATES Use these to write your questions on. This file contains two formats; a multiple-choice style question card and a picture based question card. These could be adapted to be useful for defining keywords, spellings, subject knowledge questions etc. THE YELLOW CARD TEMPLATES Use these cards as subject themed action cards, for example… ‘Romans have invaded, go back three spaces’ ‘You spilled some chemicals and must clean up the lab, miss a go’ ‘You handed in your homework early, roll again’ THE INSTRUCTIONS This shows the rules and requirements for the game, it is current set up with the rules that my students chose however you can alter these to suit your needs. ALL THE RESOURCES ABOVE ARE IN MICROSOFT WORD AND SO YOU SHOULD BE ABLE TO CHANGE ANY ASPECT OF THE RESOURCE YOU LIKE.

This is the free version of a board game that I use with KS3 and KS4 students to revise for their end of unit tests or exams. For the teacher this is quick and easy revision activity that requires a one-time set up and then it can be used time and time again! Very little effort is required by you and the students can happily spend all lesson playing the game (if you let them) leaving you free to do what you fancy! My students love it and I get chance to sit down with the students who need extra help, or catch up on a bit of marking. To get started: • Print the board game on white A3 paper. • Print the question cards on blue paper/card, cut them up and pop them in little bags. • Print the hazard cards on yellow paper/card, cut them up and pop them in little bags. • Laminate the board game (optional but makes the game last longer) • Get a little stash of counters or items that could be used as the player pieces e.g. coloured paper circles, novelty rubbers, little model etc • Get some dice. For a class of 30 I’ve found that 6 groups of 5 work quite well, therefore you’d need 6 game boards and 6 packs of cards. How to play: This game is suitable for 2-6 players, you need one di and each player needs a counter (coloured tokens or paper circles will do). • The players put their counter on the start square, take turns to roll the dice and move across the game board. • The aim of the game is to be first to get to the end of the board. • If the players land on a YELLOW square they should pick up a yellow hazard card. • If the players land on a BLUE square the person to their left should pick up a blue question card and ask the player the question on the card, if the player gets it right they can move two spaces forward, if they get it wrong they stay where they are. The question cards have the correct answer either shown at the bottom or highlighted in bold. These are the rules my students came up with but feel free to alter them to suit your needs. For each unit taught I’ve made my own quiz cards so the students can test themselves on the unit content, I have quite a few different units which I am in the processing of uploading to TES now. Keep your eyes peeled for the bundles I am putting together.

I use this spread sheet in my long term planning, I use it in conjunction with SOW's and unit overviews to plot my progression across the year and to ensure all courses are finished in good time. It includes a calendar side section so you can factor in key dates such as inset days and bank holidays. The two versions attached contain the dates for the school year 2015-2016.

I spend hours and hours of time marking, and a lot of the time it's writing similar (if not the same) comments. For example.. -Please use capital letters at the start of sentences. -Do the highlighted tasks on the level ladder. -Please write in FULL sentences. -Stick in your graph. The list goes on... In order to save time and ink I thought I'd make a mail merge to mark the student's work for me! I've trialled this with 4 different classes and found it EXTREMELY useful! It has cut my marking time in at least half! I read the student's work, pick the comments that apply (or type new comments), print the comments on green paper ( our marking policy says marking must be in green ), get the students to stick it in and improve their work! BOOM! I've written a guide on how to use the resource and included some examples of it being used. This is the first time I've made and shared a resource like this, and it's safe to say it is definitely not perfect, I'm not an ICT expert and I expect ICT teachers will be able to improve this resource no end. I use it for science lessons but I think it should be easy to adapt for most subjects, especially those doing extended writing with clear criteria. I've found it quite useful for marking the 6 mark exam extended writing questions. I've added a few different sets of comments including graph work, descriptive work for science, and the science APP level descriptors So hopefully it'll be useful for someone other than just myself, please do send me feedback if you use this resource!

I always call my students minions of science, and as such I thought I'd welcome my new classes with a PowerPoint featuring Minions from Despicable Me! This PowerPoint lists the systems, sanctions and expectations I have in the classroom. It also features Ahmed the puppet!