This poster is a simple explanation of key ideas encouraging pupils to ‘extend’ themselves in lesson by focussing on their learning behaviour in any lesson.

A useful resource is you need to bring a class into line or just set up your expectations. This is an appropriate for KS3 and KS4. The students read through it and then sign it before it is glued into the front of their books (or the back) where it can be referred to when misbehaviour occurs. I hope it helps!

This resource is to assist the development of teachers in your department. The focus is on their progression as they move towards exceptional teaching skills while building a climate of learning. The resource includes observation templates that achieve the following:  Starter and LO Observation Grid  Development Phase– Observation Grid  Plenary Observation Grid  What is Your Teaching and Learning Balance? Template  Extract from: The Perfect OFSTED Lesson (Pre Observation Checklist)  SWOT: A Post Observation Reflection  Impact on Learning Observation Grid This is also a valid resource for developing a buddy peer observation system across the school or within departments. The templates have been tested numeous times across the curriculum in a busy, inner London secondary school, but it could be used in any teaching sector. Enjoy!

This 6 Hats task is designed to be a whole-school resource for analysing vusual stimulus but it can be adapted to become a kinaesthetic task too (jsut change the wording). The resource uses sentence starters for differentiation too. It can be used to analyse newspaper images, historical images, art etc and is especially good as an information gathering task before writing creatively, doing artwork or discussing/responding to historical sources. Suitable for KS3 and KS4.

Really useful when extending students’ thoughts about a subject and equally good during observations when you need to show you’re extending students’ thinking by analysing more deeply. For the mobile: print it off in colour, cut up, attach the image of the brain at the top of the mobile, hole punch the question tags and attach them to their specific red banner. Or just use it for a display that is near your board so you can refer to it repeatedly in lessons. Suitable for all year groups and all curriculum areas.

This post is for display and is a simple reminder about what the teacher expects from students during group work

For use in any department. Suitable for NQTs or new HODs who might not have a resource bank at hand. The pack includes: • Peer Assessment WWW and EBI (with tick/cross SPaG grid) • Individual Learning Plan templates with suggested targets (for the front of exercise books • Improving spelling grid at the end of each half term • Student Voice Survey x 2 • Termly Target Setting Sheet (including Teacher’s Comment section) • SWOT analysis template

Just add your name and remove the blank line, print it onto coloured card, date and sign and it’s ready to go!

Just add your name and remove the blank line, print it onto coloured card, date and sign and it’s ready to go!

Just add your name and remove the blank line, print it onto coloured card, date and sign and it’s ready to go!

Just add your name and remove the blank line, print it onto coloured card, date and sign and it’s ready to go!

This can be used across the school to encourage student to reflect on their literacy development and self-editing skills. If you print two slides per 1 piece of A4 it can be easily glued in after a student has completed the work and before the teacher marks it. It is useful for ensuring students are critically assessing their own work so they become independent learners. Also, it’s good for showing progression if you’re planning on getting students to re-draft their work after you’ve marked it.

This is a generic peer assessment grid for whole school literacy

These classroom posters are designed to improve the quality of student -teacher dialogue in a learning environment. They’re based on the RESPECT acronym which describes 7 behaviours of highly successful people: R - resilience E - expectations S - scanning P - pace E - entrepreneurial C - collaboration T - three mistakes or you’re not trying They can be printed of at any size (including A4 or A5 for diaries or exercise books).

Here are 20 tried and tested starters, plenaries and mini-plenaries that are ready to go. Please note they are suitable for any curriculum area at Key Stage Three and Key Stage Four and even Primary School lessons . All you have to do is transfer them to your own Powerpoint or IWB presentations. Some need you to add a statement to one or two, or add the heading of your lesson or the date.

This ppt contains 16 plenaries. Each slide develops the students’ ability to reflect and draw on different thinking skills. Inspired by HOM and the Learning to Learn paradigm.

This is a ppt offering sentence starters of each thinking hat. Teachers can select hats they want the class to work from, or ask the class to select a hat before they start working etc It makes a good mini plenary task to break up a lesson into learning segments.

This a plenary (or a mini plenary) that encourages students to think about how they have progressed and the key learning moments in the lesson

What is this resource? This is a ppt that includes 5 literacy competitions (with examples/models) Who is it for? KS2 - KS4 What’s included? Competition details and models ready to be enlarged to A3 and displayed Curriculum links? English Department, Drama Department, Whole School Literacy Programmes and Literacy Support Sessions Practical Tips? The ppt contains 5 competitions with details and models ready to be enlarged to A3 and displayed