How to turn someone into a zombie in Photoshop: easy to follow PowerPoint tutorial! This tutorial is a fun and simple introduction into how to use Photoshop where students can turn themselves or a celebrity of their choice into a zombie - perfect for Halloween themed activities, posters, cards and party decorations! You can even learn how to turn yourself into a zombie too, great for personalising teaching resources and wall displays - your students will love it!

Halloween themed colouring pages! These “Halloween” doodle colouring pages are a relaxing and fun resource for your students to colour and maybe even decorate the classroom with, on Halloween! You’d be amazed at the wonders it can do for young people’s well-being just by giving students some time to colour for a while – no matter what their age, it is something that is very therapeutic and inspiring. There are 5 different 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 Halloween colouring pages for teens!

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!

Do you want to prepare your teenage students on the skills section of their C.V. in a fun and self-reflective way? Then this PowerPoint and matching worksheet resource is for you, and will leave your students saying “those skills though…!”. (To explain the title, I like to keep my resources current to the world students are growing up in, making the title of this resource very fitting with current teen lingo!) Product includes: • 7 slide PowerPoint presentation with guided activities, both individual and peer included. • 5 attractive and self-reflective worksheets relating to the PowerPoint. This resource is great for C.V. preparation and guides students through the process of: • identifying the skills employers are looking for • which skills they currently have • evidence of where they are demonstrating the skills • what they will need to improve upon in the future for their chosen career. The worksheets work hand in hand with the PowerPoint and everything is straightforward to follow requiring no preparation from you! Give your students the best chance amongst all the competition out there for jobs in the big wide world. This will be so valuable in helping to build their CV and identifying which skills they need to develop while they are still in school – the earlier the better after all! Your students will definitely think you are the most awesome teacher ever when you pull out this resource in your lesson! Watch their reaction when you hand this out to them! “That TEACHER though…!”

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!

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 exit tickets are a great way for students to summarise what they have learned during your lesson in a fun and relatable way! They also provide you with great feedback to assess student progression in your lesson. There are 6 types of tickets which come 2 on a page. Each ticket comes with clear instructions on what students need to do all based on the lesson objective. You can use these to just collect in as a snap shot to check understanding and progress, but they will also look fantastic in students’ workbooks and as keepsakes to demonstrate their learning over time! I hope you enjoy using them!

Are you looking for some unique teen activities for Women’s History month? Women have invented some incredible things to make our world a better place, but so many of these are unknown! This resource highlights some of our amazing women inventors, to show our young students that anyone can achieve great things, regardless of gender. There are 2 parts to the resource: a PowerPoint presentation with information to teach them about the inventors and what inspired them to invent their products. The second part comes with worksheets that students can use to summarise their learning and reflect on the achievements of these women. Alternatively, students could also do their own research to complete these sheets for homework. These would look great on a display board or stapled into a booklet for students to keep. So go on, inspire your girls and educate your young boys on the power of women!

Come November and December, it can be a tough time to keep students (and yourself!) motivated in the run up to the holiday season. If you want some fun and quality Christmas and New Year activities to use with your tutor groups that they will enjoy and relate to, then this is the resource for you! It comes with attractive, enjoyable and creative activities that will last weeks running up to the Christmas holidays and even when they return in the New Year too! This resource will encourage students to look at Christmas over the world, show kindness, reflect on the end of one year and start of another. These can be used for a variety of age groups and abilities and require no preparation from you at all. Instructions are on each worksheet and students can be as thorough as they like depending on their ability. These are fun to do and they make wonderful keepsakes for students to look back on when they are older!

Your students will really enjoy being rewarded with these teenage appropriate coupons! They are the same size as standard index cards and come with cool teenage clip art. These work for any class and any subject and they are so simple to use! When you wish to reward positive behaviour of your students, send them to your “reward station” (your index box and reward menu which you can print, laminate and display) and ask them to select which reward they would like to have (I have added a blank set for you to write your own too!). It is then up to them when they choose to cash in their reward. This element of choice works really well with teenagers! This resource is a lifelong tool that can be used over again with every class; you will wonder how you managed without it! So go on, set up your own reward station with this resource and really create a happy buzz in your classroom!

This fun resource contains a whopping 101 inspirational and motivational quotes to encourage, inspire and motivate: perfect for instantly brightening any classroom, corridor, office or even home! There are a vast variety of quotes in this pack enabling you to conveniently change up your wall displays regularly or cover a large footprint of your school. These quotes can also easily be used on a daily basis as a "quote of the day" up on the interactive whiteboard for students to reflect on, discuss their significance and how they can apply them to their every day lives. This 101 pack contains quality quotes from well known inspirational people as well as popular celebrities that young people will be able to relate to and gain inspiration from! This resource is a powerful tool to use in your classrooms, for any age range, and can spark many interesting and inspiring topics and conversations with students and staff alike. ************************************************************************************************************************ • If you choose to download this resource, please take the time to leave a rating - I do really value your feedback and I always look forward to reading what you think about my resources! If you have any questions about this resource or anything else, you can email me at TeachersResourceForce@yahoo.com. • Be the first to know when I upload new resources, discounts and freebies by following my page!

Are you looking for some gripping ways to settle your students really quickly at the start of your lesson? Here are 99 of the best riddles out there that you can use as starter activities! I have done all the hard work for you and gathered the best riddles into one neat PowerPoint that you can pull up whenever you need. These 99 riddles have passed my strict screening process to ensure they provide the right challenge and humour to suit that tough teenage market! Having these riddles all neatly packaged in this PowerPoint means no preparation or resources are required - simply pull up this document and have it ready on the board for your students when they enter the room - also great for tutor periods! These create an immediate buzz and settles the class at rapid speed! You can have students jot down their responses on personal whiteboards, on paper, or even have them discussing answers in pairs!

These doodle colouring pages are a wonderfully motivating, encouraging and fun resource for your students to ease them back to school with the right mind set! The beginning of the year is a great time to get students motivated and ready for their missions ahead. You’d be amazed at the wonders it can do just by giving students some time to colour in these motivational thoughts – no matter what their age - it is something that is very therapeutic and inspiring. There are 5 different colouring pages to choose from. So get your students motivated and ready to take on new challenges this school year, by giving them the opportunity to just take time to settle in, get mentally pumped and enjoy themselves. Start the year as both you and your students mean to go on – relaxed, motivated and enthusiastic!

Do you want to teach your teenage students how to improve their growth mindset and develop a more positive attitude to life as well as their education? Then this motivational and inspirational set of posters and task cards is for you! Product includes: • 10 Positive Attitude Growth Mindset Posters • 10 Positive Attitude Growth Mindset Colouring Pages • 32 Positive Attitude Discussion Prompt Task Cards • Task Card record sheet This unit includes 10 high quality Positive Attitude posters with motivational quotes that inspire higher level thinking. These can be printed and laminated to put up on walls or shown on a whiteboard to be used as a teaching resource. There are also black and white versions of these which would make for a lovely relaxing colouring activity or for extension tasks! Also included are 32 task cards with discussion points on positive attitudes whereby students can work in pairs or groups to collaborate and share their thoughts in improving their thinking patterns. These will look amazing in colour but can also work well in grey scale too if necessary. These cards can be printed out and handed to pairs or groups to discuss and record on their Task Record Sheet which also offers them the opportunity to reflect on their learning and implement practices to have a positive attitude. Alternatively, these cards could be used in a big class discussion which would make an interesting debate. So look forward to debating and discussing the importance of growth mindset, having a positive attitude and becoming more resilient individuals with your students using this modern and unique resource! Great for Social Skills and PSHCE (Physical, Social, Health, Citizenship Education) lessons.

These days, students seem to be under so much pressure from exams and modern life, that it is crucial to teach them management techniques to give them the skills they require in order to handle stress. This resource which will encourage your students to explore all about modern stressors and how to handle stress in a healthy way. Your students will learn all about what stress is: why we need it, how we respond to it in the modern world, causes and effects, what we can control and what we can’t, and actions to help relieve stress. Students will get to role play and analyse different teen appropriate stressful scenarios. Your students will also be taught 3 different breathing exercises to control the physical signs of stress that are very powerful in stressful situations. Product includes a 23 slide PowerPoint with inbuilt activities and feedback opportunities to encourage discussion and 6 worksheets to accompany the PowerPoint to demonstrate students’ understanding.

Check your students’ understanding with social media exit tickets and engage your students with media they are already so familiar with! These have a realistic mobile phone style and come with 8 different social media platforms! Product Includes: Each exit ticket is half a page and comes with 2 on a page to save on printing costs for your class. (Also, both UK and US versions are included). These exit tickets are great for the following: • Summarizing their learning whilst adding the hashtag of key words #HowCool! • Encouraging students to summarize the lesson whilst identifying areas they specifically ‘liked’ using the thumbs up! • Visualizing their understanding by drawing an image to summarize their learning. • Texting on their smartphone about anything they learned this lesson! • Telling a “story” of their learning in the lesson. They get to use both visual and written feedback. • Allowing creativity in feedback as students can write quotes, draw images and use text to summarize their learning. • Offering peer feedback. Students can write their partner a question to test learning and their peer can respond. • Creating freeze frames of something which reflects their learning! These are simple and easy to use in your lessons allowing you to quickly see what students have learned in a fun and convenient way - plus, these work with ANY subject! Your students will definitely think you are the most awesome teacher ever when you pull these out in your lesson, believe me! Give them a shot now and let me know the response you get!

So, you’re sick? Off on a course? Out on a school trip? Or maybe you are the supply teacher and no cover work has been set, or the students finish the work far too early. Either way, there is always the hassle of setting inspiring cover work to keep the students on task and interested while still making the lesson worthwhile. Fear not, as in this quality, compelling resource there are over 50 lesson ideas that can conveniently be used for any subject; the best part is, they don’t need any preparation on your part! Included are extra black line worksheets (ideal for saving you money on printing) to accompany the lesson plans if you want to use them, with clear step by step directions for what students need to do on each. Product Includes over 50 different lesson activities including: • Creative writing • Character analysis • Comic strip • Website designing • Debating • Design own theme park • Robot designing • Superhero designing • Creating jingles • Sentence starters and endings • A day in the life of • Design own sport …and more! Remember, these activities have been uniquely designed in a way that they can be appropriate for any subject area without needing to adapt the resource! Each lesson plan actually contains a variety of different options as well, offering so many alternatives and extension ideas! They are so simple, easy and ready to use for any subject with no preparation needed. So next time you’re panicking about what to set your students, ensure you download this resource and save yourself loads of stress and time! Simply hand to the cover teacher and be on your way, no other work from you is required! Minimal preparation for maximum fun!

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!

Do you want to teach your students about the 400 year old tradition of why we light bonfires and set off fireworks on 5th November? This resource will teach your students about the our History of the Gun Powder plot and why 400 years later, every 5th November fireworks are set off and bonfires are lit! The PowerPoint and worksheets are simple and fun to work through, require no preparation from you and give plenty of activities to fill the week leading up to Bonfire Night! You can go through the PowerPoint first to give students background information, and then either work through these activities together or give students the choice on which ones to complete. You could even set some for homework and encourage some research and background reading on the topic too!

A complete editable 19 month Teacher Planner 2016-2017 in a bright neon effect and gorgeous graphics! Also comes with FREE updates for life! This planner has been thoughtfully designed to ensure that: • It’s glowingly fun – the sheets have a unique and classy style with awesome neon effect graphics. Planning needs to be made as fun as possible, right?! • It’s pretty ink-saving - the sheets have lots of white space to keep ink costs down. The color still prints nicely in grey scale anyway which makes the entire document great for photocopying! • It’s editable – the titles and graphics are fixed for you, but all the personal text and line markings are fully editable! Simply put a text box wherever you like to type and effortlessly personalize your pages! Alternatively, you can print them off and write by hand too, that’s my personal preference ;) This editable planner is ideal for secondary school teachers who manage a range of different classes, but will work well for teachers with one class too. You can print multiple of some pages and none of others to customise your planner to meet your needs! Also, this is updated every year for free so there’s no need to keep spending more every year for a new teacher planner! Product includes: • A manageable amount of 90+ pages of useful sheets. Aside from the calendar, pages are not dated to provide you with maximum flexibility. • Header pages for each category to organise your planner neatly - calendars with spaces for your own notes (June 2016 - December 2017. 19 months to cover international teachers!) and 2 register options (one with 30 spaces, one with 15 for class size flexibility). You can print as many as you need! • Student information (Polaroid pics, medical needs, birthday lists, student jobs) • Parent/carer information (contact details, contact log, parent/teacher preparation sheets) • Lesson plans (yearly, monthly, weekly, daily, and individual options) Covers days with 5-7 lessons! • Personal notes (monthly what’s happening, important dates, to do list, lesson evaluation record, useful websites, staff meeting notes) All you need and more! Simply pick and print what you would like in your own teacher binder, and get super organised this school year!