An interactive Hangman game preloaded with a 104-word, word bank of Year 5 + 6 English National Curriculum recommended common spellings. The blanks for the word are automatically shown on the game slide. Clicking on a letter called out by your pupils will either reveal the letters and turn the keyboard letter green or it will add a hangman piece and turn the keyboard letter red. If the word is discovered, then a you win message is shown. If the pupils lose a you’re hanged message is shown. Pupils can opt to be shown a hint message which will cost them one additional hangman piece added to the gallows. Multiple words will be automatically separated by a “/” on the screen. The game can be played in 3 ways: The game automatically selects a random word from the word bank By entering a single word(s) before running the game. By entering a word while playing the game, (remember to blank the presentation screen when entering the word and hint. The word bank contains 104 words and hints A free evaluation version of the game (for GCSE Biology terms) can be downloaded from: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/hangman-game-for-gcse-biolofy-free-evaluation-version-12233754 Please be aware the game uses macros in Power-point which must be enabled when you first open the pptm file and so will only run on Microsoft Power-point for windows or Apple. It will not run on other ppt viewers.

This is the Full paid for version of the Electronic Teacher Planner/Mark book spreadsheet. The Free evaluation version is available at: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/electronic-teacher-planner-mark-book-free-evaluation-version-11912398 A TWO WEEK Timetable version is available at: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/electronic-teacher-planner-mark-book-two-week-version-12358075 This is a full teacher’s planner book enabling you to replace your paper based record book. It enables you to create a colour coded timetable (and will automatically generate a blank timetable with the appropriate number of periods per day), a week by week lesson outline planning sheet, a register for each class that records attendance, performance and behavioural information upon each pupil, homework and test scores. The registers will rank the pupils according to assessment criteria, absences and upon test scores. The class analysis page will give detailed information upon the number of lates/tardiness, discipline issues, forgotten books, no homework, incomplete pieces of work and work graded excellent, good, satisfactory and poor. Schemes of work can be created, and reports written upon individual students. Print outs of each class can be used at parent consultation evenings and as a record for SLT. Cover lesson instructions can also be created. I have used this spreadsheet in an ongoing developing form for the last 20 years and haven’t used a paper-based planner in that time. The spreadsheet uses macros (embedded code) to automate the functions for you so you just have to clickand so they need to be enabled in excel, see the help page in the spreadsheet on how to do this. Please note this spreadsheet will not run on Mac versions of Excel, it will only run on Windows PC versions of, due to incompatibility issues between Microsoft Office on the 2 different platforms.

An interactive Hangman game preloaded with a 109 Year 3 + 4 English National Curriculum recommended common spellings word bank. The blanks for the word are automatically shown on the game slide. Clicking on a letter called out by your pupils will either reveal the letters and turn the keyboard letter green or it will add a hangman piece and turn the keyboard letter red. If the word is discovered, then a you win message is shown. If the pupils lose a you’re hanged message is shown. Pupils can opt to be shown a hint message which will cost them one additional hangman piece added to the gallows. Multiple words will be automatically separated by a “/” on the screen. The game can be played in 3 ways: The game automatically selects a random word from the word bank By entering a single word(s) before running the game. By entering a word while playing the game, (remember to blank the presentation screen when entering the word and hint. The word bank contains 109 words and hints A free evaluation version of the game (for GCSE Biology terms) can be downloaded from: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/hangman-game-for-gcse-biolofy-free-evaluation-version-12233754 Please be aware the game uses macros in Power-point which must be enabled when you first open the pptm file and so will only run on Microsoft Power-point for windows or Apple. It will not run on other ppt viewers.

This is the Full paid for version of the Electronic Teacher Planner/Mark book spreadsheet for teachers with a TWO WEEK TIMETABLE. The Free evaluation version is available at: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/electronic-teacher-planner-mark-book-free-evaluation-version-11912398 The paid version for a ONE WEEK TIMETABLE is available from: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/electronic-teacher-planner-mark-book-12357931 This is a full teacher’s planner book enabling you to replace your paper based record book. It enables you to create a colour coded timetable (and will automatically generate a blank timetable with the appropriate number of periods per day), a week by week lesson outline planning sheet, a register for each class that records attendance, performance and behavioural information upon each pupil, homework and test scores. The registers will rank the pupils according to assessment criteria, absences and upon test scores. The class analysis page will give detailed information upon the number of lates/tardiness, discipline issues, forgotten books, no homework, incomplete pieces of work and work graded excellent, good, satisfactory and poor. Schemes of work can be created, and reports written upon individual students. Print outs of each class can be used at parent consultation evenings and as a record for SLT. Cover lesson instructions can also be created. I have used this spreadsheet in an ongoing developing form for the last 20 years and haven’t used a paper-based planner in that time. The spreadsheet uses macros (embedded code) to automate the functions so you only have to click a button to add registers and so they need to be enabled in excel, see the help page in the spreadsheet on how to do this. Please note this spreadsheet will not run on Mac versions of Excel, it will only run on Windows PC versions of , due to incompatibility issues between Microsoft Office on the 2 different platforms.

An automated COVID-19 Absence tracker. This automated spreadsheet allows you to monitor the impact of coronavirus upon your pupils and staff. Information can be recorded for each year group cohort, recording days absent due to confirmed positive absences, school enforced contact absences & self-isolating absences. All inputs are automated to speed up the entry and display of key data. Including a colour coded calendar displaying the reasons for absences. The calendar can be re-ranked upon numerous criteria with the click of a single button. Individual pupil summaries can be displayed as can the impact of the absences for a set date. This last option aids the calculations necessary for the daily DfE Education Setting Status questions which have to be submitted at 2pm on each term time day. Term dates can again be adjusted with the click of a button for all calendars to suit your establishment. The free evaluation version caters for 13 pupils in a single year group cohort. The full paid for version allows for 250 pupils per year group and for year groups 7-13 & Staff. The spreadsheet requires the use of macros (computer code) to enable the automations. When you first open the spreadsheet, you must enable Macros within Excel. Due to the use of macros this version CAN ONLY be run on Windows Versions of Microsoft Excel. A free evaluation version is available from: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/covid-19-coronavirus-absence-tracking-software-12425518 A Paid for version for Primary Schools is available from: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/covid-19-primary-pupil-absence-tracker-12450160

An automated COVID-19 Absence tracker for Primary Schools This automated spreadsheet allows you to monitor the impact of coronavirus upon your pupils and staff. Information can be recorded for each year group cohort, recording days absent due to confirmed positive absences, school enforced contact absences & self-isolating absences. All inputs are automated to speed up the entry and display of key data. Including a colour coded calendar displaying the reasons for absences. The calendar can be re-ranked upon numerous criteria with the click of a single button. Individual pupil summaries can be displayed as can the impact of the absences for a set date. This last option aids the calculations necessary for the daily DfE Education Setting Status questions which have to be submitted at 2pm on each term time day. Term dates can again be adjusted with the click of a button for all calendars to suit your establishment. The free evaluation version caters for 13 pupils in a single year group cohort. The full paid for version allows for 250 pupils per year group and for year groups 1 - 6 & Staff. The spreadsheet requires the use of macros (computer code) to enable the automations. When you first open the spreadsheet, you must enable Macros within Excel. Due to the use of macros this version CAN ONLY be run on Windows Versions of Microsoft Excel. A free evaluation version is available from: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/covid-19-coronavirus-absence-tracking-software-12425518 A paid for version for Secondary Schools is available from: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/covid-19-absence-tracking-software-12425525

Fully interactive, playable Wordle game. This power point game has a database of over 400 five letter words. Words are chosen at random from the database list. The game plays according to the standard Wordle rules with letters in the correct place showing up in green, a correct letter in the wrong place in orange and subsequent occurrences of a wrongly placed correct letter remains grey. You have 6 attempts to find the correct word, if this is not achieved you will be informed of the correct word. The pptm requires macros to be enabled to work. When opening the pptm for the first time please ensure when asked to enable macros, that you check the option. Without doing this the automated processes in the game will not work. Please do not rename the pptm. Warning - If the first slide is deleted or altered then the game WILL NOT work.

Lesson power point, worksheet and teacher notes to show the properties of polymers and to relate these to the structure of their polymer chains. Useful for high ability KS3 or medium ability KS4 chemistry. Links rigidity, strength and melting points to the idea of length of polymer and cross links. Spaghetti demo showing effects of chain length and cross links for cooked then dried samples. Uses polymorph a low mpt plastic that can be melted in hot water and hand moulded. then investigates effects of a load on strips of plastic bags to show stretching as the chains slip over each other, longer chains = more strength. Blooms taxonomy and new NC Levels.

A Blockbuster style quiz game. Has over 1000 questions targeted at building up the vocabulary of A Level Biology students. All question revealing, answer revealing, changing of hexagon colours, scoring, identifying a winning run and assigning hexagons a random letter are carried out AUTOMATICALLY by the game, all you need to do is click on the screen. A free restricted evaluation version of this quiz can be downloaded from: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/a-level-vocabulary-technical-terms-blockbuster-style-quiz-free-evaluation-version-12230087 The quiz automatically displays questions and answers and changes the selected letter hexagons from yellow to blue and white and totals the scores for each team. The quiz will also automatically identify when a team wins by achieving complete run from left to right for blue and from top to bottom for white. Each game consists of 8 rounds with the winning team’s score for each round being shown on a scoreboard. Though you can play single rounds if you want to. Each time a new game is played the positions of the letters on the Blockbusters board are randomised as are the questions chosen from a bank of over 1000 technical terms appropriate for A Level Biology. The games follow the basic rules of the iconic 1980-1990s Blockbuster TV show. By using the games during your teaching or as a part of a revision programme, it will allow pupils to gain familiarity with the terms and be able to recall them more easily in their exams. This quiz uses macros to carry out the automated functions which you select to run on first opening the power point, so will only work with Microsoft Windows and Apple versions of Power Point and not with other ppt viewers.

A Hangman game preloaded with 70 GCSE Biology words in a word bank. The blanks for the word are automatically shown on the game slide. Clicking on a letter called out by your pupils will either reveal the letters and turn the keyboard letter green or it will add a hangman piece and turn the keyboard letter red. If the word is discovered then a you win message is shown. If the pupils lose a you’re hanged message is shown. Pupils can opt to be shown a hint message which will cost them one additional hangman piece added to the gallows. Multiple words will be automatically separated by a “/” on the screen. The game can be played in 3 ways: The game automatically selects a random word from the word bank By entering a single word(s) before running the game. By entering a word while playing the game, (remember to blank the presentation screen when entering the word and hint. The word bank of 70 words and hints can easily be edited by deleting existing words and over-typing new words. The game will cope with word(s) up to 32 characters long including any spaces. A free evaluation version of the game can be downloaded from: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/hangman-game-for-gcse-biolofy-free-evaluation-version-12233754 Please be aware the game uses macros in Power-point which must be enabled when you first open the pptm file and so will only run on Microsoft Power-point for windows or Apple. It will not run on other ppt viewers.

An interactive Hangman game preloaded with 70 Science Equipment words in a word bank. The blanks for the word are automatically shown on the game slide. Clicking on a letter called out by your pupils will either reveal the letters and turn the keyboard letter green or it will add a hangman piece and turn the keyboard letter red. If the word is discovered, then a you win message is shown. If the pupils lose a you’re hanged message is shown. Pupils can opt to be shown a hint message which will cost them one additional hangman piece added to the gallows. Multiple words will be automatically separated by a “/” on the screen. The game can be played in 3 ways: The game automatically selects a random word from the word bank By entering a single word(s) before running the game. By entering a word while playing the game, (remember to blank the presentation screen when entering the word and hint. The word bank of 70 words and hints can easily be edited by deleting existing words and over-typing new words. The game will cope with word(s) up to 32 characters long including any spaces. A free evaluation version of the game (for GCSE Biology terms) can be downloaded from: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/hangman-game-for-gcse-biolofy-free-evaluation-version-12233754 Please be aware the game uses macros in Power-point which must be enabled when you first open the pptm file and so will only run on Microsoft Power-point for windows or Apple. It will not run on other ppt viewers.

A fully interactive Boggle game, suitable for Key Stage 2 and 3, which is a fun way for pupils to develop their vocabulary and spelling skills. The game has a database of over 300, nine letter words, which are automatically selected randomly by the game. The word’s letters are displayed in a random order in a 3 x 3 grid with the first letter of the 9-letter word displayed as a capital. Pupils have 3 minutes to come up with as many words as possible using the letters, they do not have to use all the letters in their words. A bonus can be given if they find the 9-letter word. Click on the Select new word button to automatically create a new 3x3 grid of letters from a new 9-letter word. Click on the Go button to start the 3-minute timer. A horn will sound at the end of the 3 minutes. To display the 9-letter word click on the reveal the 9-letter word box. The game requires macros to be enabled within Power-point to allow the automated features to work. For this reason it will only run on Power-point for Windows and Power-point for Mac’s, it will not run on other ppt viewers. Further games and educational resources can be found at: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resources/shop/john_leather

This is the Free Evaluation version of the Electronic Teacher Planner/Mark book spreadsheet. The Full paid for version available at: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/electronic-teacher-planner-mark-book-12357931 A full paid for TWO WEEK TIMETABLE version is available at: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/electronic-teacher-planner-mark-book-two-week-version-12358075 is a full teacher’s planner book enabling you to replace your paper based record book. It enables you to create a colour coded timetable (and will automatically generate a blank timetable with the appropriate number of period per day), a week by week lesson outline planning sheet, a register for each class that records attendance, performance and behavioural information upon each pupil, homework and test scores. The registers will rank the pupils according to assessment criteria, absences and upon test scores. The class analysis page will give detailed information upon the number of lates/tardiness, discipline issues, forgotten books, no homework, incomplete pieces of work and work graded excellent, good, satisfactory and poor. Schemes of work can be created and reports written upon individual students. Print outs of each class can be used at parent consultation evenings and as a record for SLT. Cover lesson instructions can also be created. I have used this spreadsheet in an ongoing developing form for the last 20 years and haven’t used a paper based planner in that time. The spreadsheet does require the use of macros and so they need to be enabled in excel, see the help page in the spreadsheet on how to do this. Please note this spreadsheet will not run on Mac versions of Excel, it will only run on PC versions of , due to incompatibility issues between Microsoft Office on the 2 different platforms.

Complete lesson ppt for pairs to research how reflexes occur and produce a newspaper front page. Pupils then undertake peer assessment and self reflection upon the task. Includes timed exercises and all worksheet and assessment forms. Suitable for 14-16 year old pupils to be completed in a 1 hour lesson.

Save time and effort writing reports. This is the Free restricted evaluation version of the report writing assistant that is available at https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/report-writer-11740848 The Full version is now in use in over 300 schools in over 20 Countries. The writing assistant allows you to automatically create report comments selected by a click from a series of user modifiable comments. Comments are organised into sections (opening, behavioural, progress, strengths, weaknesses, closing and 3 user defined categories with 18 comments in each section). Comments automatically update to insert the name and to match gender specific pronouns (he/she, his/her etc). Once written the comments can be copied and pasted into your own report packages and a file containing all the reports for your class set can be created. Suitable for all teachers at all key stages through suitable modification of the comments in the comment banks. This is an Excel file which uses macros to run, read the help sheet in the file to enable macros. see a demo of the full version at https://youtu.be/kSKuQOut40U Please note this spreadsheet will not run on Mac versions of Excel, it will only run on PC versions of , due to incompatibility issues between Microsoft Office on the 2 different platforms.

A Blockbuster style quiz game. This is the restricted free version the full paid for version has over 1000 questions targeted at building up the vocabulary of A Level Biology students. All question revealing, answer revealing, changing of hexagon colours, scoring, identifying a winning run and assigning hexagons a random letter are carried out AUTOMATICALLY by the game, all you need to do is click on the screen. This restricted version is limited to 5 moves per game and 5 questions from each letter. The full version allowing full games and over 1000 questions of this evaluation quiz can be downloaded from: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/a-level-biology-vocabulary-technical-term-quiz-based-on-blockbusters-12230069 The quiz automatically displays questions and answers and changes the selected letter hexagons from yellow to blue and white and totals the scores for each team. The quiz will also automatically identify when a team wins by achieving complete run from left to right for blue and from top to bottom for white. Each game consists of 8 rounds with the winning team’s score for each round being shown on a scoreboard. Though you can play single rounds if you want to. Each time a new game is played the positions of the letters on the Blockbusters board are randomised as are the questions chosen from a bank of over 1000 technical terms appropriate for A Level Biology. The games follow the basic rules of the iconic 1980-1990s Blockbuster TV show. By using the games during your teaching or as a part of a revision programme, it will allow pupils to gain familiarity with the terms and be able to recall them more easily in their exams. This quiz uses macros to carry out the automated functions which you select to run on first opening the power point, so will only work with Microsoft Windows and Apple versions of Power Point and not with other ppt viewers.

A Blockbuster style quiz game. This is a free evaluation version that has been limited to one game topic and only 5 moves. the full paid for version is unrestricted. The full version can be found at: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/aqa-gcse-biology-blockbuster-vocabulary-reinforcement-revision-quiz-12228147 Has 9 games each focusing on a different module of technical terms that fit in with the AQA GCSE Trilogy & Triple Biology specification. The quiz automatically displays questions and answers and changes the selected letter hexagons from yellow to blue and white and totals the scores for each team. The quiz will also automatically identify when a team wins by achieving complete run from left to right for blue and from top to bottom for white. Each time a new game is played the positions of the letters on the Blockbusters board are randomised. Each of the 9 games focuses on 20 technical terms. You can easily edit the questions and answers to suit the ability of your pupils. The games follow the basic rules of the iconic 1980-1990s Blockbuster TV show. By using the games during the teaching of a module or as a part of a revision programme, it will allow pupils to gain familiarity with the terms and be able to recall them more easily in their exams. This quiz requires macros to carry out the automated functions, so will only work with Microsoft Windows and Apple versions of Power Point and not with other ppt viewers.

An automated COVID-19 Absence tracker. Paid for versions for Primary and Secondary Schools see below. This automated spreadsheet allows you to monitor the impact of coronavirus upon your pupils and staff. Information can be recorded for each year group cohort, recording days absent due to confirmed positive absences, school enforced contact absences & self-isolating absences. All inputs are automated to speed up the entry and display of key data. Including a colour coded calendar displaying the reasons for absences. The calendar can be re-ranked upon numerous criteria with the click of a single button. Individual pupil summaries can be displayed as can the impact of the absences for a set date. This last option aids the calculations necessary for the daily DfE Education Setting Status questions which have to be submitted at 2pm on each term time day. Term dates can again be adjusted with the click of a button for all calendars to suit your establishment. The free evaluation version caters for 13 pupils in a single year group cohort. The full paid for version allows for 250 pupils per year group and for year groups 7-13 & Staff, The spreadsheet requires the use of macros (computer code) to enable the automations. When you first open the spreadsheet, you must enable Macros within Excel. Due to the use of macros this version CAN ONLY be run on Windows Versions of Microsoft Excel. The full paid for version for Secondary Schools is available from: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/covid-19-absence-tracking-software-12425525 The full paid for version for Primary Schools is available from: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/covid-19-primary-pupil-absence-tracker-12450160

Save time and effort writing report cards. A report card writing assistant allowing you to automatically create termly or yearly student report cards from a statement bank. Quickly and easily create a report by selecting statements with a click from 18 statements in each of 9 categories (162 statements in all) to build up a complete report comment, all of which will automatically adjust gender pronouns (he/she etc) and insert the students name where appropriate. Comments can also be free typed in the report comment box. All the statements in each category can be customised by the user. A class list with the gender of the students can be inserted and the final report comments can be copied and pasted into any other report package and the overall class comments saved to an xls file for archiving. The spreadsheet uses macros and will require macro access to be enabled, see the help sheet in the spreadsheet for details how to do this.   Rd see a demo at https://youtu.be/7rNxxekoUpk Have a look and download the free evaluation version at https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/report-writer-free-evaluation-version-11751250 Please note this spreadsheet will not run on Mac versions of Excel, it will only run on PC versions of , due to incompatibility issues between Microsoft Office on the 2 different platforms.

Save time and effort writing reports. A report writing assistant allowing you to automatically create termly or yearly student report cards from a statement bank. Quickly and easily create a report by selecting statements with a click from 18 statements in each of 9 categories (162 statements in all) to build up a complete report comment, all of which will automatically adjust gender pronouns (he/she etc) and insert the students name where appropriate. Comments can also be free typed in the report comment box. All the statements in each category can be customised by the user. A class list with the gender of the students can be inserted and the final report comments can be copied and pasted into any other report package and the overall class comments saved to an xls file for archiving. The spreadsheet uses macros and will require macro access to be enabled, see the help sheet in the spreadsheet for details how to do this. see a demo at https://youtu.be/7rNxxekoUpk Please note this spreadsheet will not run on Mac versions of Excel, it will only run on PC versions of , due to incompatibility issues between Microsoft Office on the 2 different platforms.