I provide a range of free resources covering different areas of teaching and learning. These include The Starter Generator, Plenary producer and the AFL Toolkit. My premium resources focus mostly on stretch and challenge, as well as some on growth mindsets and a new set of books exclusively for teaching assistants, giving them all the tools they need to support learners in the classroom.
I provide a range of free resources covering different areas of teaching and learning. These include The Starter Generator, Plenary producer and the AFL Toolkit. My premium resources focus mostly on stretch and challenge, as well as some on growth mindsets and a new set of books exclusively for teaching assistants, giving them all the tools they need to support learners in the classroom.
The KS3 Maths Stretch and Challenge Grid is one of the easiest ways to stretch and challenge the thinking of your students.
The resource combines three separate grids. The first contains 25 subject-specific questions and tasks mapped to the curriculum. The second contains 25 challenging tasks applicable to any area of the curriculum. The third is blank, ready to edit.
Simply print off one of the grids and give copies to your most-able students. You can then challenge them to complete tasks and questions during lessons or as part of their homework. Students can keep track by crossing off challenges as they complete them.
The resource also comes with a set of badges students can collect and tick off as they finish each task or question.
With the KS3 Maths Stretch and Challenge Grid you will be stretching and challenging the thinking of your students every time you teach, saving time along the way!
The Year 6 Stretch and Challenge Grid is one of the easiest ways to stretch and challenge the thinking of your students.
The resource combines three separate grids. The first contains 25 subject-specific questions and tasks mapped to the curriculum. The second contains 25 challenging tasks applicable to any area of the curriculum. The third is blank, ready to edit.
Simply print off one of the grids and give copies to your most-able students. You can then challenge them to complete tasks and questions during lessons or as part of their homework. Students can keep track by crossing off challenges as they complete them.
The resource also comes with a set of badges students can collect and tick off as they finish each task or question.
With the Year 6 Stretch and Challenge Grid you will be stretching and challenging the thinking of your students every time you teach, saving time along the way!
The KS3 English Stretch and Challenge Grid is one of the easiest ways to stretch and challenge the thinking of your students.
The resource combines three separate grids. The first contains 25 subject-specific questions and tasks mapped to the curriculum. The second contains 25 challenging tasks applicable to any area of the curriculum. The third is blank, ready to edit.
Simply print off one of the grids and give copies to your most-able students. You can then challenge them to complete tasks and questions during lessons or as part of their homework. Students can keep track by crossing off challenges as they complete them.
The resource also comes with a set of badges students can collect and tick off as they finish each task or question.
With the KS3 English Stretch and Challenge Grid you will be stretching and challenging the thinking of your students every time you teach, saving time along the way!
Feedback is one of the key areas we can focus on to promote growth mindsets in the classroom. This guide, forming part of the Growth Mindsets Primary Collection, walks you through 25 strategies, activities and techniques you can use to help your children embrace feedback, see it in a positive light and use it to grow their learning. From instant feedback to avoiding trait-based praise, the guide gives you everything you need to know to make your feedback as effective as possible and to cultivate growth mindsets across the board.
Best used in conjunction with other guides covering Language, Metacognition, Trial and Error and Targeted Effort. All available separately or as a bundle.
The Year Four Question Machine presents 101 challenging questions mapped to the curriculum that students can select at random to discuss.
You can use it as a starter activity, as a plenary, to begin the day or to draw things to a close before home-time. You can even use it midway through a lesson to energise students and stretch their thinking.
The toolkit is complete, self-contained and ready-to-use. Simply play from the fourth slide and invite students to pick a button at random. Each one reveals a different question which will get students discussing, debating and thinking deeply.
The Year Four Question Machine will give your lessons a new dimension, motivating and engaging the students you teach!
The A Level Law Stretch and Challenge Grid is one of the easiest ways to stretch and challenge the thinking of your students.
The resource combines three separate grids. The first contains 25 subject-specific questions and tasks mapped to the curriculum. The second contains 25 challenging tasks applicable to any area of the curriculum. The third is blank, ready to edit.
Simply print off one of the grids and give copies to your most-able students. You can then challenge them to complete tasks and questions during lessons or as part of their homework. Students can keep track by crossing off challenges as they complete them.
The resource also comes with a set of badges students can collect and tick off as they finish each task or question.
With the A Level Law Stretch and Challenge Grid you will be stretching and challenging the thinking of your students every time you teach, saving time along the way!
The GCSE PSHE Question Generator presents 101 challenging questions mapped to the curriculum that students can select at random to discuss.
You can use it as a starter activity, as a plenary, a revision tool or midway through a lesson to energise students and stretch their thinking.
The toolkit is complete, self-contained and ready-to-use. Simply play from the fourth slide and invite students to pick a button at random. Each one reveals a different question which will get students thinking deeply about the subject.
The GCSE PSHE Question Generator will give your lessons a new dimension, motivating and engaging the students you teach!
Never before has stretching and challenging the thinking of your students been so simple and so effective. With the GCSE PSHE Stretch and Challenge Generator you can push the thinking of your students at the click of a button - no planning required!
Containing over 100 challenge tasks and questions mapped to the curriculum, this fantastic tool will engage and excite your students as they get to select a challenge at random by clicking one of the icons on the fourth slide.
Alternatively, why not use the tasks and questions as pre-planned extension activities? Simply drop them into your existing lessons and be certain that you are consistently differentiating for the most able.
However you choose to use it, you can guarantee that the GCSE PSHE Stretch and Challenge Generator will make pushing the thinking of your students easier than ever before. High challenge, great progress and big thinking will be a feature of every lesson you teach!
The A Level English Language Stretch and Challenge Grid is one of the easiest ways to stretch and challenge the thinking of your students.
The resource combines three separate grids. The first contains 25 subject-specific questions and tasks mapped to the curriculum. The second contains 25 challenging tasks applicable to any area of the curriculum. The third is blank, ready to edit.
Simply print off one of the grids and give copies to your most-able students. You can then challenge them to complete tasks and questions during lessons or as part of their homework. Students can keep track by crossing off challenges as they complete them.
The resource also comes with a set of badges students can collect and tick off as they finish each task or question.
With the A Level English Language Stretch and Challenge Grid you will be stretching and challenging the thinking of your students every time you teach, saving time along the way!
The A Level Religious Studies Stretch and Challenge Grid is one of the easiest ways to stretch and challenge the thinking of your students.
The resource combines three separate grids. The first contains 25 subject-specific questions and tasks mapped to the curriculum. The second contains 25 challenging tasks applicable to any area of the curriculum. The third is blank, ready to edit.
Simply print off one of the grids and give copies to your most-able students. You can then challenge them to complete tasks and questions during lessons or as part of their homework. Students can keep track by crossing off challenges as they complete them.
The resource also comes with a set of badges students can collect and tick off as they finish each task or question.
With the A Level Religious Studies Stretch and Challenge Grid you will be stretching and challenging the thinking of your students every time you teach, saving time along the way!
The A Level Media Studies Stretch and Challenge Grid is one of the easiest ways to stretch and challenge the thinking of your students.
The resource combines three separate grids. The first contains 25 subject-specific questions and tasks mapped to the curriculum. The second contains 25 challenging tasks applicable to any area of the curriculum. The third is blank, ready to edit.
Simply print off one of the grids and give copies to your most-able students. You can then challenge them to complete tasks and questions during lessons or as part of their homework. Students can keep track by crossing off challenges as they complete them.
The resource also comes with a set of badges students can collect and tick off as they finish each task or question.
With the A Level Media Studies Stretch and Challenge Grid you will be stretching and challenging the thinking of your students every time you teach, saving time along the way!
The A Level Physics Stretch and Challenge Grid is one of the easiest ways to stretch and challenge the thinking of your students.
The resource combines three separate grids. The first contains 25 subject-specific questions and tasks mapped to the curriculum. The second contains 25 challenging tasks applicable to any area of the curriculum. The third is blank, ready to edit.
Simply print off one of the grids and give copies to your most-able students. You can then challenge them to complete tasks and questions during lessons or as part of their homework. Students can keep track by crossing off challenges as they complete them.
The resource also comes with a set of badges students can collect and tick off as they finish each task or question.
With the A Level Physics Stretch and Challenge Grid you will be stretching and challenging the thinking of your students every time you teach, saving time along the way!
Never before has stretching and challenging the thinking of your students been so simple and so effective. With the KS3 PSHE Stretch and Challenge Generator you can push the thinking of your students at the click of a button - no planning required!
Containing over 100 challenge tasks and questions mapped to the curriculum, this fantastic tool will engage and excite your students as they get to select a challenge at random by clicking one of the icons on the fourth slide.
Alternatively, why not use the tasks and questions as pre-planned extension activities? Simply drop them into your existing lessons and be certain that you are consistently differentiating for the most able.
However you choose to use it, you can guarantee that the KS3 PSHE Stretch and Challenge Generator will make pushing the thinking of your students easier than ever before. High challenge, great progress and big thinking will be a feature of every lesson you teach!
The A Level Drama Question Generator presents 101 challenging questions mapped to the curriculum that students can select at random to discuss.
You can use it as a starter activity, as a plenary, a revision tool or midway through a lesson to energise students and stretch their thinking.
The toolkit is complete, self-contained and ready-to-use. Simply play from the fourth slide and invite students to pick a button at random. Each one reveals a different question which will get students thinking deeply about the subject.
The A Level Drama Question Generator will give your lessons a new dimension, motivating and engaging the students you teach!
The A Level Geography Question Generator presents 101 challenging questions mapped to the curriculum that students can select at random to discuss.
You can use it as a starter activity, as a plenary, a revision tool or midway through a lesson to energise students and stretch their thinking.
The toolkit is complete, self-contained and ready-to-use. Simply play from the fourth slide and invite students to pick a button at random. Each one reveals a different question which will get students thinking deeply about the subject.
The A Level Geography Question Generator will give your lessons a new dimension, motivating and engaging the students you teach!
The A Level English Literature Question Generator presents 101 challenging questions mapped to the curriculum that students can select at random to discuss.
You can use it as a starter activity, as a plenary, a revision tool or midway through a lesson to energise students and stretch their thinking.
The toolkit is complete, self-contained and ready-to-use. Simply play from the fourth slide and invite students to pick a button at random. Each one reveals a different question which will get students thinking deeply about the subject.
The A Level English Literature Question Generator will give your lessons a new dimension, motivating and engaging the students you teach!
The GCSE PSHE Stretch and Challenge Workbook makes it as easy as possible for you to stretch and challenge the thinking of your most able students.
The workbook is self-contained and ready to use. It is thirty pages long, containing a wide range of stimulating, high-level activities. These are based on critical, creative and conceptual thinking, as well as the top two levels of Bloom’s Taxonomy – synthesis and evaluation.
Simply print off the workbook and give it to your most able students. They can then use it during lessons, when they have finished the main activity, or as the basis of challenging homework tasks.
The GCSE PSHE Stretch and Challenge Workbook is a perfect complement to the Stretch and Challenge Grid and the Stretch and Challenge Generator. All three together allow you to differentiate incredibly effectively for your most able students, with little or no planning required.
The Year 5 Stretch and Challenge Grid is one of the easiest ways to stretch and challenge the thinking of your students.
The resource combines three separate grids. The first contains 25 subject-specific questions and tasks mapped to the curriculum. The second contains 25 challenging tasks applicable to any area of the curriculum. The third is blank, ready to edit.
Simply print off one of the grids and give copies to your most-able students. You can then challenge them to complete tasks and questions during lessons or as part of their homework. Students can keep track by crossing off challenges as they complete them.
The resource also comes with a set of badges students can collect and tick off as they finish each task or question.
With the Year 5 Stretch and Challenge Grid you will be stretching and challenging the thinking of your students every time you teach, saving time along the way!
Language is one of the key areas we can focus on to promote growth mindsets in the classroom. This guide, forming part of the Growth Mindsets Primary Collection, walks you through 25 strategies, activities and techniques you can use to ensure the language of your classroom promotes, develops and reinforces growth mindsets across the board. From rephrasing to growth mindset bingo, the guide gives you all you need to know to ensure the language of your classroom consistently cultivates growth mindsets.
Best used in conjunction with other guides covering Trial and Error, Metacognition, Feedback and Targeted Effort. All available separately or as a bundle.
Never before has stretching and challenging the thinking of your students been so simple and so effective. With the GCSE Citizenship Stretch and Challenge Generator you can push the thinking of your students at the click of a button - no planning required!
Containing over 100 challenge tasks and questions mapped to the curriculum, this fantastic tool will engage and excite your students as they get to select a challenge at random by clicking one of the icons on the fourth slide.
Alternatively, why not use the tasks and questions as pre-planned extension activities? Simply drop them into your existing lessons and be certain that you are consistently differentiating for the most able.
However you choose to use it, you can guarantee that the GCSE Citizenship Stretch and Challenge Generator will make pushing the thinking of your students easier than ever before. High challenge, great progress and big thinking will be a feature of every lesson you teach!
