A primary school teacher for over 20 years. I've learned a thing or two to share. My degree is in archaeology and I've never lost a love for history and all things history based.
A primary school teacher for over 20 years. I've learned a thing or two to share. My degree is in archaeology and I've never lost a love for history and all things history based.
A Powerpoint explaining some of the main tasks of a Maths Subject Lead. The presentation is split into - Curriculum, Action Plan, Monitoring, Policies, OFSTED, miscellaneous and a final slide directing you to other useful sites to further your subject leadership knowledge and understanding. The slides contain tried and tested ideas and suggestions and a review of some useful school based apps for maths at school and home. A great introduction for those who need some guidance as they begin an important core subject lead.
A collection of my most popular table top resources for Literacy support. Useful for all children but especially good for SEND and Dyslexic children to help with any memory issues they may experience and to take some of the burden off their working memory when writing. Save 40% when bought as a bundle.
A professional and engaging PowerPoint template ready for you to download and edit for teaching. The slide design is colourful and attractive and focuses on the blood-thirsty nature of the Vikings. The designs can be personalised with school fonts and the images rearranged to make way for text. If you want more slides duplicate the slide required to ensure the design and style is maintained.
The presentation can be used in many ways - the pages can be printed and glued into books, pinned to a display, adapted as writing frames or even used within an ICT outcome for the history topic. Just download and make your own.
Your headteacher will think you’ve spent hours designing engaging slides for your class!
Making school life just that little bit easier for teachers. Who has time to make powerpoints look engaging and exciting as well as making sure they contain lots of information? No one! This digital download contains a powerpoint design for a lesson or scheme of lessons about the Ancient Greece. It has been designed to ensure your slides are already engaging and exciting so that all you need to do is add the information for your students to learn. The download has editable slides, with elements that can be moved and fonts that can be replaced if your school has a strict cursive rule. There are 10 slide designs that can be duplicated and used to suit your needs. Be aware that it is a design only not a lesson plan. There is no information about Ancient Greece on the slides, they are designed to have Greek images and patterns ready for you to engage your students.
A professional and engaging PowerPoint template ready for you to download and edit for teaching. The slide design is colourful and attractive and suited to the Romans topic. The designs can be personalised with school fonts and the images rearranged to make way for text.
The presentation can be used in many ways - the pages can be printed and glued into books, pinned to a display, adapted as writing frames or even used within an ICT outcome for the history topic. Just download and make your own.
Your headteacher will think you’ve spent hours designing engaging slides for your class!
A bright and engaging illustrated dictionary of things you might find in a church. It could be used as CPD by history/RE/Literacy subject leads in school, teacher knowledge if using a local church, parent knowledge if home schooling or for pupils to carry as they investigate a church. Pupils could use it like a checklist or as a reference to extend their knowledge. A great reference for a range of subjects and a range of purposes.
Making school life just that little bit easier for teachers. Who has time to make powerpoints look engaging and exciting as well as making sure they contain lots of information? No one! This digital download contains a powerpoint design for a lesson or scheme of lessons about Early Man. It has been designed to ensure your slides are already engaging and exciting so that all you need to do is add the information for your students to learn. The download has editable slides, with elements that can be moved and fonts that can be replaced if your school has a strict cursive rule. There are 10 slide designs that can be duplicated and used to suit your needs. Be aware that it is a design only not a lesson plan. There is no information about Early Man on the slides, they are designed to have Early Man images and patterns ready for you to engage your students.
A PowerPoint for History Subject Leads to train staff in primary schools. The PowerPoint is around the effective use of artefacts in the classroom. It focuses on asking questions and using observation skills. It contains games that can be used in the primary classroom from the Foundation Stage to Year 6. Download and edit to personalise to your school.
This PowerPoint investigates how ruins can offer an insight into the history of a buiilding, a village, national history and can be used as the incentive for a larger project including art and design and technology. It provides ideas for using the ruins themselves as a learning tool for the building’s history and then ideas for a wider project. If you are thinking of using local ruins, then this is a presentation to use before you plan your unit of work.
This PowerPoint outlines how primary teachers and home-schoolers can use the local area for a unit of work in History. It takes the teacher through the resources that they can use to support a rich and multi-sourced investigation. It is intended to be used by the History Subject Lead as CPD or for a teacher / parent who needs help to plan a unit of work. There are embedded links to useful sites within the slides themselves, where sources have been suggested.
This is an easy-to-use and edit PowerPoint outlining the main points of the History Subject Review by Ofsted in July 2023. It is intended for Primary History Subject Leads to use as an opening CPD opportunity for staff and is editable so you can personalise it to your school’s needs in history.
It starts with Ofsted’s praise of Primary history and then works through the report’s headings of Curriculum, Pedagogy, Assessment, School Systems and Teacher Knowledge outlining 2 or 3 of the main findings. It concludes with 3 examples of history practice from effective primary schools and a final warning not to just fact check but provide a rich curriculum. The final slide has a link to the full report.
The slides transition like a flip chart and there are some simple animation on the third slide. These can all be changed if you want to. All images are from the royalty free site www.pixabay.com.
This resource bundle includes large and small alphabet lettering, word posters and page borders. They are bright and engaging and based around the theme of animals. The resources are PDF documents so the large lettering can be used as a title but if printed smaller can become literacy support or a letter snap game. The word posters could be printed large and used for display purposes but could also be printed smaller and used as a writing support in continuous provision or within a lesson. The page borders could be used as appealing writing frames within continuous provision but could also be used to support writing on the theme of animals. They could be used in conjunction with a small world display or an immersive classroom theme of animals. Whatever you do with them is up to you but save time and download them all now!
This resource bundle includes large and small alphabet lettering, word posters and page borders. They are bright and engaging and based around the theme of colours/colourful. The resources are PDF documents so the large lettering can be used as a title but if printed smaller can become literacy support or a letter snap game. The word posters could be printed large and used for display purposes but could also be printed smaller and used as a writing support in continuous provision or within a lesson. The page borders could be used as appealing writing frames within continuous provision but could also be used to support writing on a range of themes such as wellbeing, Holi clebration or happiness. They could be used in conjunction with a small world display or an immersive classroom experience. Whatever you do with them is up to you but save time and download them all now!
This resource bundle includes large and small alphabet lettering, word posters and page borders. They are bright and engaging and based around the theme of a circus. The resources are PDF documents so the large lettering can be used as a title but if printed smaller can become literacy support or a letter snap game. The word posters could be printed large and used for display purposes but could also be printed smaller and used as a writing support in continuous provision or within a lesson. The page borders could be used as appealing writing frames within continuous provision but could also be used to support writing on the theme of circus performance. They could be used in conjunction with a small world display or an immersive classroom experience. There are many books linked to circus performances that you could use in connection with these resources including Claude At The Circus by Alex T Smith and Harold’s Circus by Crockett Johnson. Whatever you do with them is up to you but save time and download them all now!
A colourful, halloween themed set of alphabet posters, including a question mark and exclamation mark. There are skulls, bats, pumpkins and spider-web designs. All the fun of halloween without the time wasted. Download and decorate the classroom!
This resource bundle includes large and small alphabet lettering, word posters and page borders. They are bright and engaging and based around the theme of Halloween. The resources are PDF documents so the large lettering can be used as a title but if printed smaller can become literacy support or a letter snap game. The word posters could be printed large and used for display purposes but could also be printed smaller and used as a writing support in continuous provision or within a lesson. The page borders could be used as appealing writing frames within continuous provision but could also be used to support writing on the theme of Halloween or scary stories. They could be used in conjunction with a small world display or an immersive classroom experience. Whatever you do with them is up to you but save time and download them all now!
A collection of 3 colourful and engaging science display bunting sets:
forces and magnets
materials
weather
Each of the bunting documents contain the complete alphabet (including a capital W and H and a question mark) so the wording can reflect a question or a phrase that you would like. They contain high quality images so you can be assured they will make any display look professional and engaging. Save money if bought as a bundle!
This is the full school set of cover sheets for all year group topics. These can be glued into the children’s book before each topic starts. Great for Ofsted and we use them to mark out interventions for TAs in the small steps.
Each maths area has its own border, eg, length is tape measures and place value has colourful numbers. I have left them as a word document so you can edit to suit your school. As i have uploaded it to a new computer, the school font has not been recognised so you will need to change the font and ensure each unit is on a new page.
The title is the unit topic, then the White Rose small steps for that unit are below, a box for a before and after test results and a box at the bottom for the children to reflect on their learning within the topic. You can edit the boxes or wording, even the image around the edge if you like (it is a watermark under the design tab in word).
A collection of PowerPoint design templates:
Roman
Greek
Early Man
Vikings
(buy as a bundle and get one free - 4 for the price of 3)
The slides include:
front cover
agenda
famous quote
activity sheets with images relating to the topic
conclusion
final talk to your partner about what you have learned
Fully editable and ready for classroom use.