20 creative writing ideas: Nature Journaling: Have them keep a journal to document their observations of plants, animals, and the environment. Pen Pals: Connect with other schools or students in different locations and encourage letter writing. Scavenger Hunt: Create a writing scavenger hunt with clues and riddles for them to solve. Story Stones: Collect small, interesting objects from nature and have them create stories around them. Recipe Book: Encourage them to write down family recipes, creating a personalized cookbook. Interview a Family Member: Have them interview an older family member and write a biography. Postcards: Ask them to send postcards to friends or family, sharing their adventures. Comic Strips: Let them create their own comic strips, combining writing and drawing. Treasure Map: Draw a treasure map and write clues or a story about the hidden treasure. Book Reviews: Have them write book reviews for the books they read at home. Diary or Journal: Encourage daily journaling about their experiences and feelings. Adventure Stories: Ask them to write a short adventure story set in a fictional or real location. Dream Journal: Have them keep a journal to record their dreams, or even write stories based on their dreams. Historical Letters: Write letters from the perspective of historical figures or characters from history. Create a Family Newspaper: Write and illustrate a family newspaper with updates, stories, and jokes. Travel Blog: If they go on a trip, create a travel blog or journal to document the journey. Pen a Poem: Encourage them to write poems about their surroundings or emotions. Fairy Tale Rewrite: Rewrite a classic fairy tale with a new twist or ending. Mystery Stories: Have them write and solve a mystery story, complete with clues. Science Reports: Encourage them to explore a scientific concept and write a report about their findings.

20 Creative Orienteering lesson ideas for PE

Science Plants / Flowering / Pollination PowerPoint Lesson from an outstanding science lesson on plants.

Here are 50 Halloween ideas suitable for school: Costume parade: Have a costume parade where students can show off their Halloween outfits. Pumpkin decorating contest: Host a pumpkin decorating competition for students to showcase their creativity. Spooky storytelling: Invite a storyteller to share Halloween-themed tales with students. Classroom door decorating: Encourage teachers and students to decorate their classroom doors with a Halloween theme. Jack-o’-lantern carving: Organize a jack-o’-lantern carving competition. Costume swap: Set up a costume swap station for students to exchange costumes. Classroom crafts: Have students create Halloween-themed crafts like paper ghosts and bats. Haunted house: Create a not-so-scary haunted house within the school for a spooky experience. Ghost races: Organize a friendly ghost race on the school track or field. Monster mash dance: Host a Halloween dance with a “Monster Mash” theme. Halloween trivia: Hold a Halloween trivia contest with questions about spooky facts and legends. Pumpkin science: Incorporate pumpkin-themed science experiments or demonstrations. Candy corn counting: Use candy corn for math activities, like counting and sorting. Mummy wrap race: Challenge students to wrap a classmate in toilet paper to create a mummy in a timed race. Witches’ brew: Set up a station to make “witches’ brew” using colored beverages. Scavenger hunt: Create a Halloween-themed scavenger hunt with riddles and clues. Bobbing for apples: Have a classic bobbing for apples contest. Monster crafts: Let students create their own paper plate monsters with various craft supplies. Pumpkin bowling: Use small pumpkins as bowling balls for a fun game. Halloween math worksheets: Provide Halloween-themed math worksheets to make learning fun. Costume fashion show: Host a costume fashion show where students can strut their stuff. Halloween bingo: Play a game of Halloween-themed bingo with students. Day of the Dead activities: Teach students about Dia de los Muertos with crafts and lessons. Spider races: Organize a spider race using toy spiders and straws. Mystery box challenge: Have students reach into a box filled with Halloween-themed objects to guess what they are. Vampire teeth crafts: Create vampire teeth using craft materials and play pretend. Halloween cooking: Prepare Halloween-themed snacks or treats in class. Pumpkin math: Use pumpkins to teach math concepts like measurement and estimation. Spooky science experiments: Conduct Halloween-themed science experiments, like creating “slime.” Halloween-themed writing prompts: Encourage creative writing with spooky prompts. Bat origami: Teach students how to make origami bats. Halloween movie day: Screen age-appropriate Halloween movies in the classroom. Frankenstein’s monster art: Create Frankenstein-themed art projects. Candy corn relay: Organize a candy corn relay race in the schoolyard.

The Digestive System Lesson PowerPoint (Class Dojo Theme) Features video (Dr. Binocs). Great lesson for KS2 / lower KS3 students. Fully adaptable PowerPoint.

Here is a full lesson on practical magnet experiment: making magnetic slime. Aimed at KS3 but can be adapted to KS2 by deleting the more detailed slides. It includes information about what magnets are, properties of magnets, practical applications of magnets. Also includes a summary quiz for students to complete and a task to do in notebooks after the practical experiment. It’s such a fun way to help students consolidate information about magnets. Thanks for looking!

GCSE Year 11 ROMEO (and Juliet) Character Description / Profile / Themes FULL BOOKLET. 12 pages in total, the first page is information on the character and the other 11 pages are fully editable / deletable for you to make the most effective booklet for your students.

Halloween Forfeits! Trick or Treat? Simply print, cut and fold the forfeits and place them in a bowl, hat or pumpkin. Pass the bowl round to music, when it stops the student has to do the forfeit (or take the candy). Then the game continues.

Juliet (from Romeo and Juliet) - Character Profile BOOKLET

Romeo (from Romeo and Juliet) Character Description Profile BOOKLET worksheets templates A4 PDF. William Shakespeare. Attached is a 6 page printable booklet with the following pages: Page 1 - Character Details Revise this character guide and highlight anything that will help you with your character profile. Make notes on lined paper if you wish to. Page 2 - Character Monologue Fill in the relevant boxes with character thoughts, quotes and personal feelings. Focus on the evidence from the text rather than your own opinions too much. Page 3 - The Physical Character Annotate and make notes around the character. Focus on the character’s physical abilities and appearance and write down things that other characters see when they look at your character. Page 4 - Character Wheel In the surrounding segments choose eight different words to describe your character i.e. ‘brave’ or ‘risk taker’. Then use the text to find quotes that back up your segment words and write these on the outside. Page 5 - Character Notes Write any notes, memorable moments, useful facts or other information that you believe is relevant on this final page. Page 6 Character Description Use this page to write a brief character description of the character using the information that you have created in the booklet. These make fantastic booklets or feel free to use the individual pages. I have also made excellent English working wall displays with these individual sheets i.e. the character wheels and the character monologue pages. Please check my other resources as I have similar templates for other characters. Thanks for looking! *Hashtags: character, role, shakespeare, genre, account, explanation, elucidation, illustration, representation, interpretation, chronicle, report, narration, narrative, story, recounting, rendition, relation, commentary, version, portrayal, character portrait, word picture, evocation, feelings, weaknesses, strengths, hopes, dreams, wishes, enemies, foes, writing, character map, story map, character detail, belief, judgment, thoughts, school of thought, thinking, way of thinking, mind, point of view, view, viewpoint, outlook, angle, slant, side, attitude, stance, perspective, position, standpoint, theory, tenet, conclusion, verdict, estimation, thesis, hypothesis, feeling, sentiment, impression, reflections, idea, notion, assumption, speculation, conception, conviction, contention, persuasion, creed, dogma, as I see it, in my view, to my mind, from my standpoint, personally, in my estimation, in my judgment, in my book, for my money.

Lady Macbeth - Character Profile / Description BOOKLET

Macbeth Character Profile BOOKLET

An Inspector Calls - Mr Birling Character Profile BOOKLET

Paddington Bear - Describe the Character / Description, Profile Template Editable A4 PDF. The attached PowerPoint and PDF files have two pages as follows: Page One Features page: the children are to think of the following things about their character and write these in the boxes surrounding the character: The character’s likes The character’s dislikes The character’s feelings The character’s friends The character’s family The character’s hopes The character’s fears The character’s house The character’s hobbies The character’s past The character’s present The character’s future The character’s problems The character’s solutions Page Two The task states ‘Now that you have a list of features for your character, write a character profile to describe the character.’ On this page there is an image of the character and a whole lines page for the students to add lots of detail in sentences. Ask them to focus largely on the features that they have found already and to use powerful adjectives. Feel free to edit the PowerPoint with your own questions and features if you wish. Thanks for looking at my resources.

Mowgli - Jungle Book - Describe the Character / Description, Profile Template Editable A4 PDF. The attached PowerPoint and PDF files have two pages as follows: Page One Features page: the children are to think of the following things about their character and write these in the boxes surrounding the character: The character’s likes The character’s dislikes The character’s feelings The character’s friends The character’s family The character’s hopes The character’s fears The character’s house The character’s hobbies The character’s past The character’s present The character’s future The character’s problems The character’s solutions Page Two The task states ‘Now that you have a list of features for your character, write a character profile to describe the character.’ On this page there is an image of the character and a whole lines page for the students to add lots of detail in sentences. Ask them to focus largely on the features that they have found already and to use powerful adjectives. Feel free to edit the PowerPoint with your own questions and features if you wish. Thanks for looking at my resources.

Winnie the Pooh Describe the Character / Description, Profile Template Editable A4 PDF. The attached PowerPoint and PDF files have two pages as follows: Page One Features page: the children are to think of the following things about their character and write these in the boxes surrounding the character: The character’s likes The character’s dislikes The character’s feelings The character’s friends The character’s family The character’s hopes The character’s fears The character’s house The character’s hobbies The character’s past The character’s present The character’s future The character’s problems The character’s solutions Page Two The task states ‘Now that you have a list of features for your character, write a character profile to describe the character.’ On this page there is an image of the character and a whole lines page for the students to add lots of detail in sentences. Ask them to focus largely on the features that they have found already and to use powerful adjectives. Feel free to edit the PowerPoint with your own questions and features if you wish. Thanks for looking at my resources.

Charlotte’s Web Describe the Character / Description, Profile Template Editable A4 PDF Lost and Found Boy Penguin Describe the Character / Description, Profile Template Editable A4 PDF. The attached PowerPoint and PDF files have two pages as follows: Page One Features page: the children are to think of the following things about their character and write these in the boxes surrounding the character: The character’s likes The character’s dislikes The character’s feelings The character’s friends The character’s family The character’s hopes The character’s fears The character’s house The character’s hobbies The character’s past The character’s present The character’s future The character’s problems The character’s solutions Page Two The task states ‘Now that you have a list of features for your character, write a character profile to describe the character.’ On this page there is an image of the character and a whole lines page for the students to add lots of detail in sentences. Ask them to focus largely on the features that they have found already and to use powerful adjectives. Feel free to edit the PowerPoint with your own questions and features if you wish. Thanks for looking at my resources.

Lost and Found Boy Penguin Describe the Character / Description, Profile Template Editable A4 PDF. The attached PowerPoint and PDF files have two pages as follows: Page One Features page: the children are to think of the following things about their character and write these in the boxes surrounding the character: The character’s likes The character’s dislikes The character’s feelings The character’s friends The character’s family The character’s hopes The character’s fears The character’s house The character’s hobbies The character’s past The character’s present The character’s future The character’s problems The character’s solutions Page Two The task states ‘Now that you have a list of features for your character, write a character profile to describe the character.’ On this page there is an image of the character and a whole lines page for the students to add lots of detail in sentences. Ask them to focus largely on the features that they have found already and to use powerful adjectives. Feel free to edit the PowerPoint with your own questions and features if you wish. Thanks for looking at my resources.

Zeus Greek God Worskheet Describe the Character / Description, Profile Template Editable A4 PDF. The attached PowerPoint and PDF files have two pages as follows: Page One Features page: the children are to think of the following things about their character and write these in the boxes surrounding the character: The character’s likes The character’s dislikes The character’s feelings The character’s friends The character’s family The character’s hopes The character’s fears The character’s house The character’s hobbies The character’s past The character’s present The character’s future The character’s problems The character’s solutions Page Two The task states ‘Now that you have a list of features for your character, write a character profile to describe the character.’ On this page there is an image of the character and a whole lines page for the students to add lots of detail in sentences. Ask them to focus largely on the features that they have found already and to use powerful adjectives. Feel free to edit the PowerPoint with your own questions and features if you wish. Thanks for looking at my resources.

Katniss Everdeen Hunger Games Describe the Character / Description, Profile Template Editable A4 PDF The attached PowerPoint and PDF files have two pages as follows: Page One Features page: the children are to think of the following things about their character and write these in the boxes surrounding the character: The character’s likes The character’s dislikes The character’s feelings The character’s friends The character’s family The character’s hopes The character’s fears The character’s house The character’s hobbies The character’s past The character’s present The character’s future The character’s problems The character’s solutions Page Two The task states ‘Now that you have a list of features for your character, write a character profile to describe the character.’ On this page there is an image of the character and a whole lines page for the students to add lots of detail in sentences. Ask them to focus largely on the features that they have found already and to use powerful adjectives. Feel free to edit the PowerPoint with your own questions and features if you wish. Thanks for looking at my resources.