Welcome to Resourceful Mind! Through my extensive experience in teaching design, engineering, graphics, food and textiles, I've developed resources that make topics easy to understand. My materials include clear visuals, simple explanations, and engaging tasks to reinforce learning and support learners.
Welcome to Resourceful Mind! Through my extensive experience in teaching design, engineering, graphics, food and textiles, I've developed resources that make topics easy to understand. My materials include clear visuals, simple explanations, and engaging tasks to reinforce learning and support learners.
This lesson explores the roles within the brigade system, focusing on the daily responsibilities, skills, and challenges of different chef positions like the Sous Chef and Executive Chef. Students will reflect on the hierarchy’s importance in kitchen operations. Resources include role descriptions, posing questions, links to support videos, a written reflection activity, stretch it task, mini review and a comparison exercise.
This worksheet is designed as a fun and educational activity to help students understand how and when to use apostrophes correctly. It is perfect for a cover lesson or busy task where students can work independently or in small groups.
What It Covers:
Introduction to Apostrophes:
The worksheet starts with a brief, student-friendly explanation of what apostrophes are and their two main uses—showing possession and replacing missing letters in contractions.
It covers key aspects of apostrophes: contractions, possessives, and common mistakes (like using apostrophes in plurals).
It is a self-explanatory resource, requiring minimal teacher intervention—perfect for independent work during a cover lesson.
The activities are flexible and can be completed individually or in pairs.
This worksheet will help students strengthen their understanding of apostrophes while offering them an enjoyable way to practice their skills.
An assembly presentation you could use before a Student council Election
Discuss the election process, why your voice is important and the roles of a student council
In this lesson, students will explore adjectives and their two main roles: attributive (before the noun) and predicative (after the noun). Through a combination of direct instruction, guided practice, and peer interaction, students will deepen their understanding of how adjectives modify nouns and enrich sentences.
The lesson begins with a quick-start activity to recall prior knowledge, followed by an engaging visual explanation of adjective use. The main task includes a worksheet with real-life sentence examples, allowing students to practice identifying adjectives in different positions. Interactive tasks encourage collaboration and active learning, while peer review promotes reflection and discussion. The lesson closes with a mini-task and a plenary to consolidate key points.
This well-rounded approach ensures that students grasp the concepts and can confidently use adjectives in their writing.
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Overview of Hospitality and Catering Unit of Work: Soup and Food Provenance
This unit of work is designed to guide students through the process of learning about food provenance, preparation, and evaluation, with a focus on making and evaluating vegetable soup. The unit integrates a range of engaging resources, including starters, mini reviews, tasks, printouts, differentiated activities, and plenary sessions to ensure students grasp key concepts and practical skills.
Lesson Components:
Food Provenance - Vegetable Soup
Students will explore the origins of ingredients, sustainability, and local food sources, linking this knowledge to the preparation of vegetable soup.
Vegetable Soup Research
Pupils will investigate different types of vegetable soups, exploring variations in ingredients, nutritional content, and cultural significance.
Flavour Profiling and Seasoning
This lesson focuses on developing an understanding of how to balance and enhance flavors using seasoning. Pupils will create a flavour profile for their soup and learn the impact of seasoning on the final product.
Mise en Place - Time Plan
Students will learn how to prepare efficiently in a professional kitchen environment by organizing their tools, ingredients, and time before starting the soup practical.
Knife Skills
A practical session on knife handling and safety, where students will practice techniques such as chopping, dicing, and julienning, essential for vegetable preparation.
Soup Practical
In this hands-on session, pupils will put their skills to the test by preparing their own vegetable soup using the techniques and knowledge gained from previous lessons.
Soup Evaluation
Finally, students will evaluate their soups based on taste, texture, appearance, and overall success. They will also consider ways to improve their dish in the future.
Differentiation and Assessment:
The unit includes differentiated tasks to accommodate varying skill levels, allowing all students to engage with the material at an appropriate pace. Formative assessment occurs through mini reviews, while summative assessment takes place in the soup practical and evaluation lessons.
Lesson Overview:
This Year 10 Hospitality and Catering lesson focuses on helping students understand the essential personal attributes, qualifications, and experiences needed for success in the hospitality industry. Students will explore key attributes such as teamwork, communication, adaptability, customer service, and punctuality, as well as how gaining relevant qualifications and hands-on experience through internships or part-time work can lead to better job prospects and career progression.
Lesson Objective:
Students will identify and explain the importance of personal attributes, qualifications, and experience in hospitality and catering, and understand how these elements contribute to employability and career advancement.
Learning Outcomes:
All students will be able to identify basic personal attributes and qualifications required for hospitality roles.
Most students will explain how personal attributes, qualifications, and experience affect employability and career progression.
Some students will evaluate the significance of these factors in different hospitality roles.
Lesson Resources Provided:
Introduction:
A matching activity where students pair personal attributes (e.g., teamwork, adaptability) with various hospitality roles (e.g., waiter, hotel manager).
Scaffolding Information:
Key points covering the importance of personal attributes, specific qualifications, and relevant industry experience.
Mini Review Task:
“Rank the Importance” task where students rank personal attributes, qualifications, and experience in order of importance for a chosen hospitality role.
Main Task:
Job advertisement creation, where students write job ads for different roles, including the required personal attributes, qualifications, and experience.
Plenary Discussion:
Class discussion on what makes them the “perfect candidate” for a hospitality role, summarizing the key attributes and qualifications discussed in the lesson.
Assessment Questions:
A set of 6 questions targeting different levels of understanding (easy, medium, hard) to assess student comprehension of the lesson material.
Visual Aids and Illustrations:
Images representing personal attributes like teamwork, punctuality, communication skills, adaptability, customer service, and industry-related qualifications.
Key Topics Covered:
The role of personal attributes (e.g., teamwork, punctuality, communication) in hospitality
Industry-specific qualifications and their impact on job prospects
The importance of gaining hands-on experience through internships, part-time jobs, and volunteering
How experience, skills, and qualifications together lead to employability and career advancement
Estimated Duration:
1 hour
This lesson includes engaging activities, visual aids, and differentiated tasks to ensure all students can grasp the concepts, making it suitable for a diverse range of learners in Year 10 Hospitality and Catering.
Lesson: Homophones - There, Their, They’re, Were, Where, Wear, and We’re
Learning Objective:
By the end of the lesson, students will understand the correct usage of the homophones There, Their, They’re, Were, Where, Wear, and We’re. They will be able to confidently identify and apply these words in sentences, recognizing their different meanings and contexts.
Lesson Overview:
This lesson introduces students to commonly confused homophones—There, Their, They’re, Were, Where, Wear, and We’re. Through engaging activities, including fill-in-the-blank exercises, rap-style puzzles, and group discussions, students will explore how these words differ in meaning and usage. The lesson will begin with a clear explanation of each word’s definition, followed by interactive practice. The session will conclude with a creative writing task, where students use these homophones correctly in short stories, sentences, or lyrics.
Learning Outcomes:
Students will be able to define the homophones There, Their, They’re, Were, Where, Wear, and We’re.
Students will be able to identify the correct homophone in context.
Students will use the homophones accurately in both written and spoken tasks.
Students will demonstrate their understanding by completing creative and structured exercises using the correct form of the homophones.
In this lesson , students explore various media types (print, digital, broadcast) and their role in promoting restaurants. They evaluate the positive and negative impacts of media on society and learn competitive marketing strategies, such as special offers and events. The final task involves pairs creating a 30-second radio advert for a new pizza restaurant, using key promotional techniques. Through discussions, group work, and creative tasks, students reflect on how media and marketing influence customer engagement and business success.
Starter activity - Spot the difference
Learning objectives and outcomes
Tasks
Reviews
Plenary
60 Minute lesson
Lesson Overview: This lesson focuses on how various technologies are transforming the efficiency and customer experience in the hospitality and catering industries. Pupils will explore the roles of key technologies such as Electronic Point of Sale (EPOS), contactless payments, iPads/tablets, apps, WiFi, QR codes, drones, robots, Near Field Communication (NFC), and LCD displays in improving operations. Through real-life examples and interactive tasks, pupils will gain an understanding of how these technologies contribute to the smooth functioning of hospitality establishments. They will also analyze the advantages and disadvantages of each technology and how these innovations impact both the business and the customer experience.