In this booklet, you will find: 3 christmas wordsearchs of increasing difficulty 4 detailed Christmas colouring sheets 13 worded numeracy questions 12 Christmas brainteasers In total, 32 form time questions and activities for the lead up to Christmas! Please make sure you follow me: facebook.com/teachcoach

In this document you will find an attendance action plan. This includes split the year group into waves and plan actions for each wave of poor attendance. It includes the actions that should be taken from 100% attendance-90% and includes priorities to be completed by a pastoral leader. It also includes a comment about monitoring and how attendance should be monitored alongside this plan. Please follow me on: facebook.com/teachcoach

In this resource you will find an adaptable 6 week monitoring card for students who attendance is below 95%-96% depending on the school. The card includes space for tutors or pastoral staff to write the attendance each week, space for a school target, an image explaining great attendance and a space for a review at the end of the 6 weeks. This is designed to be used by students to improve attendance and allow for documentation of monitoring. Used with success previously. Please follow me: facebook.com/teachcoach

This is an assembly focused on anti-bullying. It covers a variety of topics including: a link to a starter video from Pixar which begins to explore the treatment of those different to ourselves defines bullying exploration of words closely linked to the definition and those which are most powerful linked to bullying exploration of the different types of bullying and what they look like exploration how bullying makes people feel and the impact on others an activity used in the assembly to encourage students to recognise how bullying may feel provides the case study of Felix Alexander - who took his own life after being bullied, including a video interview with his mum Lucy - a very powerful video. facts about bullying how we can stop bullying Please make sure you follow me on: facebook.com/teachcoach

In this resource, I detail a guide to analysing data as a pastoral leader. This is perfect for practice for an interview setting as data analyse if often given as an in tray excerise or great as CPD/support for a new head of year/head of house etc. This resource is 4 detailed pages including: a list of key terms often used in data analysis and their definitions - perfect for those new to data a step by step guide to analysing data including what sub-groups to explore, what questions to ask of the data, what gaps to look for - especially from a pastoral perspective a list of suggested actions for an action plan from a pastoral perspective plenty of top tips on how to approach this task in an interview or in a new pastoral appointment Please make sure you follow me: facebook.com/teachcoach You can also subscribe to my mailing list: https://theteachingcoach5.wixsite.com/theteachingcoach/blank-page

This resource is a 15 question who wants to be a millionaire style quiz for technical terms in English. Ranging from language techniques through to poetry, dialect, genre, personal opinion and synonyms. Checks knowledge of a wide range of English terminology. Perfect for end of the year or end of half term. Please make sure you follow me on: facebook.com/teachcoach

This resource includes approximately 3 lessons on the Ballad of Charlotte Dymond. The lessons cover: understanding the poem, comprehension and making predictions an investigation style resource where students have to piece together what happened quotation quest task a link to a Cornwall article which discusses Dymond’s death. exploration of narrative structure storyboarding task to check understanding and discussion points around tension a poem quiz exploration of audience reaction to the poem a transformation lesson; transforming into a film poster (this has links to media) including looking at font use and analysing example posters This resource also includes a copy of the poem, a copy of resources in the powerpoint and a 15 question quiz on the poem also.

This resource contains 5 individual full lessons for use in a library lesson or reading lesson. These could also easily be split into 10 sessions for form time sessions or for lessons which contain half reading, half skills focus. They could also be used for booster reading session, catch up or intervention sessions. The powerpoint also contains 12 reading starters/library lessons tasks and 5 spelling tests for homework. The 5-10 sessions include coverage of the following: Why reading is important and the journeys reading can take us on. The complexities of English, facts about the English language and how it can be confusing and homophones Skimming skills including an extract from Lord of the Rings and Harry Potter Scanning and retrieval skills including a non-fiction extract and an extract from The Hunger Games. This is then followed by the 12 reading/library activities/starters which can be used in lessons. For example: 'Reading Task What is an apostrophe? Why do we use apostrophes? (2 reasons- Can you give examples?) Look at the apostrophes in a section of your text. Write down each word which has an apostrophe, and explain why it is there.’ These cover the following: apostrophes nouns dictionary use inference from reading book characters adjectives/antonyms/synonyms simile/personification/metaphor etc. first person use character problems cartoon strips for comprehension title analysis t-shirt for your main character task new front cover task

This resource was created for KS4 students - specifically those getting ready for mocks or final exams. The session focuses on challenging myths and misconceptions about revision. Each task centres around dispelling different myths and references a paralymic sportsman to encourage students to reflect on the myths they use to tell themselves they can’t revise effectively. This resource also looks at ‘the curve of forgetting’ and the importance of staged revision. It also explores revision environment, challenges the perception that students don’t need to plan revision, and the ideas of ‘highlighting notes’ counting as revision. Finally, it asks students to review their learning and create a plan for how to ‘target’ their revision. It also has an extension task to create a success criteria for revising. This powerpoint also comes with a learning mat which can be used in the sessions. Perfect for an isolated lessons on revision. Please make you follow me: facebook.com/teachcoach

This resource is a bright and colourful weekly desk planner . It has space for planning for each working day of the week - Monday-Friday. It has space for an ‘urgent’ and ‘non-urgent’ to do list as well as space for a list of things to remember. Finally, it has space for ‘doodles’ and any notes you may want to add yourself. Please make sure you follow me on: facebook.com/teachcoach Subscribe to my mailing list for a free wellbeing bundle and access to free sample resources as well as new content here: https://theteachingcoach5.wixsite.com/theteachingcoach/blank-page

This lesson centres on autumn as inspiration for a piece of creative/descriptive writing - specifically this lesson focuses on a high level sensory vocabulary. It is a complete stand alone lesson, designed to be visually appealing and help immerse students in writing creatively about autumn. The lesson also comes with a learning mat to take students through the lesson which should be printed on A3 paper. Please follow me on: facebook.com/teachcoach

This lesson explores dual narratives using an extract from Jaws - this lesson includes discussion about the benefits of using a dual narrative. It then requires students to write their own dual narrative using a new image and then peer assess. Follow me on: facebook.com/teachcoach

This lesson is a stand alone lesson about dialogue and how to use dialogue effectively. It includes some ‘golden rules of dialogue’ and the chance for students to create some dialogue using an image for inspiration. Students then used the golden rules of dialogue to peer assess. This lesson includes 1 x powerpoint, 1 worksheet for students to edit, 1 worksheet with a list of interesting dialogue tags on. Follow me on: facebook.com/teachcoach