Welcome to my store and thanks for stopping by! I've been teaching in out-of-school settings for over 15 years. From helping children understand wriggling pythons as a zoo education officer (dream job!), to using historical objects as keys to unlock our past, my teaching experience has been far from typical. I'm currently a schools manager for a museum and art gallery, working with hundreds of children of all ages each year.
Welcome to my store and thanks for stopping by! I've been teaching in out-of-school settings for over 15 years. From helping children understand wriggling pythons as a zoo education officer (dream job!), to using historical objects as keys to unlock our past, my teaching experience has been far from typical. I'm currently a schools manager for a museum and art gallery, working with hundreds of children of all ages each year.
Re-cap some of the key words/vocabulary associated with Charles Darwin’s life.
Words can be found going forward, backwards, vertically and diagonally.
As an extension, challenge pupils to explain the significance of each word.
Includes answers.
Also available:
Who was Charles Darwin PowerPoint presentation
Who was Charles Darwin Google Slides presentation
Add fun and movement to your Google Classroom by adding an animated header into the banner space. Your students will love logging into Google Classroom and seeing these cute animated banners.
In this set, there are 5 coloruful designs:
2 ‘Welcome to class’ with animated chevron arrows
Moving windmill on a hill
Space scene with rocket (perfect for science classes!)
Dancing flowers with flying bumblebee
Just add the file to the banner space in the same way you’d add a static image. A short guide showing how to do this is included if you need extra help.
Please note, animated banners only work on the Google Classroom desktop site - they are not compatible with the app.
The headers can also be used with Google forms!
See my store for animated banner sets for all year round
Introduce the topic of materials and their properties to your KS1 class with this colourful and engaging pack of display materials. This resource is ready to print, with minimal trimming required. Just print the pages you need for science classroom display.
This 20-page science display resource (PDF) includes:
9 A4, full colour photo posters showing examples of everyday materials (glass, wood, metal, fabric, wool, plastic, ceramic, leather and paper).
12 descriptive words to add to your display if required (presented 3 to a page, to be cut out and mounted)
5 A4 posters with simple questions about the use of materials (e.g. Which material would be best for a superhero’s cape?).
Materials title - print over 2 A4 pages and join together.
Please note that this PDF file is not editable.
Inspire your class to become trainee paleontologists with this fossil identification activity! This printable KS2 science resource has 15 colour photo cards of different fossils, with labels to match. Print and laminate to use as a small group activity again and again.
Fossil examples include an ammonite, a mosasaur tooth, a megalodon tooth, shells, coral, and a plesiosaur backbone.
There are 2 sets of labels to choose from (1 set requiring some internet research, the other more descriptive to allow pupils to try to identify without needing to go online).
Teacher notes provide guidance for how to deliver this activity with pupils, as well as suggested discussion points and answers.
Both US and UK paper sizes are included.
Take a colourful journey through the life cycle of a butterfly with this 27-slide PowerPoint presentation. This engaging slide show covers the egg, caterpillar, chrysalis, and adult butterfly so that your students will have a full understanding of the life cycle.
What’s included in the presentation:
Real photos of different species of butterflies and their caterpillars
Editable text boxes to make adjustments for your students if needed (images and titles are not editable)
Fun animations - some pages have animated elements so make sure you’re using the ‘present’ screen.
2 spare slides to add your own information to if needed.
This slide show is suitable for KS2 or upper KS1. Check out the video to see a full preview.
National Curriculum link
Living Things and their habitats
Describe the differences in the life cycles of a mammal, an amphibian, an insect and a bird
Create a beautiful weather display with everything you need to get started.
This 21 page KS1 classroom display pack includes:
Title (over 2 pages to cut and join together)
A4 Weather chart with weather labels (cut out and laminate)
9 bright and colourful A4 photo posters of different weather (sun, rain, wind, snow, hail, frost, mist/fog, clouds, lightning)
5 A4 printables with question prompts for children.
Please note that this PDF resource is not editable.
Frohe Weihnachten! These cute German Christmas card templates are ready to print and are a quick and easy activity in the lead-up to the holidays. Pupils can colour their chosen German Christmas card design, fold the card in half and then add their own personal greeting inside. They can then give their card to a friend, family member, or teacher.
There are 6 German Christmas card designs in this set, all of which you can see in the preview.
The designs are:
Elf (Frohe Weihnachten und Alles Gute für das Neue Jahr!)
Christmas tree (O Tannenbaum)
Gingerbread house (Fröhliche Weihnachten)
Penguin in a snow globe (Es Schneit!)
Reindeer (Frohes Fest)
Christmas garland (Frohes Fest)
Please note that the text and images are not editable. A4 and US letter size included (cards are half this size when folded).
These print-and-go Christmas card templates make a quick and easy activity for before the Christmas holidays. Just print the designs on card for children to colour. They can then fold in half and write a festive greeting inside for a friend, family member, or teacher.
There are 6 designs:
Christmas elf with the greeting ‘Merry Christmas and happy new year’
Christmas tree (Merry Christmas)
Gingerbread house (included with both Happy Holidays and Happy Christmas)
Snow globe penguin (Let it Snow)
Reindeer (Christmas wishes)
Christmas garland (Merry and Bright)
Suitable for EYFS and KS1. UK and US paper sizes included.
Also available in my shop:
Dinosaur Christmas cards to print and colour
Add fun and movement to your science Google Classroom with this bundle of 16 animated banners. Add these animated science headers to Google Classroom in the same way you would add an image - a quick guide is included if you need it.
There are 16 moving headers in this set (as gif. files) so you can swap them around when you want a change. There are banners with images to cover physics, chemistry, and biology.
You can see 10 of the banners in the preview video.
Unfortunately, animated banners are not compatible with the Google Classroom app -they are designed to use on the desktop site.
The activity
Review the layers of the soil beneath our feet with this differentiated foldable activity. This fun alternative to a worksheet allows pupils to order the layers in the soil profile with either descriptions or name labels. There’s also an option for pupils to write descriptions in the boxes.
The templates
There are 3 template options to choose from in this PDF:
Colour the layers of soil, cut out the names or descriptions of the layers, glue, cut, and fold.
Colour the layers of soil, cut out the pictures of the layers with their descriptions, arrange them on the template, glue, cut, and fold.
Colour the layers of soil, write descriptions for each layer, cut, and fold. No glue is required for this option.
Curriculum links
Lower KS2 Science (Year 3 Rocks and Soils)
‘Recognise that soils are made from rocks and organic matter’.
US and UK paper sizes are included. Please note that this is not an editable resource. Layers of the soil are not presented to scale.
Reward and motivate your class with these superhero-themed reward certificates!
Ideal for early years and KS1 pupils. There are 6 designs and each one is included as in a PowerPoint, Google Slides and PDF document.
Use the PDF file to print your chosen certificates, handwrite and use in the classroom. Alternatively, use the PowerPoint or Google Slides version to fill the certificates in digitally, download and email to pupils.
UK and US paper sizes included.
Teach or review the life cycle of a turtle with this foldable sequencing. This fun and engaging alternative to a worksheet covers 4 stages of a turtle’s life cycle from egg to hatchling, juvenile, and adult sea turtle.
Print the templates you need on A4 paper ready for children to colour, cut, sequence the stages, glue, and fold. Once folded they can carefully bring the 2 halves together like an accordion, then pull apart to reveal the life cycle inside.
Use to support a lesson on life cycles, growth, sea life, reptiles or for National Marine Week.
This resource is a 9 page PDF and includes:
Black and white differentiated templates to copy (4 similar versions, including two for less confident cutters and one which doesn’t require glue).
Simple instructions.
Guidelines for how to fold the turtle.
A full-colour diagram of a turtle’s life cycle to discuss together (display on a screen).
This resource is not editable. Versions with both US and UK spelling and paper sizes are included.
A set of science PowerPoint to complement evolution and inheritance in year 6.
There are 4 resources in this bundle:
Insect adaptations PowerPoint.
Discover the wonderful world of insect adaptations with this 22 slide presentation. This resource gives pupils the opportunity to identify adaptations on a variety of insects from around the world including the atlas moth, hissing cockroach, thorn bug and stag beetle.
At the end, pupils are set the challenge of designing their own insect for a named habitat, outlining its adaptations to survive there.
Who was Charles Darwin PowerPoint
A 20 slide presentation covering information about Darwin’s early life, Beagle voyage and theory of natural selection.
Mary Anning PowerPoint
Introduce your class to this remarkable British paleontologist with this 15 slide presentation detailing her life and major discoveries including ichthyosaurs, plesiosaurs and winged reptiles!
What can fossils tell us?
How can a chipped tooth reveal what a giant shark ate? Why are mammoth teeth found in the North Sea?
Find out how fossils can unlock the secrets of ancient creatures with this informative 25 slide presentation. Full of high quality images and questions to get your pupils thinking about what fossils can and can’t tell us about the past.
Inheritance PowerPoint and monster activity
26 slide PowerPoint presentation ntroducing inheritance and inherited characteristics.
Printable monster activity. Pupils meet the 3-eyed monsters and draw what their offspring might look like, with a focus on inherited physical traits.
Please note, it is not possible to edit the text or images in these resources.
A fun, foldable activity for KS1 pupils, designed to get them thinking about smaller habitats (micro-habitats) and the animals that live there. An engaging alternative to a standard worksheet, this printable resource is particularly appropriate for year 2 science. It could be used to support a lesson on microhabitats, minibeasts, or habitats.
This resource is an 8-page PDF. It looks at 3 micro-habitat examples; a rock pool, under leaves, and a flower bed. There are 2 templates for each microhabitat so children can either colour the animals already included, or research and draw their own.
Once they have colored a template, they can cut it out and fold using the instructions provided. Some children may need assistance with this part and it’s a good idea to have a pre-made example.
Once folded, they can then ‘hide’ the animals away by closing the template, and then pull it gently apart to reveal what’s inside.
US and UK paper sizes included. Please not that this is not an editable resource.
Do your pupils need a visual reminder of the vocabulary for plant life cycles. This colourful life cycle of a bean plant word wall can be printed and displayed to help support them.
This resource contains the following:
Life cycle stages of a bean plant (3 to a page)
As above but with descriptions
Words for the parts of a plant (stem, leaves, roots, flower, stem).
UK and US paper sizes are included. Please note that this free resource is not editable.
Are you looking for a fun way to engage your class this Earth Day (or Protecting Our Planet Day) or to help them become more environmentally aware? Use this free foldable activity to help them record the actions they can/will take to help protect the planet!
A mix between a craft and a worksheet, this resource can be used as part of your Earth Day activities, or at any time of year (there is no reference to Earth Day specifically within the PDF).
Children colour the heart-shaped Earth (included with and without eyes), before filling in the template with 4 actions. You can decide if you want children to write, draw, or both. They then cut everything out, glue the parts together and fold.
A4 and letter-size versions are included. Suitable for upper KS1 or lower KS2.
The PDF is not editable.
Get to know your class with this no-prep, all about me activity. This foldable printable is ideal for back-to-school or for an ‘about me’ topic and is a fun alternative to a standard worksheet.
Print the template on white paper. There are 4 designs to choose from, each with the same prompts (please note that the templates are not editable).
Pupils will need coloured pencils, a pen and scissors.
Firstly, pupils will colour the top and bottom of the template. They can then fill in the boxes with words and pictures.
The information they’ll need to complete is as follows:
Name
Age
Left/right handed
A place I’d like to visit is
3 words to describe me
Things that make me smile
I want to learn more about
If I were an animal I’d be
Something important to me
Encourage lots of discussions!
When the foldable is closed, it will spell ME. It can then be gently opened to reveal the detail inside.
A picture showing how to fold is included, as well as versions of the templates for both US and UK paper sizes.
Here are some other All About Me resources you might like:
Self portrait all about me
Space themed all about me
Dinosaur themed all about me
Pencil All About Me Craft
Use these cute space-themed certificates to reward your pupils’ efforts and amazing work.
There are 8 different designs in this set, each with the headline ‘out of this world work’. The certificates feature aliens, rockets, and astronauts.
The resource contains the certificates as PowerPoint, Google Slides, and as a PDF.
Either print out the certificates on card to hand-write, or use the pre-inserted text boxes to fill in the information in the PowerPoint/Google Slides before saving as a jpeg. The certificate can then easily be shared via email.
A4 (UK/AUS) and letter-sized (US) options included.
I hope you and your students enjoy this resource!
These fun foldouts are a memorable way of teaching or re-enforcing the planets in our solar system and their order. Use as a science centre, for an interactive notebook or to support learning around space, including World Space Week.
There are 3 similar options to choose from:
Students colour the template with the planets in order (from nearest to the sun to furthest away). They also colour the 2 halves of the space scene. They then cut out the template and space scene, glue the space scene to the top and bottom of the template, then fold.
The second option is the same, but students will cut out and order the planets before gluing and folding.
For the third option, students match simple facts to each of the planets before cutting and folding the template.
Please note, the planets are not drawn to scale. This resource is not editable.
Folding guidance with images is included. Versions for both US and UK paper sizes and spelling are included.
Teaching children about healthy eating is vital for their physical and mental wellbeing. This set of 3 printables is designed to be used to support a healthy eating/myself topic at key stage 1.
My one-day food diary
This activity sheet is designed for children to keep a record of everything they eat in a day. Once complete, they cut out the template and fold it to create a mouth that closes, then opens to reveal their food diary inside. Ideal for an interactive notebook. Use to encourage discussions about healthy choices.
Keeping my mouth healthy
This activity sheet uses the same design as above. Use as an opportunity to discuss good oral health. Children colour and cut the template, then fold it to create a mouth.
Healthy food choices worksheet
Children identify which foods we should eat most, some, and least of. This includes a version for vegetarians and for vegans.
Please note, these worksheets are not editable. US and UK versions are included.
