Preparation presentation for A Level Biology students prior to their microscopy required practical. Covers: How to measure the size of objects using a microscope. Using a mechanical stage and how to read its vernier scale. How to measure the Field of View of a microscope lens Using a stage micrometer and eye piece graticule. How to calibrate an eye piece graticule. How to measure the size of a specimen using an eye piece graticule. How to calculate sizes using Image size = actual size / magnification. Microscopy units of scale and how to convert between measurement. A video of this presentation is available at https://youtu.be/CyKUwTZiFaE

Lesson power point, worksheet and teacher notes to show the properties of polymers and to relate these to the structure of their polymer chains. Useful for high ability KS3 or medium ability KS4 chemistry. Links rigidity, strength and melting points to the idea of length of polymer and cross links. Spaghetti demo showing effects of chain length and cross links for cooked then dried samples. Uses polymorph a low mpt plastic that can be melted in hot water and hand moulded. then investigates effects of a load on strips of plastic bags to show stretching as the chains slip over each other, longer chains = more strength. Blooms taxonomy and new NC Levels.

A tracker to record up to 20 separate test results and provide an analysis of the results. Caters for grades A-E, so is suitable for any A Level subject. Entering grade boundaries for each test the tracker will calculate %'s and show the grades for each student, their ranked position and a summary of all their test results and position overall in their teaching group. Allows up to 40 students to be tracked at a time. Individual student summary page can be produced that can be used when mentoring students or for parent evenings, showing their progress over the year.

Enter up to 22 phrases to automatically generate a hexagon sheet with the terms randomly arranged. Pupils can then cut out the phrases and then sort them into logical groups. Will also allow you to enter 11 different terms and their definitions which are then automatically randomly assigned to the hexagons sheet which can be printed out so that pupils can then cut them out and match up the terms with their definitions. Good for reinforcing vocabulary and the definitions of terms also to make links between terms. Suitable for all subjects and ages

A fully interactive Boggle game, suitable for Key Stage 2 and 3, which is a fun way for pupils to develop their vocabulary and spelling skills. The game has a database of over 300, nine letter words, which are automatically selected randomly by the game. The word’s letters are displayed in a random order in a 3 x 3 grid with the first letter of the 9-letter word displayed as a capital. Pupils have 3 minutes to come up with as many words as possible using the letters, they do not have to use all the letters in their words. A bonus can be given if they find the 9-letter word. Click on the Select new word button to automatically create a new 3x3 grid of letters from a new 9-letter word. Click on the Go button to start the 3-minute timer. A horn will sound at the end of the 3 minutes. To display the 9-letter word click on the reveal the 9-letter word box. The game requires macros to be enabled within Power-point to allow the automated features to work. For this reason it will only run on Power-point for Windows and Power-point for Mac’s, it will not run on other ppt viewers. Further games and educational resources can be found at: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resources/shop/john_leather

A power point that goes through the biochemistry of the light dependent and light independent reactions, which animates the movement of molecules, electrons and protons. Suitable for A Level Biology groups.

A power point presentation upon nerve cells, the formation of the resting potential, how an action potential is produced when an impulse is transmitted along a neurone. How the message is carried on to a 2nd neurone by the synapse. All processes are demonstrated using animations to show the movement of positive ions by active transport, the opening/closing of gates, the movement of vesicles and neurotransmitter molecules in the synapse. Suitable for A Level Biology students. A sample video of the ppt is available at https://youtu.be/SDckofymhC4 The version you purchase will not have the Biology Store watermark banner

A series of powerpoints and a pdf document showing the steps involved in aerobic respiration. The 1st powerpoint goes through each process step by step for aerobic respiration. The 2nd powerpoint shows animated diagrams for each step showing the movement of molecules and how molecules change during each step, all with accompanying explanations. The pdf shows step by step the reactions that occur during aerobic respiration, covering glycolysis, the link-reaction, the Kreb’s citric acid cycle and the electron transport chain. Suitable for A Level Biology.

Fully interactive, playable Wordle game. This power point game has a database of over 400 five letter words. Words are chosen at random from the database list. The game plays according to the standard Wordle rules with letters in the correct place showing up in green, a correct letter in the wrong place in orange and subsequent occurrences of a wrongly placed correct letter remains grey. You have 6 attempts to find the correct word, if this is not achieved you will be informed of the correct word. The pptm requires macros to be enabled to work. When opening the pptm for the first time please ensure when asked to enable macros, that you check the option. Without doing this the automated processes in the game will not work. Please do not rename the pptm. Warning - If the first slide is deleted or altered then the game WILL NOT work.

ppt showing the 4 ways molecules can move across cell membranes - diffusion, facilitated diffusion, osmosis and active transport. Suitable for year 12 A Level. Includes animations of the methods and explains how different factors affect the rate of movement. Differentiates between passive and active movements. See a demo video at https://youtu.be/m7lqbMB0SGA

NEW AND UPDATED A tracker for monitoring student progress in the new AQA A Level Biology required practical tasks for the CPAC skills INCLUDING THE SUB COMPETENCIES The tracker will monitor attendance for each student. Monitor the attainment of CPAC skills for the students in each RP activity. Produce a print out showing the individual performance of each student showing the CPAC skills they have acquired from each RP activity. The tracker can be modified to match the RP activities for Chemistry and Physics by changing the RP titles and use of apparatus criteria on the Titles sheet.

NEW AND UPDATED A tracker for monitoring student progress in the new AQA A Level Physics required practical tasks for the CPAC skills INCLUDING THE SUB COMPETENCIES The tracker will monitor attendance for each student. Monitor the attainment of CPAC skills for the students in each RP activity. Produce a print out showing the individual performance of each student showing the CPAC skills they have acquired from each RP activity. Trackers for Biology and Chemistry are also available

NEW AND UPDATED A tracker for monitoring student progress in the new AQA A Level Chemistry required practical tasks for the CPAC skills INCLUDING THE SUB COMPETENCIES The tracker will monitor attendance for each student. Monitor the attainment of CPAC skills for the students in each RP activity. Produce a print out showing the individual performance of each student showing the CPAC skills they have acquired from each RP activity. Trackers are also available for Biology and Physics

This is the Full paid for version of the Electronic Teacher Planner/Mark book spreadsheet. The Free evaluation version is available at: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/electronic-teacher-planner-mark-book-free-evaluation-version-11912398 A TWO WEEK Timetable version is available at: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/electronic-teacher-planner-mark-book-two-week-version-12358075 This is a full teacher’s planner book enabling you to replace your paper based record book. It enables you to create a colour coded timetable (and will automatically generate a blank timetable with the appropriate number of periods per day), a week by week lesson outline planning sheet, a register for each class that records attendance, performance and behavioural information upon each pupil, homework and test scores. The registers will rank the pupils according to assessment criteria, absences and upon test scores. The class analysis page will give detailed information upon the number of lates/tardiness, discipline issues, forgotten books, no homework, incomplete pieces of work and work graded excellent, good, satisfactory and poor. Schemes of work can be created, and reports written upon individual students. Print outs of each class can be used at parent consultation evenings and as a record for SLT. Cover lesson instructions can also be created. I have used this spreadsheet in an ongoing developing form for the last 20 years and haven’t used a paper-based planner in that time. The spreadsheet uses macros (embedded code) to automate the functions for you so you just have to clickand so they need to be enabled in excel, see the help page in the spreadsheet on how to do this. Please note this spreadsheet will not run on Mac versions of Excel, it will only run on Windows PC versions of, due to incompatibility issues between Microsoft Office on the 2 different platforms.

This is the Full paid for version of the Electronic Teacher Planner/Mark book spreadsheet for teachers with a TWO WEEK TIMETABLE. The Free evaluation version is available at: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/electronic-teacher-planner-mark-book-free-evaluation-version-11912398 The paid version for a ONE WEEK TIMETABLE is available from: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/electronic-teacher-planner-mark-book-12357931 This is a full teacher’s planner book enabling you to replace your paper based record book. It enables you to create a colour coded timetable (and will automatically generate a blank timetable with the appropriate number of periods per day), a week by week lesson outline planning sheet, a register for each class that records attendance, performance and behavioural information upon each pupil, homework and test scores. The registers will rank the pupils according to assessment criteria, absences and upon test scores. The class analysis page will give detailed information upon the number of lates/tardiness, discipline issues, forgotten books, no homework, incomplete pieces of work and work graded excellent, good, satisfactory and poor. Schemes of work can be created, and reports written upon individual students. Print outs of each class can be used at parent consultation evenings and as a record for SLT. Cover lesson instructions can also be created. I have used this spreadsheet in an ongoing developing form for the last 20 years and haven’t used a paper-based planner in that time. The spreadsheet uses macros (embedded code) to automate the functions so you only have to click a button to add registers and so they need to be enabled in excel, see the help page in the spreadsheet on how to do this. Please note this spreadsheet will not run on Mac versions of Excel, it will only run on Windows PC versions of , due to incompatibility issues between Microsoft Office on the 2 different platforms.

An automated COVID-19 Absence tracker. This automated spreadsheet allows you to monitor the impact of coronavirus upon your pupils and staff. Information can be recorded for each year group cohort, recording days absent due to confirmed positive absences, school enforced contact absences & self-isolating absences. All inputs are automated to speed up the entry and display of key data. Including a colour coded calendar displaying the reasons for absences. The calendar can be re-ranked upon numerous criteria with the click of a single button. Individual pupil summaries can be displayed as can the impact of the absences for a set date. This last option aids the calculations necessary for the daily DfE Education Setting Status questions which have to be submitted at 2pm on each term time day. Term dates can again be adjusted with the click of a button for all calendars to suit your establishment. The free evaluation version caters for 13 pupils in a single year group cohort. The full paid for version allows for 250 pupils per year group and for year groups 7-13 & Staff. The spreadsheet requires the use of macros (computer code) to enable the automations. When you first open the spreadsheet, you must enable Macros within Excel. Due to the use of macros this version CAN ONLY be run on Windows Versions of Microsoft Excel. A free evaluation version is available from: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/covid-19-coronavirus-absence-tracking-software-12425518 A Paid for version for Primary Schools is available from: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/covid-19-primary-pupil-absence-tracker-12450160

An automated COVID-19 Absence tracker for Primary Schools This automated spreadsheet allows you to monitor the impact of coronavirus upon your pupils and staff. Information can be recorded for each year group cohort, recording days absent due to confirmed positive absences, school enforced contact absences & self-isolating absences. All inputs are automated to speed up the entry and display of key data. Including a colour coded calendar displaying the reasons for absences. The calendar can be re-ranked upon numerous criteria with the click of a single button. Individual pupil summaries can be displayed as can the impact of the absences for a set date. This last option aids the calculations necessary for the daily DfE Education Setting Status questions which have to be submitted at 2pm on each term time day. Term dates can again be adjusted with the click of a button for all calendars to suit your establishment. The free evaluation version caters for 13 pupils in a single year group cohort. The full paid for version allows for 250 pupils per year group and for year groups 1 - 6 & Staff. The spreadsheet requires the use of macros (computer code) to enable the automations. When you first open the spreadsheet, you must enable Macros within Excel. Due to the use of macros this version CAN ONLY be run on Windows Versions of Microsoft Excel. A free evaluation version is available from: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/covid-19-coronavirus-absence-tracking-software-12425518 A paid for version for Secondary Schools is available from: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/covid-19-absence-tracking-software-12425525

Save time and effort writing reports. An end of year report writer that allows you to quickly create pupil reports simply by clicking on a series of user modifiable comments. Now in use in 400 Schools in over 20 Countries. Comments are organised into 9 sections (opening, behavioural, progress, strengths, weaknesses, closing and 3 user defined categories with 18 comments in each section). Comments automatically update to insert pupil names and to match gender specific pronouns (he/she, his/her etc). Once assembled the comments can be copied and pasted into your own report packages and a file containing all the reports for your class set can be created. Suitable for all teachers at all key stages through suitable modification of the comments in the comment banks. This is Version 2 which scrolls even faster between comment categories. This is an Excel file which uses macros to run, read the help sheet in the file to enable macros. See a demo at https://youtu.be/7rNxxekoUpk Have a look and download the free evaluation version at https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/report-writer-free-evaluation-version-11751250 Please note this spreadsheet will not run on Mac versions of Excel, it will only run on PC versions of , due to incompatibility issues between Microsoft Office on the 2 different platforms.

Save time and effort writing reports. This report writing assistant allows you to automatically create termly or end of year student report cards from an editable statement bank. Quickly and easily create a report by selecting statements with a click from 18 statements in each of 9 categories (162 statements in all) to build up a complete report comment, all of which will automatically adjust gender pronouns (he/she etc) and insert the students name where appropriate. Comments can also be free typed in the report comment box. All the statements in each category can be customised by the user. A class list with the gender of the students can be inserted and the final report comments can be copied and pasted into any other report package and the overall class comments saved to an xls file for archiving. The spreadsheet uses macros and will require macro access to be enabled, see the help sheet in the spreadsheet for details how to do this. see a demo at https://youtu.be/7rNxxekoUpk Have a look by downloading the free evaluation version at https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/report-writer-free-evaluation-version-11751250 Please note this spreadsheet will not run on Mac versions of Excel, it will only run on PC versions of , due to incompatibility issues between Microsoft Office on the 2 different platforms.

A spreadsheet to track English Reading and Writing skills. 9 Reading and 9 Writing skills are tracked for each pupil. Teachers grade pupils upon a 1-4 point scale, each skill can be assessed up to 10 times in an academic year. The reading skills are: Read aloud with fluency, Comprehension, Language Terms, Structure Terms, Analysing Language, Analysing Structure, Relevant Quotations, Comparison, Response to Task The Writing skills are: Vocabulary Choices, Spelling -Common words, Spelling -Complex words, Clarity, Structural devices, Punctuation between sentences, Punctuation within sentences, Varied Sentences, Handwriting The spreadsheet will then generate a graded comment upon each skill for each pupil to go into a mail merge document which can be sent out to parents. Data from SIMS can be entered upon teaching group, forename, surname, Target Level, OPT Level at end of Key Stage, Gender, PP (Pupil premium status), MA (More able status), SEN status, reading and writing scores and reading age upon entry. The spreadsheet uses macros (Will only work with Microsoft Excel for Windows) that automatically sort with the click of one button pupil data to be sorted by cohort or by teaching group alphabetically, by target Levels, OPT Levels, Reading criteria, Writing criteria, reading age upon entry. This is useful if you or your staff are not very familiar with spreadsheet commands. The Word document included allows a mail merge to be carried out from the spreadsheet data to produce cohort and group reports which pupils can self evaluate to identify their strongest and weakest skill areas, what is interfering with their progress and how they can make improvement in the future. These documents can be used to show progression over time, aid closing the gap meetings, show intervention strategies in performance management meetings. Includes: a fully detailed instruction/help power point, the tracking spreadsheet, the mail merge word document A copy of the helpfile showing what the resource will do can be found at https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/english-reading-and-writing-skills-tracker-and-reporting-to-parents-document-instruction-help-ppt-12075079