You must know a fan or two of the brilliant Tom Gates series… Treat them to this 36-word wordsearch puzzle for one of the books: Genius Ideas (mostly). Why are wordsearches so great? They encourage pattern recognition, reinforce spellings, encourage discussion, and are a great practice for drawing lines!

TWELVE quality wordsearch puzzles (in a zip file) based on key terms from six Roald Dahl Books: Fantastic Mr Fox; George’s Marvellous Medicine; James and the Giant Peach; Matilda; The Magic Finger; The Twits. 10-word and 30-word wordsearches for each story. (Simple differentiation / use depending on the time available.) These were used with Year / Grade 5 children when they were reading Roald Dahl stories and they thoroughly enjoyed them (and older (or younger!) children will enjoy them too.) These were used in class as a starter, to support their recollection of events in the books, as well as to reinforce spellings. They were also used with students as part of World Book Day celebrations and as part of school library sessions to promote the love of reading.

Prepare now for celebrating the Fourth of July with your students and children. Or use it to simply spread the awareness of the history of the famous date and the way the day is celebrated. This listing contains a quality 3 - activity sheet with a wordsearch, fill the blanks and 10 Independence Day-themed questions. Students / children will likely need to conduct some research for at least some of these questions! Also included is the wordsearch on its own if you prefer it as well as the answer sheet for all activities.

This quiz can be used as a comprehension exercise where children watch the film “The Pirates! Band of Misfits” and then answer as many questions correctly as they can. The adjusted / differentiated activity can be that the film is watched in two halves (or smaller chunks) to give children less to remember all at once and more of a chance to get all 18 questions correct! This activity can also be an opportunity to practice spellings, learn something new (what exactly is a barnacle?) and most importantly, have fun! You can also encourage children to come up with their own questions to test others. This is a suitable task for Grade 4 upwards (approximately 8+ years) and FYI the film has a PG rating. Answer sheet is included. If not used for skills practice, just save it for a treat or a rainy day!

This resource is suitable for students learning about networks and their setup (Year 9+). This pack includes the following: My School Network tasks - 6 pages (15 tasks plus example questions for the IT engineer at the school) (PDF) Above editable version My School Network completed sample - 7 pages (PDF) Above editable version Networks terminology wordsearch (54 words) The 15 tasks were created to support Year 10 Computer Science and ICT students in their learning about Networks. The tasks were completed as the students went on a tour, led by the school’s head IT technician / engineer, of the school’s network setup. The tasks can be used / adapted for younger / older students, or depending on their abilities. In our case, the sheets were printed and students completed them by hand using clipboards, but it would also work fine if the students edit the Word document on their devices. The tasks cover the basics including ‘Find out why we have a school network’, ‘Draw what you think the school’s server looks like’, several questions about the school’s backup procedure, questions regarding internet speed, and some sample questions to ask the IT technician / engineer in a Q&A session. The students thoroughly enjoyed the tour, including being wowed by numbers and figures and being allowed to be near the server room, and felt a lot more savvy after understanding what all these devices were in the corridors, walls and ceilings. This definitely made their learning come to life and gave them a clearer understanding of networks and their setup. They also got to know the IT support staff a lot better and expressed great thanks at the end of the tour. It’d be a good idea to meet up with the technicians / engineers in advance to plan out the tour and even prepare them with some of the questions that will be asked.

The 23 players of the current Croatian national football squad / team. (Surnames)

Here are another set of activities for the final weeks of term and to get into the spirit of the world cup with your children. This one is biased towards England :) In this pack you will find two wordsearches: one for the World Cup 2018 England Squad and another for the World Cup 1966 Squad (why not?!). Both wordsearches have bonus words to find and these are in a Notepad file within this pack. You also get find a 15-question World Cup quiz, with a differentiated version which has an answer bank with answers to choose from (and yes ‘Brazil’ is meant to appear twice.) Answer sheet provided.

This is the bundle version of the two World Cup activity packs also available on this account. Enjoy time with your children in the last weeks of term and get into the spirit of the World Cup! 3 quality wordsearches, a fun ‘Name the team / country’ activity by looking at the flag / colours of the strip, and a World Cup quiz. There are two versions of the second two activities to assist those who’ll need a little help as well as challenging those who need some stretching. Seven activity files altogether plus three answer files.

These worksheets have been created for CS Education week, for the Hour of Code, but can be used for a computing activity throughout the year. Students as young as Year 4 (8-year olds) can be given this to work on (and maybe younger!) I like the CS Unplugged activities but have remixed the worksheets so they’re shorter and more ‘student-ready’. I have also added MS Excel versions for one of the image representation tasks. This is great to use particularly when differentiating. (The worksheets are available on another account which also belongs to me.)

No excuses needed to get this wordsearch in lessons and likely no motivation required to get the kids on it! Hope the kids (and grown-ups) enjoy it.

This pack contains 14 pages of activities. The first is a 2-page activity, for which the kids need to name, trace and then design (colouring, painting, glittering etc) each of the 11 featured dinosaurs (grey silhouettes). There is a table of names on page 2 which the kids can use to help them name the dinos. A file with the dinosaur silhouettes and their names is included. The next 11 sheets are the individual dinosaurs enlarged on A4 files, with instructions suggesting that after naming and tracing the dinosaurs, they should get creative and colour and decorate, before writing 3 facts about the dinosaur. Surely these would make for a great wall display. The last activity is a wonderful anagrams activity. The kids need to read the (often strange) set of words and then rearrange the letters to figure out the name of the dinosaur. ‘carpet riots’ anyone? (Answer file included)

Prepare now for celebrating the Fourth of July with your students and children. Or use it to simply spread awareness of the history of the famous date and the way the day is celebrated. This listing contains a quality 3-activity sheet with a wordsearch, fill the blanks and 10 Independence Day-themed questions. Students / children will likely need to conduct some research for at least some of these questions! Also included is the wordsearch on its own if you prefer it as well as the answer sheet for all activities.

This pack contains 4 separate activities. The first is a 2-page activity, for which the kids need to name, trace and then design (colouring, painting, glittering etc) each of the featured dinosaurs (grey silhouettes). There is a table of names on page 2 which the kids can use to help them name the dinos. A file with the dinosaur silhouettes and their names is included. The second two activities are wordsearches. One has 15 dinosaurs to find, and the other has 30 dinosaurs to find. Each one also features 5 black silhouettes of popular dinosaurs which the kids to try to name. Wordsearches are a great way to reinforce key terms, enhance vocabulary, help with spelling as well as pattern recognition. They are great for the classroom, at home and events. The last activity is a wonderful anagrams activity. The kids need to read the (often strange) set of words and then rearrange the letters to figure out the name of the dinosaur. ‘carpet riots’ anyone? (Answer file included)

Have any fans of the Stitch Head books by Guy Bass? Treat them to this duo of activities relating to the first book in the series. One of the activities is a wordsearch, with 40 words / terms to find, and which includes some decorative images to entertain the kids as they work through it. The other activity is a questions worksheet, containing 16 questions relating to the Stitch Head book (book 1). The kids will surely have fun writing down the answers to the questions, and for those who might need some help, you can let them know that all the answers can be found within the list of wordsearch words/terms. Answer sheet for questions included.

Download these A4 sheets with beautifully designed letters and corner decorations. Use for home learning / homework, presentation or display work in lessons, or any other activity which you need it for! Suits Christmas-related activities. 26 sheets altogether for all the letters.

Beautifully designed letters A-Z for display use in SIX colour schemes (156 jpg files altogether) The colour schemes have been thoughtfully been named: -cardinal red -duck egg -earth -frosted ice lollies -northern lights -pastel Use these fresh and attention-drawing letter-displays to brighten your classroom, corridor displays or room at home, or prepare an engaging resource for the kids. Each jpg = 800 pixels by 800 pixels

Beautifully designed letters A-Z in black and white Within this pack you’ll find three PDF files: letters A-Z on a an A4 page each, for display purposes or colouring-in letters A-Z all on a single A4 sheet in portrait layout letter A-Z all on a single A4 sheet in landscape layout Use these pretty, eye-catching themed letters to prepare your classroom for the new academic year, or use the ‘handout’ formats for interesting activities for the kids involving cutting, colouring, or creative thinking.

What will you be doing to commemorate this day or to educate the kids about the Gunpowder Plot? Grab the second of two bundles available and have fun with the kids. The first resource in this bundle is a wordsearch with 24 related-terms to find. The wordsearch features 3 images as well as the famous poem recited in memory of the Gunpowder Plot. The second resource in this bundle is a 16-question activity, requiring kids to carry out some research. They will surely learn a lot including Guy Fawkes not being the main culprit, as well as which British actor’s ancestor was the actual brains behind the infamous plot. The third resource in this bundle is a fun computing activity for which the kids will complete pixel art activities of the Gunpowder Plot themed pictures, but they’ll need to convert binary numbers to decimal numbers first! (Instructions are given for this.) There are also two additional worksheets for kids to create their own pixel art piece. This file is an xls file created in MS Excel. The fourth resource in this bundle is the above but in PDF form. Don’t miss out! Do check out the other Gunpowder Plot themed bundle which contains the wordsearch and questions activity only.

What will you be doing to commemorate this day or to educate the kids about the Gunpowder Plot? Grab the first of two bundles available and have fun with the kids. The first resource in this bundle is a wordsearch with 24 related-terms to find. The wordsearch features 3 images as well as the famous poem recited in memory of the Gunpowder Plot. The second resource in this bundle is a 16-question activity, requiring kids to carry out some research. They will surely learn a lot including Guy Fawkes not being the main culprit, as well as which British actor’s ancestor was the actual brains behind the infamous plot. Don’t miss out! And do check out the other bundle which contains Binary Pixel Art activities in the Gunpowder Plot theme!

Grab this wordsearch of the 31-man team that is the England Rubgy Team of 2019. As well as finding the names of the players, kids will practice their reading skills and can even investigate further as to where some of these names originate. Enjoy!