Hi! I currently work in London as a Deputy Headteacher. I love all things teaching and learning! I am extremely passionate about education and find researching and creating new strategies and ideas exciting. The world of teaching and leading in England is highly stressful and it's up to all of us to look after each other's well-being...I hope my resources save you some precious time.
Hi! I currently work in London as a Deputy Headteacher. I love all things teaching and learning! I am extremely passionate about education and find researching and creating new strategies and ideas exciting. The world of teaching and leading in England is highly stressful and it's up to all of us to look after each other's well-being...I hope my resources save you some precious time.
A n 12 slide presentation on Halloween. 11 slides can be used for introducing Halloween to pupils or for an exciting assembly and 1 slide has 6 ideas for writing lessons. The presentation is made up of the history of Halloween, information about where Halloween is celebrated , how people celebrate Halloween and includes some fun facts!
A presentation for assembly or a lesson on the F1 British Grand Prix. Engage your sportsfans and link work to the presentation. The 12 slide presentation goes through: the history, last three winners, examples of cars and many facts about the race. The presentation is concluded with a 8 question quiz (with answers).
If you have any questions or need any support, please send me a message! My resources all use English spelling but can easily be adapted. Please review my resources - thank you!
A presentation for assembly or a lesson on who will follow David Cameron as the next Prime Minister of the UK: May, Gove, Leadsom, Crabb or Fox. The 17 slide presentation explains why we will have a new Prime Minister, who Boris Johnson is, it gives information on the 5 candidates, on the electoral process and next steps and is concluded with a quiz (with answers).
If you have any questions or need any support, please send me a message! My resources all use English spelling but can easily be adapted. Please review my resources - thank you!
A presentation for assembly or a lesson on th Tour de France. The 13 slide presentation goes through: the history, the special jersey colours, last three winners, winning countries and many facts about the race. The presentation is concluded with a 8 question quiz (with answers).
If you have any questions or need any support, please send me a message! My resources all use English spelling but can easily be adapted. Please review my resources - thank you!
Good mental well-being has become harder to maintain as life becomes increasingly hectic. That's why it must be our priority to help pupils to understand their own mental well-being and know how to improve it.
This great presentation is full of ideas, starters, suggested activities and examples aimed at supporting pupils to improve and maintain a healthy mental well-being. Activities range from thinking about what makes them happy to designing their own happy place to setting goals to thinking about how helping others can lead to being a happier person.
The activities are suitable to support a 10 week programme on mental well-being, which should become a priority in every curriculum.
Any questions, please just ask.
An activity booklet with 9 thought-provoking activities to support your pupils to improve their mindset. These activities are designed to encourage pupils to dig deeper and understand themselves better. Guide them through these activities and alongside teaching, they should start to understand how to improve their mindset. There are two questionnaires, one for the beginning of the project and one meant for when you have promoted a growth mindset for a few months. You can use this to analyse change.
Any questions, just ask!
A great way to start planning a topic. Get all of your ideas down on a colourful and visual topic map.
Included is an example map created for my topic on Hamlet and a blank version, which can be adapted and tailored to suit your needs.
If you're running CPD on planning a topic, this is a good way to get staff thinking about cross-curricular links.
If you do have any questions or need any support, please send me a message.
*My resources always take me a lot of time and effort to create so I hope that they help to save you some precious time - please do review my resources. Thank you!*
A fun science experiment focusing on the properties of materials linked to Shakespeare's Macbeth. This 6 lesson DT and science learning journey, asks children to design and build a boat using 'junk' and considering the properties of different materials. Includes: presentation, planning, resources and certificate.
Objectives that the learning journey covers, are:
Y3/4
1a. asking relevant questions and using different types of scientific enquiries to answer them
1b. setting up simple practical enquiries, comparative and fair tests
1c. making systematic and careful observations
1d. gathering, recording, classifying and presenting data in a variety of ways to help in answering questions
1e. recording findings using simple scientific language, drawings, labelled diagrams, keys, bar charts, and tables
1f. reporting on findings from enquiries, including oral and written explanations, displays or presentations of results and conclusions
1g. using results to draw simple conclusions, make predictions for new values, suggest improvements and raise further questions
1h. identifying differences, similarities or changes related to simple scientific ideas and processes
Y5/6
2a. planning different types of scientific enquiries to answer questions, including recognising and controlling variables where necessary
2b. recording data and results of increasing complexity using scientific diagrams and labels, classification keys, tables, scatter graphs, bar and line graphs
2c. using test results to make predictions to set up further comparative and fair tests
2d. reporting and presenting findings from enquiries, including conclusions, causal relationships and explanations of and degree of trust in results, in oral and written forms such as displays and other presentations
2e. identifying scientific evidence that has been used to support or refute ideas or arguments.
A presentation for assembly or lesson on mindsets. The presentations helps primary-aged pupils to understand what a growth and a fixed mindset are and how they can work towards developing a growth mindset. The presentation also talks about comfort zones and Carol Dweck, who created the theory of mindsets. Having a growth mindset plays a vital part in being happy and successful, if you haven't already, I would suggest definitely developing a growth mindset programme for your school...this presentation is a great introduction to that!
If you have any questions or need any support, send me a message and I'll do anything I can to help. My resources use English spelling.
Please do review any resources that you download - many thanks!
International Joke Day is celebrated in July. Here's an opportunity to lead an assembly that will get pupils giggling! The powerpoint goes through the history of jokes, different kinds of jokes with examples and also gives pupils the opportunity to tell their own jokes. I have also included a clip to a funny animal video, which will have children in a good mood for the rest of the day! A fun presenation for an assembly, suitable for KS2 and lower-KS3. The presentation can also be easily adapted for a lesson on joke writing!
If you do have any questions or need any support, please send me a message.
Please do review my resources. Thank you!
I am holding a whole-school growth mindset afternoon to continue raising the profile of the mindsets and how they can impact success.
I created this powerpoint, which includes 10 mindset activities for teachers to choose activities from. Activities relate to various different subjects and are fun and engaging ways for pupils to develop their understanding of growth and fixed mindsets.
International Day of Friendship is celebrated in July. Here's an opportunity to lead an assembly that will get pupils thinking! The powerpoint goes through what International Day of Friendship is, how to be a good friend, what friendship means etc. There are clips, quotes and famous friend pictures included.
If you do have any questions or need any support, please send me a message.
Please do review my resources. Thank you!
A two week (10 lessons) English plan with resources for all activities. A fun and engaging way to excite KS1 pupils to write. Includes lots of different writing genres: instructional writing, descriptions, directional writing and much more.
If you do have any questions or need any support, please send me a message.
*My resources always take me a lot of time and effort to create so I hope that they help to save you some precious time - please do review my resources. Thank you!*
6 different Christmas-theme problems and puzzles, which can be used to base fun and exciting lessons around. My previous classes have really enjoyed these unique challenges.
Any questions, just ask!
10 fun and engaging activities to do with your new class. Includes activities, such as, showing the class a meaningful object that the pupil has brought in, sharing memories from the past year, thinking about strengths and next steps, drawing a self-portrait and much more... Also, perfect for new starters or starting the new year in September.
If you do have any questions or need any support, please send me a message.
*My resources always take me a lot of time and effort to create so I hope that they help to save you some precious time - please do review my resources. Thank you!*
A fun Christmas pack for the end of the Autumn term. The pack included exciting English and Maths activities. Guided your pupils through the activities or give them the booklet to work through independently while you take displays down or finish last minute jobs!
Any questions, just ask!
A fun science experiment with planning, presentation and resource sheets, which hits many objectives in Y3/4 and Y5/6. The experiment is linked to the three witches in Macbeth and engages children by combining potions and science!
A great growth mindset pack, which includes:
-Fixed V Growth mindset cards, great for display or the inside cover of pupils books
-Fixed V Growth mindset blank cards for pupils to create their own
-Brain activity, pupils to fill the brain with words and images that they relate to having a growth mindset
-Three motivation question/statement signs
-A self-assessment grid for pupils to rate elements of their growth mindset over a 7 week half-term
Good mental well-being has become harder to maintain as life becomes increasingly hectic. That's why it must be our priority to help pupils to understand their own mental well-being and know how to improve it.
This great 12 page booklet is full of activities aimed at supporting pupils to improve and maintain a healthy mental well-being. Activities range from thinking about what makes them happy to designing their own happy place to setting goals to thinking about how helping others can lead to being a happier person.
The activities are suitable to support a 9 week programme on mental well-being, which should become a priority in every curriculum.
Any questions, please just ask.
I created this presentation to support my class in understanding a girl in our class that had autism. It was very important to me as many questions were being asked and some pupils were saying unkind things. After we went through this presentation, pupils were much more understanding and wanting to help. This 14 slide presentation is perfect for an assembly or lesson. It goes through in child-friendly language, what autism is, how people 'get' autism', what people with autism might do and why it's important to be a good friend to all kinds of different people.
If you have any questions or need any support, send me a message and I'll do anything I can to help. My resources are all English spelling.
Please do review any resources that you download - many thanks!