8 activities to be used during beginning of the new school year /transition period. Suitable for KS1/ KS2 Activity 1 - About me page template (to colour and fill in) Activity 2 - Find someone who bingo page Activity 3 - About me passport page (fill in activity) Activity 4 - About me shield page (to colour and fill in) Activity 5 - About me bunting/flag page (to colour and fill in) Activity 6 - How well do you know your teacher? (quiz) Activity 7 - I Spy in the classroom (classroom hunt using the alphabet) Activity 8 - Birthday Cards templates (decorate a card for your classmate’s birthday) The file is in .pdf format and not editable. If you require any changes, please send us an email. Thank you for your interest! Hoppy Times

An assembly on the importance of a new year and using it as a time for reflection and resolving to be better. The PowerPoint uses video and a 5-step framework to ensure that new year resolutions (or any personal targets) are likely to happen. Slide 1: Happy New Year 2024 Slide 2: New Years Eve around the world. Includes video Slide 3: What are New Year Resolutions? Slide 4: The importance of New Year as a point for reflection - key questions. Slide 5: Self-reflection = self-action Slide 6: What is your new year resolution video Slide 7: Do resolutions work? Slide 8: How to attain your new year resolution tip 1 Slide 9: How to attain your new year resolution tip 2 Slide 10: How to attain your new year resolution tip 3 Slide 11: How to attain your new year resolution tip 4 Slide 12: How to attain your new year resolution tip 5 Slide 13: A resolution for us all Slide 14: Possible school-based resolutions Slide 15: Final thought Slide 16:Over to you… Slides 17-21: Form time activities including resolution template, colouring, wordsearch and poem activities. As reviewers have stated for previous resources shared: “I sat down to plan my assembly for next week and found this resource, and it’s perfect. The best £2 spent. Thank you. I can teach this straight from the slides.” “Just buy it!” “Your resources have been life savers!” “Well worth the money and really saved my life” “I just wanted to say that as a non-specialist these resources are worth every single penny! Thank you so much for making and sharing them.” “Blown away by this! Can’t thank you enough!” “They have saved me a huge amount of time and the detail that goes into your work is second to none. You put others to shame who charge twice as much for very little. Can’t thank you enough.” “Your new spec resources are saving me hours & hours of work! Thanks, they are really good.” “These resources are so useful - I cannot tell you how much time they have save me - very clear to follow and easy to adapt for revision material — well worth the money”

Brand New RE Special Escape Room - Virtual Escape Room from Dr Dreadful’s Mansion by Cre8tive Resources! This lasts an hour or under depending on how quick the teams can solve each puzzle! Students love this style of lesson, great as an educational treat for your class to start the year and engage them in some RE and mathematical problem solving. C8/ES/104 How can this resource be adapted for social distancing? Upload / send the sheets digitally so students can work independently through them (don’t use the keys or PPT tracker if so) Could use as part of a Recovery Curriculum Set the 7 Puzzles for Homework Pairs instead of groups Product Contents: ☞ Escape Room Interactive Tracker PowerPoint - Keeps the competitive nature on display ☞ Escape Room Puzzle Keys (Six Sets for Six Teams) ☞ Escape Room Team sheet - Record codes, answers clues as they progress through the 7 rooms ☞ Escape Room Puzzles (7 Rooms = 7 Different styles of Puzzles involving numeracy, literacy and lateral thinking) ☞ Teacher Answer Sheet - Quickly confirm to teams they have solved the puzzle correctly ☞ Teacher instructions of how to set up the escape room and what to print and top tips and shortcuts. ☞ Successful Escape Certificates for those that complete the entire challenge (There is a difficult bonus escape too :) for any quick teams ☞ The 7 Rooms each have a specific Puzzle that has been adapted to suit the topic of this Escape Room and is suitable to KS3 and KS4 Student ✰✰✰✰✰✰✰✰✰✰✰✰✰✰✰✰✰✰✰✰✰✰✰✰✰✰✰✰✰✰✰✰✰✰✰✰✰✰✰✰✰ Our Philosophy We aim to help you equip students with the knowledge and skills to take ownership of their own learning. Our Products come ‘Ready-to-Teach’ with everything you need to teach fun and creative lessons. Our products are teacher-designed, classroom tested & student approved. ✰✰✰✰✰✰✰✰✰✰✰✰✰✰✰✰✰✰✰✰✰✰✰✰✰✰✰✰✰✰✰✰✰✰✰✰✰✰✰✰✰ The 7 Rooms include: University, Dojo, Study Room, Igloo, Tower, Observatory and a Secret Location! (Each Puzzle has been adapted to suit the topic of this Escape Room and is suitable for KS3 and KS4 Students. ✰✰✰✰✰✰✰✰✰✰✰✰✰✰✰✰✰✰✰✰✰✰✰✰✰✰✰✰✰✰✰✰✰✰✰✰✰✰✰✰✰ Why not try out one of our other fantastic Escape Rooms English and Language Digital Escape Room Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde Digital Escape Room Big Fun End of Term Digital Escape Room PSHE and Form Time Escape Room Careers Digital Escape Room Drama and Performance Digital Escape Room

A complete New Year’s assembly, it includes a 23 slide PowerPoint, video links, activity, information, writing extension tasks and a song link to finish. Use this KS2 assembly to embrace the New Year with your school. Learn about cultures from around the world and try one of their new year traditions. Encourage the children to think of a range of new year resolutions and discuss the examples given. Highlights: All ready to go Interactive Differentiated extensions Inclusive Inspiring Start the new year with an engaging assembly to kickstart discussion, aspirations and focus. All reviews welcome. Check out my other popular assemblies for special days: Mental Health Awareness Assembly World Poetry Day Assembly British Science Week Assembly

A detailed, engaging and well-differentiated lesson to encourage critical thinking (lasting 1-2 hours), focused on the growth of Fake News and ‘alternative facts’. These resources teach students how we must always use critical thinking skills when studying media material. Included: 1 - 2 hour PowerPoint, worksheets, clips, alternative facts reading comprehension, well differentiated, KS3/ KS4. These resources have been designed to be engaging, detailed and easy to follow. All our resources are editable (so easy to adapt for your classes) and are designed to last one hour each. You can find many more inexpensive and free PSHE, Citizenship and RE resources at my shop: EC_Resources Leave me a review and pick any other resource for free :) Or you can check out some of our most popular PSHE, Citizenship and RE resources below: Mental Health PSHE Bundle 1 Whole Year of PSHE Resources British Values Citizenship Bundle Careers, Employment and Enterprise Bundle Islam Bundle Sex and Relationships Education GCSE CITIZENSHIP 9-1

A 90 mins - 2 hours fully-resourced PSHCE lesson all about the importance of critical thinking and being able to spot and debunk fake news. Students will begin by studying a dubious social media post, before learning all the skills and new terminology they need to take it apart, analyse it and be critical of it through comparison with a variety of credible sources (included). This has been created to fit with the new PSHE Association guidelines but would also be useful as a Citizenship or Media lesson. It lasts roughly 90 minutes if all tasks completed. The lesson includes a detailed PowerPoint, detailed information sheets, differentiated challenge activities and worksheets, clips tasks with questions and a debate focus task. These resources have been designed to be engaging, detailed and easy to follow. The lesson has been left editable and is filled with engaging, well differentiated and challenging activities. The PowerPoint is in the ZIP file as it is large. The images have been uploaded to show what is in the lesson :) Check out the EC Publishing website for full, affordable PSHE, Citizenship and RE Packages for all year groups including the new 2024 Complete PSHE Package. You can contact us at info@ecpublishing.co.uk You can find many more inexpensive and free PSHE, Citizenship, Tutor Time and RE resources at my shop: MORE PSHE RESOURCES

This informative and engaging double lesson aims to improve students’ ability to compare and contrast two different texts based on a similar subject. They will focus particularly on the purpose, audience, language, and structure of texts, and will learn to use comparing and contrasting connectives to highlight any similarities and differences. This has always been a crucial skill in English, but has an increased importance in the new GCSE for English Language, as there is a greater requirement for students to be able to make links and comparisons between texts. The lesson follows a clear and logical learning journey, with students learning to: - Understand the key terms 'compare' and 'contrast', and the importance of these skills in English; - Categorise the different features that they can compare, under the headings 'Purpose', 'Audience', 'Language' and 'Structure;' - Read (and identify the key features within) two morally and ethically intriguing texts, offering diverse views of young people in the media; -Compare the two texts, using a clear and concise template, and newly-acquired knowledge of different types of connectives; - Peer-assess each other's comparative essay attempts. Included in this resource pack are: - Whole double lesson, colourful and engaging PowerPoint presentation (Including assessment for learning referral slides) - Cards for card-sorting activity; - Two interesting and thought-provoking non-fiction media extracts (one a newspaper extract from The Evening Standard, and another a persuasive leaflet, both focused on the issue of how young people are perceived.) - Template for main comparative analysis task; - Full teacher guidance plan. All images are licensed for commercial use and are cited on the final slide of the PowerPoint presentation

New Year’s Resolution Assembly This inspiring 18 slide assembly can be delivered to any year group. The assembly into the tradition of setting a New Year’s Resolution and tips to help people set and achieve theirs. This assembly covers: What is a new year’s resolution? How did the tradition start? Why do it? The Science behind it Informative Video Success rates Ideas Top tips to keep your resolution Personal Reflection questions Please also visit my TES Assembly Store where over 100 assemblies are available on a huge range of topics.

This resource contains a fully editable and informative 80-slide PowerPoint presentation on the Chinese New Year, (Spring Festival) which lasts for 15 days culminating in the Lantern Festival. This is an ideal assembly at any time during that 15 day period. The PowerPoint contains hyperlinks to animated legends of how the Chinese came to have their calendar, New Year's Eve street firework displays, the Lion and Dragon Dance and the Festival of Lanterns. The PowerPoint focuses on: - the legends - the zodiac - the decorations - the fireworks - customs - symbols - preparations - red envelopes - New Year's Eve - New Year's Day - Street Celebrations - the Lion and Dragon Dance - The Lantern Festival This resource will help to develop the pupils' 'Spiritual, Moral, Social and Cultural' learning (SMSC) and actively promote the British Values of mutual respect and tolerance of those with different faiths and beliefs. Please note that the watermark on the preview images is not present on the resource itself. If you buy this resource and are pleased with your purchase, I would be extremely grateful if you could leave a review. As a token of appreciation, you can have a free resource of your choice up to the same value as your purchased resource. Just email inspireandeducate@aol.co.uk with your user name, the resource you have reviewed and the resource you would like for free. You may also be interested in: Chinese New Year Quiz Chinese New Year Battleships Team Coordinates PowerPoint Game Chinese New Year Themed Battleships - Coordinates Partner Game Chinese New Year Lantern Riddles PowerPoint Quiz Chinese New Year Puzzle Pack Chinese New Year Information Sheets and Comprehensions

Diviértete - el mundo hispanohablante. New Spanish GCSE, Module 1, Unit 1 Several lessons of content, plus a writing assessment and preparation lesson. Lots of different activities that you can use and adapt for your own groups. Includes printable resources. Lesson one - el mundo hispanohablante. Nationalities, Spanish speaking countries. Pair work, gap fills, translations. Lesson two - nationalities and years. Miniwhiteboard activities, quiz, narrow reading, faulty translation. Lesson three - peeersonality and adjective agreement. Retrieval wordsearch, listening (including audio), phonics, timed reading. Lesson four - retrieval grid. Lesson five - writing assessment prep. Photocard and 50 words. Lesson six - writing assessment. Includes assessment sheet and mark scheme.

A powerpoint which includes differentiation activities, a worksheet (with different activities for KS3 or 4 which we print on double sided A3, and there is enough here for at least 2 lessons. Youtube links, treasure hunts, a debate, TPS activity and more. Easily personalisable to suit your own needs, and included here is the SMSC objectives met with this lesson. The Powerpoint itself has some instructions on how to use the resource, although most of it is quite self explanatory. Enjoy!

For New Year 2024 and back to school after the Christmas holidays, here is a differentiated January nonfiction passage / informational text reading comprehension, cloze procedure task, and fun puzzles, designed for upper Primary (Upper KS2 - Years 5 and 6 and equivalents) or early Secondary (KS3 - Year 7 and equivalents). These New Years themed close reading tasks and fun activities are in a printable non-editable PDF file with 20 pages. An additional US spelling / grammar version is included in the Zip file with a small number of amendments to the UK version. Also available in this money-saving**January Reading Comprehensions BUNDLE**.   Most activities are provided at two levels of challenge, therefore they will suit a range of year groups and provide appropriate levels of challenge for different abilities within many classes.   I am designing these non-fiction comprehension and activities packets to provide a variety of interesting and relevant texts and related activities, a time-saving bank of flexible themed tasks linked to dates throughout the year. They feature specially written very short texts (about 250 - 300 words). Each pack is linked to a particular month but of course you can use them whenever you want! Each provides comprehension questions, a cloze procedure task and other linked tasks. The other tasks are on aspects of spelling, vocabulary, punctuation, grammar, writing or reading (this varies across the different packs). Build all activities into your Literacy or English programme, or use for cover lessons, homework, early finisher tasks or for those times when everything goes crazy and you just need something low-prep, meaningful, relevant and engaging at the last minute! I hope you enjoy using them.   CONTENTS: Reading passage (2 levels of difficulty) Cloze procedure task (2 levels of difficulty) – using same passage Comprehension questions (2 levels of difficulty) – using same passage Vocabulary grid puzzle (2 levels of difficulty) – using same passage Proofreading puzzle Full answer keys Teacher notes   YOU MIGHT LIKE… Complex Sentences Activity Cards Editing SPaG Puzzles Worksheets Full Stops and Capital Letters Cards Improving Sentences Writing Worksheets Winter Stories Creative Writing Story Prompts Creative Writing Story Prompts

This is a PowerPoint that I have used for several years now. It contains a lovely welcome letter that can be printed and sent home with children and contains slides for you to edit and personalise with your own photos etc. It give ideas for talking about your likes and dislikes, fears, challenges, your hopes and dreams, things you find difficult, any big mistakes you have made when teaching for example ( keep it appropriate!). It helps with letting your class know you are human and even you make mistakes and also enjoy a challenge! There is a discussion point at the end for the children to discuss theirs, which can lead into a nice writing activity or just an oral discussion. I have used this in both KS1 and KS2.

Fake News - KS2. An hour-long, detailed, fully resourced PSHCE lesson suitable for KS2 which allows students to explore the how we can spot fake news and be discerning consumers of information. Students will discover the extent to which fake news has spread through modern media as well as investigating how social media can promote misinformation. The lesson has been left editable and is filled with engaging, well differentiated and fun activities. It is designed to be ‘no prep’, so you can just pick it up and use it, although it is still adaptable should you wish to. Who are EC Resources? EC Resources are the top TES PSHE providers and are a group of teachers who work together to create easy to use, high quality and editable lessons and units of work. We have created lessons for The Children’s Commissioner, The Bank of England, MACS Charity, Tes, LikeToBe Careers, the Criminal Cases Review Commission (UK Gov) and have also completed PSHE and Citizenship commissions for schools across the UK. You can contact us at info@ecpublishing.co.uk Teaching PSHE, RE or Citizenship GCSE next year? Why not join our Citizenship and PSHE teachers Facebook group, with 8000 other teachers, for guidance, advice and resource sharing.

UPDATED AND IMPROVED for 2024! An informative and topical assembly discussing Chinese New Year. The assembly is suitable for primary and secondary students. The assembly discusses celebrations, myths and the animals associated with Chinese New Year. Duration: The assembly is designed to last 15-20 minutes Slides: Introduction with dates Different names for the celebration How Chinese New Year is celebrated Chinese New Year facts Year of the Dragon Origin story: Year of the Dragon Personality traits: Year of the Dragon Zodiac Animals The Myth of Nián Fortune Lantern Festival Happy New Chinese Year No prep needed! All of the slides include instructions for the assembly lead so no prep is needed for this assembly. If you enjoyed this resource, please leave a review!

Lesson to introduce KS3 pupils to different forms that news can take, leading to newspapers. Ppt to accompany this is also available in TES resources.

An assembly that looks at the importance of making positive new years resolutions with a focus on ‘I will do…’ rather than ‘I will not…’. The assembly then looks at Kobe Bryant and uses him as an inspirational role model. Full script for the assembly is included so it can be used immediately (I’ve included a sample of the first couple of slides).

Simple worksheet to investigate news paper stories

A powerpoint based on info from the bbc with a link to activities. Can be used in class or as the basis for an assembly

This activity gets learners moving around and talking to each other. Pupils have to go around the class asking their peers questions to find a name of someone who matches each description on the sheet. They should try and find a different person for each one.