Tes Secondary: Halloween

A selection of hand-picked Halloween resources for the secondary classroom

Tes Resources Team

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Explore and celebrate Halloween with your students with this spooktacular selection of hand-picked resources

As we rapidly move into autumn, the nights are longer and the days colder; students are gearing up for Halloween and a half term break of horror. So why not bring the festivities into the classroom and use them engage your students with the learning. 

English and MFL

English Literature - Intro to The Gothic - Epistolary
CMillerEnglish

English Literature - Intro to The Gothic - Epistolary

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This lesson introduces the concept of 'epistolary' within the Gothic genre, looking specifically at two examples from Bram Stoker's Dracula. Activities move from analysis to evaluation to creative writing. This lesson is suitable for higher ability KS3 students, but could also work for KS4.
French Halloween Mystery
Bayside Teaching Resources

French Halloween Mystery

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A fun resource to revise French whilst solving the Haunted House Mystery. Activities cover rooms in the house, furniture and Halloween vocabulary. Pupils are given a scenario and a list of suspects. They then work through the activities to find clues which allow them to eliminate suspects and ultima...
Halloween English
EnglishGCSEcouk

Halloween English

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Halloween English punctuation workshop that supports students to develop their use of punctuation and grammar by providing them with differentiated worksheets on capital letters, full stops, commas, paragraphing, apostrophes, semi-colons and dashes. By the end of the lesson students are given reward...
Halloween anagram activity worksheet
mrshopehistory

Halloween anagram activity worksheet

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Halloween anagram worksheet activities to share with your KS2 primary or KS3 secondary students. Included in this resource is a PowerPoint with 12x Halloween themed anagrams - 1 per slide. Students need to unscramble the letters to find the word. This resource is on PPT format and completely editab...
Spanish Halloween Vocabulary Worksheets
Suzanne Rose

Spanish Halloween Vocabulary Worksheets

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This ready to go pack of Spanish Halloween teaching resources contains four worksheets complete with answers plus a set of 18 colourful flashcards. Aimed at KS2/KS3, aged 7 to 12 year olds, it is ideal for use in the classroom or for home learning. This resource contains a crossword, wordsearch...
Halloween in German Sudoku
jer520

Halloween in German Sudoku

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Sudoku game uses the 9 Halloween words: pumpkin, black cat, ghost, witch, candy, haunted house, vampire, monster, skeleton. This version of Sudoku uses pictures, English and German. This approach makes the student think about the meaning in each square and so helps students to learn the vocabulary...

Maths, Science and Computing

Halloween Equations
crafter1

Halloween Equations

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Halloween themed solving equations - only suitable for low ability KS4 or mid-low KS3. They do only have positive integer answers, so you may want to insist they show you their written methods to avoid too much cheating!
Halloween maths - Year 7 code breakers
MissEHoney

Halloween maths - Year 7 code breakers

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This Halloween maths codebreaker uses skills learnt in ordering decimals, substutition, length conversions and coordiantes to reveal halloween jokes. Make your students feel like a spy trying to crack a code in a fun and novel way for students to practise ordering decimals, substitution, metric leng...
THE Ultimate Science of Halloween Quiz
Carina Bone

THE Ultimate Science of Halloween Quiz

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8 rounds with 60 science and Halloween quiz questions combined! Great for those end of half term filler lessons and to have a bit of fun with your learners! Rounds include: The Science of Halloween (multiple choice 10 questions linking Science and Halloween) Creepy Crawlies (multiple choice...
Halloween maths
Cat Academy

Halloween maths

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These fun and festive maths activities help students practise skills and review previously learnt material. **Topics covered:** * Integers * Decimals * Coordination plane * Transformations * Equations * Vocabulary This resource consists of 9 PDF activities and answer keys.
Halloween maths GCSE revision on pythagoras and trig
TomTeachesMaths

Halloween maths GCSE revision on pythagoras and trig

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An engaging colour by number pixel art worksheet useful for GCSE revision lessons this halloween season. This worksheet covers **pythagoras and trigonometry** with questions involving trapezium and one 3d question. Try my other pixel art for free: [My Shop](https://www.tes.com/teaching-resources/sh...

Humanities and Creative

Halloween Themed Scale and Distance
rwood77

Halloween Themed Scale and Distance

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A range of activities to help KS3 students work out the distance between places on a variety of maps. All answers are included. All you need to do is print out the PowerPoint slides as worksheets.
KS3 Art- Potion Bottle Illustration
hnokes

KS3 Art- Potion Bottle Illustration

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An imaginative and skills-focused task perfect for Halloween! Students are challenged to create a gruesome potion bottle illustration. What s included? A starter slide discussing the difference between an observational drawing and an illustration A task slide with breakdown and example ...
Halloween traditions around the world
Nav14

Halloween traditions around the world

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A lesson looking at how different countries celebrate the festive season of Halloween in different countries. Pupils can plot on a map the country, a brief description, draw the flag and rank the traditions. Loads of room for pupils to choose what to do - poster, fact-file etc. Good for tutorial tim...
Halloween Art/Craft
Made_for_teachers

Halloween Art/Craft

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This Halloween Art Worksheet will bring seasonal cheer to your classroom! Students are tasked to sketch and create a Halloween Hanging Wall Art. Students are introduced to the famous Artist Matisse. They are then set three tasks - 1. Select a minimum of 2 Halloween Inspired Images below, these ima...