Help your students to think creatively when linking agilities such as balances, forward rolls and backwards rolls by varying the start and ending positions. Progressive, guided task students can complete independently and self differentiate. Perfect for a lesson on rotation, forward rolls or routines. Any more able students you could get to independently find their own! UPDATED - THE FILE SHOULD HOPEFULLY NOW OPEN! Includes: Clear editable text instructions (the font is fully embeded) Clear high quality illustrations An assessment level (old national curriculum level 5) Need teaching cards for rolls? Check out my resource here Check out my other gymnastics resources here

This Christmas/Holiday maths one step equations maze will give students practice with their solving equations skills. A great seasonal activity to engage students this Christmas. Great for a starter or early finishers near Christmas. Especially if you want students to practice and consolidate solving equations without using a traditional worksheet. The maze uses positive values of x only. This activity is great because students can check their own answers as they go through and most of the time, they don’t realise they are answering multiple questions. This freebie includes 1 maze with solutions and some great Holiday clipart. Students work their way through the maze, colouring the correct answers and following the path to the next question. See here for more Christmas themed activities.

This Halloween maths adding and subtracting negative numbers maze will give students lots of practise adding and subtracting up to 3 negative numbers. A great seasonal activity to engage students this Halloween. Great for a starter/plentary or early finishers near Halloween. Especially if you want students to practice and consolidate adding and subtracting negative numbers without using a traditional worksheet. This activity is great because students can check their own answers as they go through and most of the time they don’t realise they are answering multiple questions. This product includes 1 maze with solutions and some great Halloween clip art. Students work their way through the maze, coloring the correct answers and following the path to the next question. See here for more Halloween maths activities.

Use the order of operations (BIDMAS) to reveal a secret maths joke. Make your students feel like a spy trying to crack a code in a fun and novel way for students to practice the order of operations. This product contains 3 different levels of difficulty: order of operations with multiplying, dividing, adding and subtracting - BIDMAS with brackets and the 4 operations - BIDMAS including indices. This will keep students really busy and help them to check their own working as they go. This is perfect for consolidation on the order of operations if you don’t want to use a traditional worksheet. Each difficulty is colour coded (blue =easy, gold = medium, red = hard). All the answers are included. Suggestions for use: Give to students to do by themselves (self differentiated or teacher chooses) Give for homework Use as a collaborative task - (pairs/3s work out a column each) See here for other BIDMAS resources See here for other code breakers.

This Halloween maths colour by number fun activity is sure to give students lots of practice of their times tables, a great seasonal activity to engage students this halloween. Students need to answer the questions and find which colour corresponds to the answer s in order to reveal a halloween picture. This particular picture reveals a pumpkin. Great starter for lessons or to give to early finishers. Fun Halloween clip art border included that students can also colour in. Want more halloween multiplication activities? Click here for multiplcation mazes. Click here for multiplication treasure hunts. Click here for Halloween times tables bingo If you would like more Halloween themed maths activities please click here.

A comprehensive set of lesson plans for a first/second gymnastics unit, most appropriate for KS3 or KS4. The unit covers skills pupils will need to create their own pair gymnastics routines including individual balances, pair balances, rotations, jumps and compositional aspects. All resources mentioned in the SOW are included in this product – Wheel of fortune basic shape spinner Plenary cards for basic shapes and matching and mirroring Individual balance resources sheet(Worth £3.50) Pair balances task cards and visual resource cue (worth £3.50) Set balances task card(not available anywhere else) Compositional aspects criteria Assessment matrix. Accompanying powerpoints for some lessons This SOW / set of 6 lesson plans for gymnastics covers the following skills and objectives: Lesson 1 - Basic shapes - Know and demonstrate the basic shapes in gymnastics and apply them to a variety of different contexts. To develop control, fluency, tension and extension. To understand the compositional aspect of levels. Lesson 2 Rotations - To accurately replicate a variety of rotations. To know where the axis of rotation are. To apply skills learnt into a sequence Lesson 3 – Jumps - To accurately replicate a variety of jumps. To apply skills learnt into a sequence Lesson 4 – Individual balances - To accurately replicate balances individually. Lesson 5 – pair balances - To accurately replicate pair balances. Lesson 6 – Composition and assessment - To develop and apply knowledge of compositional aspects. This SOW was created to save time for busy teachers. You should be able to teach a lesson with minimal preparation, maybe watching a few videos before hand or printing out some resources. Please ensure you understand the health and safety aspects of gymnastics before teaching this unit. Refer to Teaching safe practice in Physical Education by BAALPE if need be. The scheme has powerpoints, diagrams, animate GIFS, assessment levels, differentiation , teaching points, Assessment for learning/plenary activities, links to videos that show the skill, clear explanations of the tasks and all resources and links to the resources required via the lesson plan. No timings are included as each school can vary in terms of lesson time. They should provide enough tasks for lessons of 40 minutes and above. I also have a set of lesson plans for individual gymnastics routines available here.

Halloween maths - tessellations. Halloween themed tessellation activity for students to complete as homework or classwork. A great consolidation activity that can engage students at Halloween. Includes: A ghost (easy) A bat (med) A witches hat (really hard) A spider (easy) A skull (med) A cat (hard) For each shape there is the following types of sheets: An A4 portrait sheet with small squares and a small shape to start students off An A4 portrait sheet with big squares and a big shape to start students off An A4 landscape sheet with small squares and a small shape to start students off An A4 landscape sheet with big squares and a big shape to start students off A small template which is approx 1/6 of A4 A big template which are on their own A4 page Examples of how to tessellate the shape The skull is available as a free product here.

This netball lesson is a comprehensive lesson plan for footwork and pivoting in netball for beginners. It will be most appropriate for year 7 netball lessons OR for year 8 lower ability. The lesson includes: learning the names and areas of the position, how to make decisions when passing, game play, AFL quiz quiz trade cards, instructional cards for positions and for centre pass set up (which could also be used as display posters). If you want to assess the quality of my work check out a free lesson on passing and receiving in netball (year 7) here. This lesson is the 4th in my year 7 series. Find lesson 3 on footwork and pivoting here and the SOW/set of lesson plans for year 7 here. This was created to save time for busy teachers and is made so teachers with little/no netball experience can teach it just as well as those with lots. You should be able to teach a lesson with minimal preparation and I made these so in most cases they can be just picked up and taught. This lesson has assessment levels, clear teaching points, afl opportunities, a set of instructional cards, a set of plenary cards and clear explanations of the tasks. There are no timings included as each school can vary in terms of lesson time. They should provide enough tasks for lessons of 40 minutes and above. The assessment levels are old national curriculum levels but the levels can be easily changed to reflect your own schools assessment models. Click here for other Netball lesson plans

A SOW / set of 7 lesson plans for volleyball. This unit of work would be most appropriate for students that have never had volleyball lesson before or for a lower ability set that have had one unit of volleyball lessons. This SOW covers the following skills: Ball familiarisation (available free here) The volley Developing the volley The dig (using a reciprocal card) The underarm serve Passing and game play This SOW was created to save time for busy teachers and is made so teachers with little/no volleyball experience can teach it just as well as those with lots. You should be able to teach a lesson with minimal preparation (mainly using youtube to view drills) and I made these so in most cases they can be just picked up and taught. The scheme has diagrams, All/Most/SOME outcomes, differentiation , teaching points, links to videos that show the skill, appropriate resource cards and clear explanations of the tasks. There are no timings included as each school can vary in terms of lesson time. They should provide enough tasks for lessons of 40 minutes and above. If you have an requests for custom products and have any comments about the product here please email me at pickupandgoresources@gmail.com

A lesson on translations for use in a secondary transformations lessons. Power point and work booklet for teaching rotations are included. Skills include translating a shape when given worded instructions, translating a shape using vectors and describing the transformation. Time saving resource for busy teachers! You should be able to teach a lesson with hardly any preparation (mainly printing!). Fully differentiated objectives: Blue:Translate given shapes on a square grid/coordinate grid Gold:Use vector notation for translations Red:Describe fully a translation This resource includes: • A PowerPoint • Differentiated Work booklet that includes self-assessment sections The PowerPoint includes everything you need to teach translations, including animated examples. The lessons use the following format: • Objective and levels • A “how to teaching portion” with animated examples • An AfL miniwhiteboard quiz • Answers to all the booklet questions • Plenary (with answers) The powerpoint and booklet are currently set up for GCSE maths grade, however you can edit the grades to reflect KS3 or your own schools assessment criteria. In the word booklet if you change any grade (e.g the blue section) it should automatically change the rest of that colour into the same grade. This will take up a whole lesson (between 45mins to 1h 15 dependent on how many questions the students get through) [Free Translations treasure hunt available here](https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/translations-treasure-hunt-11809584 Additional translations worksheets available here

This product is designed to help with the composition of gymnastics routines and more specifically relationships between partners (matching and mirroring & canon and unison). Included: 2 A4 landscape pages showing illustrations of matching and mirroring balances. This could either be used as a display or as a help card. An A4 scaffolded task card students can use to help them with creating a sequence Practical application in a lesson: Give the lower ability pairs the matching and mirroring display posters for them to accurately replicate the balances on there Give the middle ability students the task card to work through Give the higher ability studets a sheet of balances and tell them they have to include matching and mirroring & canon and unsion in a short sequence. This takes up an entire lesson. This product is great when used with the following products: Matching and mirroring quiz quiz trade cards(free) Gymnastics assessment Levels matrix for KS3(free) Compositional aspects of gymnastics sequences/routines(free) Individual gymnastic balances (premium) Please email me at pickupandgoresources@gmail.com if you would like a custom gymnastics balances product. See here for my other gymnastics products. #SpringSavers

This negative numbers BINGO activity is a really fun way of practising multiplying and dividing with negative numbers. Skills include multiplying with numbers between -12 and 12 and dividing with numbers that are multiples of -12 to 12. Show the questions on a Smart Board or projector. Your students will love it and won’t realise how many questions they are answering! This product includes: ★ A PowerPoint display with instructions, student choice bingo numbers and 40 questions ★All 40 numbers on screen for students to make their own 4 by 4 grid and pick their own numbers (saves on printing) ★32 unique student cards (4 per page of paper to save on printing) ★ Answers for the teacher to check if students have crossed off the right numbers! This negative numbers maths bingo is useful for revision, prior learning checks, assessment for learning activities, a starter, a plenary or just a fun activity at the end of the lesson. Click here for more negative numbers activities, including mazes and worksheets.

A treasure hunt for students to complete in class. Answers and student record sheet included. They have to describe the following types of transformations: -enlargements -rotations -reflections -translations

A lesson on reflections for use in a secondary transformations unit(whoe unit available here). Power point and work booklet for teaching reflections are included. Skills covered are reflecting a shape in a line on a square grid, reflecting a shape across a straight line on a coordinate grid, describing the reflection. Time saving resource for busy teachers! You should be able to teach a lesson with hardly any preparation (mainly printing!). Fully differentiated objectives: Blue:Reflect given shapes on a grid. Gold:Reflect given shapes on a coordinate grid using a line such as x = 2 Red:Describe fully a reflection. This resource includes: • A PowerPoint • Differentiated Work booklet that includes self-assessment sections The PowerPoint includes everything you need to teach reflections, including animated examples. The lessons use the following format: • Objective and levels • A “how to teaching portion” with animated examples • An AfL miniwhiteboard quiz • Answers to all the booklet questions • Plenary (with answers) The powerpoint and booklet are currently set up for GCSE maths grade, however you can edit the grades to reflect KS3 or your own schools assessment criteria. In the word booklet if you change any grade (e.g the blue section) it should automatically change the rest of that colour into the same grade. This will take up a whole lesson (between 45mins to 1h 15 dependent on how many questions the students get through) FREE reflections differentiated worksheet available here

This Easter maths colour by number fun activity is sure to give students lots of practice of their times tables. A great seasonal activity to engage students this Easter, and better still they are actually doing work! Students need to answer the questions and find which colour corresponds to the answer s in order to reveal an Easter picture. This particular picture reveals a chick popping out of an egg. Great starter for lessons or to give to early finishers. Want more Easter multiplication activities? Click here for a multiplication codebreaker. If you would like more Easter themed maths activities please click here.

A new fun and different way for students to create a basic sequence. These dice are great for use in a lesson on individual balances or as a one off activity in a gymnastics unit on creating individual sequences. This resource includes: -2 x Easy balances dice templates to print -2 x Medium balances dice templates print -2 x Hard balances dice templates print -1x Powerpoint file for the teacher to use to pick random links between balances. This includes a random links spinner, and an on screen prompt list for each type of link. HOW TO: Students pick a difficulty, roll the first dice for their starting balance and then roll the second for their ending balance. The teacher spins the links wheel on the powerpoint and students use that to link their 2 balances together. This process can be repeated many times to create a sequence. Need other gymnastics balances? Click here

These Halloween maths laws of indices mazes will give students lots of practise of simplifying indices that have been multiplied, divided or have brackets. A great seasonal activity to engage students this Halloween. Great for a starter/plentary or early finishers near Halloween. Especially if you want students to practice and consolidate laws of indices without using a traditional worksheet. This activity is great because students can check their own answers as they go through and most of the time they don’t realise they are answering multiple questions. This product includes 2 unique mazes with solutions and some great Halloween clip art. Students work their way through the maze, coloring the correct answers and following the path to the next question. See here for more Halloween maths activities.

Differentiated worksheets on Enlargements for students to complete in class. Skills include positive enlargements, negative enlargements and fractional enlargements all colour coded for difficulty. This is most suitable for Challenging KS3 students and Higher Tier GCSE. I also have a one suitable for KS3 and Foundation tier which only includes positive and fractional scale factors (The questions are different on each version so if you buy both products there are no duplicates). In this product 4 levels of difficulty have been included: Blue (easy) -Enlarge an object by an integer scale factor from a centre of enlargement Gold (medium) -Enlarge an object by a fractional scale factor from a centre of enlargement. Red (hard) -Enlarge and object by a negative scale factor from a centre of enlargement Purple (challenging) Describe fully an enlargement; work out a scale factor and centre of enlargement. Updated - fixed a couple of wrong answers. If you need more transformations worksheets check out my bundle here

Differentiated worksheet on rotations, perfect for use in a transformations unit. Skills include: rotating a shape on a square grid, rotating a shape on a co-ordinate grid and describing the rotation. Fully differentiated by colour - 3 levels of difficulty have been included: • Blue (easy) - rotating a shape on a square grid •Gold (medium) - rotating a shape on a coordinate grid •Red (harder) - describing the transformation All answers included. Updated - Fixed question 3 as it was rotating off the grid. Fixed a couple of typos and one of the answers. Fonts updated and embedded. If you need more transformations worksheets check out my bundle here If you need a rotations lesson find my Powerpoint and workbook here

A lesson on rotations for use in a secondary transformations lessons. Power point and work booklet for teaching rotations are included. Skils covered are rotating a shape around a given point on a square grid, rotating a shape about a set of coordinates and describing the rotation. Time saving resource for busy teachers! You should be able to teach a lesson with hardly any preparation (mainly printing!). Fully differentiated objectives (blue =easiest, gold=medium, red=harder) This resource includes: • A PowerPoint • Differentiated Work booklet that includes self-assessment sections The PowerPoint includes everything you need to teach rotations, including animated examples. The lessons use the following format: • Objective and levels • A “how to teaching portion” with animated examples • An AfL miniwhiteboard quiz • Answers to all the booklet questions • Plenary (with answers) The powerpoint and booklet are currently set up for GCSE maths grade, however you can edit the grades to reflect KS3 or your own schools assessment criteria. In the word booklet if you change any grade (e.g the blue section) it should automatically change the rest of that colour into the same grade. This will take up a whole lesson (between 45mins to 1h 15 dependent on how many questions the students get through)