This volleyball lesson is a comprehensive lesson plan for ball familiarisation and the ready position in volleyball for complete beginners. It will be most appropriate for year 7 volleyball lessons OR for year 8 lower ability. The lesson includes: fun tasks for students to complete to familiarise themselves with a volleyball, tasks to teach the ready position and game play. This 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 and I made these so in most cases they can be just picked up and taught. This lesson has all, most and some outcomes, clear teaching points, afl opportunities 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.

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 Valentine’s Day themed colour by number will give students lots of practice of their times tables. A great seasonal activity to engage students this Valentine’s Day. The Picture will reveal an assortment of hearts! Great for display! Use as a plenary, for early finishers or a fun activity. It’s also great if you want students to practice and consolidate times tables skills without using a traditional worksheet. All the squares have a number in them and students need to answer the question and colour in all the squares that correspond to their answer, in the colour given, in order to reveal an picture. There is also a clip art border for students to colour in. This product includes: ♥A Color by Number sheet with questions ♥An Answer sheet for teachers ♥♥ Find other Valentine’s Day Maths resources here ♥♥

Worksheets with questions on the Order of Operations (BIDMAS/BODMAS) for students to complete in class. Skills covered include - using order of operations without brackets or indices, using it with indices and brackets, inserting brackert into questions to make them correct. The 3 levels of difficulty that have been included: ★Blue(easy):Know and use the order of operations with simple calculations (no brackets) ★Gold(medium):Use the order of operations with more complex calculations including brackets and indices ★Red(hard):Insert brackets into questions to make them correct, work out questions with more than one set of brackets. Answers are included Need a lesson for order of operations? Find it here NEW - BIDMAS treasure hunts

Powerpoint lesson with a work booklet and tick or trash AFL activity on the Order of Operations (BIDMAS/BODMAS). Skills covered include - using order of operations without brackets or indices, using it with indices and brackets, inserting brackert into questions to make them correct. Time saving resource for busy teachers! You should be able to teach a lesson with hardly any preparation (mainly printing and maybe some cutting!). Fully differentiated objectives: Blue:Know and use the order of operations with simple calculations (no brackets) Gold:Use the order of operations with more complex calculations including brackets and indices Red:Insert brackets into questions to make them correct, work out questions with more than one set of brackets. This resource includes: • A PowerPoint • A differentiated Work booklet that includes self-assessment sections • A tick or trash activity (this could be done alone or in pairs, or in groups!) The PowerPoint includes everything you need to teach order of operations, including animated examples. The lessons use the following format: • Objective and levels • A short starter that can lead into a discussion about BIDMAS • 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 grades, 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. I also have a differentiated set of worksheets on Order of operations available here.

Adding fractions with uncommon denominators. A set of no frills worksheet, good for students that need lots of practice with adding fractions. Hard difficulty on adding fractions. Both denominators are different. 4 x sets of worksheets each with 20 questions on and an answers sheet included. 80 questions in total. Find more fractions worksheets here Want something a bit different? Click here for adding fractions with uncommon denominators mazes

This Rounding To The Nearest 10, 100 or 1000 With 3 or 4 Digit Numbers BINGO activity is a really fun way of practising rounding. Skills include rounding numbers from 600 to 9999 to the nearest ten, hundred or thousand. Show the questions on a Smart Board or projector. Your students will love it and won’t realise how many questions they are answering! Try out a Rounding BINGO for free here. 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 rounding 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 rounding activities, including mazes, dominos and treasure hunts.

This Halloween maths colour by number is a fun activity that will give students lots of practice of solving one step equations. A great seasonal activity to engage students this halloween. Skills include solving one step equations where the variable is either a positive or a negative number. Add, subtract, multiply and divide included. Student should answer the question, then colour in all the squares with that answer with the colour given to reveal a mystery picture. This particular picture reveals a witches cauldron. Great starter for lessons or to give to early finishers. Fun Halloween clip art border included that students can also colour in. If you would like more Halloween themed maths activities please click here.

A set of differentiated worksheets for finding a percentage of an amount. Skills covered are finding percentages of amounts in multiples of 10%, multiples of 5%, multiples of 1%, multiples of 10% where calculations may involve decimals, multiples of 5% where calculations may involve decimals, multiples of 1% where calculations may involve decimals, percentage increase and decrease. Fantastic to use in lessons where you have a lot of different stages of learning (or over a few lessons!). Also great to give to students for homework and they could pick the difficulty they wanted to do! Included is a PDF version and a Powerpoint version where the text within the tables are editable. Difficulties include (for whole number calculations): ★ Blue (easy) – Finding percentage of amounts in multiples of 10% ★ Gold (medium) - Finding percentage of amounts in multiples of 5% ★ Red (Hard) Finding percentage of amounts in multiples of 1% Difficulties include (for decimal calculations): ★ Blue (easy) – Finding percentage of amounts in multiples of 10% ★ Gold (medium) - Finding percentage of amounts in multiples of 5% ★ Red (Hard) Finding percentage of amounts in multiples of 1% ★ Purple (challenging) Finding percentage increase and decrease of amounts using a mixture of all the skills above. There are approximately 60 blue questions, 60 gold questions, 60 red questions and 30 purple questions in these worksheets. Each topic is colour coded by difficulty. Full solutions included in the same format as the questions to make it easier to mark! Also included is a contents page so you can quickly look up what you need! Click here for more percentage resources.

A fun 10 card treasure hunt for a finding angles in parallel lines lesson. Skills covered are: finding multiple missing angles in a set of parallel lines and giving reasons. Student record card and solutions included. Use as a starter, assessment for learning activity or a plenary in a lesson on parallel lines or angles. Difficulties include ★ Red (hard)finding multiple missing angles in a more complex set of parallel lines and giving reasons Students need to start on any random card and note down the letter on their recording card (first page). They answer the question on that card then find another card that has the answer on (they then note down that letter and so on). Suggestions for use: ★Print them off on A4 and scatter them around the room (students love getting out of their seats!) ★Print the cards off 4 to a page and give them to students individually to do on their desk Click here for more parallel lines resources, including foldables, worksheets, treasure hunts, lessons and tick or trash activities. U6FE

A fun 10 card treasure hunt for a finding angles in parallel lines lesson. Skills covered are: finding one missing angle in a set of parallel lines and giving reasons. Student record card and solutions included. Use as a starter, assessment for learning activity or a plenary in a lesson on parallel lines or angles. Difficulties include ★ Gold (medium)finding one missing angle in a set of parallel lines and giving reasons Students need to start on any random card and note down the letter on their recording card (first page). They answer the question on that card then find another card that has the answer on (they then note down that letter and so on). Suggestions for use: ★Print them off on A4 and scatter them around the room (students love getting out of their seats!) ★Print the cards off 4 to a page and give them to students individually to do on their desk Click here for more parallel lines resources, including foldables, worksheets, treasure hunts, lessons and tick or trash activities. U6FE

This Halloween maths times tables bingo activity will give students lots of practice of their times tables. A great seasonal activity to engage students this Halloween. Useful for a starter, settler or fun end of lesson activity that adds a bit of competitiveness to the lesson with a Halloween theme. This product includes: ★48 unique student cards (3 OR 6 per A4 piece of paper, both types are included) ★A Teacher call out card which has the 40 questions (and answers) on them ★A set of questions on a PowerPoint file for overhead display (you could alter the slide order for use again with the same class) ★ Halloween themed clipart on the powerpoint and on the bingo cards. ~I would suggest laminating the student cards as they can then be reused if you give students a board pen to write on it/circle their numbers~ Want more halloween multiplication activities? Click here for multiplcation mazes.Click here for multiplication treasure hunts.Click here for Halloween multiplication colour by number If you would like more Halloween themed maths activities please click here.

A lesson on finding the circumference of a circle including all the resources you need to teach it. Skills covered include finding the circumference of a circle, finding the diameter or radius when given the circumference and working out the perimeter and arc length of sectors. Time saving resource for busy teachers! You should be able to teach a lesson with hardly any preparation (mainly printing!). Fully differentiated objectives: Blue:Find the circumference of a circle Gold:Find the diameter/radius given the circumference Red: work out the arc length and perimeter of sectors This resource includes: • A PowerPoint • Differentiated Work booklet that includes self-assessment sections • A Treasure hunt on circle names The PowerPoint includes everything you need to teach circumference of circles. 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. Need more resources for circumference of circles? Differentiated worksheet on Circumference of circles Circumference of circles set of differentiated treasure hunts (10 cards for each difficulty) Circumference of circles treasure hunt

Adding fractions with common denominators. A set of no frills worksheets, good for students that need lots of practice with adding fractions. 4 x sets of worksheets each with 20 questions on and an answers sheet included. 80 questions in total. Find more fractions worksheets here

Adding fractions with uncommon (multiple) denominators. A set of no frills worksheets, good for students that need lots of practice with adding fractions. Medium difficulty on adding fractions. One denominator is a multiple of the other. 4 x sets of worksheets each with 20 questions on and an answers sheet included. 80 questions in total. Find more fractions worksheets here

A SOW / set of 6 lesson plans for hockey covering the following skills: Dribbling Push and slap passing Block tackling Individual attacking skills (push and run, roll out, v drag, drag left and right, lift) Penalty/short corners Game play Click here to see lesson 1 for FREE This SOW was created to save time for busy teachers and is made so teachers with little/no hockey 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. There is an assesssment matrix included and all lessons have levelled outcomes. The levels are the old national curriculum levels 3-8 however they are easily editable and changeable to your own assessment levels. Each lesson has diagrams, assessment levels, differentiation , clear teaching points, links to videos that show the skill and afl opportunities. As well as 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. Other products you might like - I also have individual lesson plans and other SOWs available for hockey please click here to see them. If you have an requests for custom products and have any comments about the product here please email me at pickupandgoresources@gmail.com

3 Adding and subtracting fractions with uncommon (multiple) denominators mazes. This is a more engaging and fun way to practice adding and subtracting fractions without the use of a traditional worksheet. Great for consolidation in an adding and subtracting fractions lesson. This product includes 3 unique mazes with full solutions. If you have students that need practise with just adding or subtracting please see the links below for more mazes that focus on just adding or subtracting . This activity is great because students can self-check the answers and most of the time they don’t realise they are answering multiple questions. Students work their way through the maze, colouring the correct answers and following the path to the next question. This activity is colour coded gold (medium). Need more? Adding fractions mazes Subtracting fractions mazes Adding and subtracting fractions treasure hunt

Gymnastics lesson plan - rotations. This is a comprehensive lesson plan on rotations in gymnastics. This lesson is most suitable for students on their first unit of gymnastics (year 7). The lesson includes: Warm up Prior learning The 3 axis of rotations and examples Independent/teacher led tasks AFL Objectives and levels Organisational points See here for a SOW for year 7 This lesson was created to save time for busy teachers and is made so teachers with little gymnastics 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. All lessons have levelled outcomes. The levels are the old national curriculum levels 3-8 however they are easily editable and changeable to your own assessment levels. Each lesson has assessment levels, diagrams, differentiation , clear teaching points, clear task explanations and afl opportunities. This lesson should provide enough tasks for lessons of 40 minutes and above. It follows on from my gymnastics lesson 1- basic shapes(free) . Which you can also use to assess the quality of my work. I also have task cards for rotations which will go really well with this lesson and can be purchased as a bundle here and a free variations in rolls task card here. Check out my other gymnastics resources 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. 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 3rd in my year 7 series. Find lesson 2 on receiving the ball on the move 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. Each lesson has assessment levels, clear teaching points, afl opportunities, video links 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

This Halloween maths colour by number fun activity is sure to give students lots of practice of their division skills.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 ghost. Great starter for lessons or to give to early finishers. Fun Halloween clip art border included that students can also colour in. If you would like more Halloween themed maths activities please click here.