I felt so inspired after watching this TED talk - Shawn Achor “The Happiness Advantage: Linking Positive Brains to Performance”, I decided to make a quick resource that could be used with Secondary Students to encourage them to take positive action towards a happier outlook. I hope you enjoy using it and if you have any suggestions for how it could be developed further I would love to hear from you. Enjoy!

Smart Materials presentation. Can be used for GCSE Resistant Materials revision. Enjoy!

Some nice visual slides for Reistant Materials WJEC revision.

Fun EFL activity with a printable page for students to create an online business profile. Please do leave feedback if you found this activity useful!

A Step by Step lesson to be followed for designing a perfume bottle using TechSoft 2D Design software. It is very similar to the Pull Along Toy lesson, also available for free download here. Also a work in progress so please leave any feedback or suggestions, or feel free to share your own versions. Enjoy !

A short sample of Rio Olympics activities. Enjoy :)

This has been designed for students to follow step by step in order to design a 2D pull along toy to be cut in MDF. It is a work in progress so if you have any suggestions for how to improve it, or any questions about any of the steps, please get in touch. Some slides include Welsh translations which can quickly be removed, if needed, (Nod y Wers = Lesson Aims). Enjoy! Stu

A simple step by step lesson that takes students through making a quick stir fry. Was used with a year 7 SEN class. Could probably be used with younger students or adapted to suit a wider range of key stage 3 students. Any feedback would be greatly appreciated!

A small 5 minute English activity for foreign students.

Simple cut up activity for Parts of Speech and tenses (excluding perfect tenses).

A short activity covering present simple and present continuous time expressions and questions, developed for an EFL lesson.

UPDATE: This resource was created a few years ago and some information may be out of date. Therefore some activities will need to be updated. This pack includes lots of different activities connected to the Rugby World Cup that could be used in classroom lessons across most subjects. It provides literacy and numeracy challenges, plus History, Geography and Art/Design activities. They could be used as stand alone starters or plenaries and some could be extended into full lessons. Please leave feedback if these resources worked for you! Enjoy :)

A collection of short, snappy, and sometimes wacky, activites that can be used with secondary and upper primary pupils. Includes literacy, numeracy, drama, art and research activities. Please leave a comment with suggestions or feedback on how I can improve it. Enjoy!

A fun tutorial style lesson that could be followed through as a tutorial or as a class. Designed to be followed over two 1 hour lessons. The task builds student confidence through the use of Marquee or Lasso tool to remove parts of the image; Magic Wand for selecting areas of an image; Clone Tool for duplicating textures; Healing Brush Tool for adding a smooth finish; Liquify Tool for stretching parts of the image; Layers for inserting new images and effects; Burn Tool for altering skin appearance; animated GIFs to ensure the image remains animated once exported; and Tween function to smoothly animate a flying saucer. It has been very well received by Year 9 students and could be used at Key Stage 4 as a fun introduction to animation. Please feel free to use and modify the slides in any way you see fit. I would love to hear if you have used it in class, and am open to feedback for improvements. Happy Photoshopping! Stuart

A simple cut up activity to be used at the start of a Resistant Materials theory lesson. Suitable for Key Stages 3 and 4.

Literacy task for guiding learners in creating an illustrated A4 instructions leaflet. The task encourages learners to use imperatives and chronological order for each step. This can be used in any Design Technology subject or even in other subjects across the curriculum. It has been made using a simple and clear layout therefore allowing others to modify to suit learner needs. If the you require a different version of the Presentation please get in touch and I will do my best to resolve any issues you have. If you have found the presentation useful please leave feedback so I can keep improving my resources. Every day’s a school day!

An original lesson which focuses students on how to creatively respond to a design brief. Learning objectives: To learn about creative ideas and products. To think of creative ideas for solving a problem. Includes a fun lesson starter to encourage student to think outside the box. If you wanted to bring it to life all you need is a small cardboard box (tray from a matchbox would probably suffice), some drawing pins and a candle.

World Cup Selfies: Photo editing and fact finding project includes step by step for photo editing using Sketchbook (Mac), these steps could easily be followed using a similar photo editor such as Photoshop. It requires students to take a snapshot and cut out their face to later use in a country fact file slide. The other activities included are as follows: literacy and numeracy challenges, memory retention tasks using video clips about the rugby world cup, and a homework task from a famous american selfie. The files available for download are all different versions of the same slideshow, which is 36 slides long. Hope you enjoy using these materials and above all else that the students enjoy the lesson(s). Please leave me feedback or get in touch with me directly if you have any questions. Thanks, Stuart

Clear and simple differentiated resources for covering the Six Rs of Sustainability. Includes slides to follow as a complete lesson and differentiated worksheet pages for gap fill, sentence matching and free writing. Developed for use in Design and Technology lessons, specifically Resistant Materials, Product Design or Graphic Products. If you have any suggestions for how these resource could be improved please get in touch or leave feedback so I can provide you with an even better resource. Keep it Green!

Recently developed for an observed lesson with a higher ability year 8 class. Could be adapted or developed for different age groups. Boscastle Observer Article template also provided as a word document. Includes success criteria which can help students identify exactly what they need to do to successfully complete the task. If you have any questions or feedback please let me know. Please give it a rating too!