A teacher of teens, passionate about integrating character, creativity and technology in lessons 💜 Get a free gratitude journal here --> bit.ly/FreeGratitudeJournal
A teacher of teens, passionate about integrating character, creativity and technology in lessons 💜 Get a free gratitude journal here --> bit.ly/FreeGratitudeJournal
If you are now exploring the new world of distance learning, chances are you, your students and their parents are all in a bit of a panic right now as everything is so new!
At least you can have communication with your students via tools such as Google Classroom, but how are parents and guardians coping with this new home schooling life? You can control the environment in your own classroom, but you cannot control their study space or environment at home, so this is where you need some parental feedback.
Now the tables have turned, so it is important to reach out to parents and find out how they’re getting on and what they’re seeing at their end. You can’t see your students right now so it’s harder for you to gauge how they’re doing. Getting parental feedback is paramount to everyone’s success.
These Google forms will gain you valuable insight into a range of areas.
The forms included are:
• Initial Parental Information: gain an overview of what environment their child has for studying at home: in particular what kind of devices, internet access, and study space they have access to.
• Schedule Parental Information: gain an overall insight into how much support the parents are realistically able to offer at home, judgment free, and how much digital time they would prefer / are able to offer their child every day.
• Interim Parental Feedback: Find out how parents are coping with home schooling and how they feel their children are really doing. Get valuable feedback on specific lessons / activities / topics that are going well, and which are more challenging. With this form you will learn what is working best and gain an insight into what might help their distance learning experiences in the future.
Help your students learn how to study from home with this self lead guide / journal that comes in both printable and digital options for your students.
With students needing to study from home, whether that be by choice or due to school closures, many find the challenge of home studying a difficult one to master. There are distractions everywhere and being cooped up indoors all day has its own battles.
You can send your students this guide / journal to help them in their home study routine. It guides them through how to plan their schedule and routine, by reverse engineering their day using their assignment deadlines or personal academic goals.
This guide also teaches your students how to look after their own well-being while they are stuck at home. It addresses body aches due to excessive desk / computer hunching, too much screen time and how to keep fit and healthy.
This resource is ready to use. It comes with a 17 page printable journal for them to fill in, and there is a digital version available too for them to type directly into the document, should they prefer. You can post the journal or send it to your students remotely.
I hope this helps your students as they learn the discipline it takes to study from home!
Character Education Tutor Time / Morning Meeting Printable Journal on COURAGE.
This is 1 of a 10 part series that includes: resilience, courage, self-confidence, self-respect, tolerance, leadership, respect, empathy, honesty and compassion.
I’m so glad you are looking to teach Character Education! Character development and socio-emotional skills are the critical foundation needed for our students to succeed in school and in life. This morning meeting printable journal pack is a powerful and easy way to help strengthen your core curriculum for a responsive classroom. It ensures your students get the opportunity to learn how to develop courage within themselves by repetition and deep discussion.
In order to ensure Character Education can be integrated into your busy timetable, this resource has been designed to make it as easy to deliver as possible! This resource is a structured printable journal with 20 powerful quotes and 60 thought provoking writing prompts. No prior knowledge or experience from you is required to teach it. If you choose, you can also download the Courage Digital Whiteboard pack to go with it if you want to encourage group discussion or go paperless instead.
Product includes:
• 21 pages of Courage Morning Meeting Journal
• Mindful Colouring page front cover for the journal
• 60 thought provoking writing prompts that go far beyond “what do you think this quote means” and instead encourage deep personal reflection on their own lives and the world.
• 20 powerfully themed quotes based solely on Courage. That’s enough for every working day of the month, allowing you to do different Character themed months all year long if you get the whole set of 10 (coming soon).
So help build your students’ courage in 5 minutes every day, and encourage them to be all that you know they can be!
Great for Character Education, Social Skills, Life skills and PSHCE (Physical, Social, Health, Citizenship Education) lessons.
Are you looking for some unique teen activities for Women’s History month? Women have invented some incredible things to make our world a better place, but so many of these are unknown!
This resource highlights some of our amazing women inventors, to show our young students that anyone can achieve great things, regardless of gender.
There are 2 parts to the resource: a PowerPoint presentation with information to teach them about the inventors and what inspired them to invent their products. The second part comes with worksheets that students can use to summarise their learning and reflect on the achievements of these women. Alternatively, students could also do their own research to complete these sheets for homework.
These would look great on a display board or stapled into a booklet for students to keep.
So go on, inspire your girls and educate your young boys on the power of women!
These worksheets are a fun Agony Aunt / Uncle style that allows your students to demonstrate what they have learnt in a fun and relatable way. They also provide you with great feedback to assess student understanding.
You can use these in English lessons to get students to reflect on characters in any book. Students can consider the struggles the characters face, whilst providing the opportunity to offer them advice too.
These would also work well when teaching Life Skills topics such as Cyber Bullying or Stress Management.
Once they have learnt the skills you have taught them, they can make up scenarios and offer appropriate advice as an Agony Aunt / Uncle in a magazine! They could even take it in turns to write up scenarios for their peers and challenge one another to offer advice on how to deal with the problem. This will work with so many different scenarios and skills!
To personalise their own column, they have the opportunity to be creative and draw their own caricature of themselves as an Agony Aunt / Uncle!
*UPDATE* Now also includes:
• Q&A boxes without lines
• Whole page for one Q&A to allow for more detail
• An editable document for students to type onto the resource
Your students will love this resource and really feel like a pro sharing their newly learned expertise in their own magazine column!
Halloween themed colouring pages!
These “Halloween” doodle colouring pages are a relaxing and fun resource for your students to colour and maybe even decorate the classroom with, on Halloween!
You’d be amazed at the wonders it can do for young people’s well-being just by giving students some time to colour for a while – no matter what their age, it is something that is very therapeutic and inspiring.
There are 5 different colouring pages to choose from. Students can just shade in using whatever colours make them happy, but there is also white space available for students to add their own doodles too if they choose!
So give your students the opportunity to relax and have fun decorating their classroom or lockers etc. with these unique Halloween colouring pages for teens!
Autumn Themed Writing Paper: wide and tight lines
A fun 32 paged pack of Autumn themed writing paper pack, ideal for any themed creative writing activities.
These come in both colour and black line and in wide and tight lines making them suitable for a range of ages and abilities.
I hope your students enjoy using this Autumn themed paper this season!
Thankful Quotes Colouring Pages: fun, inspiring and relaxing for teens!
These inspiring ‘thankful’ colouring pages on quotes about being grateful, are a relaxing and fun resource for your students to colour and maybe even decorate the classroom with on “Thanksgiving” or whenever they want to remember to be grateful.
You’d be amazed at the wonders it can do for well-being just by giving students some time to colour for a while – no matter what their age, it is something that is very therapeutic and inspiring.
There are 5 different colouring pages to choose from. Students can just shade in using whatever colours make them happy, but there is also white space available for students to add their own doodles too if they choose!
So give your students the opportunity to relax and have fun decorating their classroom or lockers etc. with these unique Thanksgiving positive quotes colouring pages for teens!
Remembrance Day: Presentation and Activities for teens!
This resource includes a high quality PowerPoint presentation which can be delivered to your class/tutor group or in an assembly.
There is also an activities pack which contains some no-prep required printable worksheets, ideal for teenage students to do during tutor time or in Citizenship lessons. These activities give students the opportunity to reflect on their knowledge about Remembrance Day, consider important key words to do with the day in the form of a word search and anagrams, and also get creative in designing poppy merchandise to raise more money for the Royal British Legion.
Christmas Traditions Around the World: activities for teens!
This resource is prep-free and really easy to use in your classroom – there are 8 unique printable activities (including some examples of each) which involve students undertaking independent research of Christmas traditions around the world and then reflecting on their learning in a range of creative ways!
As each of the activities do not specify countries, students are free to investigate a great number of traditions around the world which can be differentiated to their age, ability or your lesson plans! As these can be done independently they would make great homework tasks too!
Resource includes:
• Christmas traditions research graphic organiser
• Interview (prompted and open for differentiation)
• Christmas Postcard
• Tourist adviser blog post
• Christmas Quiz
• Merry Christmas languages
• Christmas Creative Writing
• Christmas Menu
So enjoy having your teens research and learn about a wide variety of Christmas traditions around the world with this no-prep resource!
End of the Year Positive Mindset Quotes: Fun and Relaxing Colouring Pages
These “End of the Year” doodle colouring pages are a wonderfully relaxing and fun resource for your students to help calm and relax them during the crazy end of year period!
They work great for morning work or early finishers!
The end of the year is when students are hyper and us teachers are just exhausted! You’d be amazed at the wonders it can do just by giving students some time to wind down and relax by colouring in – no matter what their age - it is something that is very therapeutic. There’s also a special colouring page for teachers to keep you smiling and calm too :)
There are 4 different colouring pages to choose from (plus an extra one US equivalent, and one just for teachers, so 6 in total!) Students can just colour in using whatever colours make them happy, but there is also plenty of white space available for students to add their own doodles too!
So help keep calm and order in a really fun way at the end of the year, and give your students the opportunity to just relax, and enjoy themselves – they deserve it and so do YOU!
Summer holiday activities for teens to keep them busy over the summer!
As a teacher you can give this pack to your students / tutor group at end of the year for them to complete over summer and bring back next school year. This makes a good starting point for back to school discussions. This is also great if you are a parent /carer who is looking to keep your own children entertained with fun and educational activities while at home!
When traveling or over the holidays, young people will undoubtedly be glued to technology. That’s fine for a while, but it is healthy to give them a variety of activities to be doing whilst reflecting on their experiences, hence the reason I created this resource.
The activities in this pack are simple and fun to work through, require no preparation from you and will entertain them when traveling and over the holiday period (be that a vacation or even a stay-cation!) They’re versatile enough for any experiences!
Product includes:
• Vacation plans
• Diary / poetry / story writing
• Sites to see
• Road trip Bingo
• Airport Bingo
• People Bingo
• Build your own Bingo Boards
• Gift ideas
• Photo diary
• Vacation word search
• Book reviews
• Noughts and Crosses
• Hang man
• Notes pages
You can print these off and even put them in a special binder so your young ones can complete them when they like. There are plenty to choose from and I think the option of choice is important in making sure they enjoy doing these!
The pages have been designed to be all black and white so they can be coloured in – an extra fun and relaxing element, plus it allows them to personalise their booklet!
Finally, this makes a great keepsake for the future to remind your young ones of their summer holidays! So get them off their technology for a while and encourage them to really observe and reflect on their experiences with this quality resource!
Exit Tickets Galore - Bundle!
Exit tickets are a quick, easy, fun and effective way of providing you with useful feedback to assess student progression and understanding. This bundle includes 4 different exit ticket sets in 27 styles, giving you lots of variety for use in your classroom! (Total value £17)
Bundle includes:
• Social Media Exit Tickets
• Emoji Exit Tickets
• Social Media Exit Tickets 2: mobile phone style
• Plenary Cards
Your students will enjoy filling these out at the end of your lessons and you will be able to assess their understanding effectively: win, win!
Test knowledge and understanding with these Entry Tickets
Your students will really enjoy reflecting on their previous learning with these entry tickets into your lesson! It also allows you to quickly assess students and find any areas where students might need further assistance. These work for any class and any subject and they are so simple to use!
You will receive 2 different sized tickets for your convenience. Some come with ready made prompts for you and some are plain so you can provide your own prompts.
You can use these to test their knowledge of the previous lesson or topic, recap keywords, check understanding of a homework assignment, see what questions they still have on a particular topic - or whatever else you would like to review!
You can also use these entry tickets to target specific students to do individual or group work to differentiate and help them progress (see front cover of resource!)
Reward Students with 35 #Hashtag, Superhero Praise Cards
Are you looking for some modern and fun ways to reward your students and encourage positive behaviour?
These cards are very unique as ‘regular’ praise post cards all have the cute detail on the back of them, which, let’s face it is rather useless when you want to display the note as the image gets hidden anyway!
These cards are rare as they have the cute design on the side where you write your special notes, meaning the design isn’t wasted and looks adorable when on display!
The other thing that makes these special is that these don’t just focus on rewarding academic achievements - with these praise cards, all students can be rewarded on their best personal qualities too.
Simply print them onto card and write straight onto them. You could also edit them by overlaying a text box and typing straight onto the resource if you prefer. You can hand these straight to students or write their home addresses on the back and post them like a post card!
They include both the modern #hashtag trend that students are so familiar with as well as an awesome superhero call out theme that suits both boys and girls and a wide range of ages!
Your teenagers will think you are so awesome for writing them these praise cards and it will encourage positive behaviour in your lessons! They’re definitely cool enough to display in their lockers or on display boards to remind them of their awesome achievements and personal traits. Enjoy!
This written activities resource for reading material will encourage your students to review and reflect on their reading material in imaginative and creative ways, and these work with any book, novel or short story!
The activities are differentiated into a total of 24 activities: 12 brief and 12 more extended tasks (making them suitable for a variety of year groups and ability levels) and are self explanatory for students to complete meaning no preparation needed from you! Students could select their own tasks or they can be chosen for them as a class activity. These work great for tutor times after students have completed reading a book. These would also make great homework tasks too if you’re ever stuck for ideas!
These can be used for a variety of age groups and abilities and requires no preparation. Instructions are on each worksheet and students can be as thorough and creative as they like depending on their ability.
Simply pick and choose some or all of the activities for your classes, or even set some for homework!
This resource pack contains everything you need to help break the ice with your students. This would be ideal for any new class whether they are just new to you or even new to each other! Although it is great for the start of the academic year, many of us deal with casual admissions and students who join late in the year. These resources will be great for helping you get to know them better and for them to integrate into the group.
You will find physical activities to get them up and about, moving and talking to one another and finding things in common, helping the group to improve their social skills in talking, bonding and making new friends.
Enjoy getting your group of students to begin bonding and making friends!
Social Media Profile Templates - ‘all about me’ or write about fictional characters / famous people!
The use of social media is very much a part of students’ lives in this day and age. Use this to your advantage in your lessons by encouraging them to tell you and their peers all about themselves at the beginning of the year or writing about a famous person or character from a book, using a format they love and are familiar with: social media!
In this pack you will find ‘all about me’ templates for 3 different social media platforms and all text is editable. You can give all 3 for your students to complete as they each cover different elements, or you can pick and choose which they complete: the choice is yours, or theirs!
You can use these to learn more about your students at the beginning of the year and first day of school. It is also helpful for other students to read these and learn more about each other and find common interests too!
You could also use these for writing profiles of characters they are reading about in books, or for someone famous they are studying in class!
Do you want to educate your students about the dangers of Cyber Bullying? It is a rising problem among teenagers and young people in this age of social media, so this resource will offer your students the opportunity to consider the dangers and effects of cyber bullying by encouraging them to discuss and reflect on realistic scenarios.
I have used this resource on different groups of students from year 7-10 and it has proven effective for all ages. It’s interesting that each age group has brought out its own conversations from this resource.
I find it shocking how many young people (especially those below the required age of 13 to even have a social media account) are suffering from cyber bullying online and don’t yet have the skills to handle it. This resource has made a significant difference to my students and I can only hope they go on to spread the word to others!
I hope that my resources save you hours and hours of time: something we always sacrifice so much of as teachers. ❤
This resource pack contains fun Halloween activities for your tutor group!
The worksheets are simple and fun to work through, require no preparation from you and will be sure to entertain them for the week leading up to Halloween! You can select which activities you would like students to complete, or you can offer them the independence to choose their own in class or for homework!
Product includes:
• Spooky cartoon strip
• Design a scary monster
• Write a spooky story
• Scary book review
• Halloween word search (comes with answer sheet)
• A witch’s wishes
• Acrostic poetry for Halloween Night
Your students are bound to enjoy these creative Halloween themed activities which will stretch their imaginations whilst having fun!