Welcome to my store and thanks for stopping by! I've been teaching in out-of-school settings for over 15 years. From helping children understand wriggling pythons as a zoo education officer (dream job!), to using historical objects as keys to unlock our past, my teaching experience has been far from typical. I'm currently a schools manager for a museum and art gallery, working with hundreds of children of all ages each year.
Welcome to my store and thanks for stopping by! I've been teaching in out-of-school settings for over 15 years. From helping children understand wriggling pythons as a zoo education officer (dream job!), to using historical objects as keys to unlock our past, my teaching experience has been far from typical. I'm currently a schools manager for a museum and art gallery, working with hundreds of children of all ages each year.
Add some 80s/early 90s vibes to your Google Classroom with this animated set of banners.
Just add them to the header area in your Google Classroom in the same way you’d add a static image - it’s super easy and guidance is provided if you need it. These banners are full of 80s colors and style - think neon, retro patterns and roller disco!
There are 5 headers in this set (as gif. files) so you can swap them around when you want a change!
You can see all of the banners in the preview video.
Unfortunately, animated banners are not compatible with the Google Classroom app.
Explore the stages of a rose’s life cycle with this fun, foldable activity. Ideal as a Valentine’s Day or summer science activity, for an interactive notebook, or to support learning about plants, life cycles, or roses.
Print the black and white templates for pupils to colour, cut, and sequence. There are 4 similar cut-and-paste templates to choose from so you can pick one that best matches your class’s needs.
-Template 1: Colour the rose and its life cycle stages, sequence the stages, glue onto the template, cut, and fold.
-Template 2: As above but with a straight cutting edge around the rose.
-Template 3: Colour the rose and its life cycle stages, sequence the stages, glue onto the template, cut, and fold. Larger finished size than templates 1 and 2.
-Template 4: As above but with a straight cutting edge around the rose.
Simple instructions with pictures are provided to help with folding. Once complete, the 2 halves of the rose are brought together, then gently pulled apart to reveal the life cycle stages inside.
The 6 life cycle stages for this activity are seed sprouting, seedling, young plant, flower in bud, flower in bloom, and rosehip (fruit).
US and UK versions are included. Please note this resource is not editable.
Benefits of this activity
-Low prep
-Children learn about the rose life cycle in a fun and hands-on way, that’s a bit different from a standard science worksheet.
-Can be used to introduce the life cycle, or as a review/assessment to check understanding.
-Encourages fine motor/scissor skills, hand-eye coordination (folding), and sequencing.
-Finished foldouts can be inserted into science books where they can be referenced by children.
Do you need a quick and simple Valentine’s Day card making activity? These animal-themed Valentines to colour and fold are cute and easy to make! Children can give them to parents, grandparents, relatives, or friends.
There are 5 animal designs to choose from, and each is included 1-to-a-page and 2-to-a-page so that you have size options.
The designs are:
Llama - You are llamazing!
Frog - Hoppy Valentine’s Day
Bear- I love you bear-y much
Lion - You are roar-some
Rabbit - Some bunny loves you!
Children colour their design, write inside, cut, and fold.
A4 and US letter size options are included.
Do you need a simple and easy end-of-school-year gift idea for your class? This cute jungle animal themed printable with an original poem can be given to your pupils at the end of term to remind them of your time together.
There are 4 options within the PDF:
Full-page poem with black text
Full-page poem with coloured text
The same poem arranged 2-to-a-page with black text
As above (2 to a page) but with colored text
Print on white card, and trim if required. Colours may vary slightly from what you see on the screen due to screen/printer settings.
The PDF is not editable. US letter and A4 paper size included.
Add fun and movement to your Google Classroom by using animated headers. This resource is a set of 12 animated banners for Google Classroom (gifs) with a back to school theme, featuring moving school supplies. Ideal for welcoming pupils in the first week of school and for all year round.
Add the animated banners to your Google Classroom in the same way you would add an image (a quick guide is included if you need it). They feature moving school supplies including pencil, erasers, paint brushes, apples and even a bus!
You can see 10 banners in the preview video (there are 8 designs with some repeated in a different color).
The text and images are not editable.
Please note, animated banners are only compatible with the desktop version of Google Classroom - the animations will not play on the app.
Add fun and movement to your online learning with animated Google Classroom headers. This ocean animal themed set of 8 banners features sharks, glowing jellyfish, seahorses, octopuses and more. Your pupils will LOVE logging on to your Google Classroom and seeing them!
This banner set could be used for an underwater or sea themed classroom, for science lessons, for summer, or for back to school.
Add the headers to Google Classroom in the same way you would add an image in the banner space. They could also be used in Google Forms.
Please note:
The text and images are not editable.
Animated banners work best when used on the desktop Google Classroom site. They do not animate in the app.
Add fun and movement to your Google Classroom with this set of animated headers (GIFs). This kawaii apple set can be used for back-to-school and autumn, as well as throughout the year to help your pupils look forward to logging on!
There are 13 animated banners included (6 designs repeated in different colors).
Add them to the Google Classroom banner area in the same way you would add an image. Your children will love seeing the moving image designs!
Animated banners only are designed for use on the Google Classroom desktop site - they don’t animate in the app. The text and images are not editable.
Introduce or review the stages of how fossils form with these folding cut-and-paste activities, featuring an ammonite and a Triceratops. These foldout sequencing activities will help KS2 pupils recall 6 stages of fossilisation in a fun and engaging way, that’s more hands-on than a standard fossils worksheet.
The templates - Triceratops
There are 4 similar templates to choose from to allow for differentiation:
Template 1: Colour the images, match the labels to the pictures, glue, cut, and fold. There are 2 label options to choose from.
Template 2: Colour the images, arrange the stages of fossilisation in order on the template, glue, cut, and fold.
Template 3: Colour the images, write a short description of each stage, glue, cut, and fold. This one could be used as a review if you’ve already covered the fossilisation process.
Template 4: Colour the images, match the pictures to the words, arrange them in order on the template, glue, cut, and fold.
The templates - ammonite
Template 1: Colour the images, cut out and fold.
Template 2 : Colour the images, cut out the words and sequence them, glue the words in place, cut and fold.
Template 3: Colour the images, cut out the words with the pictures and sequence them, glue the words in place, cut and fold.
Template 4: Larger version of template 3 (over 2 pages).
Activity benefits
Hands-on and low-prep
Use as an introduction or a review
Opportunity to practice following directions
A fun alternative to a science worksheet
Differentiated options
Suitable for interactive notebooks
Also included:
Directions for pupils (including a picture showing how to fold)
Questions for a whole class discussion. Some suggested answers are provided for this.
Palaeontologist’s diary writing page for students to imagine and describe the experience of finding a triceratops fossil.
US and UK versions of the PDF are included.
Is this resource editable?
This PDF resource is not editable.
Help your pupils understand the life cycles of 3 Australian mammals with these fun, foldable sequencing activities. This hands-on cut-and-paste resource has templates for 3 animals - kangaroo, koala, and platypus life cycles. Pupils can colour the template, arrange the life cycle stages in order, glue, cut, and fold.
Each template is included with and without an easy-cut edge around the animal face.
Additional printables are included to complement the activity and help further develop students’ knowledge and understanding:
-Colour poster of each life cycle
-Information sheet for each life cycle (b/w)
-Simple writing sheet for each animal - extra research may be required for this
Benefits of this resource
-Low-prep
-Use as an introduction or a review
-A FUN and hands-on alternative to a worksheet
-East-cut option for each template
What format is this resource?
This resource is a 22-page PDF to download and print yourself. It is included for US letter size paper with US spelling, and also as an A4 file with UK spelling. The resource is not editable.
If you’re doing an Alstroemeria (Peruvian lily) dissection science lesson with your pupils, this slide show will show them the parts of a flower alongside investigating the real thing. This 12-slide PowerPoint presentation is specific to Alstroemeria flowers and covers the following flower parts with photographic images:
Sepals
Petals
Stamens (filaments and anthers)
Stigma and style
Ovary
Ovules
Is this resource editable?
The slideshow has editable text boxes to make any adjustments needed for your learners. The images are fixed in place and cannot be edited.
Consolidate learning on rocks and fossils with this 26 slide PowerPoint presentation, packed full of bright images and interesting geology facts.
Each letter is a different themed word which will help pupils re-cap their prior learning, as well as introduce some new vocabulary.
For example, for the letter A, pupils will find out about prehistoric ammonites.
One letter is covered per slide.
Regular questions within the presentation provide an opportunity for children to share their knowledge, and promote discussion.
Please note that the images in this presentation are fixed in place, but the text is editable.
You’ll find 2 versions of the file - one with US and one with UK spelling.
4 colourful packs of display materials for KS1 classrooms.
This bundle includes:
Materials Display
9 A4, full colour posters showing examples of everyday materials (glass, wood, metal, fabric, wool, plastic, ceramic, leather and paper).
12 descriptive words to add to your display if required (presented 3 to a page, to be cut out and mounted)
5 A4 posters with simple questions about the use of materials (e.g. Which material would be best for a superhero’s cape?).
Title over 2 A4 pages, to cut out and join together.
Minibeasts Display
‘Minibeasts’ title over 2 pages. Print, trim, and join.
Real photo posters of minibeasts that live in a pond, on plants, and in/on the soil. These are included with and without a coloured background. For posters with a white background, trim, and mount on coloured paper.
Magnfiers with insect examples (x9). Print and cut out individually.
2 life cycle posters (dragonfly and butterfly)
‘Parts of an insect’ and ‘parts of a spider’ posters
‘What is a minibeast’ poster
6 minibeast fact posters (included in 2 sizes)
Plants Display
Title lettering - P,L,A,N,T,S with leaf design. Print onto A4, cut and mount.
9 A4 posters showing photographs of the parts of a plant (leaves, flowers, seeds, stem, roots, trunk, branches, fruit, buds).
Additional display printables - deciduous trees, evergreen trees, why plants are awesome and what do plants need. These are designed either to print on A4 and mount, or to print, cut and mount.
Weather Display
A4 weather chart and weather labels
9 bright and colourful A4 posters of different weather (sun, rain, wind, snow, hail, frost, fog, clouds, hail).
5 A4 printables with question prompts for children.
Title (over 2 pages to trim and join together)
These cute dinosaur themed Christmas card templates are ready to print on A4 card. Colour, fold and add a personal greeting inside. Children can then give thier card to a family member, friend, or loved one. A simple, no prep Christmas activity.
The messages/puns on the front of the cards are:
Ski-rex
Tree-rex
Santasaurus
Have a roarsome Christmas
There are 4 designs in this set. The inside is blank for children to write their own message.
Suitable for pre-school, KS1 or lower KS2 (especially if children have been looking at fossils and pre-historic life during the autumn term)!
Make your display pop with this black and white polka dot lettering set. Just print onto coloured card of your choice. In the cover picture, I’ve used red card for a ladybird theme. The font is Century Gothic Bold.
This resource includes:
A-Z upper case letters
a-z lower case letters
Numbers 0-9
! ? . # ,
If a symbol you require isn’t included, please let me know and I am happy to add it to the set.
Please note, all letters and numbers are individual png. files, not a font for typing. You can insert them into documents and resize as required, or print out as they are onto A4 paper or card. Everything is contained within a zip file so please ensure you are able to open this type of file before you download.
This resource is for classroom use only and must not be used as part of a commercial product.
Upper and lower case letters (A-Z), numbers and some symbols with a scaly pattern, ready to print onto whichever coloured card fits the theme of your display. Ideal for a dinosaurs, dragons or under the sea topic.
Each letter is a separate png file so can be resized as you need. All images are contained within a zip file so please ensure you are able to open this file type before purchasing.
The font used is Century Gothic Bold.
This resource is for personal/classroom use only and must not be resold.
Use these cute space-themed certificates to reward your pupils’ efforts and amazing work.
There are 8 different designs in this set, each with the headline ‘out of this world work’. The certificates feature aliens, rockets, and astronauts.
The resource contains the certificates as PowerPoint, Google Slides, and as a PDF.
Either print out the certificates on card to hand-write, or use the pre-inserted text boxes to fill in the information in the PowerPoint/Google Slides before saving as a jpeg. The certificate can then easily be shared via email.
A4 (UK/AUS) and letter-sized (US) options included.
I hope you and your students enjoy this resource!
Create eye-catching display board titles with this set of scaly letters, numbers and symbols. This resource contains a full set of the following:
Blue scaly letters
Green scaly letters
Black outline scaly letters (to print on whichever colour paper or card matches your theme).
The font used is Century Gothic.
These are ideal for a variety of topics including dinosaurs, dragons, reptiles, fairy tales, Rainbow Fish and under the sea.
Each letter is a separate image file (png) so you can insert them into a document and re-size as you wish.
Add fun and movement to your Google Classroom by adding an animated header into the banner space. Your students will love logging into Google Classroom and seeing these cute animated banners.
In this set, there are 5 coloruful designs:
2 ‘Welcome to class’ with animated chevron arrows
Moving windmill on a hill
Space scene with rocket (perfect for science classes!)
Dancing flowers with flying bumblebee
Just add the file to the banner space in the same way you’d add a static image. A short guide showing how to do this is included if you need extra help.
Please note, animated banners only work on the Google Classroom desktop site - they are not compatible with the app.
The headers can also be used with Google forms!
See my store for animated banner sets for all year round
Add fun and movement to your Google Classroom with these animated autumn themed headers.
Add them to the Google Classroom banner area in the same way you would add an image (instructions are provided).
There are 11 headers in this set (as gif. files) including 2 spooky Halloween designs, sunflowers and autumn leaves.
2 additional banners are included for US teachers (fall and thanksgiving designs).
Unfortunately, animated banners are not compatible with the Google Classroom app - you’ll need to use them on the desktop site. The text and images are not editable.
Add fun and movement to your Google Classroom during the winter months with these winter themed animated headers. Upload to your Google Classroom banner space in the same way you’d add a static image.
There are 20 animated seasonal animated headers in this set (as gif. files) so you can swap them around when you want a change!
They feature penguins, moving snow, and warm winter drinks - just what you need to create a cozy Google Classroom!
Unfortunately, animated banners are not compatible with the Google Classroom app - they are designed to be used on the desktop site.
