Personalise bookmarks as a lovely gift for your pupils at the end of the term or year. Each bookmark has a word cloud and poem on the back edited to suit the remote learning period of 2020. All bookmarks are editable. Document is aligned so that they will print double sided perfectly. Print and laminate the bookmarks, add some ribbon through a hole punch. Perfect for sending home in a card or letter to your pupils who are working remotely.

Great first week back lesson after returning to school after lockdown. A fantastic display coming from a very relaxing Health and Wellbeing and Art & Design lesson. This download contains: The cursive lettering used in the display Inspired by the lovely @teachingintechnicolour, we read Ahmed and the Feather girl which lead to a discussion about children’s rights. We explored the rights that had been impacted during lockdown in Scotland and how that could influence our mental wellbeing. Later I taught the children a variety of watercolour techniques and they used them to decorate a feather. Thia was a great opportunity to get to know them better. Abstract art is great at the beginning of the year as it lets children grow in confidence in their ability and not compare their work. My stagey and I created installation you can see in the picture in our corridor and every child enjoyed getting a photo in front of the wings. Great first week back activity.

Simply print and laminate to set up Blurt Poms in your classroom to encourage your chatty class to settle. After spotting the original idea of ‘Blurt Beans’ on Pinterest when I was looking for inspiration for quietening a very chatty class, I decided it to put my own spin on it as I didn’t like the thought of having beans lying about my class. I came up with the idea of Blurt Poms. I’m all for kids talking and discussing in class, but this is more about the children learning when it is time to listen to others. Essentially, there are two glass jars and some pom poms. I got my little pom-poms are from Amazon where you can get a pack of 4000 for £6 and glass jars from IKEA. The children start the day with 5 pom-poms and if they are being too loud or interrupting someone else in the classroom, they lose a pom! It goes back into the teachers jar (which sits on my desk) as a visual for how many poms they could have collected if they hadn’t been distracting in class. The second jar belongs to the children and at the end of the day they empty their pom-poms into the jar and watch them slowly build up. I have marked the jar so that the children are working towards smaller prizes rather than the whole jar. We all decided on a prize on the first day of school. The kids are so on-board with their poms and it really helped set the standard for my new class. They will even point out to one another when they are not showing respect when someone else is speaking or they are being too loud in a group…I barely need to take any poms off anyone now! Good start of the year strategy. It was so effective I didn’t have to run it any longer than October from August.

FREE Printable resource that you can use to gift a mechanical pencil or pen to your new class. You can add your own Bitmoji to make it more personalised.

Looking for modern, clear eucalyptus leaf themed labels to decorate your classroom? These would work perfectly in a natural hessian, minimalist classroom to provide a calm, matching theme. All labels are editable and come in various sizes to suit trays, boxes and folders. This pack contains signs for: Ringbinder Folders. Magazine Files. Subject Boxes. Display or Topic Boxes. Tray Labels. Marking Tray and Self Assessment Tray Labels. Teacher Folder Dividers These labels can be edited to suit your own classroom. If you need any other labels in this theme or any help, please contact me and I will update this resource. For examples of these displayed in my classroom, please visit my instagram @TheMindBlossoms