Hi! I currently work in London as a Deputy Headteacher. I love all things teaching and learning! I am extremely passionate about education and find researching and creating new strategies and ideas exciting. The world of teaching and leading in England is highly stressful and it's up to all of us to look after each other's well-being...I hope my resources save you some precious time.
Hi! I currently work in London as a Deputy Headteacher. I love all things teaching and learning! I am extremely passionate about education and find researching and creating new strategies and ideas exciting. The world of teaching and leading in England is highly stressful and it's up to all of us to look after each other's well-being...I hope my resources save you some precious time.
A presentation for assembly or a lesson on the F1 British Grand Prix. Engage your sportsfans and link work to the presentation. The 12 slide presentation goes through: the history, last three winners, examples of cars and many facts about the race. The presentation is concluded with a 8 question quiz (with answers).
If you have any questions or need any support, please send me a message! My resources all use English spelling but can easily be adapted. Please review my resources - thank you!
Pupils are taken through a week-long journey, starting at bridging, developing bridging and then applying and problem solving. The activities are fun, visual and will support children's understanding. L.Os are:
I can add by bridging.
I can subtract by bridging.
I can add and subtracts to find a pattern.
I can work backwards to solve a number problem.
I can prove or disprove a statement about addition and subtraction.
This was made for Y2 but can easily be differentiated by changing numbers/statements. I have included the answers to the questions to make your life a little easier!
If you do have any questions or need any support, please send me a message.
*My resources always take me a lot of time and effort to create so I hope that they help to save you some precious time - please do review my resources. Thank you!*
Do you know your pupils strengths and areas for development? Use this test of the Year 4 curriculum to assess your pupils and know what to teach them next.
Comes with completed answers to make life easier.
A presentation for assembly or a lesson on who will follow David Cameron as the next Prime Minister of the UK: May, Gove, Leadsom, Crabb or Fox. The 17 slide presentation explains why we will have a new Prime Minister, who Boris Johnson is, it gives information on the 5 candidates, on the electoral process and next steps and is concluded with a quiz (with answers).
If you have any questions or need any support, please send me a message! My resources all use English spelling but can easily be adapted. Please review my resources - thank you!
A presentation for assembly or a lesson on th Tour de France. The 13 slide presentation goes through: the history, the special jersey colours, last three winners, winning countries and many facts about the race. The presentation is concluded with a 8 question quiz (with answers).
If you have any questions or need any support, please send me a message! My resources all use English spelling but can easily be adapted. Please review my resources - thank you!
Good mental well-being has become harder to maintain as life becomes increasingly hectic. That's why it must be our priority to help pupils to understand their own mental well-being and know how to improve it.
This great presentation is full of ideas, starters, suggested activities and examples aimed at supporting pupils to improve and maintain a healthy mental well-being. Activities range from thinking about what makes them happy to designing their own happy place to setting goals to thinking about how helping others can lead to being a happier person.
The activities are suitable to support a 10 week programme on mental well-being, which should become a priority in every curriculum.
Any questions, please just ask.
An activity booklet with 9 thought-provoking activities to support your pupils to improve their mindset. These activities are designed to encourage pupils to dig deeper and understand themselves better. Guide them through these activities and alongside teaching, they should start to understand how to improve their mindset. There are two questionnaires, one for the beginning of the project and one meant for when you have promoted a growth mindset for a few months. You can use this to analyse change.
Any questions, just ask!
An engaging tale surrounding the themes of: bullying, self-esteem and friendship. This story is a great tool for PSHE lessons, assemblies or English lessons. Pupils will follow Quinn on his adventure of self-discovery.
I have written the story to include a whole host of interesting language devices, including alliteration and repetition, which can be discussed and pupils can imitate in their own similar story.
A great way to start planning a topic. Get all of your ideas down on a colourful and visual topic map.
Included is an example map created for my topic on Hamlet and a blank version, which can be adapted and tailored to suit your needs.
If you're running CPD on planning a topic, this is a good way to get staff thinking about cross-curricular links.
If you do have any questions or need any support, please send me a message.
*My resources always take me a lot of time and effort to create so I hope that they help to save you some precious time - please do review my resources. Thank you!*
A great 13-slide presentation, which can be used for lessons or an assembly. I strongly believe that children should learn about politics from a young age, in an accessible and interesting way. The presentation consists of:
-Quiz and answers
-Facts about Trump and his family
-Facts about Trump's businesses
-Information about the nomination and election
-Some of Trump's views
The presentation can spark some excellent debates and lead into interesting English lessons.
Presentation on the dodo bird, which I used with my class as writing stimulus. Pupils loved learning about the funny-looking bird and its interesting history. Powerpoint contains information on: history, extinction, fun facts and dodos in the media. There is also a word list included with ambitious vocabulary. I used this presentation for: information leaflets, story writing, poems and a tourist brochure on Mauritius.
If you do have any questions or need any support, please send me a message. *My resources always take me a lot of time and effort to create so I hope that they help to save you some precious time - please do review my resources. Thank you!*
An engaging presentation which includes 5 lessons in a learning journey to support the understanding of how to turn adjectives and nouns into verbs (-ify, -ise and -ate) in line with the Y5 curriculum. The presentation includes lots of animal pictures to excite pupils.
Any questions, please just ask. Thank you!
A presentation for primary-aged pupils on National Poetry Day in October. This is a 13 slide presentation, which looks at National Poetry Day, looks at examples of dfferent types of poems, contains fun facts and a 5 question quiz with answers.
As well as for assemblies, this resource can also be used for a general introduction to poetry.
If you have any questions or need any support, send me a message and I'll do anything I can to help. My resources use English spelling.
Please do review any resources that you download - many thanks!
A fun science experiment focusing on the properties of materials linked to Shakespeare's Macbeth. This 6 lesson DT and science learning journey, asks children to design and build a boat using 'junk' and considering the properties of different materials. Includes: presentation, planning, resources and certificate.
Objectives that the learning journey covers, are:
Y3/4
1a. asking relevant questions and using different types of scientific enquiries to answer them
1b. setting up simple practical enquiries, comparative and fair tests
1c. making systematic and careful observations
1d. gathering, recording, classifying and presenting data in a variety of ways to help in answering questions
1e. recording findings using simple scientific language, drawings, labelled diagrams, keys, bar charts, and tables
1f. reporting on findings from enquiries, including oral and written explanations, displays or presentations of results and conclusions
1g. using results to draw simple conclusions, make predictions for new values, suggest improvements and raise further questions
1h. identifying differences, similarities or changes related to simple scientific ideas and processes
Y5/6
2a. planning different types of scientific enquiries to answer questions, including recognising and controlling variables where necessary
2b. recording data and results of increasing complexity using scientific diagrams and labels, classification keys, tables, scatter graphs, bar and line graphs
2c. using test results to make predictions to set up further comparative and fair tests
2d. reporting and presenting findings from enquiries, including conclusions, causal relationships and explanations of and degree of trust in results, in oral and written forms such as displays and other presentations
2e. identifying scientific evidence that has been used to support or refute ideas or arguments.
A months worth of words with word type and definition to improve pupils vocabulary choices. There are also photos of displays, a template for display and an activity idea linked to improving pupils vocabulary. Colour-coding word types hugely improved my classes understanding of grammar.
This presentation contains planning and resources for 2 weeks of cross-curricular teaching on Japan's involvement in the Second World War. I followed this learning journey with my Y6 class and that were enthralled by the story. The presentation teaches children about Japan's involvement. Then asks them to focus on the Atomic Bomb and then more specifically on the story of Sadako Sasaki and the Thousand Peace Cranes - a sad yet inspiring story. Focus genres are timelines and autobiographies, with lots of opportunities to show viewpoint.
If you do have any questions or need any support, please send me a message.
Please do review my resources. Thank you!
A presentation for assembly or lesson on mindsets. The presentations helps primary-aged pupils to understand what a growth and a fixed mindset are and how they can work towards developing a growth mindset. The presentation also talks about comfort zones and Carol Dweck, who created the theory of mindsets. Having a growth mindset plays a vital part in being happy and successful, if you haven't already, I would suggest definitely developing a growth mindset programme for your school...this presentation is a great introduction to that!
If you have any questions or need any support, send me a message and I'll do anything I can to help. My resources use English spelling.
Please do review any resources that you download - many thanks!
International Joke Day is celebrated in July. Here's an opportunity to lead an assembly that will get pupils giggling! The powerpoint goes through the history of jokes, different kinds of jokes with examples and also gives pupils the opportunity to tell their own jokes. I have also included a clip to a funny animal video, which will have children in a good mood for the rest of the day! A fun presenation for an assembly, suitable for KS2 and lower-KS3. The presentation can also be easily adapted for a lesson on joke writing!
If you do have any questions or need any support, please send me a message.
Please do review my resources. Thank you!
I am holding a whole-school growth mindset afternoon to continue raising the profile of the mindsets and how they can impact success.
I created this powerpoint, which includes 10 mindset activities for teachers to choose activities from. Activities relate to various different subjects and are fun and engaging ways for pupils to develop their understanding of growth and fixed mindsets.