We provide a diverse range of high-quality educational resources tailored to students' needs. Specialising in materials for the 11 plus exam, our platform offers a comprehensive selection of study revision notes, practice papers, and learning materials. Magical Minds Learning is dedicated to providing accessible, quality educational tools to everyone.
We provide a diverse range of high-quality educational resources tailored to students' needs. Specialising in materials for the 11 plus exam, our platform offers a comprehensive selection of study revision notes, practice papers, and learning materials. Magical Minds Learning is dedicated to providing accessible, quality educational tools to everyone.
Place Value Top Trumps
This superb resource can be used with year 3/4 students to consolidate understanding of place value in complex numbers.
Use these cards as a plenary to go over concepts in a fun way. My students really enjoyed this activity- and competition was ripe in the classroom!
Halloween Quiz
Editable version included as the last file.
Includes a highly visual powerpoint, with fun animations, and Halloween trivia questions. Also contains an answer sheet for teams to record their answers and detailed answers to reflect upon.
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11 Plus Maths Practice Papers Bundle
This bundle contains all of our maths practice papers which can be used in preparation for the 11 Plus - suitable for all exam boards.
You may also be interested in our:
Maths Bundle
Maths Cheat Sheets
11+ Essentials Bundle
A short comprehension on micro-organsims, designed for year 3/4 students.
You may also be interested in: the 11+ comprhension bundle https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/11-plus-comprehension-bundle-12362117
the essentials bundle: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/the-ultimate-11-bundle-11832094
I’ve used this resource with my GCSE English students studying Much Ado, covering the major themes of the play. Ideal as a revision resource, in the classroom, or as a prompt for essay questions. Inbuilt into this is context, language analysis ranging around the whole play, hitting all the assessment objectives required in the exam.
Themes included:
Social Class
Honour
Love
Deception
Nothing and Noting
How is [theme] presented in the play?
GCSE History- all exam boards
This resource contains both a powerpoint and an extremely detailed set of notes on how the Depression helped the Nazis rise to power. The notes are in a question-answer style form, for aided memory retention and self testing. Can easily be transferred to flashcards(e.g. quizlet or anki). ideal for teaching or revision.
The following key questions are covered:
Wall Street Crash
What was life like in the Depression?
How did the Depression weaken the Weimar government?
How did these problems help the Nazis?
11 Plus Maths Warm Ups
This resource contains 25 starter/plenary activities which can be used at the start or end of a session, focussed on core skills required for the exam. Suitable for both the classroom/tutoring environment and at home.
11 Plus Maths Vocabulary List
This resource is the ultimate list to learn all of the key maths terms that your student will come across in the 11 Plus, and in preparation for KS3.
The maths behind the coronavirus unit of work
This resource contains three lessons on the maths behind the coronavirus, useful for students in year five to nine. Each lesson is planned with warm ups (starters), main, and cool downs (plenary), and worksheets to complete in the lesson.
Lesson one focuses on how the economy rapidly changed during this period of time.
Lesson two focuses on vaccines, and how we can use maths to help create the perfect vaccine.
Lesson three focuses on the maths behind social distancing and how we can use data and statistics to back up our points and make factual statements.
This is a perfect opportunity for students to learn some maths beyond the curriculum.
Charles Darwin Fact File and Comprehension
This resource is an effective and fun way to be introduced to key information about Charles Darwin and his life.
Contains 10 questions and detailed mark scheme.
11 Plus Cloze Bundle
Contains over 500 cloze questions, suitable for students taking the 11 plus.
Includes a mixture of styles including word choice, word bank and missing letters. Answers included.
11 Plus Comprehension Bundle
This bundle contains over 500 comprehension questions, suitable for students taking the 11 Plus exams (CEM, CSSE, GL, and independent school entrance tests)
11 Plus English Core Skills
11 Plus Foundation Course
11 Plus Summer Intensive Course
Year 4 should be the least stressful part of the 11 Plus journey, in fact the student should only be spending 120 minutes maximum every week of doing work. Gradually the time spent on revision should increase, however it shouldn’t be labelled as a ‘chore’, make the transition as smooth as possible.
In English it is important to keep on revisiting terms: grammar, punctuation, etc… It’s very easy to get quickly out of tune with SPaG. To have good creative writing skills, being able to tackle comprehension questions, verbal reasoning and more, you need to have the ‘English core skills’
Before advancing to formal English tests, it’s vital that the pupil has the knowledge and skills of basic English for the 11 Plus. English core skills is aimed to cover these topics so that the pupil can feel confident to move onto assessments. Note that this is ‘stage one’ of the foundation, so in the next stages the pupils will be introduced to ‘short’ and ‘long’ English tests. They will be prepared for this as they have gathered the skills from this book
11 Plus Year 4 Foundation Course
It can be confusing knowing which 11 plus resources to start with when you are starting your prep early. This is why, after many of my tutees in year 4 never had work that was the perfect level for them, I created this set of resources. This comprehensive plan is well-rounded, structured and covers all topics to build a strong foundation in time for the real exams.
Focusing on individual skills, mental maths, vocabulary building and spelling, your student will feel much more confident after completing this course.
In-person courses can obviously be a hefty price and so this plan covers all that would be taught in-person at a much more affordable price.
You can find the plan here
11 Plus Year 4 Foundation Course Plan
You can find the complete course here
For parents and students it can be confusing when you don’t know when to start the journey for the 11 Plus exams. There’s a broad range of resources and books out there for different subjects and topics, but what do you start with?
We have the solution for you. This course is the foundation to build up to success for the 11 Plus. Useful for students starting out in year four.
Once the student advances and is able to tackle more complex problems, they should complete our 4 week course which is suitable for year five pupils, nearer to the exam:
11 Plus 4 Weeks Summer Course.
Remember that the above course stated is for students who are confident in all abilities and skills required for the exam (year five).
11 Plus Vocabulary Lists Pack 2
This resource contains vocabulary lists which can be used as handouts for homework, extension work, or a weekly activity. Worth 10 weeks of lists, typically tutors and parents find these resources useful.
You can find our other vocabulary resources from this link:
More Vocabulary Resources
Summer Vocabulary Challenge
Vocabulary Booster Bundle
Vocabulary Flashcards
Vocabulary Book Two
English Bundle
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ALL 11 Plus Practice Papers Bundle
This bundle contains all of Magical Minds Learning’s 11 plus practice papers- our best sellers.
Each set contains three to five realistic CEM-style 11 Plus practice papers - containing mixed questions on numerical reasoning and spatial reasoning, verbal reasoning and comprehension. Helps boost confidence, building skills and establishing success.
Save 66% compared to buying separately.
Creative Writing Bundle
Whether you need to improve your writing skills for an exam or just for fun, these resources will step you through a variety of styles of writing, designed for the 11 plus entrance exams. However, they can also successfully be used for year six students and in preparation for SATs.
This bundle contains three creative writing books:
Creative writing guide 1
Creative writing guide 2 and book 2
22 Creative writing prompts with tips and tricks.