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I provide a range of free resources covering different areas of teaching and learning. These include The Starter Generator, Plenary producer and the AFL Toolkit. My premium resources focus mostly on stretch and challenge, as well as some on growth mindsets and a new set of books exclusively for teaching assistants, giving them all the tools they need to support learners in the classroom.

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I provide a range of free resources covering different areas of teaching and learning. These include The Starter Generator, Plenary producer and the AFL Toolkit. My premium resources focus mostly on stretch and challenge, as well as some on growth mindsets and a new set of books exclusively for teaching assistants, giving them all the tools they need to support learners in the classroom.
The GCSE Maths Stretch and Challenge Grid
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The GCSE Maths Stretch and Challenge Grid

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The GCSE Maths Stretch and Challenge Grid is one of the easiest ways to stretch and challenge the thinking of your students. The resource combines three separate grids. The first contains 25 subject-specific questions and tasks mapped to the curriculum. The second contains 25 challenging tasks applicable to any area of the curriculum. The third is blank, ready to edit. Simply print off one of the grids and give copies to your most-able students. You can then challenge them to complete tasks and questions during lessons or as part of their homework. Students can keep track by crossing off challenges as they complete them. The resource also comes with a set of badges students can collect and tick off as they finish each task or question. With the GCSE Maths Stretch and Challenge Grid you will be stretching and challenging the thinking of your students every time you teach, saving time along the way!
The GCSE Physics Stretch and Challenge Workbook
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The GCSE Physics Stretch and Challenge Workbook

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The GCSE Physics Stretch and Challenge Workbook makes it as easy as possible for you to stretch and challenge the thinking of your most able students. The workbook is self-contained and ready to use. It is thirty pages long, containing a wide range of stimulating, high-level activities. These are based on critical, creative and conceptual thinking, as well as the top two levels of Bloom’s Taxonomy – synthesis and evaluation. Simply print off the workbook and give it to your most able students. They can then use it during lessons, when they have finished the main activity, or as the basis of challenging homework tasks. The GCSE Physics Stretch and Challenge Workbook is a perfect complement to the Stretch and Challenge Grid and the Stretch and Challenge Generator. All three together allow you to differentiate incredibly effectively for your most able students, with little or no planning required.
The GCSE Chemistry Stretch and Challenge Workbook
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The GCSE Chemistry Stretch and Challenge Workbook

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The GCSE Chemistry Stretch and Challenge Workbook makes it as easy as possible for you to stretch and challenge the thinking of your most able students. The workbook is self-contained and ready to use. It is thirty pages long, containing a wide range of stimulating, high-level activities. These are based on critical, creative and conceptual thinking, as well as the top two levels of Bloom’s Taxonomy – synthesis and evaluation. Simply print off the workbook and give it to your most able students. They can then use it during lessons, when they have finished the main activity, or as the basis of challenging homework tasks. The GCSE Chemistry Stretch and Challenge Workbook is a perfect complement to the Stretch and Challenge Grid and the Stretch and Challenge Generator. All three together allow you to differentiate incredibly effectively for your most able students, with little or no planning required.
The A Level Government and Politics Stretch and Challenge Workbook
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The A Level Government and Politics Stretch and Challenge Workbook

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The Government and Politics Stretch and Challenge Workbook makes it as easy as possible for you to stretch and challenge the thinking of your most able students. The workbook is self-contained and ready to use. It is thirty pages long, containing a wide range of stimulating, high-level activities. These are based on critical, creative and conceptual thinking, as well as the top two levels of Bloom’s Taxonomy – synthesis and evaluation. Simply print off the workbook and give it to your most able students. They can then use it during lessons, when they have finished the main activity, or as the basis of challenging homework tasks. The Government and Politics Stretch and Challenge Workbook is a perfect complement to the Stretch and Challenge Grid and the Stretch and Challenge Generator. All three together allow you to differentiate incredibly effectively for your most able students, with little or no planning required.
The Key Stage Three Geography Stretch and Challenge Workbook
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The Key Stage Three Geography Stretch and Challenge Workbook

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The KS3 Geography Stretch and Challenge Workbook makes it as easy as possible for you to stretch and challenge the thinking of your most able students. The workbook is self-contained and ready to use. It is thirty pages long, containing a wide range of stimulating, high-level activities. These are based on critical, creative and conceptual thinking, as well as the top two levels of Bloom’s Taxonomy – synthesis and evaluation. Simply print off the workbook and give it to your most able students. They can then use it during lessons, when they have finished the main activity, or as the basis of challenging homework tasks. The KS3 Geography Stretch and Challenge Workbook is a perfect complement to the Stretch and Challenge Grid and the Stretch and Challenge Generator. All three together allow you to differentiate incredibly effectively for your most able students, with little or no planning required.
The Key Stage Three Maths Stretch and Challenge Workbook
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The Key Stage Three Maths Stretch and Challenge Workbook

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The KS3 Maths Stretch and Challenge Workbook makes it as easy as possible for you to stretch and challenge the thinking of your most able students. The workbook is self-contained and ready to use. It is thirty pages long, containing a wide range of stimulating, high-level activities. These are based on critical, creative and conceptual thinking, as well as the top two levels of Bloom’s Taxonomy – synthesis and evaluation. Simply print off the workbook and give it to your most able students. They can then use it during lessons, when they have finished the main activity, or as the basis of challenging homework tasks. The KS3 Maths Stretch and Challenge Workbook is a perfect complement to the Stretch and Challenge Grid and the Stretch and Challenge Generator. All three together allow you to differentiate incredibly effectively for your most able students, with little or no planning required.
The A Level PE Stretch and Challenge Workbook
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The A Level PE Stretch and Challenge Workbook

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The A Level PE Stretch and Challenge Workbook makes it as easy as possible for you to stretch and challenge the thinking of your most able students. The workbook is self-contained and ready to use. It is thirty pages long, containing a wide range of stimulating, high-level activities. These are based on critical, creative and conceptual thinking, as well as the top two levels of Bloom’s Taxonomy – synthesis and evaluation. Simply print off the workbook and give it to your most able students. They can then use it during lessons, when they have finished the main activity, or as the basis of challenging homework tasks. The A Level PE Stretch and Challenge Workbook is a perfect complement to the Stretch and Challenge Grid and the Stretch and Challenge Generator. All three together allow you to differentiate incredibly effectively for your most able students, with little or no planning required.
The GCSE Music Question Generator
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The GCSE Music Question Generator

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The GCSE Music Question Generator presents 101 challenging questions mapped to the curriculum that students can select at random to discuss. You can use it as a starter activity, as a plenary, a revision tool or midway through a lesson to energise students and stretch their thinking. The toolkit is complete, self-contained and ready-to-use. Simply play from the fourth slide and invite students to pick a button at random. Each one reveals a different question which will get students thinking deeply about the subject. The GCSE Music Question Generator will give your lessons a new dimension, motivating and engaging the students you teach!
The GCSE Design and Technology Stretch and Challenge Workbook
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The GCSE Design and Technology Stretch and Challenge Workbook

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The GCSE DT Stretch and Challenge Workbook makes it as easy as possible for you to stretch and challenge the thinking of your most able students. The workbook is self-contained and ready to use. It is thirty pages long, containing a wide range of stimulating, high-level activities. These are based on critical, creative and conceptual thinking, as well as the top two levels of Bloom’s Taxonomy – synthesis and evaluation. Simply print off the workbook and give it to your most able students. They can then use it during lessons, when they have finished the main activity, or as the basis of challenging homework tasks. The GCSE DT Stretch and Challenge Workbook is a perfect complement to the Stretch and Challenge Grid and the Stretch and Challenge Generator. All three together allow you to differentiate incredibly effectively for your most able students, with little or no planning required.
The A Level Physics Stretch and Challenge Grid
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The A Level Physics Stretch and Challenge Grid

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The A Level Physics Stretch and Challenge Grid is one of the easiest ways to stretch and challenge the thinking of your students. The resource combines three separate grids. The first contains 25 subject-specific questions and tasks mapped to the curriculum. The second contains 25 challenging tasks applicable to any area of the curriculum. The third is blank, ready to edit. Simply print off one of the grids and give copies to your most-able students. You can then challenge them to complete tasks and questions during lessons or as part of their homework. Students can keep track by crossing off challenges as they complete them. The resource also comes with a set of badges students can collect and tick off as they finish each task or question. With the A Level Physics Stretch and Challenge Grid you will be stretching and challenging the thinking of your students every time you teach, saving time along the way!
The GCSE Business Studies Stretch and Challenge Workbook
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The GCSE Business Studies Stretch and Challenge Workbook

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The GCSE Business Studies Stretch and Challenge Workbook makes it as easy as possible for you to stretch and challenge the thinking of your most able students. The workbook is self-contained and ready to use. It is thirty pages long, containing a wide range of stimulating, high-level activities. These are based on critical, creative and conceptual thinking, as well as the top two levels of Bloom’s Taxonomy – synthesis and evaluation. Simply print off the workbook and give it to your most able students. They can then use it during lessons, when they have finished the main activity, or as the basis of challenging homework tasks. The GCSE Business Studies Stretch and Challenge Workbook is a perfect complement to the Stretch and Challenge Grid and the Stretch and Challenge Generator. All three together allow you to differentiate incredibly effectively for your most able students, with little or no planning required.
The GCSE Biology Stretch and Challenge Generator
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The GCSE Biology Stretch and Challenge Generator

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Never before has stretching and challenging the thinking of your students been so simple and so effective. With the GCSE Biology Stretch and Challenge Generator you can push the thinking of your students at the click of a button - no planning required! Containing over 100 challenge tasks and questions mapped to the curriculum, this fantastic tool will engage and excite your students as they get to select a challenge at random by clicking one of the icons on the fourth slide. Alternatively, why not use the tasks and questions as pre-planned extension activities? Simply drop them into your existing lessons and be certain that you are consistently differentiating for the most able. However you choose to use it, you can guarantee that the GCSE Biology Stretch and Challenge Generator will make pushing the thinking of your students easier than ever before. High challenge, great progress and big thinking will be a feature of every lesson you teach!
The A Level Health and Social Care Stretch and Challenge Workbook
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The A Level Health and Social Care Stretch and Challenge Workbook

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The A Level Health & Social Care Stretch and Challenge Workbook makes it as easy as possible for you to stretch and challenge the thinking of your most able students. The workbook is self-contained and ready to use. It is thirty pages long, containing a wide range of stimulating, high-level activities. These are based on critical, creative and conceptual thinking, as well as the top two levels of Bloom’s Taxonomy – synthesis and evaluation. Simply print off the workbook and give it to your most able students. They can then use it during lessons, when they have finished the main activity, or as the basis of challenging homework tasks. The A Level Health é Social Care Stretch and Challenge Workbook is a perfect complement to the Stretch and Challenge Grid and the Stretch and Challenge Generator. All three together allow you to differentiate incredibly effectively for your most able students, with little or no planning required.
Growth Mindsets Primary Collection - 25 Ways to Encourage Trial and Error in the Classroom
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Growth Mindsets Primary Collection - 25 Ways to Encourage Trial and Error in the Classroom

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Trial and Error is one of the key areas we can focus on to promote growth mindsets in the classroom. This guide, forming part of the Growth Mindsets Primary Collection, walks you through 25 strategies, activities and techniques you can use to help your children view mistakes and errors in a different light. From good mistakes to trial and improvement, the guide gives you all you need to diminish students' fear of failure and cultivate growth mindsets across the board. Best used in conjunction with my other guides covering Language, Metacognition, Feedback and Targeted Effort. All available separately or as a bundle.
Growth Mindsets Primary Collection - 25 Ways to Promote Metacognition
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Growth Mindsets Primary Collection - 25 Ways to Promote Metacognition

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Metacognition is one of the key areas we can focus on to promote growth mindsets in the classroom. This guide, forming part of the Growth Mindsets Primary Collection, walks you through 25 strategies, activities and techniques you can use to help your children start thinking critically about their own thinking. From memory strategies to concept mapping, the guide gives you everything you need to know to help your students improve, grow and develop their thinking and learning - and to cultivate growth mindsets across the board. Best used in conjunction with other guides covering Language, Trial and Error, Feedback and Targeted Effort. All available separately or as a bundle.
Growth Mindsets Primary Collection - 25 Ways to Give Effective Feedback
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Growth Mindsets Primary Collection - 25 Ways to Give Effective Feedback

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Feedback is one of the key areas we can focus on to promote growth mindsets in the classroom. This guide, forming part of the Growth Mindsets Primary Collection, walks you through 25 strategies, activities and techniques you can use to help your children embrace feedback, see it in a positive light and use it to grow their learning. From instant feedback to avoiding trait-based praise, the guide gives you everything you need to know to make your feedback as effective as possible and to cultivate growth mindsets across the board. Best used in conjunction with other guides covering Language, Metacognition, Trial and Error and Targeted Effort. All available separately or as a bundle.
Growth Mindsets Primary Collection - 25 Ways to Use Language to Promote Growth Mindsets
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Growth Mindsets Primary Collection - 25 Ways to Use Language to Promote Growth Mindsets

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Language is one of the key areas we can focus on to promote growth mindsets in the classroom. This guide, forming part of the Growth Mindsets Primary Collection, walks you through 25 strategies, activities and techniques you can use to ensure the language of your classroom promotes, develops and reinforces growth mindsets across the board. From rephrasing to growth mindset bingo, the guide gives you all you need to know to ensure the language of your classroom consistently cultivates growth mindsets. Best used in conjunction with other guides covering Trial and Error, Metacognition, Feedback and Targeted Effort. All available separately or as a bundle.
Growth Mindsets Primary Collection - 5 Guide Bundle: Language, Metacognition, Effort, Feedback, T+E
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Growth Mindsets Primary Collection - 5 Guide Bundle: Language, Metacognition, Effort, Feedback, T+E

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All five parts of the Growth Mindsets Primary Collection in one place, with a discount on the individual prices: - 25 Ways to Encourage Trial and Error in the Classroom - 25 Ways to Give Effective Feedback - 25 Ways to Promote Metacognition - 25 Ways to Target Student Effort - 25 Ways to use Language to Promote Growth Mindsets That's 125 strategies, activities and techniques covering the key areas of classroom practice you can focus on to develop growth mindsets across the board. This bundle gives you everything you need to cultivate growth mindsets in your classroom and to support your students in changing and developing how they think about learning. Buy the bundle and save money on buying the guides individually!
Growth Mindsets Primary Collection - 25 Ways to Target Student Effort
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Growth Mindsets Primary Collection - 25 Ways to Target Student Effort

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Targeted Effort is one of the key areas we can focus on to promote growth mindsets in the classroom. This guide, forming part of the Growth Mindsets Primary Collection, walks you through 25 strategies, activities and techniques you can use to ensure your students understand the link between effort and mastery and know how to target their efforts for maximum impact. From active practice to mastery case studies, the guide gives you all you need to know to make targeted effort a central feature of your classroom and to cultivate growth mindsets across the board. Best used in conjunction with other guides covering Language, Metacognition, Feedback and Trial and Error. All available separately or as a bundle.
The Form-Time Question Generator
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The Form-Time Question Generator

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The Form-Time Question Generator presents 101 questions that will provoke engaging discussions and debates during form-time. You can use it to energise your students and stretch the thinking of your form group. Students can take it in turns to select questions at random for the whole group to discuss, or you can decide which questions to pick. The toolkit is complete, self-contained and ready-to-use. Simply play from the fourth slide and invite students to pick a button at random. Each one reveals a different question designed to provoke discussion, debate and deep thinking. The Form-Time Question Generator will give form-time a new dimension, motivating and engaging the students you tutor!