A qualified Primary Teacher and drama and music specialist, I have worked both as a class teacher and in partnership with organisations including Young Enterprise, as well as several youth theatre groups and programmes. My shop provides a range of resources including original scripts, workshop plans, cross curricular topic planners with accompanying resources, planning and assessment pro formas and worksheets.
A qualified Primary Teacher and drama and music specialist, I have worked both as a class teacher and in partnership with organisations including Young Enterprise, as well as several youth theatre groups and programmes. My shop provides a range of resources including original scripts, workshop plans, cross curricular topic planners with accompanying resources, planning and assessment pro formas and worksheets.
This worksheet is designed for introducing basic facts about pupils, alongside common french vocabulary work - the sheet has an accompanying vocab reminder card for pupils to use when filling it in.
This can be purchased as part of a bundle.
This activity book has been designed for KS1/First level pupils to go alongside reading the abridged or child friendly version of the story. With my own class this was also used in conjunction with putting on a short play of the story.
For younger/less able pupils, the booklet can be worked through together as a class, with support given for follow up work or done independently with more able or older pupils, following each teaching and discussion or reading session.
Contents include:
Scrooge Character Description
Comparison of Present and Past
Design a Christmas Card from Scrooge
Write a new Christmas Carol/Song
and more
This resource is a super time saver for a busy teacher.
A way to instantly have a meaningful and challenging classroom activity set up for your class to do.
16 Literacy activity slides
12 Maths and Numeracy activity slides
12 Health and Wellbeing activity slides
8 topic based activity slides.
Many of these also have a range of activity ideas within each slide, meaning that you are getting upwards of 60 different lesson and activity ideas, covering a range of learning and teaching areas and skill sets.
The front page of the powerpoint is a contents page that has links to each individual activity page – and each activity page will take you back to the contents page.
Many of these activity ideas can be used more than once and with a variety of different topics.
This version is aimed at Second Level/KS2 pupils.
I am currently working on developing one for younger pupils as well.
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This booklet is designed to give pupils an easily stored reminder of a range of grammatical terms, literary tools and punctuation information.
This can be used alongside independent writing tasks, grammar tasks or simply as a revision booklet to go through from time to time.
My pupils have found this incredibly helpful as they often have struggled to remember all the different concepts they have been learning about and now can just refer to this. Repeated exposure is increasing their recall of the information learned.
This is more suitable for upper stages of Primary/Early Secondary level.
This booklet has a host of activities and worksheets for Halloween.
Included in booklet are:
Talk About Cards
Halloween Shadow Pictures
Design a Pumpkin
ICT Pumpkin
Haunted House Activity
Halloween Maze
Halloween Alphabetical Ordering
Halloween Wordsearch
Halloween Maths Word Problems
This is a great time saver for use in class as early finisher/extra activities on the run up to and around Halloween.
This booklet has reminders and revision for many of the basic concepts in Maths and Numeracy, such as Place Value, Addition/Subtraction, Multiplication/Division, Time, Fractions and Weights and Measures.
The purpose of the booklet is for extra reinforcement and information for those pupils who can struggle to retain the concepts and language of Maths.
The booklet can be used both in school and at home to enable the pupil to have a little more autonomy whilst engaged in independent work.
For example, when attempting correct layout of sums they can check the booklet to remind themselves of what to do without extra teacher input.
This has proven a helpful tool for many pupils who lack confidence in maths and numeracy.
This challenge is aimed at upper level pupils. This gives pupils the opportunity to investigate, plan, develop and make a prototype of a new board game. They are then encouraged to Alpha test in their own class then roll out to the rest of the school to Beta test the product.
Feedback forms for pupils to fill in are included and these are differentiated for upper and lower stages.
An introductory Powerpoint, planner, worksheets and summative reflection activity are all included in this bundle as well.
This is a project that all pupils thoroughly enjoy whilst developing worthwhile skills and knowledge.
This fun and easy to use board game is designed for pre school and early Primary level children.
It aims to develop numeracy skills whilst allowing children the experience of playing a game independently.
The game is designed on A3, so make sure your photocopier settings are correct.
The game comes with instructions, playing pieces and differentiated task cards.
A great resource for early finishers in your class or as an extra reinforcement activity.
The Famous Inventors Project is one that aims to bring Enterprise in Education together with other curricular areas, focusing on S.T.E.A.M. The purpose of the project is for children to learn about Famous Inventors, select a famous and life changing invention to redevelop and design for use in the future then develop and run a mock business to make and market their product. The project culminates in a day of presentations and pitches, allowing the children to demonstrate their learning over the course of the project. This project not only meets many of the experiences and outcomes of the CfE/NC, but can help children develop towards the four capacities, as well as giving a real and relevant context to their learning with a perceivable goal to work towards.
This fully comprehensive project pack gives an easy to use, fun and accessible project for upper stage pupils to enjoy.
The document is in PDF format and contains 39 pages, including a full planner/assessment tool, teacher's notes and guidance, lesson outlines and directions as well as a set of appendices and handouts to use during the project.
This powerpoint is fully editable allowing for you to display a visual timetable each day in class using your IWB or if none available, the original slide could be printed and laminated along with each of the activity cards.
Open up the PP and you can edit the date and drag the activity cards into the appropriate part of the page, then display to the pupils using the view slideshow option.
This is a bright, colourful and useful way to discuss the day ahead with your class.
These are classroom friendly templates for developing SWOT analysis with pupils and setting Smart Goals.
These could be used on a regular basis for tracking and assessing pupils progress as well as encouraging self evaluation and taking ownership over their learning.
These four activity/worksheets are designed to go alongside the topic planner on Endangered species.
The letter template is in a word format to allow for changing from a Scottish Government contact to Westminster cabinet.
If you require any of the other documents in word, please contact me.
This cross curricular topic planner details the curricular outcomes (ACfE) being targeted as well as lesson ideas and suggestions for each relevant curricular area. This planner is aimed at 2nd Level/KS2 pupils. It also links to the separate topic of Endangered Species (also available via my shop) and ties the two in together. There are accompanying worksheets on for sale separately to go alongside both topics also. These will all be on sale soon as a bundle. However, both topics would be appropriate as stand alone if desired.
This Endangered Species cross curricular topic planner details the curricular outcomes (ACfE) being targeted as well as lesson ideas and suggestions for each relevant curricular area. This planner is aimed at 2nd Level/KS2 pupils. It also links to the separate topic of the Water Cycle (also available via my shop) and ties the two in together. There are accompanying worksheets on for sale separately to go alongside both topics also. These will all be on sale soon as a bundle. However, both topics would be appropriate as stand alone if desired.
This powerpoint covers the most common 3D shapes, properties and related vocabulary.
This is a useful tool to use when revising 3D shapes and introducing the correct terminology to use when describing/identifying shapes.
This can also be used to introduce further 3D shapes following pupils previous learning in past years.