This was a business plan project I created to get my learners thinking about setting up their own company, things they would need to be aware of and research they would have to complete. I spread this out over several weeks, completing an hour lesson at a time, beginning with a talk on the subject, then allow the students to complete their research and fill in the appropriate page. This can be printed out or completed electronically to save trees!

Online Safety presentation with a focus on scam emails/texts and how to keep yourself and your money safe.

This is an activity which encourages learners to design their own world, using information they have learned regarding population, landscape, culture etc. There are 8 pages, plus 3 extra blank pages for you to add your own sections, or to use as continuation sheets.

Here are 90 different cards with various subjects to either use as warm up exercises, projects, or to get passed the ‘creative block’. Of the 90 cards, 27 are coloured orange. This is so the learner can take one blue card with a subject, and one orange card with a visual element or style to focus on for a stretch or challenge activity. Both orange and blue cards can be used on their own to produce work around that word, subject, visual element or style.

This is a great activity to do with learners around the subject of bullying and banter. Learners must work together to decide how serious each word is, which generates conversation about the definition of each one, how serious they believe it is, if they have witnessed this or been subjected to it, and if they have found themselves doing it and not realised that its bullying. You can cut out and laminate the arrows for stability and longevity. The scale can be cut and laminated and stuck together later in a strip.

Lots of useful resources for printing off - lined paper and square paper in different sizes, black lines for placing under plain paper as a writing guide, comic strips, stage planners, and lots of others!

This is a presentation to teach and engage learners in conversation about healthy eating. It covers each food group, what could happen if you have a poor diet and what a balanced diet is. The activity takes learners through a McDonald’s meal to understand calories and proportions, and how much exercise is needed to use up the energy.

This PowerPoint also includes activities for learners to think about their own challenges and mindset. It introduces the idea of a Challenge Mindset and traits of resilient people.

A PowerPoint for introducing Customer Service Skills. This can be used with the Customer Service Scenario card activity as it indicates the use of them in the PowerPoint - you can take these out if you do not wish to use them.

Use the scenarios provided or create your own and use the worksheet and calculations to work out how long it will take the drunk person to be under the legal limit to drive. Designed to create awareness for youngsters who might be tempted to drink and drive, or drive the morning after a binge drink.

This is my attendance lesson with activities. I have included a brief lesson plan, the Power Point, and activity resources. The learners look at how their attendance would look to employers and highlights the importance of high attendance.

This lesson contains a Power Point presentation taking learners through the history of body proportions in art, a brief explanation of measuring by eye, and then step by step instructions of drawing a face to proportion. Included is a handout to give to learners detailing each stage of drawing the facial proportions.

This is a lesson on Relationships, covering: Identify the qualities of healthy and unhealthy relationships What to do if you find yourself in an abusive relationship, What to do if someone you care about is in an abusive relationship. There is also a document with cards for the activity, which you can cut out, or ask the students to cut out and arrange relating to things you can control and things you cannot control when it comes to relationships and other people.

This is a lesson introducing learners to the government, democracy and unions. An activity enables them to take part in a voting game, to see how democracy works. You will receive the PowerPoint presentation and brief lesson plan for an hour session. of course, this can be used as part of another lesson and fits nicely with British Values.

This is a PowerPoint covering employability skills such as work ethic, communication, listening, attitude and behaviour, asking for help and manners. There are opportunities to use the soft skills cards and the skills checklist.

I designed this to record week by week attendance for individual learners and the overall classes, enabling me to flag any issues with learners, and to compare to previous years. The spreadsheet is colour coded to show increases and decreases in attendance for each learner. I have included a 2 page instruction on how to use the spreadsheet and the chart, and how to personalise it for your courses/groups. There is also instructions on how to connect the learner to their page on EBS/ProMonitor or whatever software you use which contains their contact details/profile etc. I use this spreadsheet as my ‘desktop’, using it to navigate to different systems and to compile reports for area review meetings etc.

For equality and diversity, or disability awareness, this card sort activity encourages learners to experience completing an activity with a disadvantage. Afterwards, they discuss the activity, how they felt, what adjustments could be made to make the task accessible. You will need a deck of cards. The instructions are included with the activity.

this is a set of 80 cards with various crimes and the maximum penalty. This is a great game to play when teaching about UK crimes and penalties - a good resource for covering Rule of Law in British Values. Play it like The Price is Right - show one card, read the crime on the next card and have the group guess whether the penalty would be higher or lower. Alternatively, you can use them for discussion tools and other teaching relating to fines, prison sentences and penalties linked to driving offenses, theft, fraud, criminal damage and drink and drugs.