Stuck with your tutor group for an extra hour because...reasons...? Have a last lesson planned, run it and the students love it. Then suddenly Christmas lunch is cancelled and you see the same group again? Students demand that you have a 'fun' lesson but you just...well...didn't plan it? Here is a set of ideas that are just pick up and go. Really. Just give yourself 5 minutes before the lesson and have a Merry Christmas one and all.

A large collection of 16 worksheets used for scaffolding. 5ws Clouds of wonder Design a book cover Ideas web KWL chart Main idea and details My prediction Place mat Planning a newspaper report Questioning Sequencing TChart Venn diagram Wordsearch Write a blurb Y chart

A session for students that supports and helps students understand how to manage the transition into secondary school. It gives them validation, and the opportunity to show their feelings in a safe environment. Preparing for secondary school could be used as a poster or a worksheet for the students to explore their feelings. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q2udL7a4wsg

This is a classic diamond ranking grid. The students can rank some concepts into order. Better still, the students can be given a case study, develop their own list of concepts and then order them . You can use this in different ways: • Print out the sheets • Print out concepts for students to arrange on the printed sheets • Print out the concepts and get students to arrange without the template • Project a completed sheet onto an interactive whiteboard and get the students to drag the boxes around • Enlarge the sheet onto A3 and get them laminated. Students can then use the sheets with a pack of Whiteboard pens to enable a wipe clean board.

Guide to parents' evening in Word format. Also included is a fun bingo game to play with your colleagues, just the type of thing to wind down before that evening at work!