A HUGE bundle of 34 FREE PowerPoints with the Countdown timer and music! Enough for one-per-school week! Perfect for squeezing a bit of literacy, numeracy and fun into form time, bell tasks or exit tickets! Also a great way to fill ten minutes when your planning went a bit iffy! Each PowerPoint includes: 2 letters-games where the pupils should compete to get the longest word out of the letters given; 1 numbers game, where the pupils use the numbers given to get to the solution shown; 1 “Countdown Conundrum” where the class need to solve the nine-letter anagram; fully set-up timer which plays the famous Countdown theme tune twice (so that the pupils have a full minute to face each challenge)! Why not start Wordy Wednesdays, or challenge your class to Brain-Teaser Tuesday? Note: If the letter “O” in the vowels boxes are shifted to the side, simply change the font to good old Arial and it’ll revert back to the middle!

An excellent resource made for a differentiated Y8 class which shows them how to improve dull writing! Perfect for use in any Gothic writing module! This placemat contains: a “tedious tale” which has potential, but which is written without sentence variety or descriptive techniques; a dice-rolling, slow-writing task where pupils rewrite the tedious tale, taking it a sentence at a time; dice grids which pupils use for their rewrite. For each sentence they roll twice: once to see what new sentence type they should use, and twice to find out what technique to include; an A-Z of vocabulary befitting their Gothic writing; a “Glow-Up” grid and example to help pupils see the transformation process; a reminder of the FANBOYS coordinating conjunctions. The A-Z and Glow-Up grids make excellent resources on their own and I’ve used them with great success with my own pupils.

Ever wished that you had time to sit down and actually gather together all those key character quotes needed for “Of Mice and Men”? Perhaps you wish your students would say a bit more about context than: “This is because there was a crash into a wall on a street while someone was depressed.” Well fear not because I’ve done it for you! This booklet has quotes (with analysis) for the key characters in the novella. Each character has a chunky section of contextual commentary. You can use this as a teacher resource, or provide pupils with it as some end-of-unit revision. This is a great resource if you’ve not taught the book in a while, and has worked excellently for me when given to pupils who were absent for extended periods. Hopefully, you’ll find this to be the time-saver I made it to be!

A brilliantly packed booklet containing everything needed for a pupil to study Heroes, by Robert Cormier. A truly comprehensive resource which will provide pupils with the perfect space to organise their study of the text. 65 pages, including summaries, context, settings, literary terminology as well as space for character and theme notes, quotes and analysis. 9 extracts/questions are included, along with a range of possible character/theme essay titles.