Happy new year! Welcome 2026 by encouraging your pupils to reflect on the past year, and decide on goals for the New Year. This foldable activity is a great way to start January with positivity and a good mindset. It’s also a fun alternative to a New year Worksheet! This resource contains the following: A PDF with 3 similar templates, with identical prompts. A PowerPoint file with 3 templates to write your own prompts for students. These can then be printed for students to complete and fold. A Google Slides link (in the PDF) with 3 blank templates to write your own prompts for pupils. As above, this can then be printed for pupils to use. A picture to help with folding The prompts on the pre-written template are: My best memory of 2025 My proudest moment of 2025 Someone who made me smile in 2025 This year, I’d like to learn more about… My 2026 goal at home is… My 2026 goal at school is… The month I’m most looking forward to in 2026 Something I can do for others in 2026 is… Pupils colour their template, write/draw their responses in the blank spaces, cut, and fold. US and UK spelling and paper size included.

Staff Training on the New Writing Framework 2025 Are you ready to transform your approach to teaching writing? Our comprehensive guide to the Department for Education’s New Writing Framework 2025 is just what you need! This resource is designed to provide a clear understanding of the revolutionary methods for teaching writing skills at all educational levels. Whether you’re a seasoned teacher or just starting out, our training package offers everything from engaging lesson ideas to innovative assessment techniques, ensuring you’re fully equipped to help your students excel. With a focus on creativity and critical thinking, the New Writing Framework encourages students to express themselves confidently and effectively. What sets our training apart? We provide hands-on workshops and interactive learning experiences tailored to your specific needs. You’ll have the opportunity to collaborate with colleagues, share best practices, and discuss real-world challenges in the classroom. Our experienced trainers are dedicated to supporting you through this transition, offering ongoing advice and resources to make the integration of the New Writing Framework as seamless as possible. Join us in embracing this exciting new era of writing education! With our guide, you’ll not only enhance your own teaching skills but also empower your students to become more proficient writers. Don’t miss out—invest in your professional development and watch your classroom thrive with the New Writing Framework 2025!

An assembly on the importance of a new year and using it as a time for reflection and resolving to be better. The PowerPoint uses video and a 5-step framework to ensure that new year resolutions (or any personal targets) are likely to happen. Slide 1: Happy New Year 2025 Slide 2: New Years Eve around the world. Includes video Slide 3: What are New Year Resolutions? Slide 4: The importance of New Year as a point for reflection - key questions. Slide 5: Self-reflection = self-action Slide 6: What is your new year resolution video Slide 7: Do resolutions work? Slide 8: How to attain your new year resolution tip 1 Slide 9: How to attain your new year resolution tip 2 Slide 10: How to attain your new year resolution tip 3 Slide 11: How to attain your new year resolution tip 4 Slide 12: How to attain your new year resolution tip 5 Slide 13: A resolution for us all Slide 14: Possible school-based resolutions Slide 15: Final thought Slide 16:Over to you… Slide17: Form Time Activities Landing Screen Slide 18: Form Time Activities: New Year Colouring Slide 19-20: Form Time Activities: New Year Wordsearch Slide 21: Form Time Activities: Write a New Year Poem Slide 22-23: Form Time Activities: New Year Resolution Planning: Pupil Worksheet Slide 24-33: Form Time Activities: New Year Form Quiz (with answers) As reviewers have stated for previous resources shared: “I sat down to plan my assembly for next week and found this resource, and it’s perfect. The best £2 spent. Thank you. I can teach this straight from the slides.” “Just buy it!” “Your resources have been life savers!” “Well worth the money and really saved my life” “I just wanted to say that as a non-specialist these resources are worth every single penny! Thank you so much for making and sharing them.” “Blown away by this! Can’t thank you enough!” “They have saved me a huge amount of time and the detail that goes into your work is second to none. You put others to shame who charge twice as much for very little. Can’t thank you enough.” “Your new spec resources are saving me hours & hours of work! Thanks, they are really good.” “These resources are so useful - I cannot tell you how much time they have save me - very clear to follow and easy to adapt for revision material — well worth the money”

A Teacher’s/student’s guide to the NEW DT GCSE AQA NEA themes for 2025-2026. Uploaded June 2025. Resources include: 200+ Slides Identifying & Investigating Design Possibilities ALL NEW NEA themes NEW SECTIONS - Using Ai for the NEA Exam Board Grade Boundaries New student visual layout guides Brainstorming the Context Theme breakdowns and definitions Project Ideas Client Profiles Design Problems Existing Products Work of Others Anthropometrics/Ergonomics Questionnaire & Analysis Social/Economical Factors Sustainability Section A Summary ALSO: Teacher Tips Student Prompt Cards Marking Ladders Copyright proof material Differentiated Tasks Stunning Presentation Easy to follow Student Examples Objectives Starters Plenaries Exam/student Speak Duration: 7 Topic Inputs: 9-11 lessons WARNING This material is for teachers only. Only to be used for the NEA teaching. Not to be shared publicly or with others unless a school license has been purchased. This information is not to be passed outside of your school or on the school website. When you release the NEA-controlled assessment themes to your students is at your discretion. This information should not be shared across social media sites. This is in line with the JCQ secure materials guidance. This selection of PowerPoints is for Teacher guidance and student prompting only. DO NOT use these resources as a direct template for students. DO NOT use these resources as a ONE-FITS ALL solution to the NEA. Please follow the NEA guidance from your exam board. Images provided by Google Images for royalty-free commercial use with no licence ©Copyright Creative Classroom Resources 2025-2026 Mark scheme acknowledgement DT GCSE AQA (information free to the public) Other Resources available: Section B, C, D, E, F

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This 20 slide assembly is perfect to deliver to any year group at the start of a school year/term. It will re-set expectations, challenge students to reflect on previous achievements and challenges whilst giving them top tips to ensure that the upcoming year/term is a success. It covers the following: A chance to introduce new staff Reflection on previous achievements Reflection on what has not gone so well Importance of target setting Top Tips on how to ensure this year/term is a success (including: attendance, behaviour, working hard video, equipment and uniform, being proactive and asking for help). Inspirational video Personal Reflection questions Tutor Time Task following on from Assembly Please also visit my TES Assembly Store where over 100 assemblies are available on a huge range of topics. LIMITED TIME OFFER If you purchase this resource and leave a 5-star review, you receive any £3 assembly from my store FREE!! Leave a review and email Lee_Sullivan@hotmail.co.uk with your review confirmation and choice of assembly.

Tracker to monitor individual children against the Engagement Model strands: Exploration Realisation Anticipation Persistence Initiation Descriptors for each level and stage of development. Can be used for pupils working significantly below/ pre key stage.

A detailed, engaging and well-differentiated lesson to encourage critical thinking (lasting 1-2 hours), focused on the growth of Fake News and ‘alternative facts’. These resources teach students how we must always use critical thinking skills when studying media material. Included: 1 - 2 hour PowerPoint, worksheets, clips, alternative facts reading comprehension, well differentiated, KS3/ KS4. These resources have been designed to be engaging, detailed and easy to follow. All our resources are editable (so easy to adapt for your classes) and are designed to last one hour each. You can find many more inexpensive and free PSHE, Citizenship and RE resources at my shop: EC_Resources Leave me a review and pick any other resource for free :) Or you can check out some of our most popular PSHE, Citizenship and RE resources below: Mental Health PSHE Bundle 1 Whole Year of PSHE Resources British Values Citizenship Bundle Careers, Employment and Enterprise Bundle Islam Bundle Sex and Relationships Education GCSE CITIZENSHIP 9-1

A double-sided revision worksheet covering the key vocabulary & grammar from module 1 of the new GCSE textbook on the topics of media & technology / my personal words (Edexcel) to use alongside new specification for exams in 2026 onwards. Includes translation activities, verb table in three tenses, proof-reading activities & reinforcement of core vocabulary (eg. time phrases, opinions, connectives etc.) This resource would be useful as homework, cover work or as consolidation of the topic before an assessment. Answer sheet included.

This unit of work is made of 14 lessons on Module 3 “Ma vie scolaire” following the new specification 2024 Pearson Edexcel. To deliver these lessons successfully, you will need your own access to the textbook and listening files. In this unit students will be able to: Talk about school subjects and school life Discuss school rules Talk about making progress at school Describe what primary school used to be like Use the imperfect tense Use a range of negative structures Talk about the importance of learning languages Where parts of the textbook have been used, the slides on the PPT are blurred but referenced to in the notes so you can easily find the task.

This unit of work is made of 13 lessons on Module 4 “En pleine forme” following the new specification 2024 Pearson Edexcel. To deliver these lessons successfully, you will need your own access to the textbook and listening files. In this unit students will be able to: Discover traditional dishes from French speaking countries Talk about meals and mealtimes Talk about good mental health Describe illnesses and accidents Book a doctor’s appointment Describe what changes you want to make in your life Use the simple future tense Where parts of the textbook have been used, the slides on the PPT are blurred but referenced to in the notes so you can easily find the task.

This unit of work is made of 13 lessons on Module 5 “Numéro vacances” following the new specification 2024 Pearson Edexcel. To deliver these lessons successfully, you will need your own access to the textbook and listening files. The unit covers Zone de culture, Units 1-5 but the first few lessons are taken from the old spec as it builds vocabulary around the topic of holidays in the present tense as I felt it was missing from the new specification. In this unit students will be able to: Talk about holidays and accommodation Talk about your ideal holiday Use the conditional tense Discuss what you can see and do on holiday Revise how to ask questions Discover festivals in France and French speaking countries Review and book holiday accommodations Revise the simple future tense Where parts of the textbook have been used, the slides on the PPT are blurred but referenced to in the notes so you can easily find the task.

This unit of work is made of 12 lessons on Module 6 “Notre planète” following the new specification 2024 Pearson Edexcel. To deliver these lessons successfully, you will need your own access to the textbook and listening files. In this unit students will be able to: Learn about francophone countries Talk about geography and the climate Talk about environmental problems Discuss how we can work to protect the environment Discuss new technologies Revise numbers Revise the comparative and superlative Use a range of tenses Where parts of the textbook have been used, the slides on the PPT are blurred but referenced to in the notes so you can easily find the task from your textbook.

I have used the November 2019 inserts and re-written the November 2019 exams to meet the new format which will first be examined in 2026. Both language paper 1 and language paper 2 have been re-written. These can be used in class to walk classes through the changes without using the sample paper from AQA so that this can be left and used for mocks. Language paper 1 also includes an original image. Does not include mark schemes or inserts. Inserts are readily available online.

Here is a School Self Evaluation (SEF) for Primary Schools that has been aligned with the NEW Oftsed Framework 2025. Each section covers the main areas of investigation from Ofsted: -Safeguarding -Inclusion -Curriculum and Teaching -Achievement -Attendance and Behaviour -Personal Development and Well-being -Leadership and Governance -Early Years Each section is pre-populated to support primary schools in evidencing the expected standard of strong standard. With some suggested points of reference. This is 14 page document is to serve as a template and needs to be edited to refer specifically to your setting. It provides a sound baseline to build upon.

4 page booklet to be completed at the end of UNIT 1, including: -A higher style role-play -A photo description activity (two photos) -A reading out loud task -5 sample questions based on the content from UNIT 1 (personal relationships) including ‘sentence blocks’ for each questions to guide students to write high quality answers. -A lined page for answers to be written BE CAREFUL! -Items, boxes or images might have moved when you open your document on Word. ‘Printable’ version included. Print on A3 -back to back- for best results.

3 x Sentence Builders for the new AQA GCSE French topic CELEBRITY CULTURE Recommended for Higher Tier due to the range of language, but could easily be adapted for Foundation Tier (editable word documents included) What’s included: Learning outcomes covered: o Describing a celebrity - present o Describing a celebrity - past o Opinions and advice on being famous Vocabulary based on the official AQA lists + high frequency, useful verb phrases, complex structures as chunks and other universals Integration of complex structures and idiomatic expressions to help students learn high-level language as chunks High-frequency vocabulary and complex structures are recycled across several of the sentence builders How to use them: Modelling & scaffolding: I use sentence builders as a Knowledge Organiser, a modelling tool when introducing a new topic, and a scaffold for writing and speaking. Teaching ideas: I have a free document in my TES called “Teaching ideas for sentence builders” that I recommend downloading if you’d like more ideas on how to get started with sentence builders. EPI methodology: Although I do not work in an EPI school or follow every part of MARS EARS from Gianfranco Conti, these sentence builders could be used for EPI - they are in both PDF and word format so can be edited and adapted. If you have any questions about this resource, please do not hesitate to contact me via my MFL Instagram @eclaireMFL

An assembly all about New Year’s Resolutions and how the turn of a new year is celebrated all across the globe. The assembly lasts between 15 - 20 minutes, including a short clip from YouTube and role play scenarios for the pupils to enjoy or participate in! The assembly is very easy to follow and is also editable. Enjoy! :-)

A set of 40 photos of various animals, reptiles, amphibians, birds and fish, includes picture of humans. To link with NC2014 Year 1 science. Some obvious animals and some more unusual ones to prompt discussion, especially from more able children.

This tracker allows you to keep an eye on each of the separate skills in MFL at GCSE for the new AQA specification. I have added a couple of notes on some of the tabs as to how it can be used. It is work in progress, any feedback on how to improve it would be appreciated!

Lesson to introduce KS3 pupils to different forms that news can take, leading to newspapers. Ppt to accompany this is also available in TES resources.