This long-term planner for heads of departments that runs from the academic year of 2017-18 until 2023-24 (the students who are in year 5 in 2017-18). As a head of department myself, I am often needing to plan years in advance. Which topics will be taught and when and how does that fit in with topics being taught at the same time in other year groups. This document allows you to see just that. Many colleagues who have seen this have found this useful and so I am making it available here. There are three tabs on this excel spreadsheet. The first two tabs focus on a termly overview. One tab assumes a 3-year KS3 and a 2-year KS4. The second tab assumes a 2-year KS3 and a 3-year KS4. Both sheets run from 2017-18 until 2023-24. Both of these are organised by terms in the rows and by year groups in the columns. Having an overview like this helps me to avoid clashes of resources, plan purchasing in advance and put the right topics in place at particularly appropriate times of the year. The final tab in the long-term planner is by week. This is what I share with the staff in my department so they know exactly what content needs to be taught and when. This also allows me to make sure that all the classes in every year stay on track to complete their courses in a timely manner. It has been invaluable in helping my staff to feel confident in their planning and delivery. In the by-week planner, the rows are sorted into weeks from 2017-18 until 2023-24. The columns are by cohort (year group) from year 11 in 2017-18 all the way through to year 5 in 2017-18 (completing year 11 in 2024). In have colour coded this as much as possible so the rows and columns are clear and it is to see what is going on. There is no fancy code or formulas to worry about. This is a nice utility that will help you have a clear and long-term overview of exactly what will be taught in your department and when. It doesn't take long to map things out and I usually fill out the by week tab in stages rather than all at once. However, I really enjoy having everything so organised. I hope you do to and that you find this a useful resource. Please feel free to share any feedback or requests you would like for this planner. All input is valued. Many thanks, FP

This is a resource developed for lower ability and SEN students. to help them identify the different parts and functions of animal and plant cells. This contains the 3 parts of an animal cell and 6 parts of a plant cell. Does not include mitochondria, e.r. or other organelles.

This PowerPoint covers why enzymes are important, what they are, and lock and key theory. However, it is designed to introduce the concept of them being biological catalysts and the lock and key theory. This resource is designed for lower ability KS4 and KS3 students. The lesson objectives are set as: All: You can state what enzymes are Most: You can describe what the active site is Some: You can explain the lock and key theory There is a cloze sheet included so students can add the key words (here in black font) from the PowerPoint as they work through it. The cloze sheet is also separated into all, most and some, so students can see that they are progressing. There are some simple animations included in the PowerPoint to emphasize how the substrate must fit the active site. AfL: There is a 4 picture cartoon so students can sequence the events in the lock and key theory, using them to explain what happens at each stage. This AfL task does focus on the 'some' part of the lesson so may present a challenge to some students. However, I differentiate by giving some students fewer pictures, just so they can focus on stating what an enzyme is and what the active site is This lesson does not include examples of enzymes, but at the beginning of the lesson I do use the first slide to emphasise how enzymes allow the life process to happen and without them we could not survive. Any questions, comment or feedback, please let me know. Many thanks

To help promote literacy in science, I produced a range of science facts, quotes, injuries and deaths on PowerPoints with coloured backgrounds, for purposes of classroom and departmental display. There are 130 full page slides, comprised of: 11 injuries and deaths 84 science facts 35 science quotes As a head of department I had these distributed amongst our labs. Rather pleasingly, it seemed to engage some students, particularly boys, who find the thought of reading textbooks somewhat disengaging. In a student voice survey, there were lots of positive comments about these, As a result, I thought I would share.

Almost all the resources you need for delivering rates of reaction to foundation/lower ability students. Lots of structured and cloze style activities.

A lesson on atomic structure. Using lots of colour and structure. Designed for lower ability and foundation students.

Two lesson bundle designed prinicipally for lower ability/foundation students Lesson 1: Celebrity babies - cut up celbrity features to see what their baby would look like DNA structure - cloze activities Practical - get students to build DNA ladder out of coloured straws Lesson 2: Inheritance key words cloze activity DNA extraction from kiwi practical - instructions provided Lesson 3: Mitosis and meiosis There are two versions of this, differentiated as lower and medium challenge Lower = cloze acitivity Medium = poster fill

Looking at what sound is. Video acitivity to calculate the speed of sound. Oscilloscope traces. Amplitude, frequency, wavelength, peak and trough. Designed for SEN and lower ability students.

Two lesson’s worth of resources, principally developed for lower ability/foundation students Lesson 1: PNS and CNS - cloze activity to add simple labels Make a neuron model out of play-doh, add labels (provided in ppt) Information hunt for functions on parts of a neuron Lesson 2: Ruler drop practical and oppotunity to discuss peer review Sequence of the coordinated response pathway (cloze) Colour coded card sort for order of the coordinated response, description and example Grade 4/5 research task FOundation and higher tier exam question and answers Lesson plan also included - this was graded as Outstanding All answers, sheets and resources are included. See the end of the lesson powerpoints for these in the first instance

A resource designed for lower ability students to help them identify the 3 basic animal cell and 6 basic plant cell parts. Also covers parts of a microscope, prokaryotic and eukaryotic cells.