I designed this for the mentors of the year 11 target cohort, so that they could structure their meetings and keep records.

This is a handout that can be stuck into pupils books that remonds them of various thinking skills. Can be used to encourage them to think about what they have done in class in relation to the 5 skills.

In every classroom I've ever taught in, I&'ve tried to include these wall charts/posters in my display - a great talking point too.

A lesson that structures peer evaluation and supports pupils by showing what to do - with examples on the lesson.

This APP Pupil speak Reading self evaluation sheet is used to mark pupils work - they fill it in and so does the teacher - designed to encourage participation in improving grades as an AFL tool.

This is a full lesson pp that introduces kagan techniques into English lessons - used as one of the initial lessons to welcome year 7s to our way of teaching.

This is a PP slide that has a seating plan on - move the tables and chairs so that it emulates your own room then insert your classnames in text boxes.

After recieving notes on work / pre work, pupils work together to think about how imporvements can be made and then complete this sheet.

This is a Primary School Transition Questionairre that I use on a module for year 7s to ask them how they are feeling about secondary school, as they join us. Useful to tie into any transition units - but will need adapting for your school.

This is a full lesson PP that uses classbuilding activities and introduces a website called Class Dojo that is a behaviour tracking system - free to all teachers after you have registered. The hyperlinks are on the internet screens included. You'll have to adapt it and set up your class but it&'s a brilliant tool!

Basically, this is a powerpoint with 65 different slides on that can all be used to cut and paste into any lesson to provide a series of plenaries so that they are different all of the time.

Target Setting Lessons to Boost Pupils from 3 to 4: These lessons are part of a project that is challenged with boosting pupils from level 3c to 4c. Each week starts with a new focus on literacy, numeracy, kagan techniques and a personal target. Pupils need a target book to work with and this lesson is delivered at the begining of every week. Targets are then tracked through all of their lessons for the week to chart their progress. There are serveral lessons available for the start of every week. This is lesson 2

This full lesson PP would be used with the self evaluation log that I uploaded some weeks ago to help pupils work out how to fill it in - so that you can model and show them step by step.

A very interesting pp that gets staff thinking about the boys / girls learning debate - great for using prior to introducing underachieving boys tactics

A very simple pp that offers ideas on how boys learn and how to improve their performance by grouping things into 5 ; their preffered number!

This is a PP that I used to present to OFQUAL and other manchester schools about using the functioanl skills qualifications in English - may have some good ideas for other school leaders. / Heads of English or deliverers of FS 1 and 2

General news quiz designed for form time fun... using Mike Dean's format again. If you like it / use it, please do rate it so that more have access to it. It has a very short shelf life!

As it's coming up to Christmas, we do tend to have 'fun day' on the last day of term, where we can play games and activities that engage pupils in a slightly different way... that being the case, this nice little activity of optical illusions will come in very handy!

Every year I manage one or both of these and trying to find ideas / delegate tasks is an enormous task. Therefore, I've shared these instruction pages and posters that I use in order to help others to generate ideas and delegate the tasks. Hope they&'re useful.

This lesson gets classes to know each other and sorts out who's who!