Soemthing to keep forms / classes goign for hours in the last few days.

This is the primary part of the Tameside Local Authority Transition Unit that has been designed by an outstanding Literacy Lead, Year 6 teacher. She has kindly shared this with all of the primary schools in Tameside and, as an authority, we are now creating a KS3 unit that all of our secondaries will be using to baseline pupils in reading and writing. The theme is Treasure Island and both units will use this as the stimulus. By the end of this unit, pupils will create two pieces of writing and one piece of reading comprehension that will be sent to their secondary school to their English teacher. The Key Stage 3 unit has now been uploaded and can be found here: https://www.tes.co.uk/teaching-resource/primary-to-secondary-transition-unit-treasure-island-part-2-11071733

can be used as a springboard for someone else?

This is training for staff that I adapted so that a core of older children could be trained as mentors in school. Al resources are uploaded with it but, to adapt and implement, you will want to use your own school reports.

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 i have used with my bottom set year 7 to help them to work cooperatively before I started with the content. Classbuilding lesson.

a full quiz on The United Kingdom of Great Britain & Northern Ireland

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!

This is a small tutorial that introduces some poems and explains why we fall silent at 11am. It is being used in all forms across the school, prior to our 11am silence.

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!

When we had issues with litter, we diecided to get pupils involved and this was one of the initiatives that we launched - ready for you to adpat with your context to display around school.

This APP Pupil speak Writing 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.

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.

I can't take full credit for this - as I have used Mike Dean&'s template and added my own questions - However, it still took an hour, so I hope it can be used by others.

This is a Cross Curricular Quiz - Ideal for form time with a focus on one country. Covers questions for every subject.

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

This is a whole school quiz with Italy as a theme and it crosses every subject.

2 little slides that set up an anti bullying poster competition so that posters can be made and to heighten awareness - I use it in assembly.

This is a PDF of training that I put together for NQTs in my LA to give them some specific strategies on how to help manage their time and their workload. There are some 'quick wins' here, as well as some ideas on how to efficiently manage diaries using outlook and how to use meeting minutes to evidence meeting the teaching standards. I have used advice from TES forums in the training too - so I promised I would share it when it was done.

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.