Three quality story openers to stimulate students and create plenty of discussion, leading to improved writing opportunities! All three are semi-spooky, mysterious, thought-provoking resources that can be interpreted in a myriad of ways, but are all certain to capture students' imaginations!

Two resources for end-of-term fun! #1 - Christmas Stamp Design: An activity to design commemorative stamps for 2017 with a festive feel. Comes complete with examples and templates; #2 - Gift Tag Design: A D&T activity for students to design a gift tag aimed at family members. Comes complete with examples and templates; #3 - 'Letter to Santa' - a 'Festive Freebie' - great, display friendly resource to support letter writing

A selection of four creative writing resources with powerful images that will produce quality discussion. Each is supplied with a prompt sheet to push students' writing skills to the next level. Provided with an extra prompt sheet that can be used with all four pictures, to encourage students to consider the importance of their senses in writing. Aimed at upper KS2 and lower KS3, these photographs will create a superb wall display, with some excellent writing from the children.

Aimed at upper KS2 and lower KS3, this resource contains a whole week's worth of creative writing, covering the use of similes, rhetorical questions, adjectives and synonyms, while at the same time concentrating on verbal language development. Included in the resource pack are full hi-res images for display use, along with semi-translucent images that can be loaded into a Word document and used as a background for the completed writing. As well as a differentiated worksheet for less able writers and a comprehensive writers' support sheet for children to record their work on, this resource builds each day to the climax of writing the finished article by the end of the week. Throughout, children are encouraged to co-operate, talk and work with partners, sharing their work and their learning as they go.

Three great resources to encourage upper KS2 and KS3 students to think about the start of the new year & the new term. #1 - New Challenges: A talking/recording exercise designed for students to consider the major challenges they have in their lives and how they might overcome these in the light of the new year; #2 - Same or Change: An activity designed to encourage students to think about the attitudes & thoughts that might hold them back and how these might be changed in the format of 'New Year's Resolutions'; #3 - New Year - New Start: Students working in pairs consider the pros and cons of the previous year, with a view to focussing on the positives for the forthcoming term.

A set of resources aimed at KS2 to be used in the classroom for Chinese New Year in January 2017. Activities include - - Information sheet about Chinese New Year (The Rooster); - Chinese Dragons writing sheet: Story starter; - Map of China to be annotated; - A selection of images for display/stimulation; - Chinese Quiz

Here we have three great creative writing exercises for upper KS2-lower KS3. 'Fish, Fish, Fish': Asks students to imagine life as a fisherman and to write about a day in the life from a point-of-view perspective; 'Serenity': A beautiful image of the moon over icebergs conjures up a majesty of colour, shapes and feelings for students to describe; 'Sunset': Describe a wonderful Arctic sunset to a blind person.

Great writing and talking resources for upper KS2/KS3 students, offering a variety of opportunities for writing about exploring - 'Explore' - Weighing anchor in a frozen wasteland in pursuit of a distress call; 'Five Exploration Scenarios' - students need to prioritise their equipment choices for various activities; 'Something Wrong in Space' - a writing activity that could easily be turned into a piece of drama: Astronauts coming home with a massive dilemma - eight hours from earth, with six hours' worth of oxygen left...

A selection of stimulating images with corresponding activities to develop quality sentences. Areas covered - adjectives, synonyms, personification, rhetorical questions, similies and adverbs. Aimed at upper KS2 or lower KS3, there are four separate activities to support class teaching, along with an additional 'Senses' sheet which can be used with all four writing sheets.

Whole-class activity plus instant display! These sheets, printed out, would fill a wall in seconds - with children's input, they provide a go-to resource on your classroom wall - one that can be used again and again and again. OR... print out double-sided for each student so they have their own 'go-to' resource for improving their own writing! 29 A4 sheets, each with a central word such as 'Said' - and room for children to add their own synonyms to build up an extensive vocabulary. Brilliant for stimulating discussion as a whole class lesson or in pairs. Sheets include - Said, Amazing, Bad, Beautiful, Big, Bright, Dark, Delicious and more. As and when you take down the display - put these sheets in alphabetical order in a folder for a go-to resource for children. Included is a Microsoft Word file with associated synonyms for teacher and/or student use. Great for developing research skills, using a thesaurus, in order to add quality and variety to sentence construction.

A huge creative writing pack, using the 'Phalanges Family' - little characters that will inspire your students, created on their fingers! A cross-curricular resource, encompassing writing, art and science - all based around our fingers! Lots of examples for children to work with - 'The Phalanges on Vacation', 'The Phalanges at Christmas' and also an editable script (MS Word) to use as exemplars. Children can create their own families, using the provided hand-photographs and then either on their own fingers or using one of the art ideas provided. Included are examples of how the Phalanges live - Christmas, Vacations, visits from other relatives. Also included is a selection of extension activities to take this project even further!

A colourful picture that most children will identify with - the task, to write a description of the flavours, textures and feelings created when visiting a fun fair. This is aimed at supporting writing at mid to upper KS2 and is to be used as a scaffold for children to add their own adjectives, verbs and adverbs to. The primary aim here is to develop a breadth of writing using our senses as a focus tool. Please leave feedback and look at my other resources. Please contact me if you'd like an editable version of this. N.B - Photograph is strictly copyright

Some basic ideas for opening writing in different ways - a worksheet to engage the children and help them to consider options when first putting pen to paper!

Level 4, KS2, Improving writing

Worksheets for children to use to help them to improve and self-assess their own work.

Here's three FREE resources for KS1 - aimed at the lighter side of Halloween, but engaging with some of the associated imagery. Meet the pumpkin who's lost his witch and the cookies that are leaving the bakery! Or what would your pupils want to dress up as for 'Trick or Treat'? Help yourself! Please leave a review if you liked this resource. Thanks