A set of sheets and aids to use for a few PSHE lessons on rules, it looks at family rules, school rules and then creating your own sport and what its rules will be.

Its the last week of the school year and no one wants to be there. Attached is a challenge game consisting of twenty smaller games that cover, Maths, English, Drama, Art, PSHE, general knowledge, research skills, Logic puzzles and PE. All times are for suggestion, depends on your class. It is designed for fun and keeping the class occupied.

An activity for the whole class, you create and design your own superhero. You use a points system to select the powers you want, that way no one is to powerful. From there you can design your hero, create the backstory, create your own super villain and even create your own adventure story. You could even get some pupils to create a team up story that they can write together. Enjoy

It is time to make your own pirate crew. Below are three template for the crew, Crew member Pirate Captain Pirate Captain with hook. You can also accessories with, hat, bandanna, cutlass, parrot, eye patch and beard. Will you make the cast all male or have a female captain? Cut out, colour in and glue together as a tube. I hope you and your class enjoy

The aim of this is to form a year long display for a class. It is based around the aspirations of the class for the school year ahead. Back a suitably sized board in blue. The teacher’s aspiration will be in the sun. The children’s aspirations will be on clouds, birds and planes The foundations for the year ahead will be on the rooftops to appear at the bottom of the display. It could look something like this;

A fun poem for teachers who are going through SATs. Hopefully a bit of fun.

A fun poem, about a pupils first day back. Enjoy and look out for the bundle that will have these much cheaper

A poem to be used as a lesson starter to get the pupils to express their feelings and understanding of the last pandemic / lockdown months events and how it has impacted their lives. Two versions of the same poem but with version two having a bit more friendly line, and a simple lesson plan. plus a couple of poems on the year ahead with a strong determined theme. hope you get some good work out of it.

Create your own zoo, calculate the profit and loss, have a grand opening day event with your own tag line. An exercise in creating a working business with overheads, operating costs and dealing with customers. have a grand opening, see what spending extra can get you in return. For extension can be performed by hand or on a computer, with added extra of cross curriculum work by creating information sheets about their favorite animals. also a check sheet to help the teacher to check the pupils calculations

A quick and easy form to be used after an event, course or training etc. to document what went well, what did not go well, what was useful, learnings for next time and how relevant information will be fed back to a larger audience.

A quick checklist for pupils when they are preparing a piece of fiction / creative writing

RROAR The Black Cat way of problem solving A way of looking at solving a mathematical problem that puts emphasis on understanding the question and setting out the working out to highlight the strategy used and enabling a greater chance of identifying working out errors on either the recheck or marking. Read Recognise Organise Answer Recheck

A helpful reminder of what to check with a pupils written work. PURR, punctuation, check you have all the relevant capital letters, commas full stops etc. Understandable, does your sentence or paragraph make sense? Reword, have used some words repetitively, can you change them for something else, are there any wow words you can use? Finally Recheck, does it still answer the question or task assigned? Congratulations PURR.