I provide a range of free resources covering different areas of teaching and learning. These include The Starter Generator, Plenary producer and the AFL Toolkit. My premium resources focus mostly on stretch and challenge, as well as some on growth mindsets and a new set of books exclusively for teaching assistants, giving them all the tools they need to support learners in the classroom.
I provide a range of free resources covering different areas of teaching and learning. These include The Starter Generator, Plenary producer and the AFL Toolkit. My premium resources focus mostly on stretch and challenge, as well as some on growth mindsets and a new set of books exclusively for teaching assistants, giving them all the tools they need to support learners in the classroom.
The GCSE English Question Generator presents 101 challenging questions mapped to the curriculum that students can select at random to discuss.
You can use it as a starter activity, as a plenary, a revision tool or midway through a lesson to energise students and stretch their thinking.
The toolkit is complete, self-contained and ready-to-use. Simply play from the fourth slide and invite students to pick a button at random. Each one reveals a different question which will get students thinking deeply about the subject.
The GCSE English Question Generator will give your lessons a new dimension, motivating and engaging the students you teach!
The KS3 Maths Stretch and Challenge Grid is one of the easiest ways to stretch and challenge the thinking of your students.
The resource combines three separate grids. The first contains 25 subject-specific questions and tasks mapped to the curriculum. The second contains 25 challenging tasks applicable to any area of the curriculum. The third is blank, ready to edit.
Simply print off one of the grids and give copies to your most-able students. You can then challenge them to complete tasks and questions during lessons or as part of their homework. Students can keep track by crossing off challenges as they complete them.
The resource also comes with a set of badges students can collect and tick off as they finish each task or question.
With the KS3 Maths Stretch and Challenge Grid you will be stretching and challenging the thinking of your students every time you teach, saving time along the way!
The Year 6 Stretch and Challenge Grid is one of the easiest ways to stretch and challenge the thinking of your students.
The resource combines three separate grids. The first contains 25 subject-specific questions and tasks mapped to the curriculum. The second contains 25 challenging tasks applicable to any area of the curriculum. The third is blank, ready to edit.
Simply print off one of the grids and give copies to your most-able students. You can then challenge them to complete tasks and questions during lessons or as part of their homework. Students can keep track by crossing off challenges as they complete them.
The resource also comes with a set of badges students can collect and tick off as they finish each task or question.
With the Year 6 Stretch and Challenge Grid you will be stretching and challenging the thinking of your students every time you teach, saving time along the way!
The GCSE Biology Stretch and Challenge Grid is one of the easiest ways to stretch and challenge the thinking of your students.
The resource combines three separate grids. The first contains 25 subject-specific questions and tasks mapped to the curriculum. The second contains 25 challenging tasks applicable to any area of the curriculum. The third is blank, ready to edit.
Simply print off one of the grids and give copies to your most-able students. You can then challenge them to complete tasks and questions during lessons or as part of their homework. Students can keep track by crossing off challenges as they complete them.
The resource also comes with a set of badges students can collect and tick off as they finish each task or question.
With the GCSE Biology Stretch and Challenge Grid you will be stretching and challenging the thinking of your students every time you teach, saving time along the way!
The GCSE English Language Stretch and Challenge Grid is one of the easiest ways to stretch and challenge the thinking of your students.
The resource combines three separate grids. The first contains 25 subject-specific questions and tasks mapped to the curriculum. The second contains 25 challenging tasks applicable to any area of the curriculum. The third is blank, ready to edit.
Simply print off one of the grids and give copies to your most-able students. You can then challenge them to complete tasks and questions during lessons or as part of their homework. Students can keep track by crossing off challenges as they complete them.
The resource also comes with a set of badges students can collect and tick off as they finish each task or question.
With the GCSE English Language Stretch and Challenge Grid you will be stretching and challenging the thinking of your students every time you teach, saving time along the way!
The A Level English Language Stretch and Challenge Workbook makes it as easy as possible for you to stretch and challenge the thinking of your most able students.
The workbook is self-contained and ready to use. It is thirty pages long, containing a wide range of stimulating, high-level activities. These are based on critical, creative and conceptual thinking, as well as the top two levels of Bloom’s Taxonomy – synthesis and evaluation.
Simply print off the workbook and give it to your most able students. They can then use it during lessons, when they have finished the main activity, or as the basis of challenging homework tasks.
The A Level English Language Stretch and Challenge Workbook is a perfect complement to the Stretch and Challenge Grid and the Stretch and Challenge Generator. All three together allow you to differentiate incredibly effectively for your most able students, with little or no planning required.
This bundle includes the first five books in my Teaching Assistants Pocket Guide Series:
The TA’s Pocket Guide to Growth Mindsets
The TA’s Pocket Guide to Questioning
The TA’s Pocket Guide to Feedback
The TA’s Pocket Guide to Differentiation
The TA’s Pocket Guide to AFL
Each book is around 100 pages, covers ten chapters and includes dozens of strategies and techniques you can use to support the learners you work with inside and outside the classroom.
The bundle comes with a 20% discount! It’s like getting five books for the price of four.
The KS3 Science Stretch and Challenge Workbook makes it as easy as possible for you to stretch and challenge the thinking of your most able students.
The workbook is self-contained and ready to use. It is thirty pages long, containing a wide range of stimulating, high-level activities. These are based on critical, creative and conceptual thinking, as well as the top two levels of Bloom’s Taxonomy – synthesis and evaluation.
Simply print off the workbook and give it to your most able students. They can then use it during lessons, when they have finished the main activity, or as the basis of challenging homework tasks.
The KS3 Science Stretch and Challenge Workbook is a perfect complement to the Stretch and Challenge Grid and the Stretch and Challenge Generator. All three together allow you to differentiate incredibly effectively for your most able students, with little or no planning required.
The GCSE Citizenship Question Generator presents 101 challenging questions mapped to the curriculum that students can select at random to discuss.
You can use it as a starter activity, as a plenary, a revision tool or midway through a lesson to energise students and stretch their thinking.
The toolkit is complete, self-contained and ready-to-use. Simply play from the fourth slide and invite students to pick a button at random. Each one reveals a different question which will get students thinking deeply about the subject.
The GCSE Citizenship Question Generator will give your lessons a new dimension, motivating and engaging the students you teach!
The GCSE Drama Question Generator presents 101 challenging questions mapped to the curriculum that students can select at random to discuss.
You can use it as a starter activity, as a plenary, a revision tool or midway through a lesson to energise students and stretch their thinking.
The toolkit is complete, self-contained and ready-to-use. Simply play from the fourth slide and invite students to pick a button at random. Each one reveals a different question which will get students thinking deeply about the subject.
The GCSE Drama Question Generator will give your lessons a new dimension, motivating and engaging the students you teach!
Never before has stretching and challenging the thinking of your students been so simple and so effective. With the GCSE History Stretch and Challenge Generator you can push the thinking of your students at the click of a button - no planning required!
Containing over 100 challenge tasks and questions mapped to the curriculum, this fantastic tool will engage and excite your students as they get to select a challenge at random by clicking one of the icons on the fourth slide.
Alternatively, why not use the tasks and questions as pre-planned extension activities? Simply drop them into your existing lessons and be certain that you are consistently differentiating for the most able.
However you choose to use it, you can guarantee that the GCSE History Stretch and Challenge Generator will make pushing the thinking of your students easier than ever before. High challenge, great progress and big thinking will be a feature of every lesson you teach!
The GCSE Sociology Stretch and Challenge Workbook makes it as easy as possible for you to stretch and challenge the thinking of your most able students.
The workbook is self-contained and ready to use. It is thirty pages long, containing a wide range of stimulating, high-level activities. These are based on critical, creative and conceptual thinking, as well as the top two levels of Bloom’s Taxonomy – synthesis and evaluation.
Simply print off the workbook and give it to your most able students. They can then use it during lessons, when they have finished the main activity, or as the basis of challenging homework tasks.
The GCSE Sociology Stretch and Challenge Workbook is a perfect complement to the Stretch and Challenge Grid and the Stretch and Challenge Generator. All three together allow you to differentiate incredibly effectively for your most able students, with little or no planning required.
The A Level Media Studies Stretch and Challenge Workbook makes it as easy as possible for you to stretch and challenge the thinking of your most able students.
The workbook is self-contained and ready to use. It is thirty pages long, containing a wide range of stimulating, high-level activities. These are based on critical, creative and conceptual thinking, as well as the top two levels of Bloom’s Taxonomy – synthesis and evaluation.
Simply print off the workbook and give it to your most able students. They can then use it during lessons, when they have finished the main activity, or as the basis of challenging homework tasks.
The A Level Media Studies Stretch and Challenge Workbook is a perfect complement to the Stretch and Challenge Grid and the Stretch and Challenge Generator. All three together allow you to differentiate incredibly effectively for your most able students, with little or no planning required.
The GCSE Religious Studies Stretch and Challenge Workbook makes it as easy as possible for you to stretch and challenge the thinking of your most able students.
The workbook is self-contained and ready to use. It is thirty pages long, containing a wide range of stimulating, high-level activities. These are based on critical, creative and conceptual thinking, as well as the top two levels of Bloom’s Taxonomy – synthesis and evaluation.
Simply print off the workbook and give it to your most able students. They can then use it during lessons, when they have finished the main activity, or as the basis of challenging homework tasks.
The GCSE Religious Studies Stretch and Challenge Workbook is a perfect complement to the Stretch and Challenge Grid and the Stretch and Challenge Generator. All three together allow you to differentiate incredibly effectively for your most able students, with little or no planning required.
The GCSE English Stretch and Challenge Grid is one of the easiest ways to stretch and challenge the thinking of your students.
The resource combines three separate grids. The first contains 25 subject-specific questions and tasks mapped to the curriculum. The second contains 25 challenging tasks applicable to any area of the curriculum. The third is blank, ready to edit.
Simply print off one of the grids and give copies to your most-able students. You can then challenge them to complete tasks and questions during lessons or as part of their homework. Students can keep track by crossing off challenges as they complete them.
The resource also comes with a set of badges students can collect and tick off as they finish each task or question.
With the GCSE English Stretch and Challenge Grid you will be stretching and challenging the thinking of your students every time you teach, saving time along the way!
The A Level Economics Stretch and Challenge Grid is one of the easiest ways to stretch and challenge the thinking of your students.
The resource combines three separate grids. The first contains 25 subject-specific questions and tasks mapped to the curriculum. The second contains 25 challenging tasks applicable to any area of the curriculum. The third is blank, ready to edit.
Simply print off one of the grids and give copies to your most-able students. You can then challenge them to complete tasks and questions during lessons or as part of their homework. Students can keep track by crossing off challenges as they complete them.
The resource also comes with a set of badges students can collect and tick off as they finish each task or question.
With the A Level Economics Stretch and Challenge Grid you will be stretching and challenging the thinking of your students every time you teach, saving time along the way!
Never before has stretching and challenging the thinking of your students been so simple and so effective. With the KS3 DT Stretch and Challenge Generator you can push the thinking of your students at the click of a button - no planning required!
Containing over 100 challenge tasks and questions mapped to the curriculum, this fantastic tool will engage and excite your students as they get to select a challenge at random by clicking one of the icons on the fourth slide.
Alternatively, why not use the tasks and questions as pre-planned extension activities? Simply drop them into your existing lessons and be certain that you are consistently differentiating for the most able.
However you choose to use it, you can guarantee that the KS3 DT Stretch and Challenge Generator will make pushing the thinking of your students easier than ever before. High challenge, great progress and big thinking will be a feature of every lesson you teach!
The GCSE History Stretch and Challenge Grid is one of the easiest ways to stretch and challenge the thinking of your students.
The resource combines three separate grids. The first contains 25 subject-specific questions and tasks mapped to the curriculum. The second contains 25 challenging tasks applicable to any area of the curriculum. The third is blank, ready to edit.
Simply print off one of the grids and give copies to your most-able students. You can then challenge them to complete tasks and questions during lessons or as part of their homework. Students can keep track by crossing off challenges as they complete them.
The resource also comes with a set of badges students can collect and tick off as they finish each task or question.
With the GCSE History Stretch and Challenge Grid you will be stretching and challenging the thinking of your students every time you teach, saving time along the way!
Never before has stretching and challenging the thinking of your students been so simple and so effective. With the GCSE Sociology Stretch and Challenge Generator you can push the thinking of your students at the click of a button - no planning required!
Containing over 100 challenge tasks and questions mapped to the curriculum, this fantastic tool will engage and excite your students as they get to select a challenge at random by clicking one of the icons on the fourth slide.
Alternatively, why not use the tasks and questions as pre-planned extension activities? Simply drop them into your existing lessons and be certain that you are consistently differentiating for the most able.
However you choose to use it, you can guarantee that the GCSE Sociology Stretch and Challenge Generator will make pushing the thinking of your students easier than ever before. High challenge, great progress and big thinking will be a feature of every lesson you teach!
The KS3 History Stretch and Challenge Grid is one of the easiest ways to stretch and challenge the thinking of your students.
The resource combines three separate grids. The first contains 25 subject-specific questions and tasks mapped to the curriculum. The second contains 25 challenging tasks applicable to any area of the curriculum. The third is blank, ready to edit.
Simply print off one of the grids and give copies to your most-able students. You can then challenge them to complete tasks and questions during lessons or as part of their homework. Students can keep track by crossing off challenges as they complete them.
The resource also comes with a set of badges students can collect and tick off as they finish each task or question.
With the KS3 History Stretch and Challenge Grid you will be stretching and challenging the thinking of your students every time you teach, saving time along the way!
