A worksheet for children to draw or produce a cartoon for the creation story as told in the Bible and Torah. Editable in case you are only looking at one of these faiths. Scottish Curriculum RME 1-01a 2-01a 1-04a 2-04a.

An Easter assembly done as 5 news bulletin reports outlining the different parts of the Easter story as it may be reported today. I used this for the Easter service at church across 5 classes but easily adapted to an assembly and different groupings. 10 speaking parts. Could also be an Easter dram/RE/RME lesson.

Guided worksheet to explore some the beliefs about Muhammad. I used alongside the video How Islam Began - In Ten Minutes which is easy to find online.

Photos of real situtations when students will experience time with a set of questions related to them. I have both printed on Photo sized paper and have used as a wall display, carousel activity and fast finishers job.

A great story to explain that everyone has different points of view depending on their experience. This sheet can be used to draw the elephant using the descriptions of the different blind men.

These look very effective as a wall display if you give a choice of bright colours for the lamps. The download is a PDF with instructions and templates for the lamps and flames. Top tip provide the glitter glue in the small plastic shot glasses you find in pound shops and give them cotton buds to apply it with. You only need to provide a tiny amount of glitter glue and it can all get binned at the end of the lesson ;)

A collection of bloopers of apostrophe mistakes to prompt discussion. Could be used as a lesson starter or plenary.

Simple explanation of how power stations generate electricity.

A sheet for children to design their puppet before making it. (I have always used a large pipecleaner wrapped around the handle for the arms.)

PowerPoint presentation setting Learning Intentions and Success Criteria for a lesson working on describing settings. Designed to be interactive with hyperlinks from slide 4, touch an adjective and get a selection of photos which fit that description. Invite to use words related to the senses in their writing. Sets a task to write a descrption using a set of pictures of different settings (I used 2 sets from different teacher resource sites, one pictorial and the other photos to give children a choice).

A selection of sentences for adding capital letters at the start of the sentences, proper nouns and for abbreviations. Editable version included to allow personalisation for your class. Great as a main lesson activity, for practice or as a morning starter reminder.

Quick way to generate data for information handling purposes. Also great for chance and uncertainty, calculating odds etc. Throw dice for a set period of time and tally results. Create bar or pie charts from data. Compare to charts for combined results of the class. MNU1-22a 2-22a

A sheet to scaffold the writing of directions including key vocabulary at the bottom of the page. I've used to get children to write a range of directions between 2 places in the school or school grounds. MTH1-17a

Simple activity for data handling or for introducing classification in Science. Animals sheet give 3 sets of animals per sheet to save on printing. I also have anothe Carroll diagram resource which sorts dog biscuits.

Experiment to investigate the effects of salt and sand or grit on ice. Introduces the idea of a catalyst and explores why we grit the roads in winter. SCN 0-05a 1-05a 2-05a

Sheet to guide research into different types of fossil fuels or as a follow on from teaching input.

Basic book report for lower school to rate and review a book. Great way to link some writing to ERIC Silent Reading Time. Makes an effective display in a library area or reading corner.

Banner with a quote from the Disney song Colours of the Wind. "You think the only people who are people Are the people who look and think like you But if you walk the footsteps of a stranger You'll learn things you never knew, you never knew" I used this to explore differences and prejudice at many levels of society. This is an Excel file which is set to print on many pages to make a long banner. The picture is printed on one A4 sheet and is for illustration only.

A PowerPoint exploring the Apollo 8 Christmas broadcast to Earth and why men of science also practised religous beliefs. Clicking the photo on slide 5 should play the sound file. If this doesn't happen the hyperlink on slide 5 will need adjusting. Right click the photo, Edit hyperlink and locate where you have saved the sound file to. You may want to delete/amend Slide 2. You will need to add your name an beliefs to Slide 7.

I have used this many time in P1 (Reception) to get children to identify coins correctly. They place the coins under the sheet and use silver and bronze crayons to gently rub the design onto the sheet. They think this is magic and really enjoy the task. Works with plastic coins.