An assembly looking at ways of improving our environment at home and at school around the World Environment Day campaign. Suitable for secondary pupils and older primary
A curriculum report for Senior Leaders or Heads of Department/Faculty to monitor the attitude to work and behaviour for learning of pupils causing concern and who require line manager monitoring.
Resources for the Close Study Product for the AQA GCSE Media Studies course (first teaching September 2021). Designed for AQA, and anyone examining the Newspaper unit on The Daily Mirror and The Times. The 75 slide, 12 lesson resource includes all resources and twelve lesson’s work (with possible expansion) and pupil questions/activities. Download also includes a knowledge checklist for the CSPs.
Lesson 1: Introduction to The Daily Mirror and The Times. The politics of the press and impact on content.
Lesson 2: Comparing tabloids and broadsheets including key media language terms and analysis of pages.
Lesson 3: Detailed Daily Mirror analysis and media language and representation.
Lesson 4: Detailed Times analysis and media language and representation.
Lesson 5 and 6: A semiotic analysis of The Daily Mirror and The Times using media theories including Propp, Todorov, Barthes and Levi-Strauss.
Lesson 7: Audience analysis of The Daily Mirror and The Times including using media theories such as Blumler and Katz and Stuart Hall.
Lesson 9: How groups, people and events are represented in The Daily Mirror and The Times CSPs and why.
Lesson 10: The changing nature of newspaper circulation and distribution.
Lesson 11: Ownership of The Daily Mirror and The Times and how they have adapted in the light of changing audience habits.
Lesson 12: Press regulation and guidance for higher grades
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An assembly incorporating the top 10 tips for personal happiness. Deliverable to any year group -
although some of the scientific and holsitic aspects are more KS3 and KS4. Includes slides and full script for each slide in the ‘notes’ section.
A 5 or 6 lesson scheme of work that can form part of PSHE, careers-focus days or be completed independently with Key Stage 4 or 5 students. The Powerpoint resource can be used to support delivery and there are two pupil booklets to focus thinking and action planning. The units are:
- preparing for interview [with video stimulas]
- interview skills [with video stimulas]
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An assembly to promote Road Safety Week: Let’s Talk About Speed in November. This highly dynamic presentation has an assembly plus a range of ideas and resources for follow-up form time activities.
This beautifully-designed and editable 28-slide Powerpoint presentation creatively presents information on this event and can be showcased to any age group and includes specific pages for primary or secondary students. It includes images, dynamic transitions, informative text, video and links for extension work in form time – including extra video and classroom activities.
Slide 1: What is Road Safety Week?
Slide 2: Key Speed Facts in the UK.
Slide 3: Why is it getting worse?
Slide 4: No Need to Speed: 2023 video
Slide 5: Key Speed Messages: Making Safer Streets
Slide 6: Do you know the braking distances. Includes interactive tool/
Slide 7-8: What can you do to raise awareness?
Slide 9-10: Closing Thoughts
Slide 11: Follow-up form time activities title screen
Slide 12: Form time activities: Colouring activity
Slide 13: Form time activities: Human Rights Wordsearch
Slide 14: Form time activities: Look at crash information and crash hotspots near you
Slide 15: Form time activities: Victims’ Voices: short videos
Slide 16: Form time activities: The new highway code rules for pedestrians video
Slide 17: Form time activities: Write a poem activity
Slides 18-25: Form time activities: Road Safety quiz – with answers
Slides 26-28: Other form time ideas to support Road Safety Day in schools
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An informative 14 slide British Science Week PowerPoint for 11-16 year old students. Ideal for an assembly or as a lesson to kick off this special week.
Includes:
Slide 1: Intro
Slide 2: This years theme of connect and why.
Slide 3: Video - Smashing Science Stereotypes.
Slide 4: Quotes from celebrities about the importance of Science to them.
Slide 5: Why Science Matters.
Slide 6: Why Science Matters: STEM career paths.
Slide 7: Why Science Matters: a teacher perspective
Slide 8 and 9: Famous Scientists - from a range of backgrounds and representations.
Slide 10 and 11: What makes a good Science student at GCSE and A-Level?
Slide 13 and 14: How could you improve your understanding of Science at home?
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An assebly on the vital role of sleep on well-being and school achievement. This 9 slide Powerpoint presentation includes:
Slide 1: Title slide - introduction to theme.
Slide 2: How much sleep should a teenager have?
Slide 3: How does lack of sleep impact on us?
Slide 4: Why is lack of sleep becoming a social issue for teenagers?
Slide 5: Do you recognise these ‘bad sleep habits or behaviours’?
Slide 6-8: Top ten tips for a good sleep.
Slide 9: It’s up to you. What student will you be?
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Resources for the Close Study Product for the reformed (9-1) AQA GCSE Media Studies course. Designed for AQA, and anyone examining the Magazine, Tatler. The 23 slide 5 lesson presentation includes all resources and five lessons work (with possible expansion).
Lesson 1: What is Tatler? What issues does Tatler deal with? Who is the Tatler audience (including Young and Rubicam)
Lesson 2 and 3: Media Language in a magazine cover (includes video). Semiotic analysis of verbal and non-verbal codes, design, layout, use of colour, typography and photographic. Includes modelled responses for unseen magazine.
Lesson 4: Use of narrative theories (including Todorov, Propp and Barthes Enigma Codes).
Lesson 4: Media Representation How are people, issues and ideas represented in Tatler? What stereotypes are used? What stereotypes are not represented and why? What stereotypes are subverted? How different audience readings will exist and why?
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An assembly that looks at the science of anger and how to effectively manage this. This slides look at:
The impact of having anger issues (including video)
How common is it to have anger issues in your teenage years (some statistics)
The science of losing your temper (referencing the amydgala, the frontal cortex and the ‘fight or flight’ response)
Why do teens get angry?
Strategies to deal with anger management.
An assembly for Earth Hour 2023. Earth Hour is a global event that takes place annually to raise awareness about climate change and encourage people to take action. This year, the event will take place on March 25th from 8:30pm to 9:30pm. It’s a time for us to switch off our lights and any other electronic devices to reduce our energy consumption for one hour. By doing this, we are symbolically showing our commitment to the planet and the fight against climate change.
This highly dynamic 21-slide Powerpoint presentation creatively presents information on this event and can be showcased to any age group, but it probably most appropriate for secondary level. It includes images, dynamic transitions, informative text, video and links for extension work in form time – including quizzes, carbon footprint calculators and more.
Slides 1-3: Introduction to Earth Hour.
Slides 4-5: Video – can an hour change the world?
Slides 6-7: What does Earth Hour involve?
Slides 8-13: Why is there a need for an Earth Hour?
Slides 14-20: What can you do to support Earth Hour and our planet?
Slide 21: Closing video – Breathing new life into the movement.
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An assembly to celebrate pets on National Pets Month. National Pet Month is a special time of year when we celebrate our pets! It happens every April in the United Kingdom. During National Pet Month, we learn how to take good care of our pets by giving them healthy food, exercise, and love. We also learn how to keep them safe and happy.
This highly dynamic and editable 19-slide PowerPoint presentation creatively presents information on this event and can be showcased to any age group and includes specific pages for primary or secondary students. It includes images, dynamic transitions, informative text, video and links for extension work in form time – including extra video and classroom activities.
Slide 1 and 2: What is National Pet Month – includes great animations and video.
Slide 3: What are the good points of having pets at home or in school?
Slide 4: What are the most popular pets in the UK?
Slide 5 and 6: How to look after your pets
Slide 7: Final thought
Slide 8: Follow Up Form Time activities
Slide 9 to 11: Creative ideas for follow-up form time activities
Slide 12: Cat by Michael Rosen including video.
Slide 13: Example pet poem.
Slides 14-19: Pet form-time quiz – with answers
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An assembly to celebrate National Vegetarian Week in May. This highly dynamic presentation has an assembly plus a range of ideas and resources for follow-up form time activities.
This beautifully-designed and editable 22-slide PowerPoint presentation creatively presents information on this event and can be showcased to any age group and includes specific pages for primary or secondary students. It includes images, dynamic transitions, animated gifs, informative text, video and links for extension work in form time – including extra video and classroom activities.
Slide 1: What is National Vegetarian Week? Includes video.
Slide 2: What is a vegetarian?
Slide 3: The rise of vegetarianism.
Slide 4: Why is National Vegetarian Week important?
Slide 5: What are the health benefits of eating a vegetarian diet? Includes detailed teacher script in notes, if required.
Slide 6: What are the environmental benefits of eating a vegetarian diet? Includes detailed teacher script in notes, if required.
Slide 7: What are the animal welfare benefits of eating a vegetarian diet? Includes detailed teacher script in notes, if required.
Slides 8: What can you do during National Vegetarian Week?
Slide 9: Final thought
Slide 10: Form time activities title screen
Slide 11: Form time activities: Colouring activity
Slides 12-13: Form time activities: Wordsearch activity
Slide 14: Form time activities: Write a vegetarian poem
Slides 15-20: Form time activities: vegetarian quiz – with answers
Slides 21-22: Other form time ideas
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An assembly with key information, images and video to support the 2018 Holocauts Memorial Day drive on the importance of words and the impact on our beliefs and actions. The Powerpoint includes the following slide plan and is branded with all key 2018 logos and images to raise awareness:
Slide 1: Anne Frank quote
Slide 2: Video - who was Anne Frank (short animation)
Slide 3: The power of words
Slide 4: Words written during the Holocaust and during the subsequent genocides including
a) perpetrators, b) by critics and c) by people who wrote to survive, or to record their experiences for the future.
Slide 5: Famous writers and their responses to genocide.
Slide 6: Words today including images from newspapers and social media.
Slide 7: How we respond to words
Slide 8: Free speech and censorship including the ‘No Platform’ agenda.
Reviews welcomed and feedback often actioned.
An assembly for Year 8s or 9s on the reformed AQA GCSE Media Studies course. The presentations clarifies what Media Studies is and the various Close Study Products (CSPs) that students will study. It also highlights key questions for each CSP so that students will understand more of the content of the course.
An assembly to celebrate National Water Saving Week in May. This highly dynamic presentation has an assembly plus a range of ideas and resources for follow-up form time activities.
This beautifully-designed and editable 23-slide PowerPoint presentation creatively presents information on this event and can be showcased to any age group and includes specific pages for primary or secondary students. It includes images, dynamic transitions, animated gifs, informative text, video and links for extension work in form time – including extra video and classroom activities.
Slides 1-2: What is Water Saving Week? Includes video.
Slide 3: Water Saving Week: think about money
Slide 4: Water Saving Week: think about environment
Slide 5: Water Saving Week: think about habits
Slide 6: Water Saving Week: think about shopping
Slide 7: Water Saving Week: think about hygiene
Slides 8: Top Tips for saving water around the house: Kitchen
Slide 9: Top Tips for saving water around the house: Bathroom
Slide 10: Top Tips for saving water around the house: Garden
Slide 11: Final thought
Slide 12: Form time activities title page
Slide 13: Form time activities: Colouring activity
Slides 14: Form time activities: Wordsearch activity
Slide 15: Form time activities: Write a water saving poem
Slides 16-21: Form time activities: water saving quiz – with answers
Slides 22-23: Other form time ideas
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“Your new spec resources are saving me hours & hours of work! Thanks, they are really good.”
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A 7 slide assembly with video and separate PPT with a collection of motivational quotes to loop on entry into assembly looking at motivation. Suitable for secondary age pupils.
An assembly, featuring video, that explains how fair trade works and what happens to the money that we spend on most of our products. Suitable for primary or secondary.