I'm a tired teacher just like you; fighting to balance the importance of my own life with the fun and high level of education I want to give my students.
I hope these resources save you time so you can focus on the important things in life.
I'm a tired teacher just like you; fighting to balance the importance of my own life with the fun and high level of education I want to give my students.
I hope these resources save you time so you can focus on the important things in life.
I tend to put these at the end of certain topics or units or work but I have given them to colleagues who use them at the front of the book or to inform parents evening. They include year 1 targets for literacy and maths. I’ve also left a blank template for lesson specific tables. I really recommend children using their own hands for thumbs up, down, sideways as self assessment t the end of lesson first so they can understand the concept.
My kids found this easy to grasp and fun.
Enjoy :)
A fun little powerpoint with very cheesy St. Patrick’s Day jokes. I would use this with the kids in my class as well as a whole school assembly.
Appropriate for year 2 and above :)
Includes step-by-step instructions both written and drawn as to how to create a cartoon lion. There is both a word and Powerpoint version.
I’ve used activities like this regularly to improve my classes listening, confidence in art skills and get used to positional language.
I have used this in RE when teaching Daniel and the Lion’s Den as well as science when studying animals. If you wish to use this as a literacy activity I have an alternative resources which is the same but altered to find word classes or focus of imperative verbs.
I would use this activity throughout the keystages giving the picture step-by-step for younger ages and simply giving audible steps for older classes.
Hope it saves you time :)
A really fun, interactive quiz is aimed at older children or to be used as an assembly on this special day. It’s got a range of information, photos and interesting facts. Everyone should learn a little more about Saint Patrick’s history and how celebrating him has changed over the years.
There are 3 rounds; 1. Saint Patrick Facts
2. True or False
3. Saint Patrick’s Day
Hope this activity saves you some time :)
Fun quiz with 4 rounds short rounds; 1. Lock down facts 2. Name That Celebrity 3.Happy Lock down Stories 4.Photo Challenge.
You can play this on zoom with your children, one round per day or all in one go. You could also use this a welcome back in assembly or with your class. It’s a fun, positive way to talk to the children about how our world has dealt with the current virus.
It was made for 5 primary use but is definitely suitable for secondary also.
Enjoy :)
A fun assembly introducing the Royal Family beginning with Aethelstan the first King of England. It includes 29 speaking parts, 1 song and costume suggestions.
This is a great way to introduce the Coronation of King Charles and a tribute to Queen Elizabeth, but can be used anytime to teach the timeline of the Royal House of Windsor. We used this script for the teaching staff and used one memeber of staff as the narrator. This script is aimed at key stage 2 onwards but as usual can be adapted for younger kids, particularly if the teacher narrates or narrators read from cards.
Hope this saves you some time :)
In fact there are 2 slightly different version of the traditional stations of the cross assembly celebrated in church school. This includes a powerpoint, reflections and responses for those in the assembly.
Hope it saves you some time!
Cut and laminate this chart to display at the front of your class. Children will quickly learn what noise level you expect within specific lessons. Great evidence of clear clear expectations within lesson observations.
Display this powerpoint at the end of a lesson.
It shows symbols used for self assessment and a range of sentence starters for pupils to record in their books for both self and peer assessment. The sentence starters are general and should be applicable to all subjects.
Saves a lot of time rather than recording red pen questions for individual children.
Three levels of worksheets to identify and create your own sentence types. Each page includes the definition of each sentence type which is great for beginners or revision, but this could be edited to become a cloze procedure.
I’ve used this to introduce the topic in class and then to send home for parents in HW. Many of my parents said they found the definitions really helpful and put them up at home as they hadn’t been taught how to identify them before.
Assembly script based on a trip to space introducing the sun and the planets to the rest of the school. The script teaches some facts on each planet and their order from the sun.
It has 15 speaking parts but is easily adjustable to share out the lines and add more. It contains one song, lyrics, links to lots of sound effects and a list of costume suggestions.
This a really fun assembly to watch and act out full of laughs and facts.
Hope it saves you some time :)
A cool little boardgame which can be used as an introduction to the topic, assessment at the end of topic in KS1 or as a knowledge harvest in KS2.
Children pick up a card with an animal or plant on it and they move around the board choosing which habitat or micro habit that animal lives in. The game ends when all the cards are gone.
The game targets these KS1 science objectives in the English Curriculum:
a)identify that most living things live in habitats to which they are suited and describe how different habitats provide for the basic needs of different kinds of animals and plants, and how they depend on each other.
b) identify and name a variety of plants and animals in their habitats, including micro-habitats.
Assembly script based on the ‘Twas the night before Christmas’ poem. The script comprises of 30 parts.The teacher or Teaching Assistants should narrate while the class act it out through mime or dance. Santa is the only speaking part, which could be covered by a teacher too.
The script is extremely adaptable and funny.
The original poem was wordy so it’s been altered slightly, but is sure to bring tears, laughter and Christmassy joy.
Hilarious and fun script all about Robin Hood and Nottingham. Written for KS2 and beyond.
Great to use as a class play or assembly based on a literacy topic.
Enjoy!
Assembly script based on the ‘Twas the night before Christmas’ poem. The script comprises of 30 parts. It has 12 narrators and 18 acting parts involving a lot of mime or dance.
The script is extremely adaptable and funny.
The original poem was wordy so it’s been altered slightly and would be most suitable for year 3/P4 and anything right through secondary school.
If you wanted to adapt it for a younger class I would recommend giving the narrators the words to read on cards rather than learning them off.
KS2 focused assembly about sound. It teaches children about sound waves, the ear structure, pitch and percusion songs. It is a very informative assembly but with lots of humour, practical illustrations and one percussion song for the children to perform. There are speaking parts for 30 children varying in length and ability and links to sounds and visuals at the bottom of the assembly.
Science topics should definitely be used more as assembly subjects!
Enjoy!
Assembly script based on the classic Aesop’s Fable; The Tortoise and The Hare. It focuses on encouraging kids to work hard and not to compare themselves with others.
It has speaking parts for 30 children and includes some use of background music.
This can be used for any class year 2 and up.
It’s a fun assembly, hope you enjoy it :)
Example of write up and the evidence I used to show I had met each teaching standard while completing my teacher training.
Great to use for ideas while for your teacher training or performance management targets.
A welcome back assembly script to introduce kids to some of the changes Covid 19 has made on school life. The assembly can be adapted to be given by the staff or a class. In my school it will be recorded by the year 6 children and staff members and shown in every class as we are unable to accomodate assemblies.
Staff members thought this was a fun and light way to highlight changes in the school, but also to emphasize the love and care which is still in our school environment.
It includes 29 speaking parts, 1-2 acting parts and 2 songs with lyrics and links to music.
Enjoy!
