This is a blank mind map worksheet for creating a book review. Prints on A4, best photocopied up to A3 size. Pupils fill in boxes with brief descriptions as prompted for story characters, draw and label the elements of the storyline, tick boxes to show the genre and their opinions in brief, fill in other boxes to give a summary of their overall opinion of the book. A much more appealing and accessible alternative to a formal written book review, which still includes all the important elements.

An Excel spreadsheet with conditional formatting & command buttons. When you load this, you will be prompted about macros. Click to ENABLE macros to run. A vocab list is given, and the target language can be hidden and displayed using command buttons on the screen. The user hides the target language, tries to type in the answer in Col C, and the cell turns yellow if the word entered matches the contents of Col B. This is set up with French adjectives, but you can adapt this to whichever vocabulary you like in whatever language.

Oh how I tire of pupils telling me that 0.9 is smaller than 0.21! This excel sheet is a good starter or quick supporting exercise for ordering decimals with different numbers of decimal places. It shows three randomly generated decimals, one with one dp, one with 2, one with 3. The numbers have different coloured backgrounds. Pupils can compete to name the biggest and the smallest, calling out either the number or the background colour.

I've adapted a powerpoint from elsewhere, with characters from ORT, adding very simple French titles to each slide to illustrate bonfire night customs. The word docs are 6 images and the corresponding Fr captions, for making flashcards etc.

Two different creative writing tasks focussing on producing a written dialogue, using speech punctuation, alternatives to "said" and other dialogue features. These were used to fire the imagination of pupils in Year 4 and 6, while practicing technical punctuation rules we had rehearsed through exercises,

An interactive spreadsheet with command buttons using macros to add or subtract any multiple of 10 up to 1 million to/from a given number. As the teacher you can enter a start number and challenge ppls to add or subtract 10, 100, 1000, 10,000, 100,000 or a million, then press the corresponding command button and the number automatically changes. Or say, what happens if we add 2000? and press the "1000" button twice. One of the files offers a simplified version just focusing on adding/subbing 1, 10 or 100.

A multiple choice answer quiz where the user selects the only correct (British) spelling. The spellings used are from the National Curriculum English Curriculum appendix on spellings for Year 3 and 4. The "wrong" answers target common misspellings. Each time the quiz is run, a different 20 spellings are chosen at random from a bank of 100. Players score 2 points for a correct answer and -1 for a wrong answer. They are told their score at the end. This is an excel file and you will need to enable macros to run the quiz.

This Word document prints onto an A4 sheet, which can be folded (with one small cut/tear) to make the classic 8 page minibook. The text on the document describes in REALLY SIMPLE TERMS the process for adding and subtracting fractions with unlike denominators. It's designed for LA pupils but the text can be adapted to use more technical words. Indeed, the whole text can be entirely changed to whatever 7-step process you want to describe. My pupils were very excited to have their own book describing what they saw as a difficult procedure.

This Excel spreadsheet with built-in code makes it possible to easily create a multi-choice quiz from your own lists and materials. I made this as a pupil said it would help her sort out her KS2 spellings, and I have also used it to quiz others on fraction-decimal equivalences. I often have to work offline, and wanted something I could adapt on my own PC without searching through the web and downloading off the internet. The program simply runs on Excel: you do have to save your file as macro-enabled format though. Excel will alert you to this when you come to save. When you open the file, click to enable macros and editing. On Sheet1, simply copy your list of questions into the first column and add your choice of correct answer plus three incorrect answers. On Sheet2, press the big grey button and the program runs, generating a colourful screen presenting your questions and answers in a random order, in large print ComicSans, while keeping score. Note: This works best as a teacher-controlled quiz or whole-class whiteboard activity, as it's not too hard for a savvy pupil to switch away from the quiz onto the sheet containing the answers.

A multiple choice quiz with 20 spellings picked at random from the national curriculum spellings list for Year 6. For each word, the correct spelling and three plausible misspellings are shown - if the user selects the correctly spelt word, they score 2 points, otherwise 1 point is deducted from the score. At the end of the game, the user is told their total score. Each time you run the quiz, a new set of spellings is picked randomly. You will need to enable macros to run. You do not need to save the file after running the quiz. There are two spellings in this program where the corresponding American spelling is set as an incorrect answer (including the word "program" ha!) . This would be suitable for a whole-class whiteboard activity, or a self-study activity in the ICT suite. Pupils cannot sneak a look at the answers within the quiz program. Please contact me if you would like the quiz with a different set of questions/answers.

A short worksheet with prompts and writing lines, designed to help pupils develop their creativity. Each prompt is a main clause with a suitable connective: the pupil completes the sentence by completing the subordinate clause with an idea from their imagination. In this way, pupils are encouraged to develop their work using complex sentences.

Excel worksheet with a single command button, generating a random number. You are first asked to enter the highest number possible. Eg in MFL, teachers can use this as a resource for Q&A on number names. If each child in the class has their own number (eg for the register) this could be used to select a pupil at random. You will have to ensure that macros are enabled to run this.

In this 100 number grid, the teacher can set the start number and the increment number - ie whether the grid starts from 0 or 1 or 83, and whether it counts up in 1s, 2s, 10s or 100s (or any number). There are some blank-out box shapes to the side of the grid, so that you can cover over some numbers and get the children to work out and give them to you back. The start number and increment number are to the right hand side. Change these - don't change any of the numbers on the coloured grid itself.

A collection of 20 images of tessellations (or near-tessellations) from architecture, craft and art, arranged on a slow-endless-loop ppt. Intended as a cute visual backdrop to pupils' working time.

This powerpoint presents 13 different fruit, building them up gradually in a format which challenges and helps the pupils to remember all 13. The final slide is a tictactoe.

This resource is designed to go with the Year 5/6 Twinkl lesson on The DNA race. Instead of reading aloud the text of how the DNA model was developed, this simple script allows up to 9 children to take part in role playing the different scientists involved. Using "Discovery cards" which the actors don't read until the right part of the play means that no-one knows what is going to happen until it happens.