Discover StoryScape, a groundbreaking collection of striking images coupled with imaginative story beginnings designed for pupils in Key Stages 2 to 3. Crafted to kindle creativity, refine writing abilities, and prompt deeper thought, this resource is your all-inclusive toolkit to captivate and inspire young learners! Free Preview: A free preview of two of the 52 images, example paragraphs and questions can be found here. Inside the Pack: 52 Carefully Chosen Images: Each image is handpicked to enthuse creativity and set pupils’ imaginations alight. Compelling Story Openings: Fuel your pupils’ creativity with captivating starters across a variety of genres and topics. Exemplary Sample Paragraphs: Propel the writing journey with sample continuations for each narrative beginning. Intriguing Thought-Provoking Questions: Foster deep contemplation, reflection, and group discussions, allowing pupils to delve into a myriad of narrative avenues. Available Formats: Google Slides Presentation Microsoft PowerPoint PDF format Why Opt for StoryScape? Suitable for a Range of Abilities: This toolkit caters to various aptitude levels and learning preferences, ensuring a consistent challenge. Multifunctional Resource: Effortlessly adaptable for distinct year groups, making it usable both in-class and remotely. Aligns with Key Learning Objectives: Whilst championing free-form creativity, the prompts also resonate with pivotal writing and reading comprehension competencies. How We Use this Resource: "I have primarily used this (with children between the ages of 7 and 11) as a morning activity and as an online lesson during lockdown, with the children trained to come in, look at the board where the image and story starter sentence is displayed and are then free to discuss with fellow students or start writing their own descriptive paragraph or short narrative. They became brilliant at it and the frequent practice led to fantastic progress in their longer form creative writing. We would sometimes read the example paragraph together, before, during or after they write. It was fun to identify similar themes to their own stories. If we had time, or if they were struggling, we’d look at the questions together and see if pair, group or class discussion helped them get started." Ideal For: Creative Writing Tasks Classroom Debates Invigorating Starter Activities Thoughtful Journaling Prompts Homework Tasks The slides give further details on 10 different ways you can use this resource in the classroom. Dive into the world of StoryScape and watch as your pupils’ creativity soars. This pack is a must-have for educators eager to nurture a passion for writing and narrative exploration.

Dive into ‘The Icebreaker Pack’ – Your Essential Tool for Fostering a Cohesive Classroom Community! Engage your pupils from the first lesson with this dynamic array of ice-breaking activities. With 25 expertly designed slides, this pack provides the perfect blend of fun, education, and camaraderie. What’s in the Pack: Quick Connect: A revamped “speed networking” exercise, customised for the classroom setting. Two Truths and a Lie: A classic and enduring activity to uncover interesting aspects of each pupil. Guess Who?: A fascinating guessing game that reveals captivating facts about every pupil in your class. Memory Name Game: This isn’t merely about recalling names; it’s about making a lasting impression! Why Opt for ‘The Icebreaker Pack’? Versatility: Ideal for a wide range of age groups and educational settings. Captivating Visuals: Crisp, professional, yet engaging slide designs that both capture attention and facilitate communication. Variations Included: Recognising that each class is unique, we’ve included additional ideas to tailor the activities to your specific group. A Hassle-Free Experience for Educators: Fed up with extensive preparations? Our pack is created with busy teachers in mind. With virtually no prep required, you can concentrate on what’s really important – building relationships with your pupils. While the ‘Guess Who?’ activity does necessitate paper, we’ve even thrown in a printable sheet for ‘Two Truths and a Lie’ to make life even easier! Available in three formats to meet your requirements: Google Slides, PowerPoint, and PDF. Let ‘The Icebreaker Pack’ be your trusted partner throughout the school year, ensuring that each new term starts with laughter, learning, and unforgettable experiences.

It is vital to communicate with families, but also vital that we keep a record of that communication. Having a Parent Communication Log helps you keep track of conversations and can allow you spot patterns that you may otherwise not see. It’s also incredibly useful to have a record to refer to during meetings and conferences too. This resource gives you lots of ways in which you can keep a Parent Communication Log. Your purchase will allow you to download a Zip file. In the Zip file you will find: Printable PDF Editable Excel version Instructions to access the Editable Google Sheets version.

Unleash the power of organization with our Dynamic Yearly Calendar Creator - a versatile and customizable Google Sheets template designed with your scheduling needs in mind. This easy-to-use template allows you to personalize your calendar to align with your preferences. Choose your preferred month, year, and week starting day (either Sunday or Monday), and watch as it magically generates a full set of 12 monthly calendars. Whether you prefer your calendars displayed in two columns or three, this template has you covered. Perfect for both on-screen use and printable versions, the Dynamic Yearly Calendar Creator ensures you stay on top of your dates, appointments, and deadlines, whether you’re at your computer or on-the-go. Once purchased, you’ll gain immediate access to this template on Google Drive. It’s time to take control of your time management. Whether you’re a teacher planning lessons, a student keeping track of assignments, or a professional coordinating your work schedule, the Dynamic Yearly Calendar Creator is your go-to solution for efficient and effective planning. Experience the seamless integration of organization and customization with our Dynamic Yearly Calendar Creator.

A fantastic Google Sheets Grade Book and Progress Chart Generator - ideal for collating grades and scores from across different tests, quizzes, homework and assignments. Letter (or number) grades are allocated automatically and the Grade Book is colour-coded for at-a-glance data analysis. Individual and class reports are instantly generated - perfect for sharing with students to ensure they are aware of their areas of strength, areas for development and general progress over time. FEATURES ★ For each assessment you can assign a maximum score and set grade boundaries (e.g. for an assessment out of 20, you might have: high > 15, mid 6-14, low < 5). It will use these to colour-code the scores and calculate percentages automatically. A letter (or number) grade is assigned to each student depending on their average percentage grade - the boundaries and gradings are easily editable on the ‘Overview’ page. It tracks student averages and class averages and presents this information to you in easy to understand charts. It creates a chart for each student showing their scores across each test - perfect for allowing them to see trends and to analyse their strengths and weaknesses. This is all collated on one sheet for easy printing. You can also instantly generate individual reports for each child where it compares their scores against the class averages. Configured for up to 40 assessments and 100 students, although you can add more, or delete, if needed. ★ WHAT YOU GET ★ Your purchase will enable you immediate access to a PDF with links to Google Drive and our tutorial video. ★ WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW ★ As this is built using Google Sheets, a Google account is required for use. It works on any device that works with the Google apps, but works best on a PC/Mac desktop, laptop, android tablet or iPad. ★ IMPORTANT ★ Please do not allow colleagues to make a copy - you have bought the right to use and edit a copy, but not for a team or a school. Please consider the time and effort put in by us before thinking of sharing.

We have created this to be a taster for our much larger teacher planner. This free resource allows you to see if this format of planner (with clickable links) suits your needs - it might even be sufficient for what you need. It has 2 weeks of ‘Week View’ and 7 days of each week with their own page. It is completely undated, meaning you could use this as your ongoing digital diary or simple planner - you can erase anything you enter! It is much less thorough than our paid offering, but it is free! For more information about Abacus Whiskers, please check out our website: www.abacuswhiskers.com Recommended apps for iPad are: GoodNotes (https://www.goodnotes.com/) Notability (https://notability.com/) Noteshelf (https://www.noteshelf.net/) ZoomNotes (http://www.zoom-notes.com/) Recommended apps for Android/Chromebook are: Noteshelf (https://www.noteshelf.net/) Your best option Xodo (https://xodo-docs.en.uptodown.com/android) You can also use other apps too, for instance Adobe PDF Reader If the hyperlinks don’t work: In most of these apps for the hyperlinks to be active you need to be in ‘view mode’. You can easily switch between modes on each of these apps . They are not yet sophisticated enough to know when you’re annotating and when you’re clicking!

This is a Google Sheet for entering student data for multiple assessments (it is configured for up to 52 assessments and 36 students, although you can add more, or delete, if needed). You can have a difficult value for the total number of marks available for each assessment. It will use the value you input and the students score to calculate a percentage automatically. In addition, it will colour-code the scores against your chosen banding data (Eg. For an assessment out of 20, you might have: above average > 15, average 6-14, below average < 5). Finally, it is set up to create a bar chart showing each child’s scores across the different assessments (so each child gets their own bar chart). You could use this to help the children to see trends and possible areas of weakness or where further work may be needed. This assessment sheet was created as part of testing for an improvement to our Google Sheets Editable Teacher Planner and is released free, either for users of our planner to insert into their planner, or as a standalone resource. You will receive a PDF with a link to the Google Drive to make a copy of the resource.

This resource is a planning document for Google Docs (a Google Sheets version is also included in the Drive folder). Designed to allow the planning or mapping out of multiple subjects or multiple classes across a term/semester/half term. Example ‘live links’ are included and are a great way to use this style of planning document. This planning sheet was created as part of testing for an improvement to our Google Sheets Editable Teacher Planner and is released for free. You can edit this as much as you want and you can share it, but please do not sell on for profit.