Thriving Minds

Great for a display board or side board! Print out the tree, better to enlarge (currently on A4) and then cut out and laminate the tree. I write words on the leaves and we repeat them everyday but you can also ask the children to write their names and decorate their leaves and stick them on and have it as a class tree with everyone's name! Remember to laminate the leaves if you are planning to re-use them! Many ways to use this tree! Hope you like it:)

In my suitcase I took... Perfect game to help increase your child's/students memory. All the objects are ready to cut out and laminate along with the suitcase poster. Put a few items on, take one away, can you guess which one? You can also try adding them too and see if they can remember which one has been added. Hope you like it!

Great information sheet on what Christingles are, their history and why we make them. Great for primary and junior school students! Hope you like it:)

Great worksheet to teach and show students how to stretch and develop sentences to include the best description and detail possible. Gives examples and explanations and plenty of space designed for students to develop their own sentences. Would take 1 lesson in my experience. Hope you like it!:)

As a mentor, I try to make activities quite personal which does tend to hold the concentration better. This worksheet works really well. Read the unicorn story twice, answer the questions and then answer the other set of questions which is personal choice. i.e. What are you going to name the unicorn? and How old is the unicorn? These are questions with no answers in the story so it allows the children to think on their own and write their answer. Story written by Aiesha Brown and edited by

This is an amazing resource that I made to get children of any age (I use it for primary and secondary) to look at a wider range of texts and to develop understanding in all areas of writing (eg. structure, layout, purpose, format, text type). This resource is 34 pages but is set to print as an A5 booklet. It has a front cover, a page on how 20 minutes of reading a day can improve reading dramatically, a page on how to prepare yourself to get the best out of reading, a page on how to use the boo

Nice little reading log that I use with my mentoree! On each page there is a table with Title, Author, Date, Rating (Stars to colour) and comments. You can fill this in, the parents and even the child themselves. Perfect way to keep track of all books read and how well they have done so! Best to print double-sided and staple in the middle. I hope you like it!

Noun Madness is an interactive quiz board game. Noun questions are asked with multiple choice answers; you then click your choice and either go to a thumbs up or thumbs down slide. If you got it wrong, you go back and try again, if you got it right, you go to the next. There are 9 questions in total; perfect for a starter! The PowerPoint has information slides on all the different nouns - common, proper, singular, plural and collective before the quiz. Hope you like it:)

I love this resource so much! I write the word of the week on the main train and then break down the word in each carriage and every lesson before we start we break up the word and put it all together or sometimes I put the sounds used in each word for my more advanced students. Never fails to make the children laugh! Print as big as you like a laminate, I use this on our display board. Document contains one train and 2 carriages and an end carriage. Hope you like it!

These flashcards are fun and great to use - great introduction into creative writing and getting your students to think about different plots and ways stories turn out. Resource has 6 character flashcards, 6 setting flashcards and 6 food flashcards. Students can pick one from each or randomly select the cards and then write a story based on them. Resource also has beginning, middle and end flashcards which you could print for all students along with 3 flashcards of things to think about at the

What is Success? is a great presentation about achieving our goals and how we perceive success, presentation includes 3 success stories in between every 2 slides. Lot of thought provoking and thinking time. Hope you like it! Please leave a review!

Perfect to teaching your children/students alphabet recognition and lower and upper case letters. Cut out the flash cards (laminate is optional), ask the children/students to match up the uppercase with the lowercase letter. I find my students like to do it on the floor, nice change from sitting at the table! Great activity as a lesson starter or as part of the main lesson!

This is a fun thing I quickly wrote up on a whiteboard and then designed on a computer! Fun maths window with a good story to tell your students. I tell my mentoree that one day she woke up and looked out and there were numbers floating in the sky. I think it is a fun way of choosing sums and learning addition, subtraction, division and multiplication. Hope you like it!

Great game to learn and recognise shapes, edge and corners. Laminate the 4 big shape posters, cut out and laminate the objects and then ask the children to sort the shapes accordingly. Great game for recognition! I use this game in A3 but have put into A4. can easily change. Hope you like it!

Great game for memory boosting skills or just for fun! I sometimes use is just to relax during form time. I cut them out and laminate to make them last longer; print two of each page and you're ready to go! Hope you like them!:)

Perfect worksheet for getting your children/students to think about objects/items by reading clues and writing the answers. Improves thinking and handwriting. Great to do as a class; 3 worksheets included with an answer sheet. Hope you like it!

Great resource for teaching animals to younger children. Not all animals are the most common, have used a lot of unusual animals to extend knowledge, most children know dogs and cats etc. Cut out the card and laminate if wish, I use this as part of an activity or lesson starter. You can also print two copies of play snap! Hope you like it!

Lovely little thing to give out to help children remember their fractions, I hole punched mine and added some ribbon and gave them out to my students. 4 per page, print in colour for best results! Hope you like it!

Perfect for parents/teachers/mentors who do teach speech or look at speech in children. List of sounds in the order they should be learnt in. Also good for picking up delays in children's speech. Hope you like it!

Great way of teaching students to tell the time - by making their own clock and then using it during lessons! Cut out all the numbers and two hands, stick the numbers to the clock and use a paper fastener to attach the hands correctly. I laminated my clock, numbers and hands but then you have to use something sharp to make a hole so the hands turn smoothly. Last's longer though!! Hope you like it!:)