Learning Resources
Card Game - 72 Jobs Top Trumps Cards Game - Ages 7-14
- Raises awareness of the opportunities in life at an early age
- 60 jobs in job families/sectors + 12 new emerging jobs
- Emphasis on emerging jobs related to developing technologies and sustainability
- Relates skills for learning to the capabilities needed at work
- Large Format cards (A6) with instructions for many different games and activities
- Ideal for visitors to school from different businesses to get them talking to children about the skills they need for their job.
- Includes blank card for photoopying so children can imagine their futures as a card
- Young people know the game and can lead this activity for adults who visit the school
£19.99 Per Pack. Discounts for orders over 5 packs
- Updated with 12 emerging jobs that help children think about the future of workwith the increase in artificial intelligence and a global warming
- Very positive feedback from volunteers from all sectors about the convesations the game facilitates with children about their jobs
- Very positive feedback from teachers about the use of the game with visitors to their classroom
- Discounts for bulk orders
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Explore My Future Wallchart and Stickers
Giant AO-sized wallcharts with set of 52 job stickers
Stickers Match the My Future My Choice Top Trump Cards.
The chart creates a framework for skills for learning and life.
Includes lesson plans and guidance notes for teachers and classroom visitors.
Works as an interactive aid for classroom visitors to to relate classroom learning to the world of work.
Can be used by the teacher and the class to monitor how well lessons are covering all the skills and capabilities needed for success.
Key Stage 2 and 3
£24.99 Per Poster - 3 pack option avaiable
- "We have put this poster in every Year 7 classroom, it causes the sort of real conversations we want to have between student and teacher and student and visitor " Business Relationship Coordinator Patchway Community College
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Explore, 'I Spy' Workbook and Stickers
33 Page activity packed workbook for use in and out of school
20 achievement stickers to collect from the class teacher
Comes with lesson plans and guidance notes
Templates for children to interview business volunteers and workplace quizzes for class visits
£3.99 Per book and £79.99 per class set of 30 books
- “It was the first time she had ever talked to us about her future and we talked lots about Secondary School” – Mother of 10 year old girl, North Bristol
Explore My Future Family Worksheets
Worksheets for a pupil led research project with their families
Fun take-home activity using communication skills
Includes lesson plans and guidance on how to engage parents and use their feedback to improve the school
Useful tool for schools self evaluation of their local community
£30.00 Per set of 30
- Trial schools in North Bristol reported 100% returns including returns from the hardest to reach families
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My Future My Choice Guidance Folder
How to run your a raising aspiration programme with business partners
Exploring ways of gaining support from local business and employers to aid transition between phases of education
Based on the work completed in the Key Stage 2 Path Finder Project and the Key Stage 3 to 4 Vision My Future Programme.
Information for school leaders and classroom teachers
Includes all the teaching resources from the My Future progarmmes to build a school INSET day for KS2 and KS3 settings
£24.99 Per folder
- “We used My Future My Choice as part of our focus
on raising aspirations. Our SAT scores went up by about 20%. 81% for Literacy
and 86% for maths with level 4 or above.” Year 6
Teacher, Bankleaze Primary, Bristol part of the Key Stage Two Path Finder Programme
- "My Future My Choice is a great organisation. I worked with them and it inspired me to lead an 'Aspirations-Project at my School" Gemma Jackson, Principal of Minerva Academy
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Curious about Engineering Card Pack
52 Real life engineers recreated as Top Trump style Cards.
Cards represent diversity in engineering
13 sectors with an emphasis on the emerging job roles in engineering
£19.99 Per pack - class set of 5 packs 89.99
Fast Forward - Three Part Adventure Movie
A Sci-Fi adventure.What difference would it make if you got a glimpse of the future on your mobile phone?
Five 13 year olds with very different backgrounds are caught up in this adventure and have to accept that actions they take now will impact on their future
Comes with lesson plans that feed off decisions and activities related to the adventures of the film's diverse characters
- Visioning
- Goal Setting
- Self Belief
Key Stage 3 PHSE /Careers/ Drama/ English
For young people with choices to make about life and school before they start their GCSE years
£44.99 For DVD, School Site Licence and CD
Whole School Site Licence - unlimited broadcasting
DVD
CD with lesson plans and teachers notes
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Vision My Future Journal
A4 22 pages - activities that help 13 to 14 year-olds reflect on their passions, strengths and weaknesses and the ways in which decsisions or action steps taken now can help achieve success and happiness. The journal is about life not just school and it encourages students to see the advantages of a balance in all aspects of life and self belief in following their passions. Highquality paper means the book can be use with paints. The workbook is often used as follow up activity after the Build My Future Board Game.
£53.99 per 30 books
Build My Future Board Game
A collaborative game for up to 6 players aged 13 and above. The game explores new freedoms and the choices to be taken as a child progresses through adolescence into adulthood. In particular the game reveals how choices taken between 13 and 17 will impact on the future 25 year old. The boxed game comes with resources to reflect on the character the group has created which can be followed with "About Me Sheets" which turn the individual players attentions on themselves to help them vision and affirm action steps they can take that will help them achieve a happy and succesful future. A game lasts about an 80 minutes and cards can be stacked and stored so that the game can be revisited across two or more sessions.
'Vision My Future' student workbooks are also available for use with this resource.
£22.99
Sets of 5 for use with a class of 30 - £99.99
Construction Kits
Aviation 3D Timeline - contains a two metre-long timeline, four models to make and four A3 Posters
Two metre long Timeline that shows key moments from 1803 (Cayley Glider ) to 2050 (Virgin Galactic). The four card models are all about 30cm in length and mark key points in the history of aviation from 1900 to 1960s
1. Bristol Scout - bi-plane
2. Spitfire
3. English Electric Lightening
4. Concorde
Four A3 posters- Each model has an A3 poster with all the essential information about the aircraft. To build the models the maker must use construction techniques used in the assembling of a real aircraft. All instructions and gummed paper tape included. (no glue)
Two packs will create an activity for a class of 30 working in teams - combined with the gliders from the Steve Smith Aircraft Factory this is a great fun science and humanities project
£24.99 per pack
Aircraft Factory - 20 Quick Build Gliders
Simple construction kit using different weights of card, plastacine and thin sticks to create a glider that can be trimmed to fly straight and flat or perform circles or loop the loop
Comes with instructions to illustrate lift and thrust and an activity plan for setting up a competition with a series of flight tests that engage participants in identifying defect and engineering improvement
Fun and learning for all ages from 7 years upwards. Designed for Key Stage 2 and 3 but has been used by A Level Physics groups and University Engineering Courses
£25.99 20 Glider pack £20.99 10 Glider Pack
Large Cardboard Boat Kit - Tudor Vessel
Tudor Vessel
This is a fully functioning model of John Cabot's ship The Matthew that sailed to Newfoundland in 1497. This Tudor vessel comes with support materials for history and science learning about the Tudor period, sailing and exploration
The kit comprises of card parts, tape, string and full instructions to build a metre long sailing boat.
There are easy to follow instructions for ballasting, waterproofing and sailing
Help children launch their future by sharing their aspirations through decorating the boat before staging a fun boat race
Ages 7 upwards
£28.50 Per boat kit
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Large Cardboard Boat Kit - Pilot Cutter
Pilot Cutter
A functioning model of the Bristol Pilot Cutter, a fast sailing yacht. The kit comes with support materials for history and science learning about sailing and trade
The kit comprises of card parts, tape, string and full instructions to build a metre long yacht.
There are easy to follow instructions for ballasting, waterproofing and sailing
Help children launch their future by sharing their aspirations through decorating the boat before staging a fun boat race
Ages 7 upwards
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£24.99 Per boat kit - multi packs available
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Small Boat Kit - Catamaran on Wheels
All parts are included for a land-yacht racers
There are two single hull yachts in each pack
Each boat sails on cotton reels on dowel axels (supplied) when placed in a breeze from a fan or an open door
Children quickly realise the advantages of two hulls for speed and balance, joining two yachts together to go faster as a catamaran
Design encourages repeated experiments with sail sizes and methods to balance and improve the speed of the boat
Comes with lesson ideas for exploring transport and trade as well as illustrating why cooperation and team work are needed for success
Four children can work with one pack and they will realise the importance of team work and collaboration by joining forces to build the catamaran
Ages 5 to 8
£6.50 For two boats/one catamaran multi packs available
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The GG2Hydraulic Arm
Push fit parts for teams to build and operating a robotic arm
All parts and full instructions supplied
Learning resources and lesson plans for explaining how gears, hydraulics, pneumatics and pulleys work to give mechanical advantage
Lesson plans for running competitions that reveal how team-working skills can be improved
Key Stage 3 and 4Enjoyed by families and mixed age groups
£29.99 Per Crane
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Caley 1803 Glider
This learning resource replicates Sir George Caley's model glider from 1803. Exact size, but this model uses depron and balsa which were both unavailable in 1803. Comes with history resources that reveal why Caley is viewed as the father of flight. All instructions and parts included exept the glue.
Glider will fly the length of a sports hall when the tail, which acts as elevator and rudder is correctly trimmed. Throwing and catching this slow moving glider can be run as team challenge.
The construction of the glider can be broken down into two parts so that a team of 4 students can make and fly one model.
£14.99
A class set of 8 gliders - £99.99
Large glider with airfoil wing
Flat corrugated card is used to create a hollow airfoil wing that sits on a solid fuselage. Glider is approx 600mm long. No glues are needed. Gummed light-weight tape is included. Easy to build and responds well to trimming of tail fin rudder and elevators to adjust turn and lift. The kit is designed for a team of 4 students aged 10 and upwards.
£5.99
A class set of 8 kits - £40.00
Quick-Build No-Glue Stunt-Plane
Explains the principles of flight without the need for any glue. Wing and fuselage clip together to create an airfoil cross-section. Comes with plasticine and gummed tape to achieve correct balance. The construction allows for a variety of trim so that the aircraft can fly straight, loop the loop or bank and return to the launcher. Users can cut into the design, copy parts and build a variety of their own designs using this simple construction as a starting point. Suits ages from 8 upwards. Similar models used in aerodynamics lecturers to recruits at NASA.
£20.99 for 10 Planes £5 for 2 planes
SS Great Britain - Celebrating 50 years since her return to dry dock in Bristol
A metre long model of the SS Great Britain. Made from robust corrugated board and gummed paper tapes the model can be decorated and waterproofed ready for a sailing.
No glue is needed. Age 8 upwards.
The sailing event to celebrate this iconic ship would have normally been part of the Bristol Harbour Festival in July 2020. Due to Covid19 we are waiting until it is safe to do this. Hopefully in September /October.
Joining in with the mass sailing event is not essential. The kit comes with full instructions for waterproofing, ballasting and sailing. If you build the ship we will keep you posted.
Please send us pictures of your decorated ship so we can display a fleet of SS Great Britains on our website to celebrate 50th anniversary of her return to Bristol to become one of the top heritage sites in the UK.
£20.00 For one kit £35 for two
Prehistory Model Boat
Fun to build and a great way to explore boat building. These kits represent the earliest boat building techniques of the bronze age (Feriby Bronze Age Boat). They also model the traditional boats of the Somerset Levels called Somerset Flatners. The kits help children understand construction techniques as well as appreciate how design-technology is influenced by available materials as well as the need and purpose. The kits come with instructions and fact sheets that explain and link boat building techniques related to this kit from around the world. All materials supplied and no glues needed. 100% Biodegradable just like the original boats.
£5.00 for 2 boats. £15 for pack of 10 boats