UPD8

Great end of term activity!

Reviewer: Lindsey Owen

Fabulous activity for an end of term quiz or similar. Have used it for a few years. It might need updating now.(this is upd8 after all).

Reviewer: n baker

I am encouraging staff in my department to use your excellent resources. Activities are so useful in helping us to relate to new discoveries and to everyday life and are very quick to appear after a new discovery or event. Thanks

Reviewer: Christine McLean

I am encouraging staff in my department to use your excellent resources. Activities are so useful in helping us to relate to new discoveries and to everyday life and are very quick to appear after a new discovery or event. Thanks

Reviewer: Christine McLean

I am encouraging staff in my department to use your excellent resources. Activities are so useful in helping us to relate to new discoveries and to everyday life and are very quick to appear after a new discovery or event. Thanks

Reviewer: Christine McLean

I am encouraging staff in my department to use your excellent resources. Activities are so useful in helping us to relate to new discoveries and to everyday life and are very quick to appear after a new discovery or event. Thanks

Reviewer: Christine McLean

I am encouraging staff in my department to use your excellent resources. Activities are so useful in helping us to relate to new discoveries and to everyday life and are very quick to appear after a new discovery or event. Thanks

Reviewer: Christine McLean

I am encouraging staff in my department to use your excellent resources. Activities are so useful in helping us to relate to new discoveries and to everyday life and are very quick to appear after a new discovery or event. Thanks

Reviewer: Christine McLean

Great resource - used this for lots of groups in run up to end of term, y9 top and middle ability, Y10 all abilities. Very popular in the prep room, nicked by lots of other staff. Kept kids occupied for ages. Used it as a team activity that way there was always a pupil with an interest in one of the topics on a page who could research it. Didn't have the answers but that didn't really matter- explained at the beginning that it was very hard so kids were delighted at every correct answer they managed to find.

Reviewer: Katherine Swinson

I like the tenuous link with the bike race - but I'm not sure my students saw the point. However it kept my year ten group occupied for a lesson on the last day of term, lots of them were even quite keen to find the answers so they even learnt some stuff. Only a few tried to access the answers on the upd8 website.

Reviewer: Peter Rose

This is a fabulous resource to use in the computer suite. All students we focussed and engaged. It was great to have the answers and you can award bonus points and give points if students are on the correct line. I cut up the stages. Students could choose to re-look up the answers if they got a question wrong or move onto the next round. You have to keep a close eye on students walking around if you are not comfortable about that. It was really interesting to see how different groups tackled the task. One group took a question per student to research and find the answer and some groups told me the answer a question at a time.
I set up a simple spead sheet to give students running totals rather than use the box on page 4.

shouldn't it be time trial not trail?

don't forget to order stop clocks!

Reviewer: nichola keeley

I have used many upd8 resources this last term, with great success. I've just downloaded the tour de france game to try as an end of term activity for some bright and 'lively' year eights. Watch this space!

Reviewer: Gill Mulliss

Thank you for the answers.
A really great, meaningful activity for this time of year.

Reviewer: Mike Cox

Great idea, but why is the green jersey associated with the time trail???

Reviewer: simon mumford

I have downloaded the activity which looks fun but but can't find the answer sheet. Is there one and if so, where ?

Many thanks

Jeni Kubba - Sir William Perkins School

Sorry about the wait Jeni - it is there now (Ed)

Reviewer: Jeni Kubba

Seems great,and perfect as we run to the end of term. Answers please!

Reviewer: Susan Eacott

A great idea! I really like the simplicity of the time trials and the grading of the questions to match the coloured jersey! Something for everyone! An answer sheet would be greatly appreciated!

Reviewer: Jackie Burnett

This is fantastic, am working through it at the moment with fed up year 10's, but I need the answers!

Reviewer: Michelle Thwaites

Really like the idea and am going to give this as a summer quiz for our new GCSE classes.
That means all I need to do now is come up with a suitable prize

Reviewer: Ian Spilsbury

Wonderful resource for end of term work for years 9 & 10, may try with both.
Answer sheet by Friday please

Reviewer: Helen McNeoll

Looks a really good resource. I hope to use it after activities week with years 9 and 10 rather than the usual DVD's! Answers would be nice.

Reviewer: Catherine Barnes

This would be a great resources BUT there is no answer sheet!

Reviewer: Nicola Percy

Have downloaded the activity to use with year 9, looks really interesting and will certainly catch their interest. However, I can't find the answers file.

Reviewer: michelle dreenwood

This looks great. I would love to use it in an extra lesson because of a cancelled sports day, but I can't find the answer file. I would reconsider my rating if I had the answers.

Reviewer: pam goody

I ahve not yet used this resource in class but I liked what i saw that I am going to try and give the quiz as summer homework to our top Year 9 set.

I thought that the questions and the layout were excellent and catchy. As a teacher that is advertising the race to some of our pupils as the biggest test of human endurance (well 3500 km is a long way in anybody's book, even if most would use a car!!!!! - watch the carbon footprint on that one and nobody mention all the support vehicles) I can now spark the interest of some enquiring minds and prime them for the enterance into the new GCSE courses as well.

Thaks a bundle and I will let people know how we got on as and when I recieve the completed answers.

Peter Taylor
Joseph Swan School

Reviewer: Peter Taylor