Sharing ideas to help make relief teaching fun, enjoyable, and meaningful for both teachers and students. Whether you are a newly graduated teacher seeking some experience, or a professional teacher, relief teaching can be a little daunting at times, my mission is to make your job easier by sharing ideas and activities that I have tried and tested in the classroom over 40 years.




My name is Nikki Tester and after 40 years of teaching, I thought it was well overdue to start sharing my experiences, mentorship and strategies for creating meaningful and engaging material for you to use in your daily teaching.
About twenty years ago, I began to build a resource kit for myself when I began casual teaching, and then I realised just how many ideas and activities I had been using over the years. 
I have spent many hours searching through websites, searching books for great ideas and activities. Since then I have created over hundreds of resources that are perfect for helping you to build up your resource teaching kit, whether you are casual, temporary or full time in primary school education.
I embrace and thrive on integrating technology in education, and my resources address the changing nature of the 21st century classroom. I enjoy mentoring and supporting my cohorts through my Facebook, Pinterest , resources and blogs. Once a teacher......you are a learner for life....I hope that I can continue to inspire and support.
Teacher life can be amazingly hectic, and with that in mind my resources are created for all teachers of children aged 5-12 in primary /elementary schools across a range of subjects and resource types.
I started a support group on Facebook called SURVIVING CASUAL TEACHING and my goal was to be there for people who felt isolated and in need of support. The group has grown, and so this website is a continuation of that dream that continues to live on today.