Meet Relief Resources: What We Do and Why We Started

For any teacher, the difference between a smooth, well-structured lesson and a chaotic one usually comes down to preparation, clarity, and access to the right materials. Relief Resources exists to make that part of the job easier, faster, and more effective.

We’re an online store dedicated to supplying high-quality Australian teaching resources. From editable worksheets and classroom displays to slide decks, units of work, literacy tasks, and assessment activities all our teaching material is tailored to the Australian Curriculum and the realities of Australian classrooms.

While we mostly specialise in high school English resources, you will find resources for a wide range of teaching contexts. Whether you’re a primary teacher, high school English teacher, casual relief teacher, special education teacher, or part of your school’s leadership team, Relief Resources provides curriculum-aligned resources designed to save you time, elevate the quality of your lessons, and support students in developing stronger literacy and analytical skills.

What We Do

Relief Resources specialises in digital downloads that are ready to use, editable, and built around evidence-based teaching practice. Every resource is created with the Australian curriculum in mind and designed for clarity, rigour, and classroom practicality. Our collections include:

1. Worksheets and Printable Resources

Clear, well-structured worksheets that focus on literacy, textual analysis, vocabulary building, essay writing skills and creative writing skills. These resources are ideal for explicit instruction or independent tasks and are fully editable, allowing you to tailor tasks to your specific class.

2. Classroom Displays and Organisation

We design engaging, professional classroom displays that support primary teachers and special education teachers in setting up organised, welcoming and visually consistent learning spaces. Our range includes tub labels, bulletin board sets, reading corner buntings, welcome buntings, birthday walls, name tags and other organisational pieces, all created to help establish classroom routines, streamline organisation and enhance the overall atmosphere of your room.

Organise your classroom with our classroom display bundles.

3. Slide Decks and Lesson Presentations

Our slide decks cover everything from poetry analysis to narrative structure, visual literacy, creative writing prompts, and deep-dive text studies. Each slide pack is crafted to maintain student engagement while delivering clear, structured explanations suited to a range of learning needs, including differentiated or scaffolded tasks for mixed-ability classrooms.

4. Units of Work and Lesson Sequences

We offer full units and multi-lesson sequences that come complete with learning intentions, success criteria, check-in tasks, explicit teaching content, modelled examples, guided practice, and independent tasks. These are built using a high-impact teaching framework and are particularly useful for high school English faculties looking for curriculum-aligned support.

5. Casual Relief Teaching Resources

For casual or relief teachers looking for reliable, low-prep materials, our store includes a growing number of grab-and-go lessons that align with curriculum standards while being easy to implement at short notice.

Why We Started

Relief Resources was created to solve a problem that every teacher knows too well: the overwhelming amount of time spent outside the classroom planning lessons, sourcing materials, and creating resources from scratch. As any teacher can tell you, juggling the workload without an effective system or collection of resources can become unmanageable.

The business was founded by a high school English and special education teacher who understands the genuine demands of the job. Having worked across mainstream schools, SSPs, EAL/D and CRT contexts, it became clear that teachers needed resources that were:

• High-quality and curriculum-aligned

• Editable and adaptable to allow for differentiation

• Visually engaging and professional

• Time-saving without compromising rigour

• Designed for real Australian classrooms, not generic mass-produced templates from international companies.

  
  

Editable resources allow you tailor resources to suit your students' needs.

Relief Resources was built to fill that gap. The store offers materials grounded in sound pedagogy, clear literacy instruction, and practical scaffolds that genuinely support learning. Everything available has been shaped by direct classroom experience: the challenges, the time pressures, and the need to maintain high expectations while managing diverse student abilities.

Who We Help

Relief Resources caters to a broad range of educators:

High School English Teachers

With a strong focus on comprehension, textual analysis, writing skills, poetry analysis, narrative structure, and HSC preparation, we offer resources that integrate seamlessly with stage-appropriate expectations.

Units of work help faculties support new staff with ready-made resources.

Primary Teachers

Editable literacy worksheets, grammar tasks, narrative prompts, poetry activities, and spelling supports provide reliable, curriculum-aligned materials for everyday teaching.

Casual and Relief Teachers

Quick, reliable, structured lessons that ensure you can walk into any classroom with confidence.

Special Education Teachers

Vibrant classroom displays that build classroom routines and clear, visually accessible resources that support differentiated learning.

Heads of Department and School Leaders

Professionally designed resources and units of work that help faculties maintain consistency, support new staff, and enhance curriculum delivery.

How Our Resources Support the Australian Curriculum

Everything at Relief Resources aligns with ACARA requirements and supports essential skill development in literacy, analysis, language features, vocabulary, and writing. Our resources are created to strengthen student outcomes across key focus areas such as:

• Reading and viewing

• Writing and composing

• Speaking and listening

• Critical and creative thinking

• Understanding and applying language conventions

By grounding every product in curriculum expectations, we give teachers confidence that the materials they’re using are appropriate, rigorous, and educationally sound.

Our Commitment to Teachers

Relief Resources is more than an online shop. It’s a practical support system for teachers who value quality, clarity, and consistency in their teaching materials. We’re committed to:

• Providing resources that genuinely reduce workload

• Ensuring everything is classroom-ready

• Offering designs that look polished and professional

• Allowing teachers to customise materials through editable teaching resources

• Expanding our library based on teacher feedback and emerging curriculum needs

We understand teaching because the business was built by someone who has stood in the classroom, written the units of work, marked the assessments, and understands the pressure.

Final Thoughts

Teaching is demanding work. Relief Resources aims to lighten that load with high-quality Australian teaching resources, expertly designed and aligned with the Australian Curriculum. From high school English resources to primary literacy tasks, classroom displays, and ready-made digital downloads, our goal is simple: help teachers teach with confidence, clarity, and creativity.

We’re proud to support teachers across Australia, and we look forward to continuing to grow a resource library that reflects the real needs of real classrooms.

If you’re ready to save time, strengthen your lessons, and access curriculum-aligned materials that actually work, Relief Resources is here to help.

If you’d like to learn more about our resources or have would like to request a suite of resources, you're welcome to get in touch. You can reach Relief Resources via email at info.reliefresources@gmail.com. Happy teaching!