Resource using Numicon to identify perimeters, & look at relationship between area and perimeter. (Needs a tray of Numicon for best results).

Some questions (text and research based) on a newspaper story reporting on the death of Nelson Mandela.

2 Excel spreadsheets containing grids with written instructions for drawing shapes. Can be printed A3 or A4, and the layout adapted to different requirements. Examples (easier): Draw a pentagon with one line of symmetry. Examples (harder): Draw a pentagon with just one acute angle.

Homework or worksheet on equivalent fractions, fractions of amounts, etc. Easier & harder versions available.

Year 5/6 English NNC. Homework (or class writing task) using a humorous comic strip as a prompt for writing a short story where every sentence starts with a fronted adverbial. Can be customised, with more adverbial suggestions added or all suggestions removed for HA / LA groups.

Maths - a homework featuring ratio and proportion word problems

Research homework on Carl Linnaeus, and his main work, Linnaean taxonomy.

Colour pictures of trees, leaves and fruit found in the UK. Could be used as the source of a classification key from those found on a walk.

A shape drawing resource to help children improve the accuracy of their drawing and measuring ... which produces a pretty pattern they can enjoy colouring in afterwards. Suitable for ages 7 - 11.

Spreadsheet format for mid-year reporting to parents, for years 1 - 6. Simple to complete (teachers just complete yellow boxes; the rest can be locked and password protected to prevent errors), it reports how the child is progressing at a mid-year point against the expectations of the new National Curriculum in Maths, Reading & Writing, as well as boxes for effort / behaviour, a space to describe interventions, and an editable box for a short personal comment. Includes a box for parent feedback and an invite to an upcoming parents' evening (which can be edited or removed, as required).

Arithmetic homework to practise the formal column methods of addition and subtraction. 2 difficulty levels.

A homework to revise the GPS areas of ADJECTIVES, PREPOSITIONS, NOUN TYPES, and PREFIXES / SUFFIXES. Open task, children create their own mini revision pages.

Find angle types, parallel and perpendicular lines, in pictures. A set of twelve outline pictures, of increasing difficulty / complexity, for students to find and label different types of angle (acute, obtuse, reflex, right) and lines (parallel, perpendicular). Good revision of the vocabulary of angle. Resource is included in ready to print PDF format, and editable Word doc (for those who only want to find angle types, not parallel and perpendicular; or those who want to include a specific image of their own, like a school logo). Simple 2 page resource, ready to use or set as homework; just saving you the time it took me to find 12 suitable images.

A set of four illustrated 3-part questions on “Which deal is the best value?”, so 12 multi-step calculations in all. Answer page included. This resource offers a range of single items, multi-packs, buy x get y free offers, percentage discounts, with unit items and mixed unit liquid measures (litres and ml). In Word .docx and .pdf, with answers included on 2nd page.

Written for year 6 algebra in the new National Curriculum (but also suitable at KS3), a differentiated question sheet, with a set of linear sequences for children to solve. In each case, they need to find the rule for n, then the 10th, 20th, 50th or other specified term. Example: Q: What is the 20th number in this sequence? 5, 8, 11 A: Rule: 3n+2 20th number is (3x20) + 2 = 62 Differentiated with 6 easier questions, 14 core (increasing in difficulty), then 4 extension questions going into negative number sequences for the more able. Answer sheet provided in same format. Whole document is in Word, so can be edited (tweaked slightly to make it easier or harder, depending on your class) or copy / pasted into Smartboard or other formats. Would also be suitable for a homework / reinforcement.

NEW for summer 2016. Grid for assessing the end of KS2 writing statements based on the 'Interim teacher assessment frameworks' document, and the grids within the '2016 teacher assessment exemplification: end of key stage 2, English writing' documents. Developed in conjunction with writing moderators. Perfect for year 6 teachers assessing writing to the new curriculum for the first time this year, this provides evidence across a range of genre. Based closely on the DfE interim assessment documents, these are blank versions of the ticked grids in the exemplification materials, saving you the trouble of extracting the PDF files into Excel grids and removing all the ticks. Print one sheet per child in A3, and date / title written work for simple cross-referencing. Be prepared for internal and external moderation by providing evidence of the standards in the way local authority moderators will be using.

A series of L-shaped hexagons, drawn in Word, for children to work out the area and perimeter of the shapes. Two sheets, for easier / harder questions.

A lesson from the new National Curriculum (year 6) exploring the life and works of Charles Darwin, with illustrated explanations of evolution: Galapagos giant tortoises; giraffes; Galapagos finches; peppered moths. Bonus content - an additional SmartBoard looking at how some animals are adapted specifically to mountain environments, with 2 activities: complete a table of adaptions to overcome specific mountain problems; design, draw and label a new creature that would thrive in the Himalayas.

A sequence of 5 lesson prompts for delivering 5 weeks of Philosophy for Children (P4C) exploring issues of freedom, liberty & free will. Sequence starts with an animal forced to perform in the circus; then 2 very different types of 'working' animal (which will challenge children's perceptions of different animals being 'worth' different amounts); from that into human freedom via slavery & imprisonment. My year 6 group loved these, and came up with some fascinating ideas and views from these prompts, when delivered in this order over 5 weeks.

A key for marking, to make the marking of writing more interactive. A set of symbols used my teachers, and the poster of symbols for the classroom wall, and small sheet version for we use on the back of the children's writing target cards) If you combine this with highlighting some of these in pink highlighter pen and the children responding in their own pink pen, you have a system where the children are eager to respond to comments written by their teacher that has transformed marking and response to marking in my school. [See also my 'Think Pink in Maths' resource for a way to make Maths marking more interactive.]