I am a teaching Deputy Head in a primary school in Hampshire and TES recommended author. I've been teaching in primary since 2007 with experience in most year groups, although my heart lies in Year 1! I enjoy making helpful, time-saving and engaging educational resources for teachers and pupils - I hope you find them useful!
I am a teaching Deputy Head in a primary school in Hampshire and TES recommended author. I've been teaching in primary since 2007 with experience in most year groups, although my heart lies in Year 1! I enjoy making helpful, time-saving and engaging educational resources for teachers and pupils - I hope you find them useful!
Happy Halloween! This product contains 20 Halloween-themed addition and subtraction word problem task cards within 20 and an answer key.
These task cards are progressively differentiated as follows:
addition and subtraction of single digit numbers within 10 with images for scaffolding
single digit numbers within 20
1-digit and 2-digit numbers within 20 (without crossing the 10s boundary, e.g. 11 + 3 = 14)
1-digit and 2-digit numbers within 20 (crossing the 10s boundary, e.g. 14 - 6 = 8)
open-ended questions to promote higher-order mathematical thinking (provide concrete resources for students requiring more support; encourage systematic working and challenge greater depth students to provide alternative solution pathways or explanations of all possible solutions).
Task cards are provided in full colour and in black and white.
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Katharine7
Children write the Easter story in their own keepsake booklet. There are 10 pages for writing on in total, including a reflection page at the end. Each page has simple illustrations for the children to colour and space to write about the Easter story. The booklet matches up with the images used in my Easter Story powerpoint: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/the-easter-story-powerpoint-11552562
Print the pdf as is, double-sided, and make sure you tick the ‘flip on the short edge’ option. The booklet will print out in the correct order and you simply need to fold the pages in half.
Enjoy!
Year 1 writing frames/scaffolds for our first topic - 'Wish you were here...'
We will be using the 'Holidays - joining with and - writing scaffolds' to practise orally rehearsing sentences including words joined with 'and' before writing them. Moving on from using the scaffold we will be writing sentences about our holiday with more independence.
We'll be using the postcard templates as role-play writing materials but they could be used in a variety of ways including phonics application, early morning work or incorporated into a whole lesson. The postcards include three levels of differentiation.
Primary school SMSC assembly plan and presentation based on the word ‘Cultural’ and informed by the government’s advice document on promoting fundamental British values as part of Spiritual Moral Social and Cultural development in schools.
The assembly helps children to understand the meaning of the words ‘cultural’ and ‘cultural diversity’. They apply the concept to themselves in school first and then extend it to living in the United Kingdom. There is a reflection at the end of the assembly for children to consider our differences, what unites us and how we should challenge discrimination where it arises.
Files included :
- SMSC assembly plan
- SMSC assembly presentation
Looking for other assemblies? Try these:
SMSC assembly and plan - Social
SMSC assembly and plan - Moral
SMSC assembly and plan - Spiritual
Or get all four SMSC resources in a bundle and save 30%!
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Katharine7
Reading comprehensions on the UK government, general election and democracy. There are three differentiated versions that could be used for Year 2 and upwards. My more able Year 1s had a go at the comprehension sheet in the middle of the file and did pretty well, it was a good challenge for them - I'm amused that they would build more chocolate factories if they ran the government!
Questions include multiple choice, short written and longer written answers. The highest level also contains a true/false table with statements to be ticked as appropriate.
These print and go Halloween maths worksheets are packed full of Year 1 National Curriculum objectives! Your pupils will love the Halloween theme while continuing to learn - plus giving you valuable evidence and assessment for learning for your planning. Primarily aimed at Year 1, many of the worksheets will also be suitable for more able Year R children or children in Year 2 who are working towards age related expectations.
In this resource you will receive worksheets for the following curricular objectives:
Count, read and write numbers to 100 in numerals
Count to and across 100
Read and write numbers to 20 in numerals and words
Add and subtract one and two-digit numbers to 20, including 0
Compare, describe and solve practical problems for mass/weight, capacity and volume
Recognise and know the denominations of coins
Sequence events in chronological order using language
Recognise and name common 2D shapes
An answer key is also included for ease of marking or to allow children to mark their own/others’ work.
This resource is available as part of a bundle where you will also receive a set of differentiated Halloween word problems:
Halloween maths bundle
Looking for other Halloween resources? Take a look here:
Halloween word problems (addition and subtraction)
Halloween segmenting - digital worksheet
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Happy teaching!
Katharine7
Perfect for an assembly on St George or as an introduction to the saint and the day. The presentation includes the following slides:
- St George and his banner
- What a patron saint is
- Celebration date
- The Union Flag
- Who was St George?
- The dragon legend
- When St George became the patron saint of England
- Celebrations
- Will you be celebrating St George’s Day?
Posters to promote growth mindsets in the classroom environment and a questionnaire to diagnose areas for development.
There are different colour schemes for the posters so hopefully one will suit your classroom.
You may also be interested in these resources:
Personal best target bookmarks
Social stories for tackling behaviour issues
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Katharine7
Set up independent spelling practise of the Year 1 CEW with a selection of meaningful spelling activities to suit a range of learning styles. These could be used as morning jobs or small group work allowing you to work with a focus group whilst knowing that your independent groups are carrying out learning activities and not just ‘holding’ tasks.
The recording sheets contain the 45 common exception words contained in National Curriculum for Year 1. There are two designs with a few different headings to suit your classroom practise. I use one for recording which words they can read and then a second one for those they can spell. Children enjoy colouring in the sheet and working towards completing the whole sheet.
Included with this resource:
Spelling practise menus in colour or in black and white.
Notes on each activity for the teacher/TA.
Rainbow spelling worksheet (colour / black and white)
Spelling Hunt worksheet (colour / black and white)
Common Exception Words pupil recording sheet
These print and go Christmas maths worksheets are packed full of Year 1 National Curriculum objectives! Your pupils will love the Christmas theme while continuing to learn - plus giving you valuable evidence and assessment for learning for your planning. Primarily aimed at Year 1, many of the worksheets will also be suitable for more able Year R children or children in Year 2 as revision or for those who are working towards age related expectations.
In this resource you will receive worksheets for the following curricular objectives:
Count, read and write numbers to 100 in numerals
Count to and across 100
Add and subtract one and two-digit numbers to 20, including 0
Compare, describe and solve practical problems for mass/weight, capacity and volume
Recognise and know the denominations of coins
Sequence events in chronological order using language
Recognise and name common 2D shapes
An answer key is also included for ease of marking or to allow children to mark their own/others’ work.
Looking for other Christmas resources? Take a look here:
Winter/Christmas subitising maths game
Christmas multiplication and division - reasoning challenge cards
Christmas addition and subtraction - reasoning challenge cards
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Happy teaching!
Katharine7
A EYFS/KS1-friendly version of the Easter Story, perfect for assemblies and lessons about Easter.
The powerpoint tells the Christian story of Easter very simply and at the end there are some reflection questions for the children to discuss.
These print and go Halloween maths worksheets are jam-packed full of National Curriculum objectives! Your pupils will love the Halloween theme while continuing to learn - plus giving you valuable evidence and assessment for learning for your planning. There are 10 worksheets in total, primarily aimed at Year 3, although many of the worksheets will also be suitable for autumn term Year 4 children.
In this resource you will receive worksheets for the following curricular objectives:
Count from 0 in 4, 8, 50 and 100
Find 10 or 100 more or less than a given number
Read and write numbers to 1000 in numerals and words
Add and subtract numbers mentally, including: a three-digit number and ones
Recall and use multiplication and division facts for the 3, 4 and 8 multiplication tables
Solve problems, including missing number problems, involving multiplication and division
Measure, compare, add and subtract lengths (mm, cm, m)
Measure the perimeter of simple 2D shapes
Read Roman numerals I to XII
Add and subtract amounts of money, using both £ and p in practical contexts
Interpret data using pictograms
Solve one-step and two-step questions using information presented in pictograms
An answer key is also included for ease of marking or to allow children to mark their own/others’ work.
Looking for more resources for Lower KS2? Take a look here:
Unit of work: recount of a school trip or event
Stone Age Boy - literacy unit of work
KS2 poetry lesson based on ‘I saw a peacock with a fiery tail’
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Katharine7
Display these synonym posters for over-used, everyday words to support your students in enriching their vocabulary. There are 12 separate posters for your display board and/or a table top page containing all 12 posters on one page for use on tables.
Looking for some fun Valentine’s Day literacy activities for your early readers and writers? Try these independent activities for early phonics skills and Valentine’s Day cards and postcards for writing practise.
Included with this resource are:
Initial sound clip cards
CVC clip cards
Valentine’s day postcards
Valentine’s day foldable cards
Rhyming hearts matching activity
Valentine’s Race dice game board
All of these activities are provided in colour and black & white.
Looking for more Valentine’s Day themed activities? Check out these Valentine’s maths activity mats:
Varied number representations - Valentine’s Day
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Katharine7
Looking for a fun and low-prep way to teach, reinforce or assess conceptual variation of number? This resource provides multiple representations of the numbers 1 - 10, supporting children to develop a deeper understanding of each number. These number representation matching activity mats are great as an independent activity for maths mastery, interventions, assessment or to create a collaborative display with the children.
Activity mats from 1 - 10 are provided along with a variety of number representations including:
ten frames
numerals
words
subitising - dice
irregular arrangements - sweet jars
tallies
The activity mats and representations are available in full color or black and white. You could use them as a cut and stick activity or laminate the mats and number representations for a reusable activity. You could use the activity mats by themselves as a coloring and drawing activity requiring a more secure understanding of number.
You may also be interested in my Digital Phonics Centers for early spellers.
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Katharine7
Enjoyable and imaginative key stage 2 poetry lesson based on the classic 17th century British poem - ‘I saw a peacock with a fiery tail’ (anonymous). The poem has a ‘trick’ structure which breaks up lines that make perfect sense and rearranges them to create beautiful and wondrous imagery.
When I’ve taught this lesson, the children have enjoyed playing around with their own ideas and creating fun, lively and unlikely poems of their own. I hope you enjoy it as much as we did!
This resource contains a lesson plan with matching presentation to support delivery and a colour-coded writing scaffold. The lesson plan also contains follow up ideas for this session.
Frooby the Maths Dragon throws a tea party but will the fussy blue witch spoil his carefully prepared tea party?
Revise or introduce symmetry in a vertical line with your class using the Return of Frooby story powerpoint.
Follow-up the story with some Frooby-themed images for sorting, drawing or describing lines of symmetry.
Key stage 1 mathematics programme of study --> Year 2 --> Geometry - properties of shape
- identify and describe the properties of 2-D shapes, including the number of sides and line symmetry in a vertical line
Primary school assembly on the subject of hope, includes an assembly plan and a matching presentation. The assembly helps children to understand the meaning of the word 'hope', apply it to themselves and their own lives and then extend it to the wider world, including some famous figures that are driven by and inspire hope in others.
Primary school SMSC assembly plan and presentation based on the word ‘Spiritual’ and informed by the government’s advice document on promoting fundamental British values as part of Spiritual Moral Social and Cultural development in schools.
The assembly helps children to understand the meaning of the words ‘spiritual’ and ‘spirituality’ and that this can be, but is not exclusively, linked to religion and faith. They apply the concept to themselves first and then extend it to the wider world, in this case through a social story based on an incident that happened to a child in one of my classes a few years ago. There is a reflection at the end of the assembly for children to consider the importance of spirituality in their own lives and of respecting the beliefs of others.
Explore the meaning of Advent with your pupils, its significance for Christians and some Advent traditions in this assembly presentation and plan.
Included in this resource are:
An assembly PowerPoint with notes on the slides where appropriate
An assembly plan to accompany the assembly presentation
Looking for more assemblies? Try these:
SMSC Assembly - Social
SMSC Assembly - Moral
SMSC Assembly - Spiritual
SMSC Assembly - Cultural
Buy all four SMSC assemblies as a bundle and save 30%!
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Happy teaching!
Katharine7