I am an ex-primary head teacher and English, Maths and History specialist. I've mostly worked in KS2, often in Year 6. Although for the last two years, I've been working in Year 1, which has been delightful!
All the resources have been used successfully with children in a range of schools all over the country.
I am constantly reviewing and updating my resources. Please follow me to ensure that you have the most up to date versions of the resources you buy.
I am an ex-primary head teacher and English, Maths and History specialist. I've mostly worked in KS2, often in Year 6. Although for the last two years, I've been working in Year 1, which has been delightful!
All the resources have been used successfully with children in a range of schools all over the country.
I am constantly reviewing and updating my resources. Please follow me to ensure that you have the most up to date versions of the resources you buy.
LOs:
Starter:
To add and subtract numbers
Main Lesson:
to add and subtract whole numbers with more than 4 digits (Year 5)
to solve problems involving addition and subtraction (Year 6)
This lesson consists of:
A connect PowerPoint to establish children’s understanding of addition and subtraction methods.
An Interactive Whiteboard teaching introduction for both Notebook and ActivInspire, to model various methods that can be used to solve addition and subtraction and demonstrating why, for larger numbers, formal methods are best.
A 4 way differentiated series of independent tasks (including a Challenge Activity) where children are expected to solve a series of addition and subtraction problems including one Word Problem for each ability group. .
An AFL / Next Steps task challenging children to identify common calculation errors that are often made with addition and subtraction.
A series of questions, answers and reading journal activity based around all areas of reading. Great alternative to SATs tests or written comprehensions - one week sample
A series of questions questions, answers and reading journal activity based around all areas of reading. Great alternative to SATs tests.
LOs: To relate Roald Dahl’s childhood to their own, To understand the nature of autobiographical writing.
A series of speaking and listening, role-playing, maths and art lessons linked to the short novel The Magic Finger by Roald Dahl. Designed for KS1 for Roald Dahl Day
35 sets of complete lessons (7 x 5 days) covering current National Curriculum expectations for teaching Place Value, Addition and Subtraction, formal short and long multiplication and formal short and long division, division leaving remainders and fractions, multiples, common multiples, prime factors, common prime factors, BODMAS, multiplication and division by powers of 10, metric measures, conversions between metric and imperial measures, and multi-step Word Problems.
Each week ends with either an investigation of Word Problems linked to the topic studied.
Every lesson includes:
- a Starter based on Arithmetic and / or previous learning and a Connect Activity designed to activate the children's interest in the topic being covered that day.
- two interactive teaching presentations designed to run on either Smartboard's Interactive Whiteboard or Promethean ActivInspire software.
- a detailed 4 way differentiated lesson plan including all relevant learning objectives and AfL / next step opportunities.
- a 4 way differentiated worksheet designed to cater for the learning of virtually all children in Year 5 or Year 6 regardless of ability (and MA / LA Y7 - Y9)
A series of questions, answers and reading journal activities based around all areas of reading. Great alternative to SATs tests or written comprehensions.
LOs
To be able to use inference and deduction to make predictions about the plot of a shorter story.
To understand the different techniques an author uses to tell a traditional tale.
To consider the way that new chapters relate back to previous chapters and traditional ideas.
To understand the way that an author can use book conventions to convey added meaning to a text.
To be able to reflect on a completed text.
A series of questions, answers and reading journal activity based around all areas of reading. Great alternative to SATs tests or written comprehensions.
LOs
To make predictions based on information provided in the cover, blurb and introduction.
To use inference and deduction to explain the main character’s current circumstances.
To emphasise with the main character.
To understand what life was like in Victorian London.
To empathise with the main character at the lowest point of the novel.
To make predictions based on inference and deduction.
To reflect on a completed story.
A set of 5 lessons covering all aspects of Place Value to allow you to meet expectations of current (2014 onwards) National Curriculum for Mathematics.
The lessons meet the following learning objectives:
Year 5
- read, write, order and compare numbers to at least 1,000,000 and determine the value of each digit
- round any number up to 1,000,000 to the nearest 10, 100, 1,000, 10,000 and 100,000
- solve number problems and practical problems that involve all of the above
Year 6
- read, write, order and compare numbers up to 10,000,000 and determine the value of each digit
- round any whole number to a required degree of accuracy
- solve number and practical problems that involve all of the above
KS3
- understand and use place value for decimals, measures and integers of any size
- round numbers and measures to an appropriate degree of accuracy [for example, to a number of decimal places or significant figures]
- develop their mathematical knowledge, in part through solving problems and evaluating the outcomes, including multi-step problems
This lesson consists of:
A starter / connect PowerPoint where children sequence and order negative and positive numbers.
An Interactive Whiteboard teaching introduction for both Notebook and ActivInspire, showing how empty number lines to find the difference between negative and positive numbers when applied to temperature. (differentiated 3 ways for ability).
A 4 way differentiated series of independent tasks (including a Mastery Level Challenge Activity) where children to interpret a range of charts, bar and line graphs showing positive and negative temperatures.
An AFL / Next Steps task taken from 2017 Maths SATs paper.
LOs:
Starter:
- to count forwards and backwards with positive and negative whole numbers (Year 5)
- to use negative numbers, and calculate intervals across 0 (Year 6)
- to order positive and negative integers (KS3)
Main Lesson:
- to interpret negative numbers in context, count forwards and backwards with positive and negative whole numbers, including through 0 (Year 5)
- use negative numbers in context, and calculate intervals across 0 (Year 6)
- apply this knowledge to bar and line graphs. (KS3)
This lesson consists of:
A starter / connect PowerPoint where children revise value of specific digits up to 10,000,00 and to 3dps and tests their understanding of sequencing and ordering numbers.
An Interactive Whiteboard teaching introduction for both Notebook and ActivInspire, teaching the conventions using empty number lines to show how to work with negative numbers, find the differences between negative and positive numbers and order positive and negative numbers. (differentiated 3 ways for ability).
A 4 way differentiated series of independent tasks (including a Mastery Level Challenge Activity) where children to compare and order negative and positive numbers and find the differences between negative and positive numbers.
An AFL / Next Steps task where children check their understanding of the greater than (>) and less than (
LOs:
Starter:
To order and compare numbers up to 1,000,000 (Year 5)
To order and compare numbers up to 10,000,000 (Year 6)
To order and compare any numbers (KS3)
Main Lesson:
to count forwards and backwards with positive and negative whole numbers (Year 5)
to use negative numbers, and calculate intervals across 0 (Year 6)
to order positive and negative integers (KS3)
LOs:
Starter:
to interpret negative numbers in context, count forwards and backwards with positive and negative whole numbers, including through 0 (Year 5)
to use negative numbers, and calculate intervals across 0 (Year 6)
to order positive and negative integers (KS3)
Main Lesson:
solve problems involving negative numbers (Year 5 & Year 6)
select appropriate concepts, methods and techniques to apply to unfamiliar and non-routine problems (KS3)
This lesson consists of:
A starter / connect PowerPoint where children sequence and order negative and positive numbers and identify the properties of Magic Number Squares.
An Interactive Whiteboard teaching introduction for both Notebook and ActivInspire, showing how to continue negative number sequences and to use strategies identified in Connect to find solutions to Magic numbers.
A 4 way differentiated series of independent tasks (including a Mastery Level Challenge Activity) where children to interpret a range of charts, bar and line graphs showing positive and negative temperatures. This is complete with an answer sheet to make marking easier.
An AFL / Next Steps task challenging children to apply knowledge to another type of Magic Square.
A series of questions, answers and reading journal activity based around all areas of reading. Great alternative to SATs tests or written comprehensions.
LOs
To be able to recognise the key features of a book / to be able to make informed predictions about a story.
To evaluate the effectiveness of the opening chapter.
To understand how an author chooses words to create a specific impression of a character.
To understand how characters are developed.
To be able to understand what can motivate characters.
To understand how characters can be changed by one person’s positivity.
A series of questions, answers and reading journal activity based around all areas of reading. Great alternative to SATs tests or written comprehensions.
LOs
To develop a feeling of empathy with the main character of a book.
To use recall, skimming and scanning to find out information about the story.
To use your own experiences to comment on what’s happening in a story.
To use inference and deduction to understand the behaviour of the main characters of a Chapter.
To use recall and references to answer questions on the text.
To recognise how an author starts to bring a story to its conclusion.
To reflect upon a completed text.
LOs:
Starter:
To read and write numbers up to 1,000,000 (Y5)
To read and write numbers up to 10,000,000 (Y6)
Main Lesson:
To write in words the sum of numbers up to 1,000,000. (Y5)
To write in words the sum of numbers up to 10,000,000. (Y6)
This lesson consists of:
A connect / starter PowerPoint where children write numbers up to 1,000,000 / 10,000,000 as digits and in words.
An Interactive Whiteboard teaching introduction for both Notebook and ActivInspire teaching the conventions of writing numbers up to 10,000,000
An independent task where children use mental addition to generate numbers up to 10,000,000 (Challenge - including up to 3dps)
An AFL / Next Steps task where children apply their knowledge to real life population problems.
A homework option linked to real life where children use research skills to find out local populations and write these out in words.
Also included for SEN / EAL children Spelling vocabulary for the number values.
LOs:
Starter:
round any number up to 1,000,000 to the nearest 10, 100, 1,000, 10,000 and 100,000 (Year 5)
round any whole number to a required degree of accuracy (Year 6)
understand and use place value for decimals (KS3)
Main Lesson:
to identify the place value of each digit of a number up to 1,000,000 (Year 5)
to identify the place value of each digit of a number up to 10,000,000 (Year 6)
to understand place value for decimals (KS3)
This lesson consists of:
A starter / connect PowerPoint where children revise round of numbers up to 10,000,00 and to 3dps and tests understanding of Place Value digits,
An Interactive Whiteboard teaching introduction for both Notebook and ActivInspire teaching the conventions of identifying place value of digits up to 10,000,000 (differentiated 3 ways for ability)
A 4 way differentiated series of independent tasks where children identify place values of digits, in 10, 100, 100, 1,000, 10,000, 100,000, 1,000,000 and 10,000,0000 and decimals to 0.1, 0.01, 0.001
An AFL / Next Steps task where children apply their knowledge to Word problems.
NB Updated 27/6/17 UKS2 - Term 1 - Week 1 - Day 3 Starter - Rounding numbers with degree of accuracy - recap - one rounding error Row 1 column 4, 2 corrections of AfL/next steps (and answers) in presentations.
LOs:
to solve number and practical problems that involve reading, writing, ordering and comparing numbers up to 1,000,000 and determining the value of each digit (Year 5)
to solve number and practical problems that involve reading, writing, ordering and comparing numbers up to 10,000,000 and determining the value of each digit (Year 6)
to develop mathematical knowledge solving problems and evaluating the outcomes, including multi-step problems (KS3)
This lesson consists of:
An Interactive Whiteboard teaching introduction for both Notebook and ActivInspire to allow you to share the learning objectives and go through the best way to complete this group / paired investigation. (differentiated 3 ways for ability)
4 differentiated sets of problem solving cards where children work collaboratively to apply their Place Value knowledge to find a set of either six or seven numbers.
An AFL / Next Steps reflection to encourage children to identify what went well and what strategies they would attempt improve in subsequent investigations.
LOs:
Starter:
To order and compare numbers up to 1,000,000 (Year 5)
To order and compare numbers up to 10,000,000 (Year 6)
To order and compare any numbers (KS3)
Main Lesson:
to compare and order numbers up to 1,000,000 (Year 5)
to compare and order numbers up 10,000,000 (Year 6)
to compare and order numbers with up to 3 decimal places. (KS3)
This lesson consists of:
A starter / connect PowerPoint where children revise value of specific digits up to 10,000,00 and to 3dps and tests their understanding of how to find largest and smallest numbers.,
An Interactive Whiteboard teaching introduction for both Notebook and ActivInspire teaching the conventions using the significance of digits to compare and order numbers up to 10,000,000 (differentiated 3 ways for ability)
A 4 way differentiated series of independent tasks where children sequence and compare numbers up to 10,000,000 and to 3dps.
An AFL / Next Steps task where children check their understanding of the greater than (>) and less than (
NB Updated 27/7/17
Upper Key Stage 2 Week 1 Day 4 - Compare and order numbers - independent task –answer sheet - Developing i, Secure i, Challenge i
A series of questions, answers and reading journal activity based around all areas of reading. Great alternative to SATs tests or written comprehensions.
LOs
To evaluate the opening of a story.
To understand how an author develops the relationship between his main characters
To understand how an author reflects on larger events beyond the story through the eyes of his characters
To draw comparisons between the behaviour of two main characters in a story
To make predictions based on what you know of the characters in the story.
To reflect on a completed text.
set of 5 days' lessons revising informal multiplication methods and teaching formal short and long multiplication methods, with opportunities to apply these strategies to a series of differentiated Word Problems.
All Worksheets are differentiated 4 ways for ability and include answers to ease marking.
A set of 5 days' lessons revising informal multiplication methods and teaching formal short and long multiplication methods, with opportunities to apply these strategies to a series of differentiated Word Problems.
All Worksheets are differentiated 4 ways for ability and include answers to ease marking.