60 worksheets aligned to Y5 National Curriculum Objectives. There’s enough here to last for the whole school year, plus extras that can be used for homework or revision. The worksheets have been sorted into 4 folders corresponding to National Curriculum areas of study, and the last section of every worksheet focusses on this. The first sections all consist of number work: place value, arithmetic and fraction/decimal/percentage exercises, which need to be practised throughout the year. In addition to these 4 folders, there is a number lines folder with work on fractions, decimals and positive/negative numbers. There is also a set of worksheets providing further practice on fractions/decimals/percentages, which is an area of difficulty for many pupils. The standard of the exercises is intentionally challenging, and weaker pupils may need to work with adult support. Answer sheets are included in each folder. They provide useful teacher support during introductions when working through problems with children.

This is a collection of 50 worksheets which should provide a weekly challenge for Y6 pupils working towards their SATs. There is enough material to last for the whole school year, with plenty left for homework or revision. Each worksheet provides extensive number skills practice covering National Curriculum statutory requirements (place value, arithmetic, fractions, decimals and percentages). In addition, it targets one of 5 additional areas: measurement, algebra, geometry, ratio, statistics. The teacher should decide which folder is appropriate, according to what the current teaching focus is. It would be a good idea to begin with the ‘measurement’ set, as the number questions are less demanding than those in other sets. Less able students will need to be supported by an adult. Answer sheets are included in each folder.

This is one of a series of PowerPoint presentations designed to get students analysing and talking about the work of well-known artists, and then creating their own artwork inspired by the art they have studied. Each presentation should be sufficient for a project lasting several lessons. The presentations contain the following: brief biographical text links to online resources questions to focus looking at artworks activity based on an aspect of the artist’s work (not a copying exercise) evaluation of project Artists in this series: Camille Pissarro, Jean Cocteau, Amedeo Modigliani, James McNeill Whistler, Marc Chagall, Gustav Klimt, David Hockney, Rembrandt NB Copyright restrictions have sometimes made it necessary to rely on online material for images of artists’ work. If links cease to work, please contact me and I will do my best to put things right!

This is one of a series of PowerPoint presentations designed to get students analysing and talking about the work of well-known artists, and then creating their own artwork inspired by the art they have studied. Each presentation should be sufficient for a project lasting several lessons. The presentations contain the following: brief biographical text links to online resources questions to focus looking at artworks activity based on an aspect of the artist’s work (not a copying exercise) evaluation of project Artists in this series: Camille Pissarro, Jean Cocteau, Amedeo Modigliani, James McNeill Whistler, Marc Chagall, Gustav Klimt, David Hockney, Rembrandt NB Copyright restrictions have sometimes made it necessary to rely on online material for images of artists’ work. If links cease to work, please contact me and I will do my best to put things right!

This is one of a series of PowerPoint presentations designed to get students analysing and talking about the work of well-known artists, and then creating their own artwork inspired by the art they have studied. Each presentation should be sufficient for a project lasting several lessons. The presentations contain the following: brief biographical text links to online resources questions to focus looking at artworks activity based on an aspect of the artist’s work (not a copying exercise) evaluation of project Artists in this series: Camille Pissarro, Jean Cocteau, Amedeo Modigliani, James McNeill Whistler, Marc Chagall, Gustav Klimt, David Hockney, NB Copyright restrictions have made it necessary to rely on online material for images of artists’ work. If links cease to work, please contact me and I will do my best to put things right!

This is one of a series of PowerPoint presentations designed to get students analysing and talking about the work of well-known artists, and then creating their own artwork inspired by the art they have studied. Each presentation should be sufficient for a project lasting several lessons. The presentations contain the following: brief biographical text links to online resources questions to focus looking at artworks activity based on an aspect of the artist’s work (not a copying exercise) evaluation of project Artists in this series: Camille Pissarro, Jean Cocteau, Amedeo Modigliani, James McNeill Whistler, Marc Chagall, Gustav Klimt, David Hockney, NB Copyright restrictions have made it necessary to rely on online material for images of artists’ work. If links cease to work, please contact me and I will do my best to put things right!

This is one of a series of PowerPoint presentations designed to get students analysing and talking about the work of well-known artists, and then creating their own artwork inspired by the art they have studied. Each presentation should be sufficient for a project lasting several lessons. The presentations contain the following: brief biographical text links to online resources questions to focus looking at artworks activity based on an aspect of the artist’s work (not a copying exercise) evaluation of project Artists in this series: Camille Pissarro, Jean Cocteau, Amedeo Modigliani, James McNeill Whistler, Marc Chagall, Gustav Klimt, David Hockney, NB Copyright restrictions have made it necessary to rely on online material for images of artists’ work. If links cease to work, please contact me and I will do my best to put things right!

This is one of a series of PowerPoint presentations designed to get students analysing and talking about the work of well-known artists, and then creating their own artwork inspired by the art they have studied. Each presentation should be sufficient for a project lasting several lessons. The presentations contain the following: brief biographical text links to online resources questions to focus looking at artworks activity based on an aspect of the artist’s work (not a copying exercise) evaluation of project Artists in this series: Camille Pissarro, Jean Cocteau, Amedeo Modigliani, James McNeill Whistler, Marc Chagall, Gustav Klimt, David Hockney, NB Copyright restrictions have made it necessary to rely on online material for images of artists’ work. If links cease to work, please contact me and I will do my best to put things right!

This is one of a series of PowerPoint presentations designed to get students analysing and talking about the work of well-known artists, and then creating their own artwork inspired by the art they have studied. Each presentation should be sufficient for a project lasting several lessons. The presentations contain the following: brief biographical text links to online resources questions to focus looking at artworks activity based on an aspect of the artist’s work (not a copying exercise) evaluation of project Artists in this series: Camille Pissarro, Jean Cocteau, Amedeo Modigliani, James McNeill Whistler, Marc Chagall, Gustav Klimt, David Hockney, NB Copyright restrictions have made it necessary to rely on online material for images of artists’ work. If links cease to work, please contact me and I will do my best to put things right!

This is one of a series of PowerPoint presentations designed to get students analysing and talking about the work of well-known artists, and then creating their own artwork inspired by the art they have studied. Each presentation should be sufficient for a project lasting several lessons. The presentations contain the following: brief biographical text links to online resources questions to focus looking at artworks activity based on an aspect of the artist’s work (not a copying exercise) evaluation of project Artists in this series: Camille Pissarro, Jean Cocteau, Amedeo Modigliani, James McNeill Whistler, Marc Chagall, Gustav Klimt, David Hockney, NB Copyright restrictions have made it necessary to rely on online material for images of artists’ work. If links cease to work, please contact me and I will do my best to put things right!

This is one of a series of PowerPoint presentations designed to get students analysing and talking about the work of well-known artists, and then creating their own artwork inspired by the art they have studied. Each presentation should be sufficient for a project lasting several lessons. The presentations contain the following: brief biographical text links to online resources questions to focus looking at artworks activity based on an aspect of the artist’s work (not a copying exercise) evaluation of project Artists in this series: Camille Pissarro, Jean Cocteau, Amedeo Modigliani, James McNeill Whistler, Marc Chagall, Gustav Klimt, David Hockney, NB Copyright restrictions have made it necessary to rely on online material for images of artists’ work. If links cease to work, please contact me and I will do my best to put things right!

This is a PowerPoint game consisting of over 100 slides. It’s great for starting a lesson - played as a whole class vocabulary challenge. Good for plenaries too and as an occasional filler activity for any subject. The teacher selects the initial category from the first slide without letting pupils see it. The go button on the on screen timer starts the clock, and a word is displayed. Pupils have a minute as the clock ticks to write as many words associated with the on screen word as they can. At the end of the minute, the word disappears, an alarm rings, and a link arrow to the next category appears at the bottom of the screen. Alternatively, the resource could be used as a speaking activity on the lines of the Radio 4 Quiz show: pupils have one minute to talk (without hesitation, deviation etc) on the topic displayed. It generates a lot of excitement in the classroom! Good for adults too!

This resource contains a selection of engaging activities for Shrove Tuesday. The interactive quiz consists of a PowerPoint grid where 16 tiles are flipped one by one to reveal a pancake picture. To accompany it is a maths/general knowledge quiz. The answer to each question is a number between 1 and 16. Give out the quiz sheets and let the class work on them for a short time. Pupils then put their hands up to offer answers and come up to interactive board to flip the corresponding tile. The reading text is a recipe for pancakes. This would be a great practical activity in the morning, with the opportunity to eat pancakes at break! The accompanying comprehension questions, worth 20 marks, are accompanied by a mark scheme. For English, there is a further activity - a pancake poem by Christina Rossetti, which can be exploited for teaching/revising imperative verbs. A follow up task could be to find out something about the poet. The maths task consists of five word problems based on the recipe. Some are quite challenging (eg involving scaling the original recipe).

The homophones 'there, their and they’re are difficult for many pupils to master, and they benefit from regular revisiting. This resource is aimed at KS2 and KS3,but would also be valuable for groups of older pupils (and sometimes staff) who are still a bit unsure. The animated presentation begins with a slide which shows how all three homophones are used. It is teacher controlled, so can be shown a line at a time to allow for discussion and explanation as required. It is followed by 15 animated slides where a sentence with a blank is displayed so that pupils can either respond orally, or have a go at writing answers on individual white boards. The answer is shown at the click of the mouse. A text file is provided explaining why there is some confusion over whether ‘there’ (in ‘there is’) is sometimes classified as a pronoun. There is a set of 40 accompanying cards for printing and possibly laminating. Each shows a sentence containing a blank, similar to those on the presentation. The task is a multiple choice one, requiring pupils simply to fill in the letter a,b or c corresponding to the word needed to fill the blank. A pupil sheet is provided for this, as well as a teacher answer sheet.

This resource consists of 2 sets of 40 task cards which will need either to be laminated or printed onto card. In the first set, a multiple choice activity, pupils have to identify the sentence type on each card and fill in the corresponding letter on the pupil answer sheet. For more able pupils, an extension activity is provided, where the verbs in each sentence have to be identified and written down on the challenge sheet. This task is trickier than it sounds, and could generate some discussion and further teaching, since some of the verbs are disguised within negative constructions or in contractions. The second set consists of pairs of cards labelled A and B. The A cards are all main clauses, and the B cards are subordinate clauses. Cards have to be paired to make complex sentences which make sense. There is no punctuation provided, so that the subordinate clause can go either first or second. Individual teachers may wish to direct the class to begin by putting the main clause first, then teaching/revising the punctuation rule which they need to apply if the order of clauses is reversed. Pupils’ work should be done in exercise books. A supporting poster is supplied for each set of cards.

These four texts are retellings in modern English of traditional Chinese folk tales. One - the story of the Nian - is specifically about the origins of Chinese New Year traditions. The other three could be used at any time of the year. These have several common themes (money, religion, magic, kindness, and more which could be suggested by pupils themselves), and would make a good starting point for textual comparison or cross-curricular work (eg RE, citizenship). The texts all come with a set of 10 questions which could be used for discussion in assembly, or for formal written comprehension in the classroom. The folk tale format makes the texts accessible to a wide age range, including KS1, whereas the themes broached in many of the questions make them more suitable for able KS2 or KS3 classes.

These three tests each comprise a pupil sheet with a list of the target homophone pairs/groups, and a teacher sheet with 10 sentences each containing one of the homophones. The sentences are read out one by one and the pupils have to circle the correct spelling on their sheets. Great for diagnostic testing or for a quick revision activity.

This resource comprises 2 worksheets of 10 questions each. Each question consists of a sentence containing a pair of homophones which pupils have to fit in the correct place. There are 20 different pairs altogether. Good for revision and/or diagnostic testing in KS2 and 3 classes.