I provide a wide range of resources for use in the classroom and around school. My resources build on children's learning and consider the smaller steps children need to take to achieve the learning. My resources have a focus on 'mastery' style questions where possible, to develop children's critical thinking and reasoning skills. As a practicing primary teacher myself, I know how essential it is to have well organised lesson resources with engaging activities that focus on the learning.
I provide a wide range of resources for use in the classroom and around school. My resources build on children's learning and consider the smaller steps children need to take to achieve the learning. My resources have a focus on 'mastery' style questions where possible, to develop children's critical thinking and reasoning skills. As a practicing primary teacher myself, I know how essential it is to have well organised lesson resources with engaging activities that focus on the learning.
39 speaking parts, approximtely 15 non-speaking parts plus dance troupe and choir - these can be edited to suit your school.
Lasts approximately 45 minutes.
Ideal for KS2.
Option for inserting your own song choices - I began with some well loved Chistmas carols and then used more traditions Christmas hymns/carols throughout the play script.
This really warmed the hearts of our audiences and even brought a tear to some eyes!
Quite a traditional play script as written for a C of E primary, but without being too dry.
Opportunity to personalise some parts to your school too.
Very easy to follow. Everyone can get involved and have a great time!
40 spelling lists for year 2.
Well organised. Each spelling list covers a specific rule from the year 2 curriculum.
Easy to use in class and can be used easily alongside other resources for learning spellings. Also useful to help you identify spelling rules to teach.
Sheets can be sent home to help children with learning their spellings.
These have also been used for recap work in years 3/4.
5 Lesson PowerPoints and resources for activities for teaching or re-covering fronted adverbials.
Ancient Greece theme to all lessons/ resources so really good for supporting writing if you are doing a topic on Ancient Greece. The lessons could also add to children's exploration of Ancient Greek, including of: Gods, heroes, mythical beasts, temples and battles.
Lessons explore what a fronted adverbial is and encourage children to consider where in the sentence it goes; what the verb is that it describes; whether it describes when, where or how; and what punctuation is required.
Each lesson has a relevant task with it (task for lesson 4 is included within the lesson PowerPoint)
Some critical thinking is required from children as they have to reason why their fronted adverbial was appropriate.
There are opportunities for peer assessment.
Lessons continue to re-cap children's knowledge, whilst also building on it. Very visual with use of images.
Learning objectives include:
We are learning to...
identify a fronted adverbial;
re-order sentences to create a fronted adverbial;
create fronted adverbials;
write fronted adverbials.
All images have been taken from: http://search.creativecommons.org/ where no attribution is required.
We are learning to find fractions of amounts.
Investigation containing 6 separate investigations, ideal for KS2.
Each investigation could be solved mathematically or using resources.
Shop themed.
Lesson PowerPoint, planning and activities for identifying the 5 vertebrate groups and developing children's understanding and use of classification keys. Lots of mastery thinking required.
The fourth in a series of lessons to develop children's knowledge about 'Living Things and Their Habitats,' for the 2014 primary curriculum. Links to coverage of the curriculum are explicit in the planning.
We are learning to use a classification key to identify the 5 vertebrate groups.
An interesting 'fact or fiction' starter to intrigue children and develop their scientific discussions.
Recaps, revisits and builds on prior learning on living things, vertebrate and invertebrates.
Develop's children's scientific knowledge about grouping animals in different ways and looks at the specific scientific characteristics of the 5 vertebrate groups, as well as examples.
Lots of 'mastery' thinking required through the questions posed, for deepening and mastering learning.
Choice of 3 differentiated follow up activities (all of which are provided as well as being explained on the PowerPoint).
A further extension activity is also provided.
All images have been taken from: http://search.creativecommons.org/ where no attribution is required.
Lesson PowerPoint covering the life of Julius Caesar, his role in Ancient Rome and his assassination. You may prefer to print the PowerPoint and hide it around your classroom for children to research for themselves.
At the end of the PowerPoint are three different task options.
Used with my Y4 task as part of a literacy project.
Lesson PowerPoint, planning and activities for identifying vertebrates and invertebrates and introducing children to scientific classification keys.
The third in a series of lessons to develop children's knowledge about 'Living Things and Their Habitats,' for the 2014 primary curriculum. Links to coverage of the curriculum are explicit in the planning.
We are learning to use a classification key to identify vertebrates and invertebrates.
An interesting 'fact or fiction' starter to intrigue children and develop their scientific discussions..
Recaps, revisits and builds on prior learning on living things and how they are grouped.
Introduces children to a scientific classification key at a basic lesson. Initially through a verbal, fun, whole class exercise and moving into written scientific keys to identify vertebrates and invertebrates.
Develop's children's scientific knowledge about vertebrates and invertebrates.
Lots of 'mastery' thinking required through the questions posed, for deepening and mastering learning.
Choice of 3 differentiated follow up activities (all of which are provided as well as being explained on the PowerPoint).
Plenary requires mastery level thinking and leads into next lesson by encouraging children to consider other ways in which animals could be grouped.
All images have been taken from: http://search.creativecommons.org/ where no attribution is required.
Lesson PowerPoint, planning and Activity for grouping living things.
The first in a series of lessons to develop children's knowledge about 'Sound,' for the 2014 primary curriculum. Links to coverage of the curriculum are explicit in the planning.
We are learning to investigate how a sound is made.
An interesting mastery starter to engage and intrigue children.
Children consider how a sound is made and investigate vibrations.
Opportunity for children to work in mixed ability groups to investigate how a range of items make a sound and observe for vibrations (equipment list provided, although other items could also be used).
Develop's children's scientific explanations of how a sound results from a vibration.
'Mastery' thinking required through the questions posed, for deepening and mastering learning.
Interesting Minions related hook to engage all children in the follow up task.
Choice of 3 differentiated follow up activities (all of which are provided as well as being explained on the PowerPoint)
Plenary leads into the next lesson and also links to the homework task (this is optional, but would boost children's learning).
All images have been taken from: http://search.creativecommons.org/ where no attribution is required.
Ideal for Y5 to fit with the SPaG 2014 curriculum. Could also be used for recapping with Y6. This lesson has also successfully introduced Y4 to relative clauses during the summer term.
Introduces what a relative clause is.
Introduces a relative pronoun.
On screen activity in identifying relative clauses, relative pronouns and noun phrases.
Very easy to follow - step by step.
Two differentiated follow up tasks are included for children to work on identifying relative clauses (and relative pronouns where appropriate).
This lesson has led to children using relative clauses successfully in their writing.
Fully interactive PowerPoint about Brazil (61 slides), to help you teach any topic on Brazil. The PowerPoint is programmed for you to use in full screen mode to navigate between sections. A range of mastery style questions included. Covers:
Rain forest
Rubber Trade
Tribes
Climate
Geography
Lifestyles
History
Art
Olympics (Rio/ Ancient Olympics).
Lesson PowerPoint, planning and Activity
The fifth in a series of lessons to develop children's knowledge about 'States of Matter,' for the 2014 primary curriculum. Links to coverage of the curriculum are explicit in the planning (for both States of Matter and Working Scientifically)
We are learning to understand what is meant by an irreversible change.
An interesting zoomed in image for the starter, to develop children's critical thinking and reasoning.
Recaps, revisits and builds on children's prior knowledge from previous lessons.
Revisits reversible changes.
Develop's children's scientific knowledge of irreversible changes and is relevant to children by giving examples from every day life.
Two fun investigations for children to complete, whilst developing their understanding of irreversible changes.
Equipment list for the investigations is provided in planning and on PowerPoint.
Step by step modelling of the experiments are modeled on the PowerPoint.
Further 'mastery' thinking required for deepening and mastering learning, through thought provoking questions etc.
Activity is on the PowerPoint and requires photographs of the experiments to be taken during the lesson (for this reason, you may find it easier to complete this part of the lesson at a later time).
All images have been taken from: http://search.creativecommons.org/ where no attribution is required.
We are learning to understand the dangers of online communication.
Clear learning, with lots of questions to get children to consider how they communicate online, what is safe and what is not safe.
Video to hook children and show how communicating with strangers online can be dangerous.
Opportunity for lots of discussion.
Choice of activity for differentiation and plenary.
54 spelling lists for year 1 and 40 spelling lists for year 2.
Well organised. Each spelling list covers a specific rule from the year 1 or year 2 curriculum.
Easy to use in class and can be used easily alongside lessons/ other resources for learning spellings. Also useful to help you identify spelling rules to teach.
Sheets can be sent home to help children with learning their spellings.
These have also been used for recap work in lower key stage 2.
42 Mark test and answer sheet.
Ideal for year 4 in the Autumn term. Could also be used for year 3.
Tests children's knowledge on:
Using 'a' or 'an'
Past/present/future tense verbs
Identifying adjectives
Identifying verbs
Pronouns
Paragraph punctuation
Punctuating speech
Possessive 's'
Plural 's'
Time conjunctions.
22 spelling lists for year 5 (enough to cover the whole year, with room for recapping lower key stage 2, or progressing onto year 6 spellings)
Well organised. Each spelling list covers a specific rule from the year 5 curriculum, or common exception words. Note, as the spelling curriculum for year 5 is merged with that of year 6, I have separated the spellings into two separate year groups.
Each spelling has space for children to find out what the word means and then use the word in a sentence, so as they learn more about the word than just the spelling.
Easy to use in class and can be used easily alongside spelling lessons/other resources for learning spellings. Also useful to help you identify spelling rules to teach.
Sheets can be sent home to help children with learning their spellings.
These have also been used for recap work in year 6.
Children may need to recap the spelling work from years 3/4 (also available).
Explores what a conjunction is used for and the clauses created by using conjunctions, including coordinating and subordinating conjunctions. All lessons are themed for an Ancient Greece topic - not only do children progress in using conjunctions, they learn more about Ancient Greece (Gods, Heroes, Mythical Beasts, Places etc). This also support their writing development on the topic.
Learning focuses around choosing appropriate conjunctions - a challenge for many children.
Learning progresses throughout the lessons.
Opportunity for discussion and reasoning (good for mastery).
Opportunity for all children to be involved in lessons.
Differentiated worksheets are provided for each lesson.
Conjunction word mats included
Learning is as follows:
1. We are learning to identify conjunctions and clauses.
PowerPoint plus 3 differentiated work sheets.
2. Conjunction quiz (programmed with hyperlinks, so use in full screen mode and click on the helmets. Even the most challenging children in my class were very engaged with this.
3. We are learning to choose appropriate conjunctions.
3 levels of differentiated activities.
4. We are learning to use coordinating conjunctions
2 levels of differentiated activities.
5. We are learning to use subordinating conjunctions
3 levels of differentiated activities.
Lesson PowerPoint, planning and Activity
The sixth in a series of lessons to develop children's knowledge about 'States of Matter,' for the 2014 primary curriculum. Links to coverage of the curriculum are explicit in the planning (for both States of Matter and Working Scientifically)
We are learning to identify evaporation and condensation in the water cycle.
An interesting zoomed in image for the starter, to develop children's critical thinking and reasoning.
Recaps, revisits and builds on children's prior knowledge from previous lessons.
Develop's children's scientific knowledge of evaporation and condensation and is relevant to children by giving examples from every day life.
Step by step explanation of evaporation, condensation and precipitation in the water cycle.
Further 'mastery' thinking required for deepening and mastering learning, through thought provoking questions etc.
Choice of 3 differentiated follow up activities (2 are provided, one is an independent task and is on the PowerPoint)
Opportunity for verbal peer assessment as a plenary (on PowerPoint)
All images have been taken from: http://search.creativecommons.org/ where no attribution is required.
2 work sheets for finding the area of quadrilaterals by counting squares to find the area.
Also consolidates shape knowledge by requiring the shapes to be names.
Answer sheets for both work sheets included.
An interesting and challenging capacity investigation. Can be solved mathematically by more secure mathematicians or can be solved by using cups, buckets and water for younger or less able children.
There are a range of possible answers for example 700ml could be achieved by:
500ml + 500ml = 1000ml 1000ml - 300ml = 700ml
500ml - 300ml = 200ml (repeated 3 times) = 700ml
