This pack includes: What's in the teacher's bag? Mystery neighbours - collect a bin bag full of clues to share with the class and see if they can solve the mystery - commented on as 'an exciting and engaging' lesson in a recent Ofsted (images of ideas for clues included). A mystery letter - can the children use the clues to infer who the sender might be? (Example included) Using movie trailers for children to make inferences before they see the film is a great way to promote inference skills - editable template provided! Watch the movie trailers and see if the children's inferences remain the same. The Perfect Gift - using inference skills to determine a suitable gift for fairytale characters based on evidence from the stories. Cause and effect sheet with example. For more practical resources visit: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resources/shop/Whitley01 Please leave a review.

A bundle of fun, practical activities to reinforce multiplication and division for Year 2 (games also easily adaptable for addition and subtraction). This pack includes: Flip a fact family game, solve the riddles, True and False - can the children reason their answers e.g. 5 x 13 = 66 is false because the answer does not end in a 0 or a 5 (good for Greater Depth), multiplication squares game, Bingo, Read it/ Write relays - just put a number in the centre and set a time limit (great for starters) and differentiated word problems including remainders! (Greater Depth). More resources at https://www.tes.com/teaching-resources/shop/Whitley01

A fun game played in pairs to reinforce fluency with times tables. Using a paperclip and pencil to make your spinner, children take it in turns to spin 2 numbers and multiply them e.g. 10 x 2 = 20 they then find the answer and claim that square by colouring it in their chosen colour or covering it with a counter. If the square is already covered miss a go! The winner is the player with the most squares at the end of the game. More resources @ https://www.tes.com/teaching-resources/shop/Whitley01

A quiz all about Judaism with questions like: Who am I? What am I? etc Also included is a quiz question sheet and a sorting activity. More resources @ https://www.tes.com/teaching-resources/shop/Whitley01

A PowerPoint on how to write instructions used during a Talk 4 Writing lesson focussing on 'boxing up' ideas - template for children to use included.

A PowerPoint used during a creative writing lesson to stimulate narrative writing with an example story and planning templates for children.

A PowerPoint (created and used for training purposes) with an abundance of fantastic ideas and inspirations for your outdoor area with links to useful resources and websites. More resources @ https://www.tes.com/teaching-resources/shop/Whitley01

Do you know about the great fire of Newcastle/Gateshead? An information PowerPoint and activities linked to the fire and the regeneration of the banks of The River Tyne.

An information PowerPoint and reading task fact sheets for follow up activities.

Can you complete the similies? More resources @ https://www.tes.com/teaching-resources/shop/Whitley01

PowerPoint with activities linked to Fairytale characters to introduce using commas in lists. A range of 20 sentence starters for children to use on individual task to reinforce using commas when writing lists. Buy this resource as a bumper package here: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/spag-pack-for-year-2-11633421

A fun and engaging way to teach measures. A PowerPoint introducing 5 events in the Mini Measures Olympics with record sheets and medals. Ideal for summer term! More resources @ https://www.tes.com/teaching-resources/shop/Whitley01

PowerPoint lesson starter - can you describe the alien using an exclamatory sentence starting with a What or a How and containing a verb (and an adjective or suffix word!) e.g. What a lot of eyes you have! or How brilliantly green you are! or How friendly you look! Photo borders included for children to then draw their own aliens and describe using exclamatory sentences. A really fab and effective lesson! Buy this resource as a bumper package here: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/spag-pack-for-year-2-11633421

Habitat FOR SALE - Powerpoint with examples of particulars to inspire children’s own writing and printable sheets of property details. Also included: PowerPoint linked to Zootropolis movie showing journey through different habitats and a blank map for children to design their own Zootopia habitat maps including the different animals who would live there. ‘Create an animal’ zoologist challenge, Gimme 5 animal characteristics and making human bodies activity ideas as well as ‘Shoebox Habitats’ DT project ideas PowerPoint. Images are included to show the work completed by pupils using these resources. More resources @ https://www.tes.com/teaching-resources/shop/Whitley01

PowerPoint of images and ideas to stimulate children's own shoebox habitat designs. More resources including a habitats unit of work @ https://www.tes.com/teaching-resources/shop/Whitley01

PowerPoint containing postcard from Zap the alien with missing punctuation and activity sheet for children to find and correct the missing capital letters. Postcard template also included for children to then write their own messages. Buy this resource as a bumper package here: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/spag-pack-for-year-2-11633421

What does the shape say? Cut out the 2D shapes, make them into characters and give them a name e.g. Mr Square, Miss Circle etc Extension match the speech bubble to the correct shape or children could draw their own speech bubbles & describe the shape. 3D Shape 'Shadow Play' PowerPoint lesson starter and 3D shape building challenge with extension activity. More resources @ https://www.tes.com/teaching-resources/shop/Whitley01

PowerPoint with a collection of self portraits by famous artists and activity ideas for children's own self portraits. An additional PowerPoint with the work of Sandra Silberzweig a great stimulus for the children's own unique self portraits. More resources @ https://www.tes.com/teaching-resources/shop/Whitley01

Can you make a verb alaphabet? Editable activity sheet which could be used for any word groups. More resources @ https://www.tes.com/teaching-resources/shop/Whitley01

An fun and easily adapted maths challenge - can you work out which is the most expensive suffix word? More resources @ https://www.tes.com/teaching-resources/shop/Whitley01 Check out my KS1 Problem solving bundle!