Whether you are looking at sculptures in art or would like a fun STEM outdoor activity, this creative session is perfect for your class. Following certain criteria, students will design and build a sculpture using only natural materials before going on to evaluate the success of their sculpture, thinking about what they could do to improve it. This activity works great in small teams or pairs. This pack contains 11 differentiated sets of criteria to follow, each with a design and evaluation sheet. Resources needed: Sculpture design and evaluation sheets. An area of outdoor space with a variety of natural materials. Please don’t forget to rate this resource if you enjoyed it. Also be sure to visit my store and FOLLOW ME to see my new products and hear about upcoming sales!

This fun STEM team building activity (with math and financial literacy links) is designed to get your students outside developing a variety of team learning skills as well as allowing them to enjoy using your outdoor space. It’s perfect on a sunny afternoon at the end of year. Their challenge is to create the highest tower using sticks and string, however there are a few rules they must follow in order to complete the challenge. Contents: Teacher Guide Challenge Instructions Design Sheet Points Record Sheet Science Evaluation Questions Team Skills Evaluation Questions Please don’t forget to rate this resource to let us know what you think. Also be sure to visit my store and FOLLOW ME to see my new products and hear about upcoming sales!

Use these entertaining math puzzles for your students to practice finding balanced equations with addition and subtraction. This pack contains three differentiated puzzles from simple additions to additions over 10 and 20. Each puzzle has a complete set and a muddled puzzle set. I have used these to great success over the last few weeks. My children have loved them and are now pros recognizing balanced equations. Contents: 3 x differentiated complete and mixed Tarsia puzzles. Check out our other Math Tarsia Puzzles Multiplying and Dividing by 10, 100, and 1000 Fractions of Numbers Equivalent Fractions Times Tables Tarsia Puzzle Activity Number Bond Tarsia Puzzles: 100, 500, and 1000 Measurement Conversion Tarsia Puzzles: MM, CM, and Meters Long Multiplication Tarsia Puzzle Activity Long Division Please don’t forget to rate this resource to let us know what you think. Also be sure to visit my store and FOLLOW ME to see my new products and hear about upcoming sales!

Use these entertaining math puzzles for your students to practice finding balanced equations with addition and subtraction including decimals. This pack contains three differentiated puzzles where students must carry and borrow numbers to complete the additions and subtractions, some of which include decimals and negative numbers. Each puzzle has a complete set and a muddled puzzle set. I have used these to great success over the last few weeks. My children have loved them and are now pros balancing equations. Contents: 3 x differentiated complete and mixed Tarsia puzzles. Check out our other Math Tarsia Puzzles Balancing Equations (Years 2 - 3) Balancing Equations (Years 4 -5) Equivalent Fractions Fractions of Numbers Long Division Long Multiplication Tarsia Puzzle Activity Measurement Conversion Tarsia Puzzles: MM, CM, and Meters Multiplying and Dividing by 10, 100, and 1000 Number Bond Tarsia Puzzles: 100, 500, and 1000 Times Tables Tarsia Puzzle Activity Please don’t forget to rate this resource to let us know what you think. Also be sure to visit my store and FOLLOW ME to see my new products and hear about upcoming sales!

This math board game is a great way for students to practise column addition with and without carrying including decimals without them even realising they’re learning. The game is ideal for 2 – 4 players and only needs the board, some counters, and some dice to play. They’ll roll the dice to progress along the board, landing on squares with differentiated decimal addition problems that they must work out and move their counter accordingly. This pack contains 4 levels of differentiation. We love using this game for extension and filler work as well as a whole lesson activity as it’s a fun way to teach addition. Contents: Diff. 1: Column addition with decimals & without carrying. Diff. 2: Column addition with decimals & without carrying (more challenging). Diff. 3: Column addition with decimals & carrying. Diff. 4: Column addition with decimals & carrying (more challenging). Check out our Column Addition With and Without Carrying Board Game here. Please don’t forget to rate this resource to let us know what you think. Also, be sure to visit my store and FOLLOW ME to see my new products and hear about upcoming sales!

These inverse operation challenge cards will give your students loads of practice using the inverse operation to figure out a variety of word problems (using multiplication, addition, subtraction, and division). You can use these task cards in a variety of ways from placing them randomly around your outdoor space and letting students find them to using them as extension or exit cards. This pack contains 18 task cards with three levels of differentiation. Please don’t forget to rate this resource to let us know what you think. Also be sure to visit my store and FOLLOW ME to see my new products and hear about upcoming sales!

These outdoor parts of speech verb task cards are a great way to get students recognizing and using action verbs. The activity works nicely as a starter or plenary to your verbs lesson and is designed to get students taking part in physical activity while learning about verbs. Put the class into pairs and give each a sentence card. One of the pair must read the sentence and point to / circle the verb, if their partner agrees they are correct, they must do the instruction given on the card. Once they’ve done it, they can swap their card with somebody else and let their partner have a turn. It’s good to let each pair go through a handful of cards before stopping the activity. If they are unsure of the correct answer, make sure they ask an adult for help before completing the instruction. This pack contains differentiated card levels. Green cards = Diff. 1 (1 verb per card). Blue cards = Diff. 2 (2 or more verbs per card). Please don’t forget to rate this resource to let us know what you think. Also, be sure to visit my store and FOLLOW ME to see my new products and hear about upcoming sales!

This math board game is a great way for students to practise column subtraction with decimals without them even realising that they’re learning. The game is ideal for 2 – 4 players and only needs the board, some counters, and some dice to play. They’ll roll the dice to progress along the board, landing on squares with subtraction problems that they must work out and move their counter accordingly. This pack contains times table cards 2 - 10. We love using this game for extension and filler work as well as a whole lesson activity as it’s a fun way to get students practising their column subtraction method. We have also very successfully sent it home for them to play with family and friends. Contents: Board Playing cards with carrying Playing cards without carrying Check Out Our Other Board Games: Column Addition With and Without Carrying Board Game Column Addition Board Game With & Without Carrying Including Decimals Column Subtraction With and Without Carrying Elapsed Time Long Multiplication Mental Multiplication Multiplying and Dividing By 10, 100, and 1000 Please don’t forget to rate this resource to let us know what you think. Also, be sure to visit my store and FOLLOW ME to see my new products and hear about upcoming sales!

24 visual volcano vocabulary cards that are perfect for your topic word wall complete with a title. They are a great way to help your children learn the key terms needed for this exciting topic. We have found them especially helpful for children with English as an additional language. Each card contains the key word, definition, and visual aid. Contents 24 X Key Vocabulary Cards Display Title 2 Blank Cards Vocabulary Included Active Volcano Batholith Caldera Cinder Cone Volcano Composite Volcano Crater Dormant Volcano Explosive Eruption Extinct Volcano Fissure Hot Spots Hot Spring Lava Magma Magma Chamber Nonexplosive Eruption Pyroclastic Material Rift Ring of Fire Shield Volcano Vent Volcanic Ash Volcanic Neck Volcano Please don’t forget to rate this resource to let us know what you think. Also be sure to visit my store Saving The Teachers and FOLLOW ME to see my new products and hear about upcoming sales!

16 visual natural disasters vocabulary cards that are perfect for your topic word wall complete with a title. They are a great way to help your children learn the key terms needed for this exciting topic. We have found them especially helpful for children with English as an additional language. Each card contains the key word, definition, and visual aid. Contents 16 X Key Vocabulary Cards Display Titlet Vocabulary Included Natural Disaster Beaufort Scale Cyclone Drought Dust Storm Earthquake Fault Line Flood Gust Hurricane Lightning Richter Scale Tornado Tsunami Typhoon Wild Fire Please don’t forget to rate this resource to let us know what you think. Also be sure to visit my store Saving The Teachers and FOLLOW ME to see my new products and hear about upcoming sales!

Unlock your children’s imagination with these fun story hooks. This resource will provide inspiration for them to write their very own story and can be a great hook for a big / independent write. This pack contains 20 pictures of different doors to be used as story starters. The children can start writing imagining that they are stood in front of the door. We have got some clue cards to help those students that may need some direction when writing their stories. We have had great success using this resources and seen some truly wonderful stories come from them. Please don’t forget to rate this resource to let us know what you think. Also be sure to visit my store and FOLLOW ME to see my new products and hear about upcoming sales!

Have fun with math outdoors with this recap activity. This resource contains 16 task cards each with a math task to practice counting, simple addition, shape, and size. There’s loads of great ways to use these task cards, from placing them around your outdoor space for students to find and complete to simply handing them out for individual, pair, or group work. Each card has a visual aid to help your early readers. , Please don’t forget to rate this resource to let us know what you think. Also be sure to visit my store and FOLLOW ME to see my new products and hear about upcoming sales!

Autumn is a wonderful time of year where there are a lot of changes happening. This can be a fantastic opportunity to look at poetry and description. These lessons will get your students looking descriptive language and adjectives to describe the world around them through an acrostic poem. They will look at adjectives and other descriptive techniques to describe autumn before writing their own acrostic poems. Part 1: Get the students to go outside to find the most interesting leaf they can. They will then stick the leaf in the middle of the worksheet and write adjectives / descriptive phrases around the outside to describe the leaf. Part 2: This lesson is all about thinking of adjectives and descriptive phrases to describe Autumn. They must find somewhere outside (ideally around trees) and use their descriptive language techniques to describe the changes happening in autumn. Part 3: It’s now time for the students to write their acrostic poems using the descriptive language they’ve been looking at. This pack contains a few different poem templates for them to use. Love teaching outdoors? Check out our year of outdoor home learning challenges here. Please don’t forget to rate this resource to let us know what you think. Also be sure to visit my store and FOLLOW ME to see my new products and hear about upcoming sales!

This Google Slides presentation is a great introduction to your First Holly Communion programme. It goes through what the sacrament is, why it’s important, and everything else in-between. This presentation contains 27 slides with a fun quiz included to see what they’ve learnt. Contents: Slides 1 - 6: What is your First Holy Communion Slides 6 - 9: Fun facts Slides 11 - 13: Preparing Slides 14 - 27: Quiz Please don’t forget to rate this resource to let us know what you think. Also, be sure to visit my store and FOLLOW ME to see my new products and hear about upcoming sales!

These recipe cards are extremely simple and get your students practicing number recognition as well as counting with numbers 1 – 10. Simply laminate them and place them in your mud kitchens for your students to use as they wish. These cards require very little reading as they do not need to follow any instructions, simply add the correct amount of each ingredient into their pan! Each card contains a different recipe with visual aids to helps support those early readers. Please don’t forget to rate this resource to let us know what you think. Also be sure to visit my store and FOLLOW ME to see my new products and hear about upcoming sales!

These fraction task cards will give your students loads of practice at recognizing and simplifying fractions when given a group of objects as they hunt for the task cards in your outdoor space. This resource contains 14 task cards and differentiated answer sheets. Diff. 1 - They musts simply work out the fraction. Diff. 2 - They must work out the fraction as well as simplifying it if possible. Some of the task cards requires resources to be left next to them in order for the students to complete the card. As you hide the fraction task cards around your outdoor space be sure to check what resources are needed next to each card. Equipment needed: Fraction Cards Answer Sheets String Stones Sticks Scales Tape Measure Bucket of water Please don’t forget to rate this resource to let us know what you think. Also be sure to visit my store and FOLLOW ME to see my new products and hear about upcoming sales!

Why scale up shapes on paper when you can do it on the playground! These task cards will get your students scaling up shapes and drawing them on the playground using chalk. These task cards will give your students lots of practise at ratio & proportion and measuring. This resource contains 16 task cards which get more difficult throughout. They contain both regular and irregular shapes. Please don’t forget to rate this resource to let us know what you think. Also be sure to visit my store and FOLLOW ME to see my new products and hear about upcoming sales!

Using the outdoors as a way to promote a healthy mindset as well as having a brain break from the classroom can have huge benefits on students’ learning and emotional wellbeing. These outdoor mindfulness task cards can be used to give out to students when they are in need of some quiet time or a brain break from the classroom. Each card contains a simple activity that they can complete outside independently with minimal prep. Each activity is designed to promote a positive mental wellbeing along with a calm mindset ready for work. These cards can also be used very effectively with SEN students that become overwhelmed within the classroom. If safe and appropriate, they can choose a card and spend 5 minutes completing the activity outside before returning to the classroom. This can help them take a minute to calm down and return to a better state of mind. Please don’t forget to rate this resource to let us know what you think. Also be sure to visit my store Saving The Teachers and FOLLOW ME to see my new products and hear about upcoming sales!

A fun Easter maths activity for grades 5 – 6 that consists of 8 differentiated maths puzzles that make Easter themed shapes where children must work out the answers to questions to match the pieces together. This is a perfect activity for fun revision lessons as you are winding down for the holidays! This pack contains four puzzles that are differentiated 2 ways (8 puzzles in total), which cover addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division. Contents: - Addition puzzle X 2 - Subtraction puzzle X2 - Division puzzle X 2 - Multiplication puzzle X 2 Although each puzzle is differentiated, you can also change the level of challenge by asking the children to work out the answers in their head or by allowing them to write down their workings out. ------------------------

Group roles badges and plates that allow you to easily structure cooperative learning / group work so that each child has a specific responsibility that is crucial to their success. This pack includes role plates for the tables as well as badges that they can wear around their neck while taking part in the group work both with descriptions of what the role duties are. The five roles are: - Agent Manager - Agent Time Manager - Agent Volume - Agent Materials Manager - Agent Encourager When children have a specific role that they are responsible for they seem to be much more focused and more involved in their learning. I normally change the roles each time they do group work so that every child experiences each role. Contents: - 5 x job plates with descriptions - 5 x double sided job badges with descriptions