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I am a Primary School teacher, currently working in Year 3 and about to complete my NQT year (which has flown by and been absolutely brilliant!) following completion of my PGCE at the University of Cambridge. As this is my first year of teaching, the majority of my resources are aimed at Year 3 students though I have a number of children with SEN so activities are differentiated many ways. Usually they follow a 'mild, medium, spicy' format with further differentiation for additional needs.

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I am a Primary School teacher, currently working in Year 3 and about to complete my NQT year (which has flown by and been absolutely brilliant!) following completion of my PGCE at the University of Cambridge. As this is my first year of teaching, the majority of my resources are aimed at Year 3 students though I have a number of children with SEN so activities are differentiated many ways. Usually they follow a 'mild, medium, spicy' format with further differentiation for additional needs.
Introduction to Skeletons (humans and animals)
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Introduction to Skeletons (humans and animals)

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Lesson plan with supporting resources for a Year 3 lesson for skeletons covering labelling bones. Also included is a picture of the skeleton my class labelled that was then printed and stuck in their books as evidence.
There, they're and their homophone buster lesson
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There, they're and their homophone buster lesson

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Designed for a quick-fire 15 minute 'spell time' to combat frequent misuse of there, they're and their. The notebook explains the difference between them, gives an example of each and a few handy tips and tricks to help the children remember! There are additional worksheets differentiated two ways and a spicy challenge for high ability children.
Money: calculating change using a number line and adding up.
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Money: calculating change using a number line and adding up.

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Ancient Egyptian themed. The Nile Stores sells lots of items - prices are differentiated 3 ways. Print out and cut up lots of copies of the medium and spicy numberlines. Children choose mild, medium or spicy and take a copy of the price list and some numberline challenges. At the left, they write the price of the item, at the right they write how much money they have (stated on the challenge card). They then counting up to the number and work out their change by figuring the size of the jumps. Model this carefully. The children really enjoyed this activity and found the new method for working out change accessible.
Dienes Place Value treasure hunt with Stone Age theme
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Dienes Place Value treasure hunt with Stone Age theme

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Cut up the squares with the dienes pictures and letters in. Place these around the classroom. Give each child a recording grid. When they find a card, they must count the dienes and write the number in the box with the same letter on their grid. Answers included to help self-marking!
Homophone helpsheets with fun tricks for remembering!
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Homophone helpsheets with fun tricks for remembering!

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Learning to spell homophones is not just about knowing when to use which word, it is about being able to use the letters in the word to help you choose which word it should be. I have made simple, but clear and consistent, posters/help sheets which provide fun ways to help you remember homophones (written in black). For each one I have also given a sentence using that homophone correctly (written in red). 26 Homophones included: all the ones mentioned on Year 3/4 curriculum. Plus a few additional ones e.g. four and for. 6 near homophones included: any from the 3/4 curriculum and others that I found needed teaching due to regional accents e.g. are and our, won and one! I hope you find these useful.
Adding and subtracting 100s Year 3
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Adding and subtracting 100s Year 3

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Notebook for lesson and worksheets for adding 100s and embedding number facts. Mild worksheet plus spicy and medium resources to be photocopied several times, cut out and students pick one up, stick it in and complete it, then repeat.
Adding 1, 10, 100 reasoning word problems
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Adding 1, 10, 100 reasoning word problems

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Differentiated three ways, a series of questions to help children apply the inverse to worded problems for adding 1, 10, 100. Used as a stepping stone towards longer, multistep word problems expected in Year 3 Mastery of adding 1, 10, 100 with reasoning.
DT sewing puppets lesson
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DT sewing puppets lesson

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Making puppets lessons inspired by Where the Wild Things Are. The resources revolve around the key processes of DT: analysing products already out there, designing and making and evaluating your own product. Activities are differentiated three ways with mild, medium and spicy challenges. There's a 'sewing tips' poster/mat for the tables.
Adding the suffix '-ly' to make adverbs
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Adding the suffix '-ly' to make adverbs

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Notebook of progression of spelling rules. Lesson starter sorting words in to root word + ly and just words that end in ly. Worksheets are differentiated 3 ways: mild, medium and spicy.
Sentence types
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Sentence types

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Looking at questions, commands, exclamations and statements - notebook of progression and activity.
3D shapes and their properties Year
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3D shapes and their properties Year

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Display information/prompt cards for table. A 'find me' game looking at the properties of 3D shapes. The multilink models were used in a lesson to generate discussion about looking at 3D shapes from different orientations.
Tennis Unit - Year 3
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Tennis Unit - Year 3

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A medium term plan for a 6 week unit of tennis, aimed at year 3. Each week looks at a different focus: reactions, grip, returns, under-arm serves, aim and game application. Differentiation is provided (extending in green, supporting in blue). Designed without reliance on another supporting adult but can easily be adapted to add a supporting adult in with focus groups/assessments. Each lesson has a focus, a warm up, skill development, skill application and assessment section.
Fossilisation process
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Fossilisation process

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A practical lesson for exploring the different stages of fossilisation which the children play a part in. An excellent practical and visual representation
PE Dance - The Wild Rumpus
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PE Dance - The Wild Rumpus

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A short but very fun 3-week dance project based around the Wild Rumpus from Where the Wild Things Are. Plans include: warm up, skill development and application, curriculum links and learning intentions. Plans are to be used a skeleton for the basic progression but inspiration and specific dance ideas will be led by the pupils.
Under the water themed poetry unit
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Under the water themed poetry unit

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Resources for writing riddle 'What am I?' poetry for sea animals. Includes pictures to mindmap adjectives, cloze procedure for the poem that will have been learnt as a whole class, examples of 'what am I' poetry in different styles written by myself, planning frames for writing their own poem, a brief outline of daily activities for the unit of work, an activity relating to the poem for a child with SEN and some extension questions to reflect on the poem they have written.
Bar Modelling Whole School Progression
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Bar Modelling Whole School Progression

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A guide to bar modelling across all areas of maths and all year groups. Collated using a variety of quality sources (all referenced in the document) and from my own teaching experience and professional development as maths lead. Hopefully you will find it useful.
Diminutives of farm animals
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Diminutives of farm animals

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Quick activities over a few 10-15 minute quick-fire sessions looking at diminutives of certain farm animals. Critical spelling skills for writing!