I did a 2-3 week unit on the book ‘The Firework Maker’s Daughter’ by Phillip Pullman. I can’t find my planning- but here are the notebook files I made in case they are useful to anyone else.

Here is a great Christmas Activity. 15 different ways of saying 'Merry Christmas' from all around the world. The students must read and learn the different phrases, find them in a wordsearch and then use internet to do an online quiz and find out whhich country each phrase is used in Merry christmas

I made these 4 colourful visual A4 cards to put down the side of my board. I have a big arrow pointing at the required noise level for the class Silence Whispers Partner talk Group talk

We have been doing the class book 'Skellig' in English and Multiplication in Maths. I linked the 2 together so here are 4 different levels all with answers. Super- is 4 digit by 1 WoW! is 2 x 2 Fabulous is 4 digit x 2 Marvellous is just word problems that require 4 x 2

reading record assessment sheets. These are assessment sheets I created and are great for listening to individual readers and with small groups. These are to be RAG rated to help with assessment. Available for years 1-6. This is the year 3 resource.

I made this unit of work based on 'The Hand' by Guy de Maupassant. It is great to do a short narrative HORROR unit with years 5 and 6 and my children loved it. You can get loads of descriptive writing out of them. The unit lasts 2+ weeks. This pack includes complete planning, 8 notebook files, the full text for the children and an assessment checklist. Hope it's useful to others and can all be adapted as needed. I removed all the names etc from my planning. But I reckon year 5 , 6 and 7 teachers could do a lot with all this ENJOY!!

Reading record assessment sheets. These are assessment sheets I created and are great for listening to individual readers and with small groups. These are to be RAG rated to help with assessment. Available for years 1-6. This is the year 6 resource.

Reading record assessment sheets. These are assessment sheets I created and are great for listening to individual readers and with small groups. These are to be RAG rated to help with assessment. Available for years 1-6. This is the year 5 resource.

This is a great introductory P.E lesson. It is a classroom based lesson setting the ground rules for the years P.E lessons. It goes over rules, importance of kit etc.. The main activity is active and creative. I have used this lesson with years 3-6. But am sure it would work with years 2, 7 etc

A colourful display poster with example of how and why we use hyphens. Second sheet- I laminate and each week we choose a hyphenated word of the week and write up Bright and visual

I used this for my mixed year 5/6 class to assess the first week of place value. I chop them up and stick in books- then the child will tick which statements they think they can do in the first column and I tick the second column. There is also a space for next steps. My class found it useful.

Some word problems all require division and some require another operation too as they are multi-step. All Christmas themed and answers provided. I will be using these with years 5 and 6 next month Merry Christmas

Here is a class contract that I always use with my KS2 classes at the start of the new academic year in September. It can also be done on a transition day in July. It has all the headings to fill in with your class. I have filled them in with the popular answers my classes typically give and you can edit and change as needed once downloaded. But its good to generate the ideas together for each section and fill them in front of the class. There is space at the bottom to get all members of the class to sign it and it can be mounted and displayed in the classroom and you can refer back to it throughout the year if needed.

This is an assessment sheet/checklist including success criteria with examples for descriptive writing. I have used this sheet with years 3-6