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A treasure box of teaching and learning, including classroom resources, early years, primary and professional development. All resources have been designed and tested by an experienced early years and primary teacher. Click on the link below to join my update group or follow my page on Facebook to be the first to see my new resources!
These are useful A4 extra-large letters suitable for home-schooling or classroom displays and labels. Formatted in Comic Sans, just print the letters you need for your display and go! This file contains:
*A-Z Upper Case
*a-z lower case
*Punctuation marks: ?!&
These letters are in outline format so could also be coloured or used as a template for collage.
Suitable for:
Home-schooling
Nursery and early years settings
Reception Classes
KS1 classes
Pre-school
Kindergarten
A4 size
Available in an editable Word format or a ready-to-print PDF.
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Primary lesson plans RE Religious Education Christmas Story
This is a set of two lesson plans for Year 1, Religious Education lessons on the Christmas story. The learning objectives are:
To know that Christmas is a special day for Christians
To know the sequence of events in the Christmas story
To understand the significance of gift-giving in the Christmas story
To understand that Christians may give many different kinds of gifts at Christmas
To deliver these lessons you will also need:
A source of the Christmas story (children’s bible or online version) or a video clip
Pictures illustrating the key events of the Christmas narrative
A template for children to make a ‘gift box’ – cube or cuboid template. These gift boxes can then be made into a seasonal display.
Available in Word documents.
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Literacy punctuation KS1 sentences worksheet resource set
This is a worksheet set covering activities for sentence punctuation, suitable for Year 1 and Year 2. The worksheet set contains 11 worksheets and covers learning intentions for:
Recognising upper and lower-case letters (1 worksheet plus solution key)
Punctuating sentences with a capital letter and full stop. (3 worksheets)
Punctuating sentences with a question mark or exclamation mark (4 worksheets)
Punctuating sentences with speech marks (3 worksheets)
Suitable for:
Year 1 classes
Year 2 classes
A4 size
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Upper & Lower Case Alphabet A4 Display Cards
These are useful A4 classroom display cards featuring upper and lower case letters of the alphabet. Great for classroom displays, literacy sessions, phonics games and activities. Suitable for:
Nursery and early years settings
Reception Classes
KS1 classes
Pre-school
Kindergarten
Formatted in popular Arial font, all the work to get the margins and spacing right has been done for you. Just print and go!
A4 size
Available in an editable Word format or a ready-to-print PDF.
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Year 1 phonics puzzles long vowel phoneme wordsearch bundle 5 – 6 years
These are fun wordsearch activities designed to fit alongside the Year 1 phonics curriculum for children aged five to six in England.
This set contains a wordsearch for each set of long vowel phonemes, plus an overview puzzle. Each wordsearch has a solution key. The puzzles cover the main spelling patterns for the long vowel phonemes:
ay, ai and a-e
ea and ee
igh, -y and i-e
oa, ow and o-e
oo, u-e and ew
plus an overview puzzle
To support readability for this age group, most words in the puzzle can be read from left to right or from top to bottom. Great for teaching sessions, games and activities.
The puzzles are in Word so that they can also be used on-screen (children can highlight the words) and the solution keys are in PDF.
A4 size
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English sentence builder worksheet KS1
This is a sentence builder worksheet. Children can choose from the sentence starters, adjectives, nouns, verbs and sentence endings to construct a sentence.
Suitable for KS1 and KS2 classes, depending on ability.
A4 size
Available in ready to print PDF
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English Christmas themed sentence builder worksheet KS1
This is a sentence builder worksheet. Children can choose from the sentence starters, adjectives, nouns, verbs and sentence endings to construct a sentence.
The Christmas worksheet has been themed with secular vocabulary related to the season. Eight other colours and designs are included! The other designs have different vocabulary for use all year round.
Suitable for KS1 and KS2 classes, depending on ability.
A4 size
Available in ready to print PDF
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Christmas card printable activity set for primary KS1 KS2
This is a simple, low-mess Christmas card making activity set suitable for KS1 and KS2.
Children can use the papers printed with seasonal messages to make a Christmas motif on the front of a card. The activity only requires these materials, scissors and glue. Glitter or sequins are optional as a nice effect can still be achieved with the use of contrasting colours.
The set contains an instruction sheet and papers with the messages Merry Christmas, Season’s Greetings and Happy New Year. Seasonal colours are red, green, white, light blue, dark blue and brown (for robins!). Card ideas include:
Christmas tree against a dark blue night sky
A multi-layered Christmas star
Bells
Presents
Robin
Reindeer
Winter landscape with snow
A view through a window
Stocking
Holly leaves and berries
Perfect for supply teachers.
A4 size in ready-to-print PDF
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English History KS1 Great Fire of London resource set
This is a resource set to support teaching around the topic of the Great Fire of London. The contents include:
A topic fact sheet for teacher use
An example topic plan that can be shared with parents
Display labels for a themed role play area
An example poem for the topic
Three poetry writing frames
Three eyewitness account writing frames
The resource set does not include lesson planning, but there are learning intentions and activity ideas within the topic plan.
Available in Word for easy editing. I have also included two JPEG files of famous paintings connected with the fire.
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Colour names resource cards & A4 display cards
These are useful display and resource cards featuring the names of the colours. Great for classroom displays, teaching sessions, games and activities. This set contains:
Word document and PDF for basic colour names (8)
Word document and PDF for extended set of colour names (14)
Word document and PDF for large display labels for extended set of colour names (14)
Suitable for:
Nursery and early years settings
Reception Classes
KS1 classes
Pre-school
Kindergarten
Formatted in popular Calibri font, all the work to get the margins and spacing right has been done for you. Just print and go!
A4 size
Available in an editable Word format or a ready-to-print PDF.
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Days, months & seasons resource cards and A4 display cards
These are useful display and resource cards featuring the names of the days, months and seasons. Great for classroom displays, teaching sessions, games and activities. This set contains:
*Word document and PDF for days of the week - simple list on A4
Word document and PDF for months of the year – simple list on A4
*Word document and PDF for seasons of the year – large display size on A4 colour backgrounds
Word document and PDF for seasons of the year including months for each season – large display size on A4 colour backgrounds
Suitable for:
Nursery and early years settings
Reception Classes
KS1 classes
Pre-school
Kindergarten
Formatted in popular Calibri font, all the work to get the margins and spacing right has been done for you. Just print and go!
A4 size
Available in an editable Word format or a ready-to-print PDF.
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Number grid resource for KS1 and KS2 mathematics
This is a useful number square grid resource for classroom maths displays, mathematics teaching sessions, games and activities. Suitable for ages 5 to 11.
A4 size
Cute graphic designs
Multiple colours and designs
Available in printable PDF format.
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Mathematics KS1 Data Handling worksheet set
This is a 10 worksheet set to support teaching around data handling, namely using and applying mathematics. The contents include different worksheet options for:
Pictograms
Carroll diagrams
Bar charts
Block graphs
Tally charts
Available in Word for easy editing. All images are creative commons via Bing search.
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Multiplication grid times table squares for KS1 and KS2 mathematics
This is a useful times-table multiplication grid resource for classroom maths displays, mathematics teaching sessions, games and activities. Suitable for ages 5 to 11.
A4 size
Cute graphic designs
Multiple colours and designs
Available in printable PDF format.
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Geography KS2 group task on mountain ranges
This is a group task activity set, most suitable for Upper Key Stage Two children 9-11 years old.
The task instructions page asks children to work together to make a display panel about one of the world’s mountain ranges, then present it to the class. The accompanying worksheet ‘Profile of a Mountain Environment’ helps to scaffold the task for children of different abilities.
This task also supports English literacy objectives around using non-fiction sources.
This task can take 1 to 2 lessons.
Suitable for:
Year 5 classes
Year 6 classes
A4 size
Available in Word
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Mathematics resources classroom tray labels
This resource contains labels to use for mathematics resources in your classroom. This file contains labels formatted in Calibri font - just choose the words you need, print, trim and go!
Suitable for:
• Nursery and early years settings
• Reception Classes
• KS1 classes
• Pre-school
• Kindergarten
Each label measures approx. 13 cm x 4 cm, depending on how they are trimmed.
Available in a ready-to-print PDF. If you like this resource please see my resource 150 classroom labels.
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These are useful lower case alphabet display and resource cards, A4 size. Great for classroom displays, teaching sessions, games and activities. This set contains Word documents for:
*lower case alphabet in Arial font
*lower case alphabet in Bookman font
*lower case alphabet in Calibri font
*lower case alphabet in Comic Sans font
*lower case alphabet in Kirsten ITC font
*lower case alphabet in Lucida Calligraphy font
Suitable for:
Nursery and early years settings
Reception Classes
KS1 classes
Pre-school
Kindergarten
Formatted in lower case letters, all the work to get the margins and spacing right has been done for you. Just print and go!
A4 size
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Primary lesson plan RE Religious Education Judaism Moses Passover
This is a lesson plan for Year 1, Religious Education lessons on Judaism, focusing on Moses and Passover. This may also fit within a unit on key religious figures in world religions, or ‘Special People’.
The learning objectives are:
To know that Moses is a key figure in the Jewish faith.
To know the story of the escape from Egypt and that this is remembered every year at Passover.
To be able to think about some of the characteristics shown by Moses as a key figure in the Jewish faith.
To deliver these lessons you will also need:
a source of the Passover story or a video clip
an image of a seder plate. This can be found online or in the book ‘My Jewish Faith’ by Anne Clark, published Evans Brothers Ltd (page references given).
A simple worksheet template is included.
Available in Word.
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Science KS2 topics vocabulary wordsearch set
These are fun wordsearch activities designed to fit alongside the primary science curriculum in England. These activities are most suited to children aged 9-11 years.
This set contains a wordsearch for each science topic. Each wordsearch has a solution key. The puzzles cover key vocabulary for:
light, including some parts of the human eye
electricity
heating & cooling
evolution
classification
circulation
Great for teaching sessions, games and activities.
PDF files, A4 size.
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This resource contains labels to use in different parts of your classroom. This file contains 150 labels formatted in Calibri font - just choose the words you need, print, trim and go! These labels can be used for:
• Stationery items
• Classroom furniture
• Health and hygiene equipment
• Literacy and numeracy resources
• Art and craft equipment
Suitable for:
• Nursery and early years settings
• Reception Classes
• KS1 classes
• Pre-school
• Kindergarten
Each label measures approx. 13 cm x 4 cm, depending on how they are trimmed.
Available in an editable Word format or a ready-to-print PDF.
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