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I am a teaching Deputy Head in a primary school in Hampshire and TES recommended author. I've been teaching in primary since 2007 with experience in most year groups, although my heart lies in Year 1! I enjoy making helpful, time-saving and engaging educational resources for teachers and pupils - I hope you find them useful!

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I am a teaching Deputy Head in a primary school in Hampshire and TES recommended author. I've been teaching in primary since 2007 with experience in most year groups, although my heart lies in Year 1! I enjoy making helpful, time-saving and engaging educational resources for teachers and pupils - I hope you find them useful!
Unit of work: read and write numbers in numerals and words
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Unit of work: read and write numbers in numerals and words

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This Year 1 unit of maths work is for early on in Year 1. The learning journey focuses on learning to read and write the numbers 1 - 10 in numerals and words as well as counting to 30 forwards and backwards. These numbers are lower than the end of year (EOY) expectations for Year 1 but activities can easily be extended for more able pupils or if you are teaching this unit later in the year. NC objectives covered: • Count to and across 30 (EOY = 100), forward s and backwards, beginning with 0 or 1 or from any given number. • Count, read and write numbers to 50 in numerals. • Read and write numbers from 1-10 (EOY = 1-20) This unit includes: - a unit of work overview - an entry/exit pass for AfL - number frames and number cards (pupils pick a card and dot in the number frames) - editable pom-pom serving game (group game: pupils pick a card, 'waiter' has to serve the correct number and colour of pom-poms - use tweezers for fine motor skill practise!) - roll and write recording frame - shape investigation - shapes and instructions - rainbow spelling sheet - 1 - 10 in words bookmarks
Unit of work - writing short narratives
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Unit of work - writing short narratives

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15 lessons of story writing planning for primary school children! The planning is based around Year 1 curricular objectives but could easily be adapted for other year groups as it is written around the universal themes of - beginning, middle and end - story problems and resolutions - use of adjectives to describe This download includes 15 lessons on writing short narratives including ideas for linking your guided reading to the writing, key questions and differentiation. There is also a story planning frame included.
Fire of London - writing commands - English unit of work
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Fire of London - writing commands - English unit of work

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Unit of work including power points, activity cards and writing frame for teaching command sentences. Based on the Fire of London and the commands that King Charles II gave during and after the fire, pupils role play the part of King Charles and l. earn how to write commands using imperative verbs. Our Year 2s loved this unit, in particular the role play element. In hindsight, I would have split session 3 into two sessions as the children enjoyed the acting so much. The whole class, even the less able, were able to identify a command sentence with confidence following this unit - even many months afterwards. Most were able to write commands independently in a variety of contexts. This resource contains: - the planning document (4-5 lessons) - powerpoints to support teaching of the unit - activity cards to support less able and whole class improvement of speaking and listening - speaking and listening learning journeys to share with pupils - a writing template
Whole year's worth of Year 1 holiday and half term homework
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Whole year's worth of Year 1 holiday and half term homework

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Holiday and half term homework sheets targeted at Year 1 and linked to the 2014 National Curriculum. Children choose from a range of cross-curricular activities that suit their learning styles, interests and family time together. There are holiday sheets for all three half terms and the winter and spring holidays. There are two copies of the homework sheets. The first copy is a ready-to-use pdf file for you to simply print & go. The second copy is an editable powerpoint file as you may wish to change some of the tasks to suit your curriculum. You will need to add your own clip art to the editable file due to copyright terms and conditions.
Room on the Broom - English Unit of Work
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Room on the Broom - English Unit of Work

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11 session unit of work with a grammar focus of question marks and exclamation marks based on Julia Donaldson's 'Room on the Broom'. Children make their own character puppets and perform a play, generating lots of talk for writing. The planning was created for the Year 1 curriculum but is equally valid for Year 2 work on exclamations, questions and statements. This resource includes: - A comprehensive planning document including suggestions for cutaways, pullbacks, guided reading activities and differentiation. - Room on the Broom planning resources pdf containing writing frames, word mat, introductory activities and keep up activity ideas (all referenced in the planning document). - Sentence identification activities used in the planning as assessment for learning opportunities. My class loved making the puppets and doing the puppet show. We performed our shows to small groups of Year R and got feedback from the Year R kids which was lovely. I hope your class enjoy it too!
Unit of work: survival, healthy eating, healthy lifestyles and hygiene
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Unit of work: survival, healthy eating, healthy lifestyles and hygiene

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Fun 5 lesson science unit of work for Year 2 animals including humans curriculum with a pirate theme. The pupils are the captain of their own ship and they have a very unhealthy crew that they must whip into shape! The unit begins with the basic needs of animals for survival and moves onto healthy lifestyles, including exercise, healthy eating and hygiene. I had lots of fun with my class teaching this unit and some good discussions which threw up misconceptions. Included in this resource are a detailed planning document with ideas for differentiation and extension plus all the digital resources required to deliver the lessons. You will get: - Planning document for the unit of work - Starter activity for session 1 - Presentation to support session 3 - Activity cards
Stone Age Boy - literacy unit of work
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Stone Age Boy - literacy unit of work

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Planning and resources for the Year 3 and 4 English national curriculum based around Satoshi Kitamura’s story, Stone Age Boy. Eight literacy sessions are planned for children to plan, draft and write, evaluate and edit their own adventure story using the structure, vocabulary and grammar of the Stone Age Boy story as a ‘master’ example. The planning covers the following objectives from the English national curriculum: to identify themes in stories to participate in discussions about books, taking turns and listening to what others say to discuss and record ideas to organise paragraphs around a theme to use simple organisational devices to use vocabulary and grammar from a story when writing to assess the effectiveness of my own and others writing and suggest improvements. This resource is also available as part of a Stone Age bundle which also contains a DT textiles unit of work for the same topic, saving you 20% of the total cost.
Stone Age tunic - textiles unit of work
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Stone Age tunic - textiles unit of work

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Children experiment with applique, running stitch, back stitch and over-sewing in this textiles unit of work. They design, plan and make a tabard-style Stone Age tunic for a teddy of their own from home. Finally, children evaluate their final product against their plan and look at textile artists in the UK. My class loved this unit, they worked with such focus and I was very proud! Threading the needles was a bit tricky so I allocated some of my more able needle-threaders to tables to help sort out problems. One child sewed her tunic to her jumper, so warn your class about that classic mistake! Contained in this unit: Planning for a 7 lesson unit of work Planning template for the tunics Starter game Evaluation scaffold Less able evaluation writing frame DT National Curriculum references: When designing and making, pupils should be taught to: Design - generate, develop, model and communicate their ideas through discussion, annotated sketches (and) pattern pieces. Make - select from and use a wider range of tools and equipment to perform practical tasks [for example, cutting, shaping, joining and finishing], accurately - select from and use a wider range of materials and components, including (construction materials,) textiles (and ingredients), according to their functional properties and aesthetic qualities. Evaluate - evaluate their ideas and products against their own design criteria and consider the views of others to improve their work
SMSC assembly bundle
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SMSC assembly bundle

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Get all 4 SMSC assemblies for a bargain price! These assemblies were written to deliver an introduction to the words and concepts of Spiritual, Moral, Social and Cultural. The assemblies have been informed by both the Ofsted School Inspection Handbook and the government’s ‘Promoting fundamental British values as part of SMSC in schools’ advice document. The assemblies all begin with an engaging hook that allows children to understand the focus word for that assembly. The children are then supported to apply the word to themselves in a personal context before expanding the idea at a broader level. All of the assemblies finish with a reflection. Buy all 4 assemblies as a bundle and save 40%!
Fire of London poetry - English unit of work
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Fire of London poetry - English unit of work

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Planning, PowerPoint and activities for an engaging poetry unit based around a Fire of London topic. My Year 2s produced some excellent quality poetry that they were very proud of. I have included two examples of the children's poems (before and after editing) that you could share with your class. Each planned lesson is accompanied by the resources required to deliver it. The unit touches on many objectives from the 2013 English National Curriculum (Key Stage 1) and the main ones are listed at the beginning of the planning document. There was a spelling and grammar focus of adding -ing to verbs and using expanded noun phrases. I hope your class enjoy it as much as we did! This unit contains: - Planning document containing 5 sessions - An original fire poem with recurring literary language - Adding -ing activity cards - Vocabulary gathering mind map - Differentiated poem writing frames - Examples of children's poems before and after editing - High quality vocabulary cards and word mat
KS1 SATs Reading Comprehension practise
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KS1 SATs Reading Comprehension practise

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Great for Key Stage 1 SATs revision! Help your pupils to practise and become confident with the types of questions that arise on the end of KS1 SATs reading comprehension papers. Use these editable question templates to create limitless questions - based on your choice of text - and practise the content domains that the children will encounter in the KS1 reading SATs papers. These question templates create smarter comprehension questions for whole class and guided/focused reading groups. Example templates include: - 'Tick one' and 'tick two' style questions - True or false tables - Sequencing events by number - Matching boxes - 2 mark extended answer questions ...and many more. Also included in this download are two samples to model how to copy, paste and edit the template questions to create SATs style comprehensions either in PowerPoint or Word. Additionally, a 'question of the day' style model is included, generated from the editable question templates, that gives children practise at one particular style of question. Make sure your children are prepared and being tested on their reading ability, not their exam technique. All the best, Katharine7
Maths mastery - Place Value: Year 1 - counting forwards and backwards to 100
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Maths mastery - Place Value: Year 1 - counting forwards and backwards to 100

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29 pages of Year 1 activities for teaching, practising and applying knowledge of counting forwards and backwards to 100. The learning journey allows for plenty of practice and consolidation to build fluency and understanding, beginning with numbers to 10 then 20 and finally 100. The activities provide opportunities for straightforward skills practise as well as reasoning and problem-solving. For more place value mastery resources for Year 1 take a look at: Finding one more and one less Counting in multiples of 2, 5 and 10
Unit of work: recount of a school trip or event
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Unit of work: recount of a school trip or event

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Comprehensive KS2 unit of work on recounts based around a school trip or school event but could easily be adapted for other recount subject matter. The planning uses Red Nose Day as a model and was originally written for Year 3, also suitable for Year 4. The unit of 6 lessons follows the composition progression laid out in the National Curriculum - plan, draft and write, evaluate and edit, including proof-reading. Planning includes ideas for cutaway and pullback groups and EAL/SEN activities. All resources required to deliver the unit of work are included in this download. There are starter activities as pdfs, but if you would like to change any of these, or edit the success criteria to suit your class, there are also editable powerpoint slides for you to adapt. All editable resources are indicated below; if they do not include ‘editable’ they will be a pdf file. There’s so much in here! Included in this unit: - Recount unit of work planning document (editable) - Session 1 presentation - Session 1 presentation (editable version) - Recount example (editable) - Time connective word cards - Recount writing prompt cards - More able recount lesson planning activity template (editable) - Photos of my recount skeleton framework and recount plan displayed in my classroom - Recount planning writing frame (editable) - Session 2 presentation (editable) - Four starter activity slides as a pdf - Session 3 presentation (editable) -Sentence builder activity for SEN/EAL (editable) - More able evaluation checklist (editable).
Maths mastery - Place Value: Year 1 - counting in 2s 5s and 10s
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Maths mastery - Place Value: Year 1 - counting in 2s 5s and 10s

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36 pages of Year 1 activities for teaching, practising and applying counting in multiples of 2, 5 and 10. The ‘learn’ pages take you through a concrete, pictorial and abstract learning journey for children learning to count in multiples of 2 5 and 10. The ‘practise’ pages give plenty of opportunities to practice counting in 2s, 5s and 10s in different contexts to help embed their learning. Finally, the ‘apply’ pages give children the opportunity to apply their knowledge, use reasoning and practise problem solving to reach full mastery of the curriculum objective over the course of the year. For more place value mastery resources for Year 1 take a look at: Counting forwards and backwards to 100 Finding one more and one less
Maths mastery - Place value : Year 1 - 1 more and 1 less
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Maths mastery - Place value : Year 1 - 1 more and 1 less

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38 pages of Year 1 place value activities informed by the White Rose mastery document. The pages progress through concrete, pictorial and abstract activities and a teach, practise, apply approach. There are opportunities to practise with smaller numbers (0-10) and also larger numbers up to 100. A set of loop cards is included which need to be printed double-sided and cut out, as well as cards for a paired activity and plenty of worksheets. Personally, I cut out strips or blocks of the sheet to stick in the child’s book so that their books aren’t full of worksheets and/or half finished work. For more place value mastery resources for Year 1 take a look at: Counting forwards and backwards to 100 Counting in multiples of 2, 5 and 10
Stone Age planning bundle
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Stone Age planning bundle

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Save 20% on these complete units of work for teaching the Stone Age in KS2! This bundle currently comprises of: a literacy/English unit of work with planning and resources based on Satoshi Kitamura’s book, Stone Age Boy. a DT/textiles unit of work where children learn and experiment with different stitches to design, create and evaluate a tabard-style Stone Age tunic. You may be interested in these other history resources: Ancient Egypt code breaker worksheet Romans code breaker worksheet
Easter presentations and activities bundle
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Easter presentations and activities bundle

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All of my Easter resources to date in one easy download! These activities, presentations and assembly are well suited to EYFS and KS1. Included in this bundle are: An Easter assembly and accompanying presentation A KS1-friendly copy of The Easter Story A lesson plan for teaching the Easter story through art A booklet for children to re-tell the Easter story themselves A fun, pictorial Easter-themed puzzle for counting in multiples of 2s, 5s and 10s. This is a growing bundle and further Easter activities will be added as they become available. You may also be interested in these other seasonal resources: Christmas multiplication and division reasoning cards Christmas addition and subtraction reasoning cards
Phonics screening check practise bundle
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Phonics screening check practise bundle

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Revision, identification and troubleshooting of common stumbling blocks for children in the phonics screening check. 90% of my class passed the screening check last year using these resources to boost my phonics provision. Working with parents was so important and sending home the consonant blends and clusters was a great way for them to help at home. This resource contains the diagnostic tool, flash cards, games, real words, alien words, phoneme frames and word builder resources to support children as they prepare for the phonics screening check. Included in the bundle: - phonics screening check diagnostic tool - consonant blends (initial and final) activities and flash cards - consonant cluster activities and flash cards (also available for free) - split digraph posters, flash cards and phoneme frames - powerpoints for teaching split digraphs (also available for free) - phase 3 decodable words practise - phase 5 decodable words practise
Maths mastery - Place Value  bundle
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Maths mastery - Place Value bundle

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Over 100 pages of activities for teaching and mastering 3 of the Year 1 place value objectives! This bundle contains mastery materials for: - counting to and across 100, forwards and backwards, beginning from 0 or 1, or from any given number - counting in multiples of 2, 5 and 10 - identifying one more or one less than a given number I’m working on the other objectives and will add them to this bundle as they become available. Check back because I think once you’ve bought this bundle you’re able to download any additional resources added to it - bargain! If you have any trouble doing so, just message me privately via the TES website and I’ll send you any additional files that you are entitled to. Enjoy!