I am an ex-primary head teacher and English, Maths and History specialist. I've mostly worked in KS2, often in Year 6. Although for the last two years, I've been working in Year 1, which has been delightful!
All the resources have been used successfully with children in a range of schools all over the country.
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I am an ex-primary head teacher and English, Maths and History specialist. I've mostly worked in KS2, often in Year 6. Although for the last two years, I've been working in Year 1, which has been delightful!
All the resources have been used successfully with children in a range of schools all over the country.
I am constantly reviewing and updating my resources. Please follow me to ensure that you have the most up to date versions of the resources you buy.
A series of questions, answers and reading journal activity based around all areas of reading. Great alternative to SATs tests or written comprehensions.
LOs
To understand how an author introduces principle characters
To understand how change affects people in different ways.
To understand relationships in a new family unit
To try to emphasize with how change affects individuals
To understand how different children react in different situations.
To reflect on a whole story
A series of questions, answers and reading journal activity based around all areas of reading. Great alternative to SATs tests or written comprehensions.
LOs
To be able to use clues to decide what a new book will be about.
To understand that stories can be told from different points of view.
To form opinions about characters and justify these.
To understand how an author can describe feelings using a character’s actions.
To understand how an author builds tension.
To reflect on the whole story.
A series of questions, answers and reading journal activity based around all areas of reading. Great alternative to SATs tests or written comprehensions.
LO: To answer simple questions based on the text
A collection of activities, comprehensions and internet research projects ideal for topic work linked to dinosaurs.
The pack includes four comprehensions, three internet research led display activities and a skimming and scanning matching activity.
There are also two example simplified comprehension activities that could be run for your support groups, while the rest of the class complete the dinosaur comprehensions.
Drawing on the new History Curriculum and focussing on Aims: Strands 4 and 5 this resource includes:
A collection of ten quotes from contemporary sources,
An explanation of five activities that can be carried out using these resources
Planning Templates to support arguments and a chart to help summarise arguments about the Abolition of Slavery.
Learning Objectives
• To understand historical concepts such as continuity and change, cause and consequence, similarity, difference and significance,
• To make connections, draw contrasts, analyse trends, frame historically-valid questions and create their own structured accounts, including written narratives and analyses
• To understand the methods of historical enquiry, including how evidence is used rigorously to make historical claims, and discern how and why contrasting arguments and interpretations of the past have been constructed.
Learning Outcomes:
Pupils will be able to:
• recognise and discern between arguments made for and against the Abolition of Slavery.
• draw on primary resources to produce a reasoned debate on the pros and cons of slavery.
• produce their own persuasive argument in favour (or against) the abolition of slavery.
• produce a balanced argument on the advantages and disadvantages of slavery.
• Produce their own written narrative of what led to the Abolition of Slavery
A series of questions, answers and reading journal activity based around all areas of reading. Great alternative to SATs tests or written comprehensions.
LOs:
To understand how an author introduces secondary characters to a story.
To understand how an author can use typographical devices to control how they present information to the reader
To understand how a writer using figurative language, metaphors and similes to help a reader.
A series of questions, answers and reading journal activity based around all areas of reading. Great alternative to SATs tests or written comprehensions.
LOs:
To be able to emphasise with a character from the past.
To use contextual clues to date a book.
To think about how one piece of new can change the tone of a story.
Learning Objectives:
Starter:
- To recognise when to use short or long division methods.
Main Lesson:
-To apply short division to integers and decimals (Year 5 & Year 6)
- To use division including formal written methods, applying it to integers, (KS3)
This lesson consists of:
A starter focusing on revising the differences between short and long divisions using the context of Word Problems. A connect to get the children explaining what a remainder is.
An Interactive Whiteboard teaching introduction for both Notebook and ActivInspire, to teach how to show remainders in short and long division and to explain just why there is a remainder in certain calculations.
A 4 way differentiated series of calculations (including a Challenge Activity) where children are expected to solve a series short and long division problems which give remainders, and one Word Problem per ability group. Answers are supplied to ease marking.
An AFL / Next Steps task encouraging children to be able to rapidly predict the remainder in a given calculation.
This Collective Worship resource includes:
a full PowerPoint of the text Matthew 2.
Questions linked to the text differentiated by Year group.
A prayer linked to the story of Epiphany
3 suggested hymns complete with YouTube links to enable them to run directly from the PowerPoint.
Ideal for the start of the Spring term both in Church schools and non-denominational schools.
Alternatively could be used as a starter for RE lesson linked to the Epiphany at the start of January.
A plan, set of teaching resources, Interactive Whiteboard presentations for both Promethean and Smartboards. (***New for 2018 – PowerPoint Presentations, and Word AFL / next steps question for printin***g)
This resource uses the questions on 2016 Key Stage 2 SATs papers 1, 2 and 3 to revise your class’ understanding of quick arithmetic methods and revise a specific aspect of the reasoning papers finishing with an AfL style plenary using exemplar questions from the 2016 SATs paper.
This is the fourteenth lesson in a revision programme designed to prepare Year 6 children for the Maths SATs papers 1, 2 and 3.
**Learning Objectives covered: **
To add whole numbers, decimals or fractions quickly (Arithmetic Starter)
To solve problems involving all 4 operations.
**Learning Outcomes:
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All use their knowledge of the order of operations to carry out calculations involving the 4 operations with ThHTU by U
Most use their knowledge of the order of operations to carry out calculations involving the 4 operations with ThHTU by TU
Some will use their knowledge of the order of operations to carry out calculations involving the 4 operations with ThHTU by TU including decimals and negative numbers.
A set of resources designed to support learning in the classroom with resources available for distance learning in event of school or class closure.
The week’s lessons cover:
Revisit / Review alternative spellings for/oo/ (short – u)
Teach reading, writing and spelling alternative GPCs for /or/ au, aw
Teach / Practice spelling the tricky words thought, some, because, when
Practice recognition and recall of graphemes and different pronunciations of graphemes as they are learned p134
Practice reading and spelling words with adjacent consonants and words with newly learned graphemes
Apply reading sentences p142
Apply writing sentences p149
A series of questions, answers and reading journal activities based around all areas of reading. Great alternative to SATs tests or written comprehensions.
LOs
To be able to use inference and deduction to make predictions about the plot of a shorter story.
To understand the different techniques an author uses to tell a traditional tale.
To consider the way that new chapters relate back to previous chapters and traditional ideas.
To understand the way that an author can use book conventions to convey added meaning to a text.
To be able to reflect on a completed text.
A series of questions, answers and reading journal activity based around all areas of reading. Great alternative to SATs tests or written comprehensions.
LOs
To talk about the different ways that a book can communicate information
To understand more challenging vocabulary
To be able to explain the differences in settings
A series of questions, answers and reading journal activity based around all areas of reading. Great alternative to SATs tests or written comprehensions.
To look at how an author can drop hints about a story at the very beginning of a book.
To understand how an author decides how to make up nonsense words.
To understand how dialogue can be used to develop characters.
To understand how an author develops a particular aspect of a fantasy world.
To understand how dialogue can be used to move a plot forward.
To reflect on the whole book and the way it ends
A series of questions, answers and reading journal activity based around all areas of reading. Great alternative to SATs tests or written comprehensions.
LOs
To understand how Anne Fine introduces the characters in the story.
To identify how an author can write a story within a story.
To understand how different layouts can convey different meaning
To understand why Anne Fine wrote this book.
A series of questions, answers and reading journal activity based around all areas of reading. Great alternative to SATs tests or written comprehensions.
LOs
To evaluate how effectively an author writes a sequel to the first book in a series.
To understand the characters of the two main people in the story.
To understand how a new major character can be introduced.
To understand how an author chooses words to make a setting seem more authentic.
To make predictions at the low point / dilemma of a story.
To reflect on a completed text.
Key Stage 2 comprehensions. Text includes a range of non fiction, fictionalised, historical texts and short poetry. Questions include whole range of SAT style questions such as: inference and deduction, prediction and factual recall. Ideal for Guided groups, homework or whole class activities.
A series of questions, answers and reading journal activity based around all areas of reading. Great alternative to SATs tests or written comprehensions - one week sample
A series of questions, answers and reading journal activity based around all areas of reading. Great alternative to SATs tests or written comprehensions.
LO To understand how a book differs from a film, and how a famous book requires no introduction.
Key Stage 2 comprehensions. Ideal for homework or closed activity. Activity includes: Two texts factual and eye witness, a sequencing activity, two sets of comprehension questions, stimuli for short written task.