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!
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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 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 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.
LO: To read a book for simple information, events and ideas
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 series of questions, answers and reading journal activity based around all areas of reading. Great alternative to SATs tests or written comprehensions.
The Giraffe Pelly and Me / Magic Finger - LA
George Marvellous Medicine - LA / MA
The Twits - MA
James and the Giant Peach - MA / HA
Fantastic Mr Fox - HA
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 read a book for simple information, events and ideas
To understand how an author uses different fonts and styles to help readers
To understand how the author implies things by his use of language.
To understand the moral of Roald’s story.
To decide whether or not Roald Dahl’s punishment fits the crime.
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 uses flashbacks to tell a story.
To understand what life was like a hundred years ago.
To understand how different viewpoints affect a narrative.
To form your own opinions about the main characters and their interaction with a bully.
To gain an understanding of how ordinary soldiers felt about one another in the Great War.
To understand how a character’s actions can be viewed in different ways.
Four weeks of comprehension, dictionary and grammar homework based on the Greek Myths of:
The birth of Zeus
Theseus and the Minotaur
Jason and the Golden Fleece
Perseus and the Gorgon
A collection of English, Maths, Art & Design, History and Geography activities to provide a basis for a topic on the Tudors.
Over 40 pages of resources and activities which include:
Timelines, biographical and autobiographical writing, following instructions, prototyping and making Tudor artefacts, map work, skimming and scanning comprehension skills and internet research.
NB Some of this work requires a copy of the Terrible Tudors to provide additional source materials
A three comprehension pack designed to support work on Rivers
Each comprehension consists of
- a clozed procedure summarising text comprehension questions tied to each text - LA
- a clozed procedure summarising text , more challenging comprehension questions tied to each text and glossary work linked to geographical and technical vocabulary.
Comprehensions cover:
The Source of the River
The Upper Course
The Middle Course
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 make predictions based on the blurb and cover of a book
To make predictions based on what has been read already.
To understand how an author can convey impatience in a character.
To understand how an author interweaves real life with fantasy
To identify key turning points in a story.
To understand how an author uses language to convey hidden meanings.
A series of questions, answers and reading journal activity based around all areas of reading.
NB this resource includes each story in Word Format.
Great alternative to SATs tests or written comprehensions
LOs
To be able to explain the moral of a story.
To understand how a writer teaches that actions have consequences
To decode, by context, archaic and nonsense language.
To discuss creation myths
To use context and verbal clues to decode a 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 make predictions based on information provided in the cover, blurb and introduction.
To use inference and deduction to explain the main character’s current circumstances.
To emphasise with the main character.
To understand what life was like in Victorian London.
To empathise with the main character at the lowest point of the novel.
To make predictions based on inference and deduction.
To reflect on a completed story.
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
Drawing on the new History Curriculum and focussing on Aims: Strands 4 and 5 this resource includes:
A collection of eleven 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 education
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 the difference between fact and opinion
• recognise and discern between arguments made for and against the role of education
• draw on primary resources to produce a reasoned debate on the pros and cons of education.
• produce their own persuasive argument in favour (or against) the introduction of universal education.
• produce a balanced argument on the advantages and disadvantages of education.
• Produce their own written narrative of life at school
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 make predictions based on the blurb and cover of a book.
To reflect on the opening of a story
To emphasise with the main character.
To understand how Simon’s character changes in the story.
To consider the main purpose of the text
To reflect on a completed text
A set of resources to enable you to bring the Anglo Saxon period to life.
This includes a choice of two different sets of comprehension questions (the latter differentiated) , as well as two investigation type activities and a time line which can be used for display as well as at the start and end of the topic for assessment.
Also inow ncluding a Time-line of British history to allow you to provide a context of where Anglo Saxon Britain fits in the larger history of the British Isles.
A set of 5 lessons covering all aspects of Place Value to allow you to meet expectations of current (2014 onwards) National Curriculum for Mathematics.
The lessons meet the following learning objectives:
Year 5
- read, write, order and compare numbers to at least 1,000,000 and determine the value of each digit
- round any number up to 1,000,000 to the nearest 10, 100, 1,000, 10,000 and 100,000
- solve number problems and practical problems that involve all of the above
Year 6
- read, write, order and compare numbers up to 10,000,000 and determine the value of each digit
- round any whole number to a required degree of accuracy
- solve number and practical problems that involve all of the above
KS3
- understand and use place value for decimals, measures and integers of any size
- round numbers and measures to an appropriate degree of accuracy [for example, to a number of decimal places or significant figures]
- develop their mathematical knowledge, in part through solving problems and evaluating the outcomes, including multi-step problems
