Fantastic Mr Fox - THE TERRIBLE SHOVELS! A great activity when introducing Chapter 4. Focus: To write a story. Activity: Imagine YOU are Mr Fox and YOU are trapped in your fox hole (your den). Three farmers are trying to get you with their diggers. Can you escape? Fully editable.

Fantastic Mr Fox - THE SHOOTING! Great activity once you’ve read chapter 3 (The Shooting). Focus: To punctuate. Activity description: To punctuate the sentences correctly. Fully editable.

Teeth & Eating Poems 12 slides. Teeth Poems - slides 3 to 6. Eating Poems - slides 7 to 12. Appropriate for KS1 or KS2. Fully editable.

Fantastic Mr Fox - CONVERSATIONS 2 worksheets. Focus: To write out a conversation. Worksheet 1: Deciding what to steal. Mr Fox and his wife are talking about what they are going to steal from Boggis, Bunce or Bean! Have a go at writing their conversation. Worksheet 2: How to KILL Mr Fox. Boggis, Bunce and Bean are talking about their plans to KILL Mr Fox! Have a go at writing their conversation. Fully editable.

Fantastic Mr Fox - THE TERRIBLE TRACTORS! A great activity after reading Chapter 5. Focus: Comprehension skills. Activity: Answer the questions in this 3-page booklet. All questions are based on chapter 5. Fully editable.

3 feelings and emotions resources. Suitable for 5+ Resource 1 (fully editable): A 3-page activity booklet. Match up the feeling with the correct picture. Construct 10 sentences explaining what each character is happy/sad about. Activity 3: With a partner, verbally describe a situation when you feel happy, sad, scared etc. E.g. I feel happy when… Resource 2 (fully editable): A 21-slide PowerPoint. As a class, look through the slide show and discuss the emotions on each slide. Think about times when you expressed these emotions, at home or at school. There is also a writing task on the last slide. Resource 3: A set of emotion fans for the children to make and show when expressing an emotion.

A useful resource for your student’s to complete if you interview a pilot. The children can create their own questions (or choose a some from the list provided) and record their answers on the sheet. Links well to  ‘WRITING TO EXPLAIN’. Fully editable.

Letter Template A simple letter template. Add different pictures to change the theme/topic. Fully editable.

Acting out Holidays! Activity: In small groups, students’ must prepare and perform a short play about the holiday type given to them. There are 4 plays in total. In each play, students’ may choose any characters from the list provided (or they can create their own characters!) Once they have performed their short play, they must transfer it (all or part of it depending on ability) onto the play script attached. Fully editable.

Holiday Journal / Diary A nice holiday homework activity. Activity: To write a holiday journal / diary. 11-page booklet. Fully editable.

Assess ‘writing to explain’ pieces of writing with this easy to use student and teacher assessment sheet / rubric. Success Criteria listed for students in Year 1 to Year 6. 2 pages. Fully editable.

Book Review worksheet. Fully editable. Ideal for 5+ (depending on ability).

A simple worksheet for your student’s to practise adding adverbs and adverbial phrases to a sentence. 1 page. Ideal for 6+ (depending on ability). Fully editable. Also attached is a guidance sheet for your student’s to follow when completing the worksheet AND a useful list of adverbs.

5 useful adverbs and adverbial phrases resources (fully editable): Resource 1: Posters showing how to add adverbs AND adverbial phrases. Resource 2: A simple adverbs worksheet. Resource 3: A 5-page adverbs activity booklet. Resource 4: A 5-slide PowerPoint showing what adverbs and adverbial phrases do (with a simple activity on the penultimate slide). Answers provided. Resource 5: A handout showing lists of adverbs.

Make spelling FUN! 15 activities to help your student’s learn their weekly spellings. 2 pages. Fully editable.

Have you ever wanted to write a Christmas story with a twist? Attached is a short Christmas story called, ‘The Christmas Tree Chainsaw Massacre’. It’s about a selfish Christmas tree who wants to be all alone on a Christmas tree farm. He hatches a plan to do this… but does his evil plan work? 2 pages - 273 words Could be used as a modelled or guided reading text. Fully editable. 10+

Every key word Year 1 and Year 2 children need to learn on a lovely 186 slide PowerPoint. 175 words in total. 12 sets of words + days of the week, months of the year, numbers 1 to 20 and colours. 4 certificates to print off and award to each child as you go along. Fully editable and currently used at an ‘Outstanding’ rated Primary School. Please note: When you preview the PowerPoint, the images may appear distorted/squashed. Once purchased, the images will be completely normal.

Year 1 - Writing Targets A simple checklist for Year 1 children to follow when doing a piece of independent written work. An effective self assessment strategy, Fully editable.

A 1-page handout explaining the writing process. Start teaching writing the RIGHT way and watch the results. Fully editable.

12 pages of progress indicators based on independent writing. Nursery - Year 6. Writing levels provided too. Fully editable.