An English Lead who has been teaching for over 10 years, sharing high quality, time saving resources so you can focus on your pupils and achieve a healthy work-life balance.
You will find bright and engaging resources that are designed to be picked up and easily taught by anyone.
Each resource is focused on progress, inspired by the Outstanding Teachers Course.
An English Lead who has been teaching for over 10 years, sharing high quality, time saving resources so you can focus on your pupils and achieve a healthy work-life balance.
You will find bright and engaging resources that are designed to be picked up and easily taught by anyone.
Each resource is focused on progress, inspired by the Outstanding Teachers Course.
3 complete noiseometers, to enhance the learning in your class. Choose the style that best suits your class or change every now and then to mix things up.
All ready for you to quickly print out and pop up on the wall so you can enjoy teaching with this tool for clear communication with your class.
Works well laminated as well, either in A4 or A3 size.
Save your voice when teaching and simply turn the arrow to point at the level of noise you would like.
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A visual and interactive assembly celebrating public speaking and debating. This engaging PowerPoint explains the history of National Speech and Debate Day, the importance of this day and provides ways to celebrate it.
This 20 slide, fully editable and animated presentation takes the pupils through these key areas:
How to debate,
The purposes of public speaking,
Famous speeches,
Famous speakers,
Famous debaters
Famous debates.
Highlights of this resource:
Each section contains an equal balance of role models, including gender, race and era.
Top quality open questions are provided throughout to encourage higher level thinking and discussion.
It includes a model showing the essential cycle needed for debating.
A copy of a speaking and listening success criteria for speaking and debating.
A hyperlink to a famous debate.
Ideas for celebrating this day.
Many images and colours to keep the pupils entertained.
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Download this engaging lesson pack to teach KS2 pupils how to draw angles. Use the animated PowerPoint, differentiated worksheets, challenges and answers to develop mastery with their understanding of angles. Also includes a detailed plan.
Whole Lesson
Use the visual PowerPoint to model drawing angles, step-by-step. Your pupils can become confident and independent with this essential maths skill.
Resources
All necessary resources provided and ready-to-go:
Detailed lesson plan
PowerPoint
Video hyperlink
Activities
Worksheets - independent reasoning tasks, main activities and challenges
All answers included.
Differentiated
A differentiated lesson by input and worksheet.
Enjoy teaching this differentiated lesson of two halves - middle and higher ability can independently tackle shape reasoning questions while you teach the lower and middle ability how to draw angles. Then the LA and MA can be independent while you talk through the reasoning and main activity with the higher ability children.
If you prefer, you can teach the whole class the main input and use the shape reasoning questions at the end for further challenges.
There is a range of activities so children can practice this skill with purpose and move onto thought provoking challenges when they feel they need to progress further.
SEN - Draw over the dotted lines to draw and label the angles. Name as acute or obtuse.
LA - Draw and label angles on a line to find the aliens.
MA - Complete the calculations to find the angles before drawing them using a protractor. Label and check your partner’s.
HA - Draw and label a regular pentagon with equal sides and angles. Figure out the internal angles of a hexagon and draw a regular hexagon.
Challenge: Double the area of a right angled triangle, draw, label and prove it with calculations.
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An engaging 41 slide assembly on the inspirational scientist Albert Einstein. Includes a clear, animated and bright PowerPoint, a video link and fun facts for all ages. The Einstein assembly shows how his life choices led to great things and how it is important to follow your passions from a young age.
Use to celebrate his birthday on March 14th or as an interesting assembly for any day of the year.
Celebrate a Great Scientist
This Science assembly includes:
A memory game
Young life
Family life
Working life
Fun facts
Images of his life
Scientific Research
Einstein quotes to inspire
Why was he such a great scientist?
Summary
Relevant for KS2 and KS3.
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A bundle of high quality angle lessons and resources for KS2. Bright and clear PowerPoints, worksheets, plan and display all aimed at ensuring confidence and accuracy in this area.
Download these 3 popular packs to save time, enjoy teaching and challenge your pupils:
Measuring Angles
A good lesson with a football theme teaching how to estimate and measure angles. Opportunities provided for developing mastery within their understanding of measuring angles.
Drawing Angles
An effective lesson teaching how to draw angles set in the context of aliens with opportunities for your pupils to consolidate other key maths skills.
Angle Fact Posters
Colour coded images and captions showing and explaining the 8 main angles, 3 equal sets of angles and the interior angles of 8 regular and irregular polygons. Pop up on your maths display to consolidate and extend your pupil’s learning.
Save time with these handy lessons and resources. Engage your pupils, enhance their learning and enjoy teaching with this download.
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Raise awareness and understanding of mental health issues with this bundle of 30 emotion cards, 14 posters, and a 36 slide assembly.
Useful for Mental Health Awareness Weeks in primary schools. Colourful, bright and easy to use. Be prepared and organised for these important moments.
Develop your pupil’s emotional wellbeing, language for discussing their emotions and provide them with coping strategies.
3 children in an average classroom are facing mental health problems and 75% of mental health issues arise before the age of 18. So we need to do all that we can to provide children with the tools to cope with these challenges and an understanding to support those around them as they grow.
A large bundle of resources for KS1.
Raise awareness and understanding of mental health issues with this cover for a class worry box. Encourage your pupils to share their small problems so that they don’t develop into larger issues.
Print out the cover images and stick on a cardboard box. Provide a welcome space for children to share their worries and concerns so they feel heard, valued and understood. Give every child the opportunity to have their voice heard in your class.
Useful for Mental Health Awareness Weeks within primary schools. This can also be kept throughout the year to safeguard the children.
Develop your pupil’s emotional wellbeing, language for discussing their emotions and provide them with coping strategies.
3 children in an average classroom are facing mental health problems and 75% of mental health issues arise before the age of 18. So we need to do all that we can to provide children with the tools to cope with these challenges and an understanding to support those around them as they grow.
This cover is designed with a focus on friendly characters which the children will know and be able to relate to.
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All you need to teach the first 3 weeks of the Autumn Block of Place Value as advised by White Rose; complete PowerPoints leading you through the lessons, differentiated worksheets, all answers and a plan for each week.
All the 15 lessons builds through concrete, to pictorial and then abstract to give pupils a secure understanding and confidence with place value.
High quality and engaging lesson inputs, full of modelled and animated guided maths to encourage independence and achievement.
Variety of activities including differentiated worksheets, board games, dice games, small cards, treasure maps and code breaking tasks.
Thoughtful questions designed to enable mastery and to support variation theory.
Download this to save time, enjoy teaching maths and to show progress.
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All you need to teach the third week of the Autumn term place value unit, week 3 in year 3. A colourful, engaging Powerpoint using some of the questions and images from White Rose. All worksheets, extensions and challenges included. Also in this extensive pack of 5 lessons, is a detailed plan for the week.
Covers these small steps:
Ordering numbers,
Counting in 50’s,
Counting in 4’s,
Counting in 8’s,
Problem solving using an understanding of place value.
Highlights of this week 2 pack:
Range of activities
Simple games
Animated and engaging PPT
Visual and colourful
Designed to enable mastery
Supports variation theory
Differentiated worksheets
Special Features:
Starter activities are building blocks for the lesson
Reasoning and Problem Solving questions for every lesson
Fast finisher activities for every lesson
Unique version of Monopoly for HA
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All you need to teach the second week of the Autumn term place value unit, week 2 in year 3. A colourful, engaging Powerpoint using some of the questions and images from White Rose. All worksheets, extensions and challenges included. Also in this extensive pack of 5 lessons, is a detailed plan for the week.
Key Small Steps Covered:
Number lines,
10 and 100 more and less,
Comparing objects,
Comparing numbers.
Highlights of this week 2 pack:
Range of activities
Simple game
Concrete, pictorial and abstract maths
Visual and colourful
Designed to enable mastery
Supports variation theory
Special Features:
Starter activities are building blocks for the lesson
Reasoning and Problem Solving questions for every lesson
Fast finisher activities for every lesson
A ‘Crack the code to find the treasure in the map’ lesson reviewing all the objectives covered
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Emotion synonym picture cards showing 30 feelings, questions and activities to support circle time. Use this pack to develop children’s awareness of their own feelings, so they can identify strong feelings, communicate them successfully and manage them. Foster positive mental health techniques within your classroom.
Celebrate Mental Health Awareness Week in your school and heighten awareness of mental health. Use these 30 high quality emotion cards for a discussion, display, assembly, circle time or English writing lesson and for many more opportunities.
Each card contains an emotion with a bank of synonyms to help the students understand this emotion deeply and how other emotions link to it. They also contain a real photo of a child showing this emotion, to further explain each one.
Engage your pupil’s in this important and relevant dialogue. Enable your students to have a positive mental health using the questions and activities included in this pack.
Create a ‘How do you feel today?’ display and encourage your pupils to understand and identify their emotions.
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5 complete lessons with starters, activities, differentation, worksheets, challenges and answers. All you need to teach the second week of the Autumn term addition and subtraction unit, week 4 in year 3. Included in this pack is a colourful, engaging Powerpoint which leads you through each complete lesson, with starters and plenaries introducing and building on learning; differentiated worksheets for every lesson providing a range of engaging activities; challenges, extensions and answers for efficient marking.
Each lesson takes you through the small steps and advice given by White Rose, with progression through fluency, reasoning and problem solving. This sequence of learning also contains an overview showing you how Teachallenjoy’s planning covers the year 3 addition and subtraction small steps over the 5 week unit. Every lesson also contains activities for reviewing the relevant year 2 small steps.
Also in this extensive pack is a detailed plan for the week.
Year 3 Small Steps Covered:
Add and subtract 3-digit and 2-digit numbers - not crossing 100
Add 3-digit and 2-digit numbers - crossing 100
Subtract a 2-digit number from a 3-digit number - crossing 100
Add and subtract 100s
Highlights of this addition and subtraction pack:
Range of activities
Interactive animations of mathematical concepts on PPT
Visual and colourful
Differentiation
Designed to enable mastery
Supports variation theory
Special Features:
Starter activities are building blocks for the lesson
Reasoning and Problem Solving questions for every lesson
Extension activities for every lesson
Friday lesson reviews learning from the week so the addition and subtraction small steps will last the 5 weeks allocated by White Rose in the overview.
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A complete Year 2 grammar pack including an A4 grammar glossary, grammar memory cards, grammar flash cards and an engaging PowerPoint which introduces these technical terms and gives children the opportunity to practice finding each one.
A colourful and useful resource designed to increase your pupil’s progress when learning English with the New Curriculum. Enhance the confidence of every child, parent, TA and Teacher with these clear and up-to-date glossaries.
All the technical vocabulary used in the new curriculum explained for children from year 2. Every word class and sentence type explained with clear helpful examples.
Useful to have as a large display or as a laminated mat for the tables. Very useful stuck in English or SPAG books to encourage independence, revision and confidence during lessons.
Can also be stuck in homework books to support children with explaining these new technical terms to parents and carers at home.
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Extensive adverb word banks for expanding vocabulary and understanding of grammar. 4 eye catching pages of adverbs, grouped into synonyms. You can use on a display, in a writer's toolkit, as part of a PowerPoint or simply printed on tables in order to expand vocabulary.
The adverbs are clearly grouped under synonyms so all ability children can benefit from these excellent resources.
4 bright and engaging pages of adverbs included:
1. Adverbs to create a positive atmosphere
2. Adverbs to create a tense/spooky/negative atmosphere
3. Unusual adverbs
4. Adverbs for describing characters
Extensive lists, all grouped with synonyms and colour coded.
Easy to use, handy for differentiation or for displays. Designed to cover your needs for all your KS2 English writing units.
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Download this useful weekly plan template to help you remember everything you need. Each day contains spaces for learning objective, success criteria, sequence of activities, differentiation and much more.
Use the plan with suggestions, notes and ideas to save time when planning. Just choose the key vocabulary, questions, resources etc. that you need and delete the rest. Plan quickly using the teaching and AFL strategies provided.
Spaces provided for all essential information:
- Key Vocabulary
- Key Questions
- Resources
- Cross Curricular Links
- EAL, SEN, PP,
- Lesson Context
- Grouping Opportunities
- AFL Opportunities
Suitable for any year group in primary and adaptable for secondary.
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Download a page of questions for KS1 reading comprehension lessons. Suitable for a middle ability group, text extract also included.
This comprehension focuses on the style of SATs questions which ask you to find a word with a similar meaning to a quote from the text.
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A visual and ready-to-go PowerPoint leading you through a week of engaging spelling lessons. Teach your class short and effective sessions to enable them to learn their spellings and succeed in a dictation. Give spellings a high profile and provide strategies for every child to access the curriculum.
All words have the -able -ible endings from the year 5/6 new curriculum spelling lists.
Monday - Covers the word class of each spelling, patterns, rules and definitions.
Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday - Short easy to resource spelling activities to enable children to learn these spellings in an engaging and successful way.
Friday - Includes a dictation containing the spelling words covered in the week. Shows how many words there are and how many spellings.
A helpful resource so that you can easily fit spellings into a busy week.
Lessons could be completed on white boards, draft books or English books.
Also includes a simple display of the spelling words so you can keep referring to them throughout the day.
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A lesson plan with 33 sections for all that you will ever need for planning an observation of an outstanding lesson. Complete with useful tips, ideas and examples, plan with confidence, efficiency and success.
Helpful tips and higher level thinking questions are included to help structure the lesson and ensure that everyone makes progress.
Use the extra notes pages as a starting point and to ensure coverage, differentiation and progression for every child.
Suitable for any year group in primary and adaptable for secondary.
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Just what you need to start your report writing - tips, tricks and shortcuts, a tracking sheet and a positive adjective bank to save you time.
Use the pack of strategies to help with the mammoth task of writing reports for your class. Suitable for any school and age group.
Use these tips and techniques to help ease the pain of report writing. Browse through a variety of ideas, which can be inspiring for new or experienced teachers. Reports don’t have to fill you with dread. Try something new and be surprised at how much more enjoyable it can be.
This pack also includes a free report writing tracker - list the children in your class and be motivated by all the ticked or highlighted boxes you complete. Also a bank of positive adjectives to help vary each comment.
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A complete pack for a Halloween quiz lesson including a 31 slide teaching and quiz PowerPoint, video link, fact card, class quiz, worksheets, answers and extensions.
When finished there are 6 differentiated word searches and 3 extension tasks.
Engage your class with Halloween, expand vocabulary, teach history and improve spelling, all in one mighty pack.
Use the animated, colourful PowerPoint to lead the lesson and ensure understanding and success.
Easily mark the quiz and word searches with the resources provided, through self and peer assessment.