A useful tool to accompany the breakdown of national writing standards and expectations document. The document breaks down the more general term 'cohesive devices' and gives pupils examples to use in their work in order to meet this part of the criteria.

An example of a WAGOLL of good writing for a detective/mystery story using 'The Falcon's Malteser' by Anthony Horowitz as a stimulus.

Blakehill Academy project: Smart-board presentation and project guide which assists pupils to prepare a 'pitch' for their ideas to be used in the conversion of their school to an academy including the school's timetable, classroom layout/content and extra-curricular activities. Pupils are required to not only imagine and design the school, but calculate the financial implications of their decisions. An engrossing project which can easily fill a week of the post-SATs curriculum!

A presentation particularly useful for assisting new staff or parents with calculation methods recommended by the current national curriculum. Takes individuals through addition, subtraction, multiplication and division methods step by step.

When pupils are given time to read in class, as well as enjoying the book they can also be looking to learn from the author and steal some of their good ideas! Book Burglars gives pupils a clear framework for how to achieve this! While reading, they simply make note of examples of what makes the writing great such as varied punctuation, sentence structure, metaphors/similes, conjunctions and much more! Children can earn points for the great aspects of writing they gather which can be transferred to any positive behaviour policy.

A post SATs project to keep a whole class stimulated and engaged with a cross curricular approach covering maths, English, art and PSHE. Children research and prepare a presentation on a wide range of aspects of the running of a theoretical academy including time-table, classroom design and extra-curricular activities.

For anyone developing mystery stories with their class, this set of resources provides stimulus and resources to guide pupils through using Anthony Horowitz's 'The Falcon's Malteser' to write their own detective story. Including planning frames, WAGOLL and subject specific vocabulary lists to provide scaffolding for pupils which will result in enjoyable lessons and fantastic outcomes.

This writing prompt provides a stimulus for the writing of a journalistic report or biography based upon 'The Facts in the Case of Mister Hollow'. Contains writing stimulus in the form of a letter from ‘Johnny Hollow’ and key features of writing genres for task (journalistic writing and biographies).

Outstanding lesson sequence with overview, smart-board and accompanying resources. Children revise a wide range of punctuation rules, apply this knowledge in an engaging and fun punctuation symbol puzzle, then complete a writing task based on David Wiesner's 'Tuesday' with the aim of accurately using a full range of punctuation marks.

This bumper pack of resources includes prompts, success criteria, WAGOLLs, story starters and scaffolds to inspire pupil writing across a range of genres including sci-fi, super-hero, horror, history and mystery.

This fantastic collection of tried and tested resources provides a great many engaging, interesting and fun activities to help your students master a wide range of aspects of SPaG. Includes work on adverbial clauses, adjective phrases, finding synonyms for 'and, but and so', examples of a wide variety of connective/conjunction types and their uses, varied sentence openers, figurative language, varied punctuation, missing punctuation and correct tense use. Using themes including football, 'Rocky', Harry Potter and many more this resource will enthuse even the hardest to reach students!

A non-chronological report about Qatar, hosts of the 2022 World Cup, accompanied by 18 SATs style reading comprehension questions from assessment focuses including word meaning, retrieval, summarising, inference, prediction and comparisons.

Maths immediate recall facts (MIRFs) is a complete whole (primary) school program to improve pupils mental agility and use of mathematical knowledge linked directly to the 2014 national curriculum. Using stages 1-6 (which can be linked directly to each year group, or used for children of other ages if they are either behind or in front of their peers in terms of knowledge and immediate recall of the key facts) of facts which pupils should be able to recall immediately (such as times tables, number bonds to 10 or 20, doubles and halves, square numbers and so on) MIRFs is an all-encompassing and easy to follow scheme. Each stage is complete with facts children are required to learn, MIRF cards for pupils to keep and/or take home, six half-termly test transcripts, blank test answer sheets and testing guidelines. The scheme has proved successful in preparing pupils not only for similar tests such as the proposed national testing of times tables, but also gives them greater confidence when approaching any mathematical task – due to the fact that knowing their MIRFs leaves them with one less aspect of mathematics to think (or worry) about!

Two newspaper articles to discuss in relation to the Qatar Word Cup. One about the rights of immigrant workers, one about the potential dangers to LGBTQIA+ supporters during the tournament. Two lessons worth of discussion prompts & activity ideas included.

Ideal for use alongside Qatar reading comprehension, includes features of non-chronological reports, note taking research/planning spider-diagram, example facts/figures/statistics, differentiation prompts & up-levelling writing quick wins sheet.

Wordsearch - find all the teams playing in the Qatar World Cup!

Reading comprehension questions on ‘Town is by the Sea’ by Joanne Schwartz and Sydney Smith following the ‘VIPERS’ format (Vocabulary, Inference, Prediction, Explanation, Retrieval, Summarise) ideal for SATs preparation. 27 questions in all, easily differentiated with accompanying answers!