Created by a year six teacher (100% maths, 100% reading and 93% English at and above expected pass rate last SATs year), maths coordinator and deputy head. I am also a published author under the name Andrew Thomas. I have had my resources recommended by TES 3 times.
I've been teaching for years and love my job. My school is in Lewisham (London). My kids are engaged when the resources are good.
Created by a year six teacher (100% maths, 100% reading and 93% English at and above expected pass rate last SATs year), maths coordinator and deputy head. I am also a published author under the name Andrew Thomas. I have had my resources recommended by TES 3 times.
I've been teaching for years and love my job. My school is in Lewisham (London). My kids are engaged when the resources are good.
This is a flipchart aimed at the SPaG tests with a focus on the different types of adjectives.
Descriptive
Quantitative
Demonstrative
Possessive
Interrogative
Distributive
Articles
Each page gives explanations and examples and then asks the children to do the same in their SPaG books.
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UPDATED FOR 2023
A great writing project to allow children to learn GPS while writing a wonderful story. Great for catch up and will last weeks. You don’t need the book as the PPT has it all.
38 slides (to accompany the book Journey). Each slide has a different focus.
A step by step approach that introduces all aspects of the writing assessment criteria including:
• creating atmosphere, and integrating dialogue to convey character and advance the action
• using a range of cohesive devices, including adverbials, within and across sentences and paragraphs sentences and paragraphs
• using passive and modal verbs mostly appropriately
• using a wide range of clause structures, sometimes varying their position within the sentence
• using adverbs, preposition phrases and expanded noun phrases effectively to add detail, qualification and precision
• using mostly correctly:
inverted commas
commas for clarity
punctuation for parenthesis
• making some correct use of:
semi-colons
dashes
colons
hyphens
• semi-colons to mark the boundary between independent clauses
• colons to mark the boundary between independent clauses
This was a real labour of love. Enjoy.
A weeks worth of revision sheets. Created by a year 6 teacher who got 93% maths pass rate in last years SATs and progress that was in the top 10% in the country.
This helps revise a range of skills in a fun way and covers:
Money conversion
Journey time tables
Money word problems
All 4 operations
If you like this, please click my name at the top to visit my shop. It has everything from reading comprehension games to stand alone cover lessons.
A fun science experiment that shows what air pressure is, firwards and backwards mothion and Sir Isaac Newton’s Laws.
All you need is a 2 litre bottle, carrot, bike pump (a standing, large one works best) and a football inflation needle.
Have fun.
Designed and used by a year 6 teacher with a 93% maths SATs score in 2017.
This is a 2 week maths cycle that covers concepts for the SATs reasoning test in easy 10 minute starters.
This works perfectly to remind and embed all the concepts needed to do well in the reasoning paper.
Please check out my other resources by clicking my name at the top of the page.
SATs reading comprehension games
Reasoning Paper revision
Loads of English SATs based writing
A fun powerpoint about St Patrick that tests pupils memory with a quiz at the end.
This also includes a link to a video about his life.
Happy St Patrick’s Day!
Covers a range of SATs topics and can be done on the sheet so no need for the books.
Covers:
Multiples
Factors
Word Problems
Number sequences
Multiplying and Dividing Decimals
This flipchart can be used as a whole class activity, printed out for small groups or used as a range of worksheets.
It helps children’s understanding of what algebra is and directly links the main concepts of letters as numbers and how to develop an understanding of formulae.
Created by a tear 6 teacher with 100% pass rate (in an inner city school) in SATs maths last year and 55% greater depth.
Please click on my name above to see my other resources. Everything from Guided Reading games to step by step writing at the expected level flipcharts.
This unit of 3 - 4 lessons teaches children to stay safe online and informs them that they leave a digital footprint and the consequences of this.
Lessons teach children:
To explore how much time I spend online
To understand how to stay safe online
To understand that once information is shared online it is very difficult to remove
An ActivInspire (Promethean) flip chart, plan and resources to create a non-chronological report based on animals and their habitats.
Good science cross-curricular links.
These games are designed to making reading comprehension exciting and enjoyable.
2 more board games that make reading comprehension fun! The text is in the middle of the game board and the questions test a range of areas that will appear on the upcoming SATS. My year 6 class had a blast.
All you need is a die and some counters!
The lost world game is complete, it’s just a glitch on the picture.
Year 6 teacher? Please check out my other tried and tested resources.
These games are designed to make reading comprehension exciting and enjoyable.
2 more board games that make reading comprehension fun! The text is in the middle of the game board and the questions test a range of areas that will appear on the upcoming SATS. My year 6 class had a blast.
All you need is a die and some counters!
Year 6 teacher? Please check out my other tried and tested resources.
These games are designed to make reading comprehension exciting and enjoyable.
2 more board games that make reading comprehension fun! The text is in the middle of the game board and the questions test a range of areas that will appear on the upcoming SATS. My year 6 class had a blast.
All you need is a die and some counters!
This is the second lot of games I have made.
click here for the original set:
Year 6 teacher? Please check out my other tried and tested resources.
Make a bookmark RE activity
Have you ever seen a mustard seed? The mustard seed was, at the time, believed to be the smallest of all seeds. It is so small that if you were holding one in your hand and you dropped it you would have a very hard time finding it because it is so hard to see.
Even though the mustard seed is so small when it is planted in the ground, it grows into a tree large enough for birds to stand on its branches and to make their nests in it.
When you look at this little mustard seed before
planting it in the ground, you might think it would
be impossible for a seed so tiny to grow into a tree.
But God turns that tiny seed into a wonderful place
for birds to come and rest and sing.
When Jesus told this parable He compared it to loving God. When children, like you, or adults begin to love Jesus, their love is like a tiny mustard seed before it is planted in the ground. It starts out very small at first. Then when you keep on listening to what Jesus says and obeying Him, then the love grows bigger and bigger. Soon it will grow like the big mustard tree.
You can also find this parable in Mark 4:30-32; and Luke 13:18-19.