A wordmat designed to mirror the VCOP display board in KS1. Includes VCOP superhero images courtesy of butterbeer and ilovemarmite. Double-sided wordmat - 1 side with VCOP sections, flipside with half-completed pirate similes, and well-known pirate sayings. Useful for writing about pirates or creation of a pirate adventure story.

An image based PowerPoint detailing the various jobs of a Police Officer, including Special Constables and the specialist roles a Police Officer can take on with additional training.

Practise writing the alphabet by shape. Focus on the size of letters - ascenders and descenders.

A short PowerPoint to introduce comic strips to children. Looking at the different features such as caption boxes, speech bubbles, thought bubbles, action words. Links well with the topic of Superheroes.

Timetable cards for Show & Tell, Italian, Spanish, School Council, Guided Writing and Skipping Club.

A b/w image of a bottle with a b/w treasure map inside. Role-play, literacy writing inspiration... I am planning to roll and tie up with string so children can discover!

A 2 page flipchart showing the ground, grass and sky behind the one-armed robot letters, then a page of handwriting paper to model how to write them. A separate sheet of handwriting paper for kids to practice on.

Print each different grapheme on a different colour. Children take 1 of each grapheme and make a silly sentence using all 4 cards. They can then practice writing the sentence as an extension!

A word mat designed to support writing about the growth cycle of a bean. Sectioned in to Vocabulary, Connectives, Openers and Punctuation. Also contains the VCOP superheroes (thanks to Butterbeer and ilovemarmite) and on the reverse has images and labels for different common beans and a diagram of the growing cycle.

A word mat designed to support writing about The Bad Tempered Ladybird by Eric Carle. Sectioned in to Vocabulary, Connectives, Openers and Punctuation. Also contains the VCOP superheroes (thanks to Butterbeer and ilovemarmite) and on the reverse has images and clock times for the different animals the bad tempered ladybird encountered in the story.

A mindmap based on some of the ideas provided by MusicBugs to celebrate National Nursery Rhyme Week. Focusing on Hickory Dickory Dock, Humpty Dumpty, Incy Wincy Spider, Twinkle Twinkle Little Star and Mary Mary Quite Contrary.

Pictures of foods beginning with ch or not. Designed as a sorting activity for oral segmentation when learning the phoneme /ch/.

Worksheets to help read and heard the 'ig' rime. Pictures to help. Sheets differentiated.

A wordmat with words grouped into VCOP sections designed to help children retell/write their version of the story.

Print each different grapheme on a different colour. Children take 1 of each grapheme and make a silly sentence using all 4 cards. They can then practice writing the sentence as an extension!

Posters for a zoo-themed role-play area

Word cards containing ch food names. Designed to be used to match up with ch food pictures once sorted. See ch foods resource. Also three yes/no questions containing ch foods.

Pictures of words containing an /sh/ phoneme either at the beginning or the end of the word. Designed to be used to sort into two groups - those words that start with an sh, and those that end with an sh. Children to segment orally, and then scribe the word into phoneme frames.

Pictures (courtesy of bloss1985 ng digraph pictures and words matching). 3 column phoneme frame for magnetic letters/graphemes on bottle tops... Print 2 to a page landscape

Print each different grapheme on a different colour. Children take 1 of each grapheme and make a silly sentence using all 4 cards. They can then practice writing the sentence as an extension!