RROAR The Black Cat way of problem solving A way of looking at solving a mathematical problem that puts emphasis on understanding the question and setting out the working out to highlight the strategy used and enabling a greater chance of identifying working out errors on either the recheck or marking. Read Recognise Organise Answer Recheck

A helpful reminder of what to check with a pupils written work. PURR, punctuation, check you have all the relevant capital letters, commas full stops etc. Understandable, does your sentence or paragraph make sense? Reword, have used some words repetitively, can you change them for something else, are there any wow words you can use? Finally Recheck, does it still answer the question or task assigned? Congratulations PURR.

A moving up day task where the pupils decide what they would like to be to be famous. They can pick from film star, to author, to reality star and sports star. They have 200 famous points to pick what they want to be. Will they use all the points on a big role or two smaller roles, like local journalist and non international cricketer? Will they have enough points to get an agent, bodyguard or fan club. The ultimate goal is an interview to see how they got famous and what they like about it.

Description This is a feedback tool for project work. The aim would be for the pupils to write their progress, issues and other relevant information on the pupil’s rabbit sticker and place it at the back of their work / project book on an established frequency. The teacher would then collect the work, review and feedback with the teacher’s rabbit sticker. This enables open communication between pupil and teacher, along with providing feedback without impacting the pupil’s work in progress. Once established it could be rolled out into other marking setups to give a more visual communication between pupil, teacher and if relevant parent / guardian.

A helpful maths mat for a pupils useful information folder

The king of the monsters has lost his angle monsters. the pupils must find them and subdue them by working out the angle their mouth is open.

The king of the monsters has lost the factor phantoms and the only way to catch them is to link them up with their factor eggs.

The king of the monsters has lost his decimal and faction monsters and needs your help to pair them back up so he can get them home safely.

The king of the monsters has lost the multiplication families. the children were on a school trip when they got lost, now all the parents are hunting for them. can you help the king pair the parents with the children before it is too late.

different images to help for displays as added extras, or if you just want something different. There is a word version if you wish to edit or add a text box. The images are different stars, a thumbs up, duck, light bulb, thunder cloud, Christmas tree, cloud / thought bubble. hope it helps.

An assembly looking at the top twenty toys of all time as voted by the toy industry. what makes the list. Can the pupils guess what is in the top five of Subbuteo, Scalextric, action man, monopoly and lego. can they see why these toys are so highly rated. it ends with a clip from lego masters on channel four.

British values templates for pupils to fill with what they see as their British values. Telephone box, heart and viewing wheel.

A card for a lesson. They can draw their grumpy face on the front (or add a photo), then write to themselves advice on how to get out of a grump. this is part of the kindness lessons. all going in a bundle.

two sets of stickers associated for kindness lessons. one is a pledge of kindness and the other is it is good to be kind. all going in a bundle

A poem based on a teacher asking a pupil what they want to be when they grow up. There are then multiple versus as different ideas come to the pupil. it then continues where your class or child adds their own versions, and illustrate accordingly. just added lesson idea for reception and KS1 lesson idea for KS2 Assembly idea display headings and poem. Add pictures of different jobs etc or get the class to draw them.