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Teaching Utensils Ltd.

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The goal is to provide great resources for teachers and school leaders, ensuring outstanding value for money and quality. With over 40 years of teaching experience and skills in computer graphics and resource design you will find great lesson plans, units of work, display materials, school policy's, instructional video's and resources to help with interviews and observations. If you would like us to make a resource for you or just to give some feedback we would like to hear from.

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The goal is to provide great resources for teachers and school leaders, ensuring outstanding value for money and quality. With over 40 years of teaching experience and skills in computer graphics and resource design you will find great lesson plans, units of work, display materials, school policy's, instructional video's and resources to help with interviews and observations. If you would like us to make a resource for you or just to give some feedback we would like to hear from.
First Day/Week activities
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First Day/Week activities

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A ppt with a series of activities that develop an awareness of the classroom rules and some get to know you activities. There are activities that involve Art/DT that can then be used make a display.
Self and Peer Assessment - Reflection Time Display and Reflection Stems
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Self and Peer Assessment - Reflection Time Display and Reflection Stems

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Very effective resource used throughout or at the end of a lesson as a self or peer assessment tool to evaluate learning. This is a formative and cooperative way of assessing a students understanding, and a great motivator for students of any age. It is a very effective tool to encourage students to identify their own next steps in learning, as well encouraging them to share their reasoning with the teacher and peers. Most effective when used as permanent working-wall and referred to consistently, especially during plenaries.
Native American Homework Project
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Native American Homework Project

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Students choose from nine homework project tasks linked with the topic. They aim to get 15 stars by choosing a range of 3, 4 and 5 star activities relating to history, Native American traditions and other aspects of daily life. There are a wealth of open ended tasks that encourage the student to take ownership over their home learning, with the option of completing more tasks if they wish to. The other benefit of the projects are that they allow for independent learning and others that encourage the parents to get involved.
'Mistake of the Week' Lettering
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'Mistake of the Week' Lettering

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This display lettering is to encourage a more positive approach to learning from mistakes and a growth mindset approach to recognising our areas of weakness and focusing on improving them. A description of how I use this resource is contained within the pack and the approach taken to maximise the engagement of students.
Year 2 Curriculum Overview
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Year 2 Curriculum Overview

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This is a Year 2 Curriculum overview for the academic year. It contains links to the ENC and the potential topics that would complement the core subjects.
Full Guided Reading Scheme
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Full Guided Reading Scheme

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This scheme has broken down the reading assessment indicators for the ENC and has nine separate descriptors for the teacher to assess against. It contains independent activities for the other groups to engage in while the teacher works with one group. This is designed to take minimal preparation time but maximum impact for learning.
Moving and Growing Homework Project
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Moving and Growing Homework Project

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relating to muscles, bones and fitness.Students choose from nine homework project tasks linked with the topic. They try to get 15 stars by choosing a range of 3, 4 and 5 star activities relating to muscles, bones and fitness.Students choose from nine homework project tasks linked with the topic. There are a wealth of open ended tasks that encourage the student to take ownership over their home learning, with the option of completing more tasks if they wish to. The other benefit of the projects are that they allow for independent learning and others that encourage the parents to get involved.
Thinking skills Poster
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Thinking skills Poster

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This image has been turned in to a display to support students understanding of what it means and looks like to dig deeper in our thought processes and how to produce more in-depth sentences. It can also be applied to other areas of the curriculum, especially when looking for more thoughtful and extend answers when you ask a question. This display provides great imagery to a concept that can be quite abstract in younger children.
Sentence stems for assessment
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Sentence stems for assessment

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These sentence stems are a great way to get students to reflect on their own and their peers learning. They can be easily utilised for setting a particular focus for self/peer assessment time and is an effective way to introduce this reflective and independent approach to learning with confidence.
Display Board Pupil Response box
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Display Board Pupil Response box

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This resource allows students in your class to respond to work or material that is on display in your classroom. It is a great stimulus to encourage engagement with the displays as these can sometimes become just like wallpaper. By providing this little area that contains guidelines and suggestions, it encourages students to think about the learning and post comments on the wall for their peers and teachers to assess and allow deeper thinking skills to develop.
IPC 'Toymakers' Exit Point Assembly
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IPC 'Toymakers' Exit Point Assembly

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A script for a class of 20+ kids to perform in an assembly, showcasing what they have learnt over the course of the topic. Detailed lines for each child and can be simplified or extended depending on your class. Clear and easy to understand but also a lovely assembly that brings the learning to life for the school or parents.
Year 2 Mathematics -Number Facts Planning
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Year 2 Mathematics -Number Facts Planning

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A detailed and easy to follow Mathematics weekly plan with all the resources and Interactive Whiteboard slides. These plans are ready to pick up and use. It is a very fun, practical and challenging set of lessons that has everything you need for a mixed ability class.
Year 2 Mathematics -Counting, Partitioning and Calculating
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Year 2 Mathematics -Counting, Partitioning and Calculating

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A detailed and easy to follow Mathematics weekly plan with all the resources and Interactive Whiteboard slides. These plans are ready to pick up and use. It is a very fun, practical and challenging set of lessons that has everything you need for a mixed ability class.
Past and Present Guided Reading Activity
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Past and Present Guided Reading Activity

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A simple yet effective guided reading activity that develops students knowledge of past and present words and research skills. Rather than using rote learning to develop this knowledge it is done alongside any text that you are using in class or the pupil finds exciting. It can be done as an independent or group activity during guided reading, English or as a withdrawal activity.
How Can I Grow Up Healthy and Strong? (Unit of Work)
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How Can I Grow Up Healthy and Strong? (Unit of Work)

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This is an entire unit of work on the topic of Healthy Living, suitable for Year's 1, 2 and 3. With nine detailed and easy to follow lessons, the class will explore a variety of areas that include food, exercise, and medicines. The students will draw on learning from English, Mathematics, Science and Art so that they make connections and are excited by the learning taking place. For the teacher, this is a unit of work that comes with the resources and slides, with minimal preparation, without the loss in quality of learning.
Aztec Adverbial Phrases and Clauses Observation Lesson
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Aztec Adverbial Phrases and Clauses Observation Lesson

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Complete English Observation lesson based on the Aztecs with the Learning Objective: To identify and use adverbial phrases and clauses. Includes presentation with speaking and listening activities, 4 differentiated written activities and an interactive plenary activity to consolidate and extend understanding about adverbial phrases and clauses. Originally designed for a Year 3 and 4 class but could be adapted to suit older or younger students.
Poetry Unit of Work
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Poetry Unit of Work

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Planning and Smart Notebooks for 4 lessons on Poetry with an extra resource giving the opportunity for an extra lesson on performance poetry. Includes a range of poems to explore and discuss which provide a model for students to write their own imaginative and descriptive poems throughout the week. Series of lessons designed for Lower Key Stage 2 but could be used for Upper Key Stage 1 or Upper Key Stage 2.
Guided Reading Tasks (5)
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Guided Reading Tasks (5)

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Within this pack are five guided reading tasks to develop comprehension. They are based on books by Roald Dahl but can be easily tailored to suit any book you are using in the class and can be used again and again. The resources encourage the students to really think about what they have read and use a variety of skills to answer the questions. They encourage the development of predicting, awareness of sentence structure and recall through writing and art.
Reading Comprehension Lesson
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Reading Comprehension Lesson

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This resource contains a Smart Notebook with the Learning Objective, modelling many examples to the students of how they should scan, locate and read to find the answers to the question. It also includes the printable extract from the text, 'Gowie Corby' and questions which have been differentiated three ways. It is suitable for Key Stage 2.
IPC Toymakers assembly
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IPC Toymakers assembly

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This is an assembly to showcase learning in the IPC topic, 'Toymakers'. It contains the script with each child having their own speaking part and the ppt which can be edited to suit all learning that took place during your unit.