This 20 page high quality activity pack is the perfect resource for keeping your class busy throughout the summer holidays. It balances play with fun and hopefully helps them to reduce their screen time. This resource covers basic maths skills, some writing and creative projects.
It contains:
Get outdoors………pages 3 - 5
Writing………page 6
Number…… pages 7 - 13
Arts and crafts… pages 14 - 16
Play ideas…… page 17
Mindfulness colouring pages 18 – 20
This resource will save you time and will give your children the opportunity to remain engaged in learning over the holidays!
A training powerpoint used for a 10-15 minute CPD session. I used this for both TAs and teachers.
In detail explanations of the different principles all in one place.
Examples of how they are implemented in the classroom.
Available as a PDF and an editable PPT.
Headings for an English working wall in rainbow colours, Twinkl cursive font. Editable version available if you download the Twinkl cursive loop font.
Headings:
Class Target
Book of the Month
Vocabulary bank
Grammar
Writing Purpose
WAGOLL
Key Features
Vocabulary
Modelling
This resource contains all of the unit outcomes for white rose/power maths resources. It also contains a full list of vocabulary for each unit along with a series of stem sentences to help the children with their speaking skills. It is available in both PDF and word form. The PDF uses the Twinkl looped font.
This is a two week writing resource focusing on description. It uses parts from chapters 1 -4 of War Horse. It is for the children to write about leaving the pen after being sold to arriving at the stables. This goes through a writing process in the following format:
Analysing Joey’s feelings in the first chapter
Key vocabulary searching
Reading and analysing example texts and high quality descriptive writing from other novels
Planning the writing
Drafting the first paragraph (Joey leaving the pen after being sold) with modelled writing
Drafting the second paragraph (The journey to the stables) with modelled writing
Drafting the third paragraph (Arriving at the stables) with modelled writing
Big writing the final piece
Each lesson also has a grammar focus beginning with identifying main clauses and subordinate clauses and then moving onto relative clauses in the second week. The PowerPoint has guidance on this but I have used resources from elsewhere for the activities the children need to complete (only for the grammar).
Resources included in this pack:
A comprehensive PowerPoint for all of the sessions including examples (48 slides)
Resource pack 1 contains: success criteria, key vocabulary in 2 sizes, feelings matching resource for lesson 1, PEE paragraph templates for lesson 1, Chapter 2 and 3 summary notes crib sheets, key vocabulary and definition matching activity for lesson 2, 3 x differentiated planning sheets, sentence starters, modelled text for the first paragraph
‘Roll on the wall’ horse template
extracts from high quality texts - differentiated 3 ways
matching activity for emotions
Resource pack 2 contains: success criteria, writing frames for each paragraph, key vocabulary, sentence starters for all three paragraphs.
This resource contains excerpts from different texts of descriptive writing. This resource is useful for providing high quality texts for the children to read and also has many examples of ‘show, don’t tell’.
The resource has 3 different challenges of text:
Challenge A
Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s stone excerpt.
The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe excerpt.
Challenge B
Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s stone excerpt.
The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe excerpt.
Description of a picture (picture included)
Challenge C
Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s stone excerpt.
Description of a picture
Excerpt from The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman
Excerpt from Over Sea, Under Stone by Susan Cooper
A whole year’s worth of spellings in an editable word document format. 31 weeks of spelling words. 15 words each week and 2 weeks of 20 words leading up to SATs.
Includes:
Year 5 and 6 statutory words
Year 5 and 6 spelling patterns
Year 3 and 4 statutory words
Preparing for year 7 words
The format is look, cover, write, check and works well with the read, write inc spelling scheme.
Looking for some last minute time fillers? Here is a quiz which your class are sure to enjoy!
This quiz contains:
Food and drink quiz
Disney quiz
Logo quiz
Literature quiz
Looking for some last minute time fillers? Here is a quiz which your class are sure to enjoy!
This quiz contains:
A sports round
A geography round
A movie round
A music round
An animals round
This task is for assessing where the children are at in their non- fiction writing. This focuses on letter writing. There are two tasks to choose from - a letter of complaint or a letter of application to become a teacher at Hogwarts. It is suited to both Year 5 and Year 6.
This task is for assessing where the children are at in their fiction writing. There are two pictures to use as a stimulus and clear guidance on the task. It is suited to both Year 5 and Year 6.
This is a PowerPoint with a focus on screen time for safer internet day. It can be used in assembly and contains discussion questions for the students to talk about. It could be delivered online or in front of the class. It could also be used to share with your own class rather than as an assembly.
This resource is a 6 week unit of work learning about saints. The unit of work consists of:
Week 1 - What is a saint? Investigation into saints and the children’s prior knowledge.
Week 2 - Researching different saints lesson
Week 3 - Investigating the terms martyr and revered
Week 4 - The impact saints have had on people’s lives and what they sacrificed. This is research on Martin Luther King and Mother Theresa. I used Twinkl comprehensions to help with this lesson.
Week 5 - debate questions -Do you think Jesus is a saint? Should saints be dead before they are recognised? Do saints have to be believers in God?
Week 6 - evaluation lesson
There is a powerpoint for each lesson along with worksheets, planning and resources where relevant.
This is a really enjoyable unit of work and I hope you enjoy teaching it as much as I do!
This is a step by step introduction how to guide on how to make the most of teaching on Microsoft Teams. This guide has a focus on scheduling live lessons and calls.
This very useful parent guide demonstrates how to use assignments and class notebook in Microsoft Teams. It has models of both the desktop app and the mobile/tablet app. It goes through step by step how to access assignments set by the teacher and how to upload to the assignment. It also explains how to obtain feedback from the teacher. It also gives an overview of how to use class notebook as a parent/student in a step by step guide.
Based on David Attenborough’s ‘A Life on Our Planet’ I am creating a full English unit based on this programme on Netflix.
Start off by showing your class the documentary. Before the documentary do a KWL grid to see what they know already. We also did a cover page in our books to start the unit.
This is a 2 week module on writing an information text about an endangered animal. It includes:
A Powerpoint to cover the two weeks
Example texts
Where to find grammar starters
Success criteria and learning challenges
Vocabulary list for the whole unit
There will be a further 6 weeks of work to follow this module.
Want simple, clean and bright looking displays? Look no further! I have collated this bumper display pack for all of your displays to give them a modern twist.
Titles are all included in both black and white flags and rainbow pastel colours. The sizing is two letters per page.
Subject titles included:
English
Literacy
Maths
Math
Numeracy
Science
RS
RE
Computing
History
Geography
Art
DT
PSHE
Growth Mindset
Reading
Reading Corner
French
Spanish
A-Z OF LETTERS
Bonus lettering saying ’ class of kindness’. 3 versions available.
All Pastel Rainbow
All black and white flags
Mixed
Bonus lettering saying ‘Our Wonderful Writing’
All Pastel Rainbow
Challenge your kids to read 12 books a term using these easy to use reading challenges. A great way to get kids reading. There is a challenge for Autumn, Spring and Summer. Each challenge contains 12 books.
Enjoy!