This resource is aimed at children in upper Key Stage 2 and Lower Key Stage 3 who need to extend and develop vocabulary - a vital skill for success in both reading and writing. The task involves looking up a range different words and finding synonyms and antonyms. It is great for both teachers and parents interested in developing in children, a love of vocabulary.

This is a complete literacy unit of 15 lessons aimed at children aged 9 - 12 based on the poem The Listeners by Walter de la Mare. This is an amazingly rich piece of poetry and lends itself to some fantastic thinking, discussion, drama activities and creative writing. The resource contains a three week set of outline lessons plans learning objectives success criteria key teaching points to establish. lesson resources additional suggestions for cross curricular working. This will be of interest to you if you are working with children aged 9 - 12.

A comprehensive set of teaching notes and related resource sheets for six cross curricular, creative, dinosaur themed activities for children aged 7 - 11. Designed to creatively develop skills in reading and research, art and design, maths and creative writing, each activity takes between 2 and 3 hours to complete. There are lots of resources available to develop a child’s maths and English skills but very little with a focus on develop creativity across the curriculum. As an experienced primary school teacher, the author knows the power and positive impact gained through harnessing a child’s innate creativity on both their their engagement and learning potential. All the activities have been tried and tested with primary school children across the country. Dinosaurs have long been a source of great inspiration and fascination to children so these activities encourage them to find out more and use what they have learned to create their very own, unique, but totally believable dinosaur. The material is presented on a downloadable PDF document to help children learn the skills needed, provides clear self assessment criteria to enable them to evaluate their work and identifying areas for celebration and further development. Each activity is designed to take between 2 and 3 hours and to be a fun, as well as an educational, learning experience.

A comprehensive set of teaching slides with voice over on powerpoint and related teaching resource masters for six cross curricular, creative, dinosaur themed activities for children aged 7 - 11. Designed to creatively develop skills in reading and research, art and design, maths and creative writing, each activity takes between 2 and 3 hours to complete. There are lots of resources available to develop a child’s maths and English skills but very little with a focus on develop creativity across the curriculum. As an experienced primary school teacher, the author knows the power and positive impact gained through harnessing a child’s innate creativity on both their their engagement and learning potential. All the activities have been tried and tested with primary school children across the country. Dinosaurs have long been a source of great inspiration and fascination to children so these activities encourage them to find out more and use what they have learned to create their very own, unique, but totally believable dinosaur. The material is presented on a powerpoint presentation to help children learn the skills needed, provides clear self assessment criteria to enable them to evaluate their work and identifying areas for celebration and further development. Each activity is designed to take between 2 and 3 hours and to be a fun, as well as an educational, learning experience.

5 x 15 minute literacy and maths activities for Year 3. Are you… Struggling to get your children to practice their basic literacy and maths skills during the half term holiday? Looking for some short, age appropriate resources to send home with the children to complete each day? Searching for something with answers included? I’ve been a class teacher just like you, and spent hours designing suitable resources to encourage my pupils to keep working on their maths and literacy skills through the holidays. That’s why I created these resources to support you. Attached, you will find extracts from some of the activities included in the pack. Each pack contains 5, 15 minute activities for your pupils to do at home - one for each day of the half term holiday - including number and word activities, reading comprehensions and maths puzzles - all with answer sheets included.

This is simply a list of websites that I put together for some friends who are home schooling their children. Hope you find them useful.

I used these little booklets with the children when preparing for our annual residential visit to PGL. It was a good way of collecting information about the children and helped with sorting out grouping and sleeping arrangements as well as letting me know what they were excited about and nervous about. It was also good evidence to support my decision making when parents were not happy about where their child had been placed!

A useful self and peer assessment grid for use with Years 5 and 6 following the writing of a persuasive argument. Hope it helps.

This is a single lesson which I taught with my Year 5/6 class using the Psalms, to develop an understanding of poetic imagery. Includes: learning objective and success criteria; lesson flow with outline activities, key learning points to be established; resources and links to You Tube. Hope it helps!

This is a simple activity to help Year 6 children know and understand how to use the semi colon correctly to join two related clauses. It is designed as a group activity to encourage peer feedback and shared understanding.

This is a full lesson plan aimed at Years 5 and 6 to develop skills in finding the nth term. I used it in an Ofsted inspection and it was well reviewed. Our theme that half term was The Tempest - hence the links to Caliban! - but it stands as a discrete maths lesson. It contains learning objectives, success criteria, learning activities and key learning points to be established. Hope you find it useful.

Teachers, Home Schoolers and Parents. Take the time out of planning your spelling programme. This resource gives you the spelling lists, rules and word lists needed to cover the Y3 spelling programme in the first half term. The remainder of the programme is available on TES Resources.

Take the time out of planning your spelling programme for Year 5. This resource will give you the first half term’s coverage with teaching points and differentiated word lists. Suitable for teachers, parents, home schoolers and trainee teachers. The remainder of the Year 5 Spelling Programme is available from Teaching R ainbows on TES Resources.

This is a set of maths targets for use with Year 1 children in the first half term of the academic year. Suitable for teachers, teaching assistants, parents, home schoolers and trainee teachers. Can be used at home or at school to monitor progress, for homework or as a group activity. The full set of Maths Targets for Y1 and for Years 1 - 6 is available from Teaching Rainbows on TES Resources.

Take the time out of planning your spelling programme. The resource provides the half term overview, teaching points, word lists for use with children in Year 4. Suitable for teachers, parents, homeschoolers and trainee teachers. The remainder of the Year’s plan is available from Teaching Rainbows on TES Resources.

This is a set of maths targets for use with Year 2 children in the first half term of the academic year. Suitable for teachers, teaching assistants, parents, home schoolers and trainee teachers. Can be used at home or at school to monitor progress, for homework or as a group activity. The full set of Maths Targets for Y2 and for Years 1 - 6 is available from Teaching Rainbows on TES Resources.

This is a set of maths targets for use with Year 4 children in the first half term of the academic year. Suitable for teachers, teaching assistants, parents, home schoolers and trainee teachers. Can be used at home or at school to monitor progress, for homework or as a group activity. The full set of Maths Targets for Y1 and for Years 1 - 6 is available from Teaching Rainbows on TES Resources.

This resource is to be used with Year 5 and 6 children working on a story writing unit. Contains success criteria and space for self, peer and teacher assessment.

This is a set of maths targets for use with Year 3 children in the first half term of the academic year. Suitable for teachers, teaching assistants, parents, home schoolers and trainee teachers. Can be used at home or at school to monitor progress, for homework or as a group activity. The full set of Maths Targets for Y3 and for Years 1 - 6 is available from Teaching Rainbows on TES Resources.

This is a single page worksheet to be used with key stage 2 to celebrate each individual as a unique creation. Could be used at the beginning of term to introduce each child to a new class or at the start of a unit of work on relationships education. It was originally designed for a year 6 class to rebuild confidence after the SATs experience!