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 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 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 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 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.

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.

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.

This is a self and peer assessment marking ladder for use with years 5 and 6. It contains a self assessment grid to use when writing a recount and a marking ladder with prompts to aid quality peer assessment. Hope it helps. Check out our other resources here on TES Resources or find us on facebook at Teaching Rainbows or on instagram at Rainbow Education Services.

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.

This is a complete lesson plan for Years 5 and 6 looking at poetic mood and imagery. I used it during Ofsted with my mixed age Y5/6 class and it got good reviews. I used a power point of storm images to start the lesson and the links to the poems are included. The lesson plan contains learning objectives and success criteria, the full activity flow and key learning to be established as well as a self assessment grid at the end. Hope it helps.

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 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.

This resource will take the pain out of planning your spelling programme for Year 3. It provides a spelling focus for each week of the year together with word lists and a selection of tricky words from the Year 3 spelling list. Great for you if you are new to Year 3, just starting out in teaching or are home schooling your children at home.

This resource will take the pain out of planning and delivering the Year 4 spelling programme. It provides weekly spelling lists and tricky word lists with key teaching points to establish. This resource is for you if you are an NQT, new to Year 4 or are homeschooling your children.

This resource will take the pain out of planning your spelling programme for Year 5. Each week it tells you which sounds to focus on and key teaching points to establish as well as a number of tricky words to cover. Wherever possible the weekly words are divided into three levels to target the differing abilities in the class. Great if you are an NQT, new to Year 5 or home schooling your children.

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!

Developing Mathematical Thinking is the key to effective teaching in mathematics. This resource takes a simple number line and shows you how to develop the key skills in mathematical thinking using 8 simple activities. It includes Starting Points, Key Questions, Teaching Points and Assessment Guidelines to help you introduce, develop and assess the children’s progress through the teaching activities. This resource also contains advice about how to structure your teaching to build the children’s confidence and how to gradually reduce the support as their confidence increases. Effective and practical advice to support you in the classroom and to raise standards in mathematical thinking.

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.