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.

This is for you if you are a Year 6 teacher and want to challenge your Year 6 children to demonstrate their leadership skills in a practical way by creating, organising and running and afternoon of activities for the younger children in your school. We planned this one as a means of freeing up the Reception classroom for use by the new entrants and it worked so well that it became an annual event and a highlight of the year. Have fun with it!

This practical resource takes the three main strands of mathematical thinking - application, communication and reasoning - and develops them in a step by step approach. It is useful for any teacher at any stage of their career who is looking to introduce, develop and promote a thinking and reasoning approach to mathematics in the classroom. It can be used with any activity and with any age of children.

This resource contains a series of activities using a simple number line starting point. These can be introduced by the teacher and used as investigations with the class or the diagram could be used to generate lines of enquiry by the pupils. It can be used with children from Year 2 upwards and extended to include negative numbers if desired.

This resource aimed at 7 - 11 year olds, provides 8 starting points to investigate next door neighbour numbers or consecutive numbers on a number line. Each one can be used as a separate lesson idea or the different starting points could be given to different groups of children in the same lesson. Answers included!

This is a template for a postcard with a choice of five different activities for using it. The aim is to start the new year with a creative activity which also makes the children think hard! There is also an additional activity sheet to support activities 4 and 5. Have fun with it! Great for you if you are just starting out in teaching or want to start the year off in a ‘different’ way.

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.

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 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!

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 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.

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.