I am an ex-primary head teacher and English, Maths and History specialist. I've mostly worked in KS2, often in Year 6. Although for the last two years, I've been working in Year 1, which has been delightful!
All the resources have been used successfully with children in a range of schools all over the country.
I am constantly reviewing and updating my resources. Please follow me to ensure that you have the most up to date versions of the resources you buy.
I am an ex-primary head teacher and English, Maths and History specialist. I've mostly worked in KS2, often in Year 6. Although for the last two years, I've been working in Year 1, which has been delightful!
All the resources have been used successfully with children in a range of schools all over the country.
I am constantly reviewing and updating my resources. Please follow me to ensure that you have the most up to date versions of the resources you buy.
A set of five books to be used along any topic / history work on the Victorians.
A Christmas Carol - HA
Sherlock Holmes investigates - HA/MA
Tom’s Midnight Garden - MA
Street Child - LA / MA
Just So Stories / the Vile Victorians - LA
A series of questions, answers and reading journal activity based around all areas of reading. Great alternative to SATs tests or written comprehensions.
LOs
To use skimming and scanning to answer questions about the opening section of a story.
To emphasise with the children in the story.
To use skimming and scanning to make sense of a text.
To understand how an author can use a letter to summarise a story.
To make predictions based on what you have read to date.
To be able to empathise with the main characters as they reach the end of their journey.
To reflect upon a completed novel / to produce a piece of biographical writing.
A complete set of Guided Reading resources for a half term.
Charlotte's Web - HA
The Butterfly Lion / Angel of Nitshill Road - MA
Horrid Henry & Mousehole Cat / Sophie's Snail - LA
A set of books for KS2 children studying the historical fiction genre. Ideal for understanding the genre, magpie-ing ideas for their own writing as well as introducing some of the greatest children's authors of historical fiction.
Drawing on the new History Curriculum and focussing on Aims: Strands 4 and 5 this resource includes:
A collection of ten quotes from contemporary sources,
An explanation of five activities that can be carried out using these resources
Planning Templates to support arguments and a chart to help summarise arguments about the Abolition of Slavery.
Learning Objectives
• To understand historical concepts such as continuity and change, cause and consequence, similarity, difference and significance,
• To make connections, draw contrasts, analyse trends, frame historically-valid questions and create their own structured accounts, including written narratives and analyses
• To understand the methods of historical enquiry, including how evidence is used rigorously to make historical claims, and discern how and why contrasting arguments and interpretations of the past have been constructed.
Learning Outcomes:
Pupils will be able to:
• recognise and discern between arguments made for and against the Abolition of Slavery.
• draw on primary resources to produce a reasoned debate on the pros and cons of slavery.
• produce their own persuasive argument in favour (or against) the abolition of slavery.
• produce a balanced argument on the advantages and disadvantages of slavery.
• Produce their own written narrative of what led to the Abolition of Slavery
Drawing on the new History Curriculum and focussing on Aims: Strands 4 and 5 this resource includes:
A collection of eleven quotes from contemporary sources,
An explanation of five activities that can be carried out using these resources
Planning Templates to support arguments and a chart to help summarise arguments about education
Learning Objectives:
• To understand historical concepts such as continuity and change, cause and consequence, similarity, difference and significance,
• To make connections, draw contrasts, analyse trends, frame historically-valid questions and create their own structured accounts, including written narratives and analyses
• To understand the methods of historical enquiry, including how evidence is used rigorously to make historical claims, and discern how and why contrasting arguments and interpretations of the past have been constructed.
Learning Outcomes:
Pupils will be able to:
• Recognise the difference between fact and opinion
• recognise and discern between arguments made for and against the role of education
• draw on primary resources to produce a reasoned debate on the pros and cons of education.
• produce their own persuasive argument in favour (or against) the introduction of universal education.
• produce a balanced argument on the advantages and disadvantages of education.
• Produce their own written narrative of life at school
Key Stage 2 comprehensions. Text includes a range of non fiction, fictionalised, historical texts and short poetry. Questions include whole range of SAT style questions such as: inference and deduction, prediction and factual recall. Ideal for Guided groups, homework or whole class activity,
A complete Programme of work for teaching the Victorians in either Key Stage 2 or Key Stage 3. The pack includes Summary Planning providing a suggested sequence of teaching which includes Time-line work and a series of Historical Investigation and debate activities based using quotes from people alive in the Victorian times and Victorian novels.
The pack also includes planning for five groups of Guided reading, drawing on a combination of Victorian and contemporary novelists.
Additionally, there are ten comprehensions included that could be used as additional whole class activities or as homework.
A complete Programme of work for teaching the Victorians in either Key Stage 2 or Key Stage 3. The pack includes Summary Planning providing a suggested sequence of teaching which includes Time-line work and a series of Historical Investigation and debate activities based using quotes from people alive in the Victorian times and Victorian novels.
Additionally, there are ten comprehensions included that could be used as additional whole class activities or as homework.
A plan, set of teaching resources, Interactive Whiteboard presentations for both Promethean and Smartboards.
This resource uses the questions on 2016 Key Stage 2 SATs papers 1, 2 and 3 to revise your class' understanding of quick arithmetic methods and revise a specific aspect of the reasoning papers finishing with an AfL style plenary using exemplar questions from the 2016 SATs paper.
This is the second lesson in a revision programme designed to prepare Year 6 children for the Maths SATs papers 1, 2 and 3.
Learning Objectives covered:
To subtract whole numbers, decimals or fractions quickly (arithmetic starter)
To understand and apply the vocabulary describing the property of numbers i.e. factors, multiples, square numbers, prime numbers, odd and even, common factor, prime factor, common multiples.
A plan, set of teaching resources, Interactive Whiteboard presentations for both Promethean and Smartboards.
This resource uses the questions on 2016 Key Stage 2 SATs papers 1, 2 and 3 to revise your class' understanding of quick arithmetic methods and revise a specific aspect of the reasoning papers finishing with an AfL style plenary using exemplar questions from the 2016 SATs paper.
This is the fourth lesson in a revision programme designed to prepare Year 6 children for the Maths SATs papers 1, 2 and 3.
Learning Objectives covered:
To divide whole numbers, decimals or fractions quickly (arithmetic starter)
To solve addition and subtraction multi-step problems deciding which operations and methods to use.
To apply addition and subtraction strategies to multi-step problems including negative numbers (and decimals.)
A plan, set of teaching resources, Interactive Whiteboard presentations for both Promethean and Smartboards.
This resource uses the questions on 2016 Key Stage 2 SATs papers 1, 2 and 3 to revise your class' understanding of quick arithmetic methods and revise a specific aspect of the reasoning papers finishing with an AfL style plenary using exemplar questions from the 2016 SATs paper.
This is the fifth lesson in a revision programme designed to prepare Year 6 children for the Maths SATs papers 1, 2 and 3.
Learning Objectives covered:
To divide whole numbers, decimals or fractions quickly (arithmetic starter)
To solve problems involving multiplication
A plan, set of teaching resources, Interactive Whiteboard presentations for both Promethean and Smartboards.
This resource uses the questions on 2016 Key Stage 2 SATs papers 1, 2 and 3 to revise your class' understanding of quick arithmetic methods and revise a specific aspect of the reasoning papers finishing with an AfL style plenary using exemplar questions from the 2016 SATs paper.
This is the ninth lesson in a revision programme designed to prepare Year 6 children for the Maths SATs papers 1, 2 and 3.
Learning Objectives covered:
To solve arithmetic problems using all four operations with fractions.
To make use of BODMAS to solve multistep arithmetic problems
To solve problems involving metric measures, to convert between metric measures and between imperial and metric measures.
To use inverse operations
A plan, set of teaching resources, Interactive Whiteboard presentations for both Promethean and Smartboards.
This resource uses the questions on 2016 Key Stage 2 SATs papers 1, 2 and 3 to revise your class' understanding of quick arithmetic methods and revise a specific aspect of the reasoning papers finishing with an AfL style plenary using exemplar questions from the 2016 SATs paper.
This is the sixth lesson in a revision programme designed to prepare Year 6 children for the Maths SATs papers 1, 2 and 3.
Learning Objectives covered:
To subtract whole numbers, decimals or fractions quickly (arithmetic starter)
To solve problems involving division
A plan, set of teaching resources, Interactive Whiteboard presentations for both Promethean and Smartboards.
This resource uses the questions on 2016 Key Stage 2 SATs papers 1, 2 and 3 to revise your class' understanding of quick arithmetic methods and revise a specific aspect of the reasoning papers finishing with an AfL style plenary using exemplar questions from the 2016 SATs paper.
This is the eighth lesson in a revision programme designed to prepare Year 6 children for the Maths SATs papers 1, 2 and 3.
Learning Objectives covered:
To division whole numbers, decimals or fractions quickly (arithmetic starter)
To solve problems involving fractions and decimals
A collection of a series of SATs styled comprehensions to choose from in the final weeks before the 2017
Ideal for use with groups in guided work, or as a whole class activity.
A plan, set of teaching resources, Interactive Whiteboard presentations for both Promethean and Smartboards.
This resource uses the questions on 2016 Key Stage 2 SATs papers 1, 2 and 3 to revise your class' understanding of quick arithmetic methods and revise a specific aspect of the reasoning papers finishing with an AfL style plenary using exemplar questions from the 2016 SATs paper..
This is the tenth lesson in a revision programme designed to prepare Year 6 children for the Maths SATs papers 1, 2 and 3.
Learning Objectives covered:
To solve arithmetic addition problems involving large numbers, decimals and fractions .
To make use of BODMAS to solve multistep arithmetic problems
To solve problems involving algebra
Learning Outcomes:
All will find pairs of numbers that satisfy an equation with 2 unknowns
Most will be able generate and describe linear number sequences
Some will be able to express missing number problems algebraically
A plan, set of teaching resources, Interactive Whiteboard presentations for both Promethean and Smartboards.
This resource uses the questions on 2016 Key Stage 2 SATs papers 1, 2 and 3 to revise your class' understanding of quick arithmetic methods and revise a specific aspect of the reasoning papers finishing with an AfL style plenary using exemplar questions from the 2016 SATs paper.
This is the eleventh lesson in a revision programme designed to prepare Year 6 children for the Maths SATs papers 1, 2 and 3.
Learning Objectives covered:
To solve arithmetic subtraction problems involving large numbers, decimals and fractions .
To make use of BODMAS to solve multistep arithmetic problems
To solve problems involving algebra
Learning Outcomes:
All will use simple formulae
Most will be able to find pairs of numbers that satisfy an equation with 2 unknowns
Some will be able to express missing number problems algebraically
A series of questions, answers and reading journal activity based around all areas of reading. Great alternative to SATs tests or written comprehensions.
LOs
To make predictions based on the blurb and cover of a book.
To reflect on the opening of a story
To emphasise with the main character.
To understand how Simon’s character changes in the story.
To consider the main purpose of the text
To reflect on a completed text
Topics covered are:
Arithmetic (Paper 1) - addition, subtraction, multiplication and division of 2 digit - 6 digit numbers, decimals, fractions and BODMAS
Maths reasoning (Paper 2 and Paper 3) - problem solving involving multiplication and division; problems involving fractions and decimals (sequencing and converting and calculating fractions of quantities ) problems involving measures and conversion.
Each session ends with AfL work drawn from the 2016 SATs papers.
Each session is supported by presentations for Smartboard and for Promethean, worked examples in the form of You Tube clips for your own use or with your class and 4 way differentiated independent activities.
