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.
Learning Objectives
Starter:
- To interpret remainders as fractions
- To revise common metric conversions
Main Lesson:
- To use formal short division and interpret remainders appropriately for the context (Year 5)
- To use formal long division and interpret remainders appropriately for the context (Year 6)
- To develop their mathematical knowledge, in part through solving problems and evaluating the outcomes, including multi-step problems (KS3)
This lesson consists of:
A Starter consisting of a series of progressively harder division problems giving remainders to convert to fractions and their answers. A connect activity getting children to revise the metric conversions they will need in the independent task.
An Interactive Whiteboard teaching introduction for both Notebook and ActivInspire, to teach how to lay-out short and long division when answering word problems and to test the children’s ability to understand how context determine whether to round an answer up or down.
A 4 way differentiated series of calculations (including a Challenge Activity) where children are expected to solve a series of short and long division Word problems and round the answer according to context. More Able children will have to complete multistep problems. Answers are supplied to ease marking.
An AFL / Next Steps task based on previous a SATs question, to allow to introduce the fact that most problems aren’t simply one operation but usually are a combination of different operations.
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 be able to empathise with a character who is going through a divorce.
To be able to understand how an author can reveal a character’s personality through interactions with others.
To be able to recognise the low point of a novel.
To be able to comment on the whole novel.
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 be able to compare your own experience with those of a character in a book.
To understand how setting and characters are developed.
To understand how dilemmas are introduced into short novels.
To understand how heroes triumph against the odds.
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 understand how an author can introduce a story / to comment on the specific effects of words and phrases.
To be able to empathise with a family faced with bad news.
To understand how an author creates a low point in a story.
To understand how one event changes the relationship between characters.
To use contextual clues to understand archaic language.
To understand how a story within a story is linked back to the first story.
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 recall, inference and deduction to form opinions about a central character.
To empathise with a central character and his problems.
To be able to make predictions based on your understanding of the main character.
To use skimming and scanning to find information from a text.
To be able to use recall, deduction and inference to form opinions about a text
To make predictions based on what has happened in a story to date.
To reflect on a completed text.
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 evaluate how effectively an author writes a sequel to the first book in a series.
To understand the characters of the two main people in the story.
To understand how a new major character can be introduced.
To understand how an author chooses words to make a setting seem more authentic.
To make predictions at the low point / dilemma of a story.
To reflect on a completed text.
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 be able to scan and skim pages to find evidence from a text.
To be able to understand the relationship between characters
To infer and interpret information from a text.
To understand how the author shows the similarities between the German and English soldiers.
To understand how and why an author links characters’ fates together.
To respond to a completed text.
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 form opinions about a text based on its opening chapter.
To understand how an author shifts her narrative in time.
To understand how an author builds a sense of tension.
To understand how the author uses background information to further develop characters.
To empathise with the main character.
To use inference and deduction to understand how the main characters feel upon receiving unexpected news.
To reflect upon a completed story.
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
This lesson consists of:
A starter / connect PowerPoint where children sequence and order negative and positive numbers.
An Interactive Whiteboard teaching introduction for both Notebook and ActivInspire, showing how empty number lines to find the difference between negative and positive numbers when applied to temperature. (differentiated 3 ways for ability).
A 4 way differentiated series of independent tasks (including a Mastery Level Challenge Activity) where children to interpret a range of charts, bar and line graphs showing positive and negative temperatures.
An AFL / Next Steps task taken from 2017 Maths SATs paper.
LOs:
Starter:
- to count forwards and backwards with positive and negative whole numbers (Year 5)
- to use negative numbers, and calculate intervals across 0 (Year 6)
- to order positive and negative integers (KS3)
Main Lesson:
- to interpret negative numbers in context, count forwards and backwards with positive and negative whole numbers, including through 0 (Year 5)
- use negative numbers in context, and calculate intervals across 0 (Year 6)
- apply this knowledge to bar and line graphs. (KS3)
This lesson consists of:
A connect / starter reviewing prior learning with regard to long multiplication
An Interactive Whiteboard teaching introduction for both Notebook and ActivInspire, to teach how to lay-out long multiplication and to test the children’s ability to solve long multiplication problems focussing on 4 and 5 digit x 2 digit and 3 digit x 3 digit
A 4 way differentiated series of calculations (including a Challenge Activity) where children are expected to solve a series long multiplication problems, and one Word Problem per ability group.
An AFL / Next Steps task based on a previous multi-step KS3 SATs question, which requires children apply master strategies to use their knowledge of long multiplication and inverse operations to find the solution.
LOs:
Starter:
To use long multiplication.
Main Lesson:
- To multiply numbers up to 4 digits by a two-digits numbers (Year 5)
- To multiply multi-digit numbers up to 5 digits by a 2-digit whole numbers and 3 digit by 3 digit whole numbers. using the formal written method of long multiplication (Year 6)
- To use multiplication, including formal written methods, applying it to integers and decimals, (KS3)
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 understand how an author introduces secondary characters to a story.
To understand how an author can use typographical devices to control how they present information to the reader
To understand how a writer using figurative language, metaphors and similes to help a reader.
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 understand how we can reach our own conclusions based on the information contained in a text
To be able to use deduction and inference to help predict what’s going to happen in a story.
To understand the way an author ends a story by drawing ideas together.
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 understand how an author sells his story to his reader.
To understand how an author introduces his main characters.
To understand how an author creates a story within a story.
To understand how different characters behave when faced with their own dilemmas.
To understand how a master story teller weaves different elements of a story together.
To understand how an ending of a story links back to its beginning.
Boudicca – Fact from Fiction
LO: To understand how people’s lives have shaped this nation and how Britain has influenced and been influenced by the wider world. (KS2)
LO: To apply the above to the study of an aspect or theme in British history that consolidates and extends pupils’ chronological knowledge from before 1066 (KS3)
A complete activity to help children understand the way that information about historical figures although rooted in fact, can also have legends attached to them.
The activity consists of:
Teaching Input:
1. A powerpoint providing information about the life and significance of Boudicca, both fact and fiction organised around the following sections:
- who Boudicca was
- her early life
- her relationship with the King Prasutagus
- her marriage
- The uprising
- The destruction of Camulodunum (Colchester
- her Victories
- her defeat and the end
- her legacy to Britain.
This can either be run as an introduction, or shared with children in groups or pairs.
Independent Task:
2. A sorting activity consisting of a series of statements which are either factual or legendary about Boudica. (This includes a fact sheet for teacher use, providing the correct answers and a series of websites which provide additional source information)
3. A template to allow children to sort the information provided into Truth or Legend.
Challenge / Extension / AG&T
Using websites listed, children could try to find additional information about both peoples.
Plenary
Mark with the children, getting them to identify how they knew whether or not something was a legend or the truth (links with Literacy language of myths and legends).
Pose and discuss the statement Why do you think there are so many stories told about Boudica.
This lesson consists of:
A Starter series of short of progressively harder multiplication problems and their answers. A connect activity getting children to identify as many different words that can used for multiplication. A second connect activity where children identify which word problems require long and which short multiplication.
An Interactive Whiteboard teaching introduction for both Notebook and ActivInspire, to teach how to lay-out short multiplication when answering word problems and to test the children’s ability to solve short and long multiplication Word problems.
A 4 way differentiated series of calculations (including a Challenge Activity) where children are expected to solve a series short and long multiplication Word problems, More Able children will have to complete multistep problems. Answers are supplied to ease marking.
An AFL / Next Steps task based on previous a SATs questions, which introduces the idea of the link between division and multiplication.
LOs:
Starter:
To use short or long multiplication.
Main Lesson:
To solve Word problems requiring short or long multiplication (Year 5 and Year 6)
To develop their mathematical knowledge, in part through solving problems and evaluating the outcomes, including multi-step problems (KS3)
Learning Objectives
Starter:
To use the 4 operations with proper and improper fractions
Main Lesson:
To add and subtract fractions with the same denominator, and denominators that are multiples of the same number (Year 5)
To use their knowledge of the order of operations to carry out calculations involving the 4 operations (Year 6)
To use the 4 operations with proper and improper fractions, and mixed numbers(KS3)
This lesson consists of:
A Starter consisting of a series of progressively harder problems where the children perform an addition, subtraction, multiplication (x2) and division calculation involving fractions. A connect activity focussing on the ordering of calculations using BODMAS – enabling you to assess prior learning.
An Interactive Whiteboard teaching introduction for both Notebook and ActivInspire flipchart, to teach children how to lay out multi operation Word problems involving fractions and how to allowing you to group children according to ability.
A 4-way differentiated series of tasks requiring children to solve multi-step word problems relating to fractions of quantities and fractions of fractions. Answer sheet provided to support marking.
A final AFL / Next Steps task, introducing the children to the relationship between decimals, fractions and percentages.
Learning Objectives
Starter:
To use the 4 operations with proper and improper fractions
Main Lesson:
To solve problems involving division and division, including scaling by simple fractions (Year 5)
To use their knowledge of the order of operations to carry out calculations involving the 4 operations (Year 6)
To use the 4 operations with proper and improper fractions, and mixed numbers(KS3)
This lesson consists of:
A Starter consisting of a series of progressively harder problems where the children perform an addition, subtraction, multiplication (x2) and division calculation involving fractions. A connect activity focussing on the ordering of calculations using BODMAS – enabling you to assess prior learning.
An Interactive Whiteboard teaching introduction for both Notebook and ActivInspire flipchart, to revise the BODMAS method of ordering calculations applying whole numbers and extended to include fractions. A knowledge check to allow you to group children according to their ability for the independent tasks. (links provided on planning to other BODMAS lessons, if children have not learned about BODMAS already).
A 4-way differentiated series of tasks requiring children to apply BODMAS to fractions, mixed numbers and improper fractions. Answers included to ease marking.
A final AFL / Next Steps task, providing a multistep Mastery style Word problem involving fractions where children must progressively work through a series of calculations to solve all three parts of the question.
A series of questions, answers and reading journal activity based around all areas of reading. Great alternative to SATs tests or written comprehensions.
LO To understand how a book differs from a film, and how a famous book requires no introduction.
Key Stage 2 comprehensions. Ideal for homework or closed activity. Activity includes: Two texts factual and eye witness, a sequencing activity, two sets of comprehension questions, stimuli for short written task.