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.
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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 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.
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
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
This lesson consists of:
A starter / connect PowerPoint where children revise value of specific digits up to 10,000,00 and to 3dps and tests their understanding of sequencing and ordering numbers.
An Interactive Whiteboard teaching introduction for both Notebook and ActivInspire, teaching the conventions using empty number lines to show how to work with negative numbers, find the differences between negative and positive numbers and order positive and negative numbers. (differentiated 3 ways for ability).
A 4 way differentiated series of independent tasks (including a Mastery Level Challenge Activity) where children to compare and order negative and positive numbers and find the differences between negative and positive numbers.
An AFL / Next Steps task where children check their understanding of the greater than (>) and less than (
LOs:
Starter:
To order and compare numbers up to 1,000,000 (Year 5)
To order and compare numbers up to 10,000,000 (Year 6)
To order and compare any numbers (KS3)
Main Lesson:
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)
A complete set of Guided Reading resources for a half term.
The Silver Sword- HA
Flour Babies / Diary of a Wimpy Kid - MA
Charlotte's Web / James and the Giant Peach- LA
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 differentiated starter, introduction for both ActivInspire and Smartboard, and an activity where children can apply their new knowledge and AFL / Next Steps plenary class activity. Also included is a youtube video and resources for distance learning.
Learning Objectives:: To add and subtract numbers to 20 and beyond. (starter), LO: To recognise, find and name a quarter as one of four equal parts of an object /shape (main)
This lesson consists of:
A starter revising how to subtract numbers up to 30 using a number line or number square.
An Interactive Whiteboard introduction for both Notebook and ActivInspire flipchart teaching how to recognise shapes with equal quarters and how to shade a quarter of a range of common shapes.
A youtube video link for distance learning introducing the starter, main part of the lesson and the AFL / Next Steps plenary.
A set of independent tasks where children identify shapes with equal quarters and show how to shade a quarter of a range of common shapes
A Next steps / AFL Challenge plenary to allow you to assess the children’s understanding and correct misconceptions.
A set of resources designed to support learning in the classroom with resources available for distance learning in event of school or class closure.
The week’s lessons cover:
Revisit / Review alternative spellings for /s/ se st
Teach reading, writing and spelling alternative GPCs for /s/ sc c
Teach / Practice spelling the tricky words some, come, were, there
Practice recognition and recall of graphemes and different pronunciations of graphemes as they are learned p134
Practice reading and spelling words with adjacent consonants and words with newly learned graphemes
Apply reading sentences p142
Apply writing sentences p149
A differentiated starter, introduction for both ActivInspire and Smartboard, and 3 way differentiated activity with an extension activity for use in Continuous Provision and AFL / Next Steps plenary class activity supported by a youtube video of the complete lesson for distance learning.
**Learning Objective To begin to recognize and name common 3-d shapes (edges, faces and vertices).
This lesson consists of:
A differentiated starter – where children work through a weekly Arithmetic test focusing on their knowledge of addition and subtraction.
An Interactive Whiteboard teaching introduction for both Notebook and ActivInspire flipchart where the class revise revises its understanding of 3d shapes and are introduced to the different mathematical language that can be used to describe their properties.
A youtube video link for distance learning introducing the starter, the main part of the lesson and the AFL / Next Steps plenary.
A challenge where the children match a range of 3d shapes to a variety of different descriptions which are then photographed as evidence and can be displayed on the Working wall.
A final AFL / Next Steps task, where children apply their knowledge of the properties of 3d shapes to describe a given shape.
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 look at the way that letters differ by author and purpose.
To understand how an author drops hints into early chapters to reveal what will happen in the book.
To understand how an author makes a dilemma truly difficult to overcome.
To understand how an author develops character relationships.
To understand how an author brings a story to a climax.
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 read a classic text.
To be able to explain the meaning of archaic language.
To be able to use inference and deduction to make predictions about the plot of a short 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 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.
To find evidence that shows that a story has been written in the past.
To explore how an author uses language to bring a story alive.
To understand how an author uses contrast to describe two major characters.
To be able to make informed predictions using clues like Chapter titles and knowledge of preceding story.
To understand how an author can use secondary characters to develop a primary character.
To recognise the climax of a novel.
To understand how an author can relate a story within a story.
Three interactive quizzes designed as assessment or revision of grammar knowledge. They cover:
- recognising and giving examples of common grammatical terms.
- knowledge and use of punctuation.
- knowledge and use of verbs including progressive and perfect tenses, passive and active voice and subjunctive.
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 recognise the key features of a book / to be able to make informed predictions about a story.
To evaluate the effectiveness of the opening chapter.
To understand how an author chooses words to create a specific impression of a character.
To understand how characters are developed.
To be able to understand what can motivate characters.
To understand how characters can be changed by one person’s positivity.
A great introductory activity or mini topic on the way that Victorian society changed during Victorian times.
This mini topic uses the Market Place PowerPoint to present to your whole class a series round robin / market place / carousel activities. Each of six groups will have skim and scan, research and present information on one of the six following areas of interest:
The Abolition of Slavery
Child Labour
The changing role of education in the lives of children
The industrial revolution and its impact on Victorian life.
The changing role of Women
Workhouses and the Poor Law
They will then gather information from the other five groups before answering a quiz based on this information.
In addition to meeting the learning objectives, children will also develop turn taking, team work, collaborative research and effective presentation strategies.
Learning Objectives:
To organise and select relevant historical information from a range of sources.
To devise and answer questions about the changes to society during the Victorian period.
Learning Outcomes:
To have researched and recalled this historical time period.
To have explained to others and understood for themselves the impact of change on life in Britain.
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 activities.
This lesson consists of:
A starter focusing on using multiplication knowledge to solve division problems and a connect starter reviewing prior learning with regard to division methods
An Interactive Whiteboard teaching introduction for both Notebook and ActivInspire, to teach how to lay-out short division and to assess the children’s ability to solve short division problems.
A 4 way differentiated series of calculations (including a Challenge Activity) where children are expected to solve a series short division problems, and one Word Problem per ability group. Answers are supplied to ease marking.
An AFL / Next Steps task based on previous SATs questions, which requires children to apply their knowledge of short division.
Learning Objectives:
Starter:
- To show a range of division methods.
Main Lesson:
- To apply short division to integers and decimals (Year 5 & Year 6)
- To use division including formal written methods, applying it to integers and decimals, (KS3)
Learning Objectives:
Starter:
- To use short division
Main Lesson:
-To apply short division to decimals (Year 5 & Year 6)
-To use division including formal written methods, applying it to integers and decimals, (KS3)
This lesson consists of:
A starter focusing on revising short multiplication to solve division problems and a connect starter linking place value to division of decimals.
An Interactive Whiteboard teaching introduction for both Notebook and ActivInspire, to teach how to lay-out short division of decimals and to assess the children’s ability to solve short division problems involving decimals..
A 4 way differentiated series of calculations (including a Challenge Activity) where children are expected to solve a series short division problems which give decimals as answers, and one Word Problem per ability group. Answers are supplied to ease marking.
An AFL / Next Steps task based on previous SATs questions, which requires children to solve a series of multistep problems requiring division as well as at least one other operation.
Division, multiplication, chunking, Short division, Short division, Short division, decimals, decimals, decimals, 4-digit, 5-digit, 1dp, 2dp, Word Problem, AfL
Learning Objectives:
Starter:
- To recognise when a division sum leaves a remainder.
Main Lesson:
- To use formal short division and interpret remainders appropriately for the context (Year 5)
- To interpret remainders as fractions (Year 6)
- To use division including formal written methods, applying it to integers and fractions(KS3)
This lesson consists of:
A starter focusing on revising when calculations give remainders using the context of Word Problems. A connect to get the children to start thinking about the link between fractions and decimals (which will be built upon in the AfL / next steps section of the lesson..
An Interactive Whiteboard teaching introduction for both Notebook and ActivInspire, to teach how to convert remainders into fractions .
A 4 way differentiated series of calculations (including a Challenge Activity) where children are expected to solve a series short and long division problems which give remainders and convert these remainders into fractions, and one Word Problem per ability group. Answers are supplied to ease marking.
An AFL / Next Steps task to challenge children to consider how they can use their knowledge of fractions and decimals to convert a division sum which results in a simple fraction to an answer with a decimal.