Thankyou for looking at my resource. I have been a maths lead for 5+ years. My subject was deep dived in the inspection which took it from unsatisfactory to good. I completed a maths specialist SSIF in 2019 and have a NPQ in leading teacher development. In this staff training the focus is variation as part of the five main ideas of mastery maths. This resource includes an indepth powerpoint as well as a plan and relevant resources.

This is the first lesson in a sequence. Children will be working to help Zack the Zookeeper. Children will start the lesson by recapping on their prior learning via a game of which is an animal out of two choices. Children will then be taught a definition of animal. This will be applied to a number of tasks to ensure the meaning is embedded. Children will be introduced to Zack the Zookeeper. All lessons are based on learning generated from problem solving. Children will learn that Zack has done a number of things wrong but the issue is the task doesn’t name the animals e.g giving dog food to the animals. Children will be shown a number of animals grouped into the 5 main animal groups. This will support learning in the next lesson where children will be defining the five main animal groups. Independent application - Children will have 5 posters showing different animals and find an animal that starts with each letter of the alphabet. Helping hands - Support teacher ‘expert’ group. Chilli challenge - Children to be given an opportunity to think further about individual animals. Powerpoint user guided Green slides - Partner tasks , class discussion etc Red slides - Teacher led tasks Blue slides - Reflection time Yellow slides - independent application

Thank you for looking at my resource. In this lesson children will recap on their prior knowledge by playing spot the difference. This will encourage children to recall animal names and groups. Children will then be reminded of the five different animal groups. Children will be working with Zack the zookeeper who will think that all amphibians are the same. Using whole class investigation children will identify what is the same and what is different. Children will build up to independently comparing similarities and differences between animal groups and at the end of the lesson will be provided with definitions of the main groups. Helping hands will be provided for children who need additional support as well as a chilli challenge. Powerpoint guide Green slides - Partner tasks , class discussion etc Red slides - Teacher led tasks Blue slides - Reflection time Yellow slides - independent application

Thankyou for looking at my resource. Children will start the lesson with an I spy warm up. This provides a great opportunity to talk about nouns as well as getting children ready for learning. Children will move on to reflect what strategies they use to help them spell such as phonics. Children will shown a list of compound words and will discuss what is the same about them. This will lead into children learning what compound words are. Children will complete two tasks: Matching words to make compound words Identifying the words that have made the compound words. Chilli challenges will be provided to all learners - the difference will be in how children access it. Helping hands are provided for children who need some support to access the learning. Powerpoint user guide Throughout children are encouraged to rewind on prior learning through rewind sections. Children are also exposed to fast forward where they will see how their learning applies to future learning (be this the next lesson or in future years) Chilli challenges encourage children to maximise their learning. Challenges should be given to all. Not just your most able. They are purposely open ended. The ‘differentiation’ comes from how your most able access the task. Helping hands provide children with additional supports to allow them to access the main learning. Colour coding Blue slides – Reflection Green slides – Child led Red slides – Teacher led Orange slides - Independent application

Thankyou for looking at my resource Children will start with a warm up game of simon says which will lead into children recapping on verbs and ensuring all children have a clear definition of them. Children will think about what they did yesterday and discuss this in partner talk. Children will be shown an example of what somebody did. yesterday but the verb tenses will be incorrect. Children will start by exploring simple past tense verbs and spot that you simply need to add ed. Children will complete a task either independently or with support of an adult helping hands. A chilli challenge is provided when they have completed the main task - the differentiation comes in how children access the task. Children will then be taught examples where you can’t simply add ed. Children will again complete an independent task. Powerpoint user guide Throughout children are encouraged to rewind on prior learning through rewind sections. Children are also exposed to fast forward where they will see how their learning applies to future learning (be this the next lesson or in future years) Chilli challenges encourage children to maximise their learning. Challenges should be given to all. Not just your most able. They are purposely open ended. The ‘differentiation’ comes from how your most able access the task. Helping hands provide children with additional supports to allow them to access the main learning. Colour coding Blue slides – Reflection Green slides – Child led Red slides – Teacher led Yellow slides - Independent application

Children will start by reflecting on prior learning. Children will be provided with a brief overview of what mining is and the importance of it to the Victorian era. Children will then start to explore the general impact of mining,before using the 1842 commission report to identify how mining impacted children. They will finally will look at the impact on Nottinghamshire. Children will write their own report.

This resource is a ppt to support teaching on the Viking era. This is aimed at LKS2 but can be easily adapted for upper KS2. The ppt will start by defining chronology and establishing the importance of developing a chronological understanding by comparing the chronology of the Vikings to the development of a key primary resource. The ppt will then go on to teach the differences between BC and AD.

Thankyou for looking at my resource. In this lesson children will be looking at simple sentences and expanding them using when and where adverbs/adverbial phrases. Children will look at the problem with simple sentences. For instance children will be unable to identify which picture a particular sentence belongs to and through this will learn the importance of expanding sentences using adverbs/adverbial phrases . Research has shown that when children learn through problem solving children develop a deeper and longer lasting understanding of their learning. Children will do a variety of carefully thought out small step tasks to build up their understanding of what an adverb/adverbial phrase is and how to apply these using when and where. Powerpoint user guide Throughout children are encouraged to rewind on prior learning through rewind sections. Children are also exposed to fast forward where they will see how their learning applies to future learning (be this the next lesson or in future years) Chilli challenges encourage children to maximise their learning. Challenges should be given to all. Not just your most able. They are purposely open ended. The ‘differentiation’ comes from how your most able access the task. Helping hands provide children with additional supports to allow them to access the main learning. Colour coding Blue slides – Reflection Green slides – Child led Red slides – Teacher led Orange slides - Independent application

Thankyou for looking at my resource. This lesson isn’t explicitly a Christmas maths lesson but it works really nicely. I have taught this lesson from year 2 to year 6 as simple strategies can be applied for year 2 where as year 6s can apply far more efficent and sophisticated calculations. In this lesson children will be finding which numbers can’t be made using gingerbread bisucit tins of 6 ,9 and 20. Children will have a number of small steps to build up their understanding of the problem and strategies they can use to calculate.

Thankyou for looking at my resource. The purpose of this video is to show you what a typical lesson will look like. This showcases two lessons from a halloween sequence. It shows the key components of all lessons as well as how creative learning is successfully applied to maximise learning ,whilst ensuring students don’t experience cognitive overload.

Children will be challenged to think why we need question sentences via the example of a new child starting in their class. Children will then be taught what a question is and using the child starting in their class will work with a partner to apply the 5 ws + 1h to questions they may ask a new student. Children will independently apply these to a similiar example in their own books where they will fill in the missing W/H. With the most able being challenged to write further questions while helping hands in the form of the teacher to be available. Children will return as a class and look at how we write a question sentence such as the punctuation. Children will be introduced to an alien who has given some answers. Children working with their partner will write the questions they think the alien was asked. Finally children will move on to independently writing the questions they think a paramedic was asked based on their answers. Helping hands scaffold and Challenge additional questions. Every lesson involves children being encouraged to idenitfy the importance of what they are learning. This is usually through a direct problem such as following instructions where there is no verb to emphasis the importance of a verb in instructions. Research has shown that when children learn through problem solving children develop a deeper and longer lasting understanding of their learning. Powerpoint user guide Throughout children are encouraged to rewind on prior learning through rewind sections. Children are also exposed to fast forward where they will see how their learning applies to future learning (be this the next lesson or in future years) Chilli challenges encourage children to maximise their learning. Challenges should be given to all. Not just your most able. They are purposely open ended. The ‘differentiation’ comes from how your most able access the task. Helping hands provide children with additional supports to allow them to access the main learning. Colour coding Blue slides – Reflection Green slides – Child led Red slides – Teacher led Orange slides - Independent application

Thankyou for looking at my resource. Included are individual lesson resources and a detailed powerpoint. This five lesson sequence will see children converting the rhyme Five Little Monkeys into a story. Lesson 1 - Children will learn about the structure of a story and together place five little monkeys into this. Children will go onto create a comic strip. Lesson 2 - Children will focus on the introduction. Through carefully built up steps children will develop a sophisticated story openers and a bank of adjectives and expanded noun phrases to describe the monkeys and their home. Lesson 3 - Children will write the introduction to their story. Lesson 4- Children will plan the rest of the story thinking about how they can expand on the events of the story. Lesson 5 - Children will write up the rest of the story. Children will be guided through each stage in a thorough powerpoint that provides a variety of carefully thought out steps. Chilli challenges encourage children to maximise their learning. Challenges should be given to all. Not just your most able. They are purposely open ended. The ‘differentiation’ comes from how your most able access the task. Helping hands provide children with additional supports to allow them to access the main learning. Powerpoint guide Green slides - Partner tasks , class discussion etc Red slides - Teacher led tasks Blue slides - Reflection time Yellow slides - independent application

Thankyou for looking at my resource. This lesson sequence provides a really nice assessment opportunity. Lesson 1 - Children will listen to the story of Goldilocks and then acted out the story. Children will not only reflect on the story but also will think about how we perform e.g using different voices for different characters. Lesson 2 - Children will be introduced to the idea of motive (in a very ks1 friendly manner) Children will think of ideas for what motivated Goldilocks to enter The Three Bears house. Lesson 3 - Using the story map used to support their performances in lesson one children will think about how the story will need to changed when the motive has changed. Children will be guided through adapting the story map plan. Lesson 4- Children will be writing their story. Children will be supported using a story map to write their story and will also be actively encouraged to uplevel their work. A teacher modelled example is provided for the first two parts of the plan children will discuss with a partner what techniques they can see the teacher has used. Children will then be shown the teacher explanation for their choices in their writing. Helping hands will be provided for children who need additional support as well as a chilli challenge. Powerpoint guide Green slides - Partner tasks , class discussion etc Red slides - Teacher led tasks Blue slides - Reflection time Yellow slides - independent application

Thankyou for looking at my resource. This lesson starts with a adverb/verb warm up task. Children will be shown and before and after of ‘un’ arriving. Children will be taught what a prefix is and what un does. Children will sort through words which can have the prefix un applied which will lead to the first independent task. The concept will then be further investigated as children explore the difference between words with the prefix un and words that simply start with un. Powerpoint user guide Throughout children are encouraged to rewind on prior learning through rewind sections. Children are also exposed to fast forward where they will see how their learning applies to future learning (be this the next lesson or in future years)` Chilli challenges encourage children to maximise their learning. Challenges should be given to all. Not just your most able. They are purposely open ended. The ‘differentiation’ comes from how your most able access the task. Helping hands provide children with additional supports to allow them to access the main learning. Colour coding Blue slides – Reflection Green slides – Child led Red slides – Teacher led Yellow - Independent application

Thankyou for looking at my resource. This lesson focuses on adverbs and verbs. Children will be introduced to the elf. Children will start with a warm up rewind task where they will describe the elf. Children will think about their own experiences with an elf and what mischief they think an elf might get up to. Through careful well thought out small steps children will learn about verbs and adverbs and use these to describe what the elf gets up to. Children will create a comic strip of what the elf gets up to. Children will have access to a word bank. Powerpoint user guide Throughout children are encouraged to rewind on prior learning through rewind sections. Chilli challenges encourage children to maximise their learning. Challenges should be given to all. Not just your most able. They are purposely open ended. The ‘differentiation’ comes from how your most able access the task. Helping hands provide children with additional supports to allow them to access the main learning. Colour coding Blue slides – Reflection Green slides – Child led Red slides – Teacher led Yelliow slides - Independent application

Thankyou for looking at my resource. This powerpoint contains 25 spelling starters with a variety of tasks to help build children’s confidence in their exception words.

Thank you for looking at my resource. In this lesson children will recap on their prior knowledge by recapping on the definition of animal and matching the animal group to the description. Children will reflect on what animals need to survive which will lead into being informed that Zack the zookeeper thinks that all animals eat the same thing. Children will discuss whether they agree or disagree with this. Children will be shown a number of animals diets and will reflect whether it is possible to remember all of the individual diets of the over 1.2 million animals that exist. Children will be introduced to carnivore, herbivore and omnivore as well a small task to ensure that children understand what is meant by meat and plant type foods. Further to this a discussion will be had about humans and those that follow a vegan/vegetarian/other diet. Children will build up to independently identifying whether an animal is carnivore,herbivore or omnivore based on their diet. Helping hands will be provided for children who need additional support as well as a chilli challenge. Children will have stem sentences to support oracy and enable children to focus on the science rather than forming a sentence. Powerpoint guide Green slides - Partner tasks , class discussion etc Red slides - Teacher led tasks Blue slides - Reflection time Yellow slides - independent application

Thankyou for looking at my resource. This resource includes : 25 questions per check. I would recommend giving children 3 minutes to complete which is roughly in line with the year 4 times tables check whilst giving time for writing. There are three sets of 7 assessments. Year 2 - 2,5 and 10 Year 3 - 2,3,4,5, 6,8 and 10 Year 4 onwards - All times tables including 12 Pre autumn term Autumn 1 Autumn 2 Spring 1 Spring 2 Summer 1 Summer 2

Thankyou for looking at my resource. These resources are designed that they can be picked up and taught from however allow full user edits. The lesson will start with children recapping on prior learning. Children will label parts of Zack the Zookeepers body with their partner. This will lead onto a discussion about what parts of the body are there for. Children will reflect on Zack’s view that he only needs his arms and hands for the zoo. As a class children will discuss different body parts and what there uses are. Helping hands will be provided for children who need additional support as well as a chilli challenge. Children will have stem sentences to support oracy and enable children to focus on the science rather than forming a sentence. Powerpoint guide Green slides - Partner tasks , class discussion etc Red slides - Teacher led tasks Blue slides - Reflection time Yellow slides - independent application

Thankyou for looking at my resouce. Children will start the lesson recapping on their prior learning in the unit through a variety of parter and whole class quick tasks. Children will be given a number of choices through a discussion of would you rather? Children will look at how the choices relate to the senses. They will be provided with a clear definition of senses and consolidate this by identifying which sense was most important in their choices. Children will look at Zack the Zookeeper and a map of the zoo and identify how Zack experiences the zoo through his senses. Helping hands will be provided for children who need additional support as well as a chilli challenge. Children will have stem sentences to support oracy and enable children to focus on the science rather than forming a sentence. Powerpoint guide Green slides - Partner tasks , class discussion etc Red slides - Teacher led tasks Blue slides - Reflection time Yellow slides - independent application