Created by a year six teacher (100% maths, 100% reading and 93% English at and above expected pass rate last SATs year), maths coordinator and deputy head. I am also a published author under the name Andrew Thomas. I have had my resources recommended by TES 3 times.
I've been teaching for years and love my job. My school is in Lewisham (London). My kids are engaged when the resources are good.
Created by a year six teacher (100% maths, 100% reading and 93% English at and above expected pass rate last SATs year), maths coordinator and deputy head. I am also a published author under the name Andrew Thomas. I have had my resources recommended by TES 3 times.
I've been teaching for years and love my job. My school is in Lewisham (London). My kids are engaged when the resources are good.
These games are designed to make reading comprehension exciting and enjoyable.
2 more board games that make reading comprehension fun! The text is in the middle of the game board and the questions test a range of areas that will appear on the upcoming SATS. My year 6 class had a blast.
All you need is a die and some counters!
Year 6 teacher? Please check out my other tried and tested resources.
A set of three SATS style question Games based on Arithmetic, Roman numerals and problem solving questions found in the SATs papers - INCLUDES ANSWERS. Can be done as a independent revision activity or used in boosters.
Created by a year six teacher (97% maths at and above expected pass rate last year), maths coordinator and deputy head. Used on the afternoon before the 2018 maths SATS tests and updated in 2019.
The games allow the teacher to check the mathematics concept with a SATS style questions.
This is designed specifically for revision purposes as I have found my class sometimes fail to retain certain mathematical methods or struggle to use what they know to figure out what they don’t.
Requires dice and counters.
Please click on my name above for loads of maths, reading and writing resources that are aimed at getting the best out of your year 6 class.
UPDATED FOR 2023
A great writing project to allow children to learn GPS while writing a wonderful story. Great for catch up and will last weeks. You don’t need the book as the PPT has it all.
38 slides (to accompany the book Journey). Each slide has a different focus.
A step by step approach that introduces all aspects of the writing assessment criteria including:
• creating atmosphere, and integrating dialogue to convey character and advance the action
• using a range of cohesive devices, including adverbials, within and across sentences and paragraphs sentences and paragraphs
• using passive and modal verbs mostly appropriately
• using a wide range of clause structures, sometimes varying their position within the sentence
• using adverbs, preposition phrases and expanded noun phrases effectively to add detail, qualification and precision
• using mostly correctly:
inverted commas
commas for clarity
punctuation for parenthesis
• making some correct use of:
semi-colons
dashes
colons
hyphens
• semi-colons to mark the boundary between independent clauses
• colons to mark the boundary between independent clauses
This was a real labour of love. Enjoy.
25 questions on a colourful PowerPoint to test the general knowledge of your class. It includes questions on art, literacy, maths, history, science geography and more. The download includes an easy to mark answer sheet and answers at the end end of the PowerPoint. Enjoy.
This is a booklet aimed at keeping the children academically active over the holidays. Created by a year six teacher (100% maths, 100% reading and 100% SPaG at and above expected pass rate last year), maths coordinator and Deputy Head. I am also a published author under the name Andrew Thomas. I have had my resources featured on TES for their quality and innovative nature; please check out my shop by clicking on my name above.
It includes five days worth of activities (and extension activities added in April 2019) that cover:
Maths
Spelling, Punctuation and Grammar
Reading Comprehension
It is designed with SATs in mind and give the children 30 minutes of learning to do each day.
Each day has a range of activities which are linked to the new curriculum.
This booklet took many hours to put together and has been proof read.
These games are designed to make reading comprehension exciting and enjoyable.
2 more board games that make reading comprehension fun! The text is in the middle of the game board and the questions test a range of areas that will appear on the upcoming SATS. My year 6 class had a blast.
All you need is a die and some counters!
This is the second lot of games I have made.
click here for the original set:
Year 6 teacher? Please check out my other tried and tested resources.
These games are designed to making reading comprehension exciting and enjoyable.
2 more board games that make reading comprehension fun! The text is in the middle of the game board and the questions test a range of areas that will appear on the upcoming SATS. My year 6 class had a blast.
All you need is a die and some counters!
The lost world game is complete, it’s just a glitch on the picture.
Year 6 teacher? Please check out my other tried and tested resources.
A weeks worth of revision sheets. Created by a year 6 teacher who got 93% maths pass rate in last years SATs and progress that was in the top 10% in the country.
This helps revise a range of skills in a fun way and covers:
Money conversion
Journey time tables
Money word problems
All 4 operations
If you like this, please click my name at the top to visit my shop. It has everything from reading comprehension games to stand alone cover lessons.
A two week poetry plan and flip charts (plus resources) based on the book Love That Dog. The children will plan, create and complete a range of poems and create images to support their writing.
Follow Jack on his journey into poetry and write alongside him as you progress through his story.
Includes a range of poetry and lots of ideas to inspire and foster a love of poems old and new.
KS2 appropriate.
Last minute (just before the test) reminder of the basics and possible pit falls and traps.
ActiInspire software flipchart and a PDF file.
Written by a maths teacher with a 97% pass rate in 2018.
Please check out my other resources by clicking my name above. I also have a last minute reasoning activity.
A great writing activitiy that teaches children to write in the first person as an animal. Originally made to work with the book War Horse, it can be adapted to be a stand alone set of lessons or to work with other books.
This unit of 3 - 4 lessons teaches children to stay safe online and informs them that they leave a digital footprint and the consequences of this.
Lessons teach children:
To explore how much time I spend online
To understand how to stay safe online
To understand that once information is shared online it is very difficult to remove
Children explore what the BFG can hear from chapter 7 (The Marvelous Ears) and come up with ideas of their own. They turn their ideas into a poem and publish it.
Please click on my name above to see other BFG resources.
30 full lessons based on the book Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone.
Includes newspaper writing, Diaries, recounts, narrative stories, script writing, reading comprehension, SPaG, art, poetry and much more.
All the lessons are based on a chapter of the book (some chapters have 2 or 3 lessons for that chapter).
Used for home learning but easily adapted for the classroom.
There are links to the on line videos that accompany the lessons and a link to the full book that is read on YouTube.
Created by a year six teacher and maths lead with 93% pass rate in SATs maths last year.
This is a flip chart, plan and resources that covers all areas of maths for the reasoning papers and arithmetic paper. Aimed at a 3 week run in to SATS week. See the end of the description for full list of areas covered.
Get your class ready and save hours!
This complete set includes worksheets, links to all the materials you will need and a fun flip chart that has a wide range of activities.
Activities start at the register short brain warm up, move on to a starter, include a main lesson focus then has a plenary. All you need to keep the lessons fast paced, fun and exciting.
THE FLIP CHART IS FOR ACTIVINSPIRE.
It covers:
Recite Tables/Prime numbers
Halving
Factors
Percentages
Recite Tables/Prime numbers
Area/Perimeter
Capacity/Volume
Inverse operations
Square/Cube numbers
Recite Tables/Prime numbers
Fractions
Ordering numbers
Closest to 10, 100, 1000
Simple algebra
Fractions
Rotation
Reflection
Translation
Symmetry
Rotational Symmetry
Tables
Charts (pie/bar/line)
Diagrams (Carroll/Venn)
Temperature
Recite Tables/Prime numbers
Factors
Multiples
Greater than/less than/equal to
Mean/Median/Mode/Range
Angles
Ratio/proportion
Time
Distance
Fractions/Decimals/Percentages
Word problems
4 operations (including inverse, decimals, brackets)
Protractor use
Designed and used by a year 6 teacher with a 93% maths SATs score in 2017.
This is a 2 week maths cycle that covers concepts for the SATs reasoning test in easy 10 minute starters.
This works perfectly to remind and embed all the concepts needed to do well in the reasoning paper.
Please check out my other resources by clicking my name at the top of the page.
SATs reading comprehension games
Reasoning Paper revision
Loads of English SATs based writing
I put this together to help my class understand reflection questions. Would be good to start off a revision session. Please check out my other SATs revision bits by clicking my name above and visiting my shop.