A couple of nice lessons on these Maths topics. Plus a little bit of spelling and formal and impersonal lessons. sample: LO: To state mathematical averages. (Hexagons and Pentagons) For each of these questions, state the median, mode and mean average. Copy the data into your book. The layout is modelled in the first question. MUST: Maths Assessment Scores: 14 12 13 9 14 14 Mode: Median: Mean: Football team Goals: 0 4 8 2 2 2 0 4 2 4 Visits to the seaside this year: 0 6 4 12 2 4 8 6 10 8 SHOULD: 4. Science Assessment Scores: 22 22 10 30 36 Hockey Team Goals: 3 6 12 0 0 0 9 12 10 6 Visits to Cinema in a year: 12 16 8 24 4 12 8 16 12 4 CHALLENGE 8. Spelling Scores: 6 7 9 2 4 5 0 4 1 2 6 5 5 5 8 9 Number in Family: 4 8 4 10 12 6 4 6 8 6 9 7 LO: To state mathematical averages. (Hexagons and Pentagons) For each of these questions, state the median, mode and mean average. Copy the data into your book. The layout is modelled in the first question. MUST: . Maths Assessment Scores: 14 12 13 9 14 14 Mode: Median: Mean:

12 Great powerpoints and associated word documents. Ideal for entry into class or revision. eaxample Order these integers from smallest to largest: 15, 9, 3, 108, 74, 203 93, 105, 99, 76, 54, 1, 205 3733, 408, 4080, 102, 97, 313, 537, 999.

Some material that can be displayed on the board as they enter for registration. Powerpoint. 10 simple questions per day Three weeks worth. Watermark not on full product sample ; Double 24. Half of 28 is 14. What is ¼ of 28? What is an apple likely to weigh: 1g, 10g, 100g, 1kg, 10kg? A garden path is 10m long. Half of it is weeded, how much is still to be weeded? How many grams are there in 1kg? How many 10’s are there in 265? How many 100’s are there in 265? Which of the following are even? 12, 9, 6, 14, 17, 5. Read these numbers to your partner 562, 784, 90, 106. Write these numbers in figures, two hundred and seven, six hundred and twenty six, fifty.

Some material that can be displayed on the board as they enter for registration. 7 to 10 simple questions per day Two weeks worth. sample ; A school bag could weight about: 2 metres, 2 centimetres, 2 kilometres, or 2 kilograms? The length of a bed measures about: 2 kilos, 2 metres 2 inches or 12 metres? The height of a school building would be measured in: centimetres, litres, kilometres, metres? How many mms in 25cms? How many strips of 10cm could you cut from 2 metres of tape? In the year 3 classroom there are 4 pots with 5 crayons in each pot. How many crayons are there altogether? Jodie thinks of a number and doubles it. The answer is 30. What was the number Jodie thought of? Double 7 and add 2. Draw a square and shade ¾ of it. A trip to the swimming baths costs 50p per child. How much will it cost for 4 children?

14 weeks of short term plans Great for cutting and pasting into your own personal school timetable. I’ve included a sample week in the visible upload. The zip contains the lot. sample year 2. Register Activity Chn finish work from Meet Your New Teacher day. 9am: Input: Welcome the children to their first day of year 2! Talk about how we were feeling before coming into school, did we get very much sleep last night? Share with the children how you were feeling too! Introduce the chn to the text of the week: First day jitters by Julia Danneberg. Read the story together and discuss the twist at the end. (Ask questions throughout) T focus for morning: x2 groups of 6 L.O. To use features of a non-chronological report W.I.L.F I can… Include a heading Use subheadings to organize my writing Talk about the difference between facts and fiction (All about me) Chn create a 3D profile, including a self-portrait drawing of their head, to be used for display. Chn complete section boxes all about their family, friends, hobbies etc. Cut out the sections and arrange them inside the folded top. Put together the body parts on colored backing card, ready for the head to be attached later. Label with name sticker. 9am: Input: Quickly recap the story for this week and remind ourselves of the main character, how she was feeling and why? Introduce class bear, explain that he was also feeling very nervous about meeting new chn and starting year 2. Display a page from (bear’s) diary, ask the chn to highlight the adjectives they can see. (perform an action when they hear an adjective word) T to highlight them in a colour as they read. Explain the independent challenge is to match up the adjective words to the different emotion cards. T focus for morning: x2 groups of 6 L.O. To use adjectives W.I.L.F I can… Use capital letters and full stops Use first person Use commas between adjectives Check my sentences make sense (Writing it in the present tense) Chn to write a short diary entry about how they were feeling the night before they came back to school, include adjectives to describe how you were feeling. *Have Monday’s 3D profiles out on a table to finish off. TA focus for first thing: To assess SPP chn against current targets, make notes and set up folders for works to begin.

Nice compilation to get you through the tricky Summer term. Compilation from several schools I taught at. Plenty of material. sample: TTYP what is an autobiography? Come back together and discuss. Repeat for biography. Which would be written in first person and which would be written in third? Who is the audience and what is the purpose of both text types? Activity One Show ‘fact’ and ‘opinion’ on the board. What do these mean? Talk about how autobiographies can contain both because the subject is writing their own life story. Activity One Give groups a copy of the John Lennon biography section and the section of ‘Boy’ by Roald Dahl (both from essential non-fiction anthology). Each group to divide a large piece of paper in half and create a features list for both text types. Read the 2008 Long writing task and discuss how we would tackle this. Your task is to write a biography of Pip’s life, Including information about his inventions. Success Criteria: I have revised the features of biography and autobiography. I have started to think about how I might tackle tomorrow’s writing task.

Collected together my year 4 lesson planning from outstanding academy. Mainly English and Maths. sample: Tuesday 31.01.12 LO: To understand how the use of expressive and descriptive language can create effects or generate emotional responses. Read a descriptive/emotive poem ( Poems Not To Missed) JBA & JP to model how to express how the poem made us feel and what impact the vocabulary choices had on us and why? Read two poems that are expressive and descriptive. Ask chn What was your immediate reaction? Which vocabulary choices were effective and had impact? Why? What emotions do you get from the poems? What images did you get from the poems? Wednesday 01.02.12LO: To plan an ICT-based poetry presentation that involves each member of the group Recap leaning - What are they learning? What have they learnt about poetry texts? Why is learning about poetry important? How could you use what you have learnt about performing poetry? Inform chn that they are going to plan a poetry presentation. Discuss What is a poetry presentation? What is the purpose of a poetry presentation? How are poetry presentation put together? Explain that they are going to promote a poem using key language/emotions from the poem. In talk partners discuss what makes ‘good’ poetry? JP/JBA to scribe chn ideas on ‘working wall’ Using visual Literacy watch clips from poetry readings that the chn have watched previously. Ask: What makes the poem a ‘good’ poem and why? Can you identify key language/emotions/rhythm in the poem that would entice others to read the poem and why? How would you go about putting the key language/emotions together to create a poetry presentation? JP/JBA to scribe chn ideas on ‘working wall’ JBA & JP model how we plan to put together a poetry presentation for a poem we have read. Explain that a presentation is to demonstrate the understanding of a poems’ key message. Show what we are thinking when planning a poetry presentation. Which parts of the poems’ language was effective? What was the most emotional verses and why? Which verse has rhythm? How could we present this poem through drama? Thought shower ideas on working wall.

Gathered up my pland for year 5 from a great academy school. Mainly English and maths. sample: To use multiplication methods to multiply TU × U or HTU × U. On the board have a question: 76 x 4=? On their whiteboard ask the children to solve this. If they don’t know this then they don’t need to worry as I will be teaching them. Highers do 675 x 3=? On the progress board tally how many can do this. Teach them how to use the multiplication method. They follow in their yellow books. To use written methods to divide whole numbers. Ask the children who can divide 87 by 3? Highers do 87 by 4? Fill in the progress chart. Show them the chunking method. Hayley takes SEN out to show them how to use the number line to divide. Children follow in their yellow rough books. If the children understand it they carry on independently. Those that don’t sit there and follow until they understand. Targets. Ask the children who thinks they can achieve their targets now at the beginning of the lesson? Ask those who can’t remember them to look now in the front of their book. To know the key features of arguing a point of view. Link the reading with the work the group has been doing for the last two weeks. Introduction _ Explain that this week the group will be looking at another context for persuasive writing – presenting an argument in a letter. _ Discuss what the children have found out about persuasive texts. _ Read children their target for the week: ‘I am learning to organise my writing to present information clearly.’ Today they are going to see how one writer has done this. _ Explain that when reading ‘What a rip off’ you want the group to think about two things: (1) how the argument is structured, and (2) the language features. Read What a Rip Off.