A set of worksheets I designed to help children practice using a dictionary. The first few letters are correct and children have to find the words in the dictionary, listing the page number at which they find them and correcting their spelling. (Tip, make sure you have a set of the same dictionary types for this!) Also… -KS2 Scheme. -A list of the ‘100 most common mis-spelt words’ that I found and edited from the internet. UPDATE: Lots of other worksheets to use for example using a thesaurus and homophones

An awesome lesson (please watch the weblink for enthusiasm) that really works! Hope these worksheets help.

I have bullet pointed a few ideas I had to use iMovie in the classroom. Although these were written with a mac in use, many of the ideas could be used with iMovie on the iPad or a similar video editing program. Please leave a comment if you find this useful.

Lesson Plans for teaching the area of Calligrams / Shape poetry. Ideal for year 3/4. I have also included a set of resources for use in the genre. Reduced price.

Massive update to my highly popular resource… Found these really hard to find so made my own resources up. I am unsure why they are so scarce as they often come up in SAT tests etc. As I like to call them 'missing box sums’ I have included differentiated worksheets and a smart notebook file to accompany the lesson worksheets. Great for years 3/4 possibly lower ability year 5. UPDATE: Feb 2018: due to the popularity of the previous version of this resource I have added a additional content similar in nature, for example, 'the role of the equals sign.' At this age it is important that children understand (leading onto later years and algebra etc) that ‘Equals’ doesn’t mean ‘the answer’ but is a BALANCE of two equations. There is a lesson plan included here as well I used for an observation during a Numeracy lesson on the topic.

Powerpoint to aid teaching about David Hockney including photos of some of his work. Made personally, initially used with 9 year olds although could easily be adapted for older. I have also included a Powerpoint with information about him. NEW October, 2015 Due to the popularity of this resource I have included some additional work. A weekly plan I made for use with these resources A pdf. that can be printed out to make an enormous picture of his Artwork 'splash' on separate A4 pieces and put together like a jigsaw for display. On the UK site this resource is rated extremely highly 4.7 / 5 with reviews from users. I have included it at a lower price here for a short introductory period, enjoy!

Pupils must write the names of the bones (written to match up) next to the corrent location on the skeleton. This can easily be differentiated by not giving higher ability pupils the list of bones to match up. There are 29 in total. A really high quality worksheet

This is a professionally written ‘Big Fat Quiz of the Year’ pub style quiz. Covering events (with a UK slant) that have occured in 2021. Includes… Picture Round - Name the celebrity that has trended in the news during 2021. Blank answer sheet to write on (50 questions in total.) Professionally written questions and answers. (50 questions in total.) Music Round (7 edited tracks, name the TV show or artist / song from the 15 second clips.) This is formatted as a video file for ease. One example of a question is… A Zoom meeting went viral in February for Handforth Parish Council. Complete the quote “You have no authority here ______ _________” Answer: Jackie Weaver We produce professional online quizzes on www.facebook.com/quizinators presented every Tuesday and Friday night so you can be sure this is a quality resource. Perfect for a staff or work event. (No unsuitable material for children, but more aimed at adults.)

A set of differentiated worksheets I made where children have to add the two numbers below to get the final brick of the top of the pyramid. The harder worksheets require inverse operations. Fantastic for an activity relating to how additional and subtraction are linked, or reinforcing the concept.

Worksheet where children have to identify what genre the description is from generalisations. Useful as a starter or part of a main lesson.

A collection of connectives useful for general story writing as opposed to the usual humdrum words, For example... Without warning... With each step... When they looked back... and lots more!

This is a professionally written pub style general knowledge quiz, beautifully formatted and with full answers and video clips to use as part of the quiz too! Preferably for use with adults or older children. Everything you need to host the ULTIMATE quiz night, this pack also contains more BONUS content. There are 60 questions in total! The quiz includes: A mixed picture round - Questions 1-4: Can your quizzers name the Mr Men. Questions 5-8: 4 images of well known celebrities in heavy movie make up or prosthetics, can you name the actor? Questions 9-12: Famous book covers Mixed Video Round (5 questions): High quality edited video, name the voice of the celebrity, what happens next, whats the advert and catchphrases. Music Round with explanatory video (5 questions): From different decades, name of the artist and name of the song being played. BONUS Video (5 questions): From the video clip can you name the correct film in the series? Eg. Back to the Future 1, 2 or 3? General Knowledge questions and answers, starting easy and getting progressively more difficult, one example of a medium difficulty question: What is the maximum contactless card payment limit in the UK: £20, £30 or £45? Answer: £45 BONUS additional hand out sheet (5 questions) can you guess from the options given where thee band is from? ‘Wipeout Round’ (adding a gambling element where participants score 2 points for their answers, but get one wrong and they lose all their points!) A high quality blank answer sheet for quizzers to write their answers on. This really is a quality resource and has taken many hours to formulate.

A document for parents and pupils to sign. Invaluable for E-Safety and security. Editable as I have included my word version of the document. Has gone down well with many schools. This is a snippet from the top of the document... Parents / Carers play a crucial role in ensuring that their children understand the need to use the internet / mobile devices in an appropriate way. Research shows that many parents and carers do not fully understand the issues and are less experienced in the use of ICT than their children. The school will therefore take every opportunity to help parents understand these issues through parents’ evenings, newsletters, letters, website / VLE and information about national / local e-safety campaigns / literature. This agreement is aimed at fostering that approach. Invaluable and guaranteed to save you time.

NB: This resource is now 1/4 of the price it originally started at and still has some outstanding unique content included. A very high quality resource. This is a 32 slide Powerpoint, including videos and high quality unique animations around the subject of Growth-Mindset designed for presentation to staff and parents alike. Many parts are also suitable for children themselves especially the videos. Uniquely designed and produced my myself and an extremely reputable colleague for use at inset in school, who has now gone on to advise in this area. As we designed this resource collaboratively I am lucky enough to be able to post these particular elements here. I have also included slide handouts and and a Mac / Keynote / iPad version of the resource, which also has embedded video files. Note the keynote version of the resource has additional special effects for Mac / OS/ iPad users. Perfect for the introduction or refresh of ‘Growth-Mindset’ in schools and won’t have been seen anywhere! I have included some of the research videos we used as part of our project.

A good notebook file I made to use in a lesson teaching about writing adventure and mystery stories.

Autumn Term Year 3 revision Powerpoint. Can be used as an assessment tool.

An idea for using comic life in a creative way.

Simplistic worksheet to aid estimating and measuring to the nearest 1/2 kg

A simple game of smart notebook 'battleships&' I made

Personally made Powerpoint. Points out the features of play scripts