Experienced KS1 and KS2 teacher currently teaching in Year Six. Specialist Leader for Mathematics across three Local Authorities.
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Experienced KS1 and KS2 teacher currently teaching in Year Six. Specialist Leader for Mathematics across three Local Authorities.
All resources have been tried and tested. I'm open to suggestions and requests and aim to help anyone who requires it.
Please leave feedback and rate my resources.
Ideal for a whole class fun, interactive game, or this file can be saved in a shared area for children to practice with on their laptops or tablets.
Fully interactive spinners and ‘random’ number generators.
Broken down into small steps.
15 different spinners.
Instructions
This is a detailed teaching sequence to teach children about Inuit art and how to mimic it and eventually paint in its style.
Slides cover:
Who are the Inuit?
Appreciating Inuit art
Mastering the techniques
Mimicking the style
Planning
The assessed task
Responding to feedback
Celebration
A 4-way differentiated activity sheet/worksheet that will develop children's understanding of rounding to the nearest hundred or thousand.
Challenges include:
Challenge 1 - Use a pre-made numberline to help you round the following numbers to the level of accuracy in the brackets.
Challenge 2 - Draw a place value grid or numberline to help you round the following numbers to the level of accuracy in the brackets.
Challenge 3 - Draw a number line that goes from 0 to 10,000. Indicate, with a labelled arrow, where the following numbers are placed.
Challenge 4 – Worded Problem
Answer sheet included, as well as an editable version so you can adapt to your own class.
Editable differentiated data handling activity for KS1 children or lower KS2 children.
Activity 1 - children complete a tally chart (in this instance, number of letters in their classmates' names - this is editable)
Activity 2 - Create a bar chart from their data.
Lower Ability - Axes are labelled
Higher Ability - Axes are not labelled
Fantastic investigations for all groups of children, exploring the rules for odd and even numbers.
- High ability document - What happens when you add an odd number to an odd number, an even to an even, an even to an odd...what about multiplication? - This activity is differentiated seven ways with a summary/results page for the children to complete at the end. The children really love this!
- Lower Ability Document - Find all odd/even numbers between two numbers, find the next even number, find the previous odd number etc.
Two fantastic resources.
Activity 1 - children create a bar chart from a completed tally chart. (two different versions, differentiated)
Activity 2 - children create a tally chart from a completed bar chart. (two differentiated versions)
This fully interactive high-quality gameshow features all the drama of the TV show. Each possible answer is linked to either a pass or fail screen indicating the amount of money ‘won’. A free trial of my best-in-class version is available here:
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/millionaire-quiz-free-trial-edition-11697409
There are 15 questions, testing children’s knowledge of:
- Invasion
- Gods
- Famous heroes and stories
- and more!
Please see my shop for other gameshows, worksheets, activities and time-saving ideas.
All feedback is welcome so please do comment and rate.
N.B The original logos for Who Wants to be a Millionaire are property of Sony Pictures Television. For this reason they have not been included, but a similar non-trademarked version has.
Fully interactive gameshow about World War II, featuring sound effects and background music.
This fully interactive high-quality gameshow features all the exciting sounds, background music and drama of the TV show. Each possible answer is linked to either a pass or fail screen indicating the amount of money ‘won’. A free trial of my best-in-class version is available here:
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/millionaire-quiz-free-trial-edition-11697409
There are 15 questions, testing children’s knowledge of:
- Key dates
- Battles
- Leaders of countries
- Key figures
- Key events
- and more!
Please see my shop for other gameshows, worksheets, activities and time-saving ideas.
All feedback is welcome so please do comment and rate.
N.B The original logos for Who Wants to be a Millionaire are property of Sony Pictures Television. For this reason they have not been included, but a similar non-trademarked version has.
A PowerPoint and Smart Notebook set out exactly like the KS2 SATs arithmetic paper.
This resource focuses on all of the decimals question types found in the papers since 2016 and features 50 questions.
Percentages of an amount - multiples of 10
Percentages of an amount - multiples of 5
Percentages of an amount - multiples of 1
Percentages of an amount - decimal percentages
A PowerPoint and Smart Notebook set out exactly like the KS2 SATs arithmetic paper.
This resource focuses on all of the decimals question types found in the papers since 2016 and features 65 questions.
Adding and subtracting a decimal from a decimal
Subtracting a decimal from an integer
Multiplying and dividing by 10, 100 or 1000.
Multiplying decimals by an integer
This fully interactive high-quality gameshow features all the drama of the TV show. Each possible answer is linked to either a pass or fail screen indicating the amount of money ‘won’. A free trial of my best-in-class version is available here:
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/millionaire-quiz-free-trial-edition-11697409
There are 15 questions, testing children’s knowledge of:
- Inventors
- Current and Voltage
-Electrical Symbols
- General Electrical Knowledge
Please see my shop for other gameshows, worksheets, activities and time-saving ideas.
All feedback is welcome so please do comment and rate.
N.B The original logos for Who Wants to be a Millionaire are property of Sony Pictures Television. For this reason they have not been included, but a similar non-trademarked version has.
This fully interactive high-quality gameshow features all the drama of the TV show. Each possible answer is linked to either a pass or fail screen indicating the amount of money ‘won’. A free trial of my best-in-class version is available here:
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/millionaire-quiz-free-trial-edition-11697409
There are 15 questions, testing children’s knowledge of:
- Roman Politicians
- Poets
- Roman army
- Roman geography
- Gods and Goddesses
Please see my shop for other gameshows, worksheets, activities and time-saving ideas.
All feedback is welcome so please do comment and rate.
N.B The original logos for Who Wants to be a Millionaire are property of Sony Pictures Television. For this reason they have not been included, but a similar non-trademarked version has.
Featuring functional correct/wrong screens and 50/50 lifelines, this is perfect for assessment or discovering what children already know. This new and improved interactive gameshow is an entertaining way to teach groups about The Nativity.
A free trial of my best-in-class version (minus the 50/50 functionality) is available here:
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/millionaire-quiz-free-trial-edition-11697409
There are 15 questions, testing children's knowledge of:
- Why Mary and Joseph had to travel
- The gifts the three wise men brought
- Advent Wreaths
- King Herod
...and more!
N.B The original logos for Who Wants to be a Millionaire are property of Sony Pictures Television. For this reason they have not been included, but a similar non-trademarked version has.
Please see my shop for other gameshows, worksheets, activities and time-saving ideas.
All feedback is welcome so please do comment and rate.
Featuring a Roman Numeral version of my best-in-class Millionaire Quiz, these assessment tools are perfect to engage children with the concept of Roman Numerals.
Meeting all of the requirements of the national curriculum for Roman Numerals, this quiz is a fun way to assess and show progress.
A thorough and complete teaching sequence for teaching children how to write a high-quality poem.
Included are:
Two high-quality end of KS2 standard poems to use as an example and reference.
A Planning proforma.
A whole PowerPoint teaching sequence that has activities, probing questions and learning opportunities related to:
What is a poem?
Analysis of the text type.
The structure of a poem
Planning
Writing a high-quality introduction
Grammar, Punctuation and Spelling (The passive voice, Fronted adverbials, Past tense verbs, Punctuation for Parenthesis)
Writing for effect (Figurative Language, Emotive language, sentence structure)
Editing and redrafting
Responding to feedback
Celebrating success
Designed to save you hours and raise attainment, this is an excellent resource to get the best out of your whole cohort.
A two-way differentiated activity sheet/worksheet that will develop the children’s understanding of line graphs, data handling, averages and data handling vocabulary.
Sheet 1 - 8 Questions asking about the warmest/coldest months, difference in temperature between months. There are two data sets on the graph (two lines, same axes)
Sheet 2 - 8 Questions focusing more on averages and trends. There are three data sets on the same axes. Completely different questions.
Answers are provided for both sheets. I have provided two different layouts which also add to the challenge. One has a wider line graph set, the other has a narrower set. This will test children’s adaptability to varying presentations.
This resource contains three sets of differentiated questions that will develop children's understanding of multi-step problems. These are similar in scope to SATs questions.
Answers are provided.
An editable copy is included so that you can modify to suit your own class's needs.
This activity will help children meet the Roman Numeral curriculum statements for Year 5 and is excellent revision for Year 6.
Included are:
- 17 questions where the children need to change Roman Numerals into Arabic Numbers (the numbers we are familiar with)
- 5 questions where they need to turn Arabic Numbers into Roman Numerals
- 6 questions where they must complete a calculation in Roman Numerals and give their answer as both Roman Numerals and Arabic Numbers - excellent for your 'More Able' learners.
.....and an answer sheet for all activities.
Activities are given as both a word document and a pdf.
Please comment/rate this resource as all feedback is valuable.
Two differentiated activity sheets for KS1 children where they need to write certain shapes, names or words in a coordinate grid.
Activity 1 - simplified instructions e.g. 'Draw a three sided shape in'
Activity 2 - harder instructions e.g. 'Draw a ___ in the cell directly under the ______'
GPS questions to help a child reach the expected standard for the end of Key Stage 2. Included for every question is a mark scheme and examiner notes.
Types of skills tested in this set:
-Ticking sentences that are written using CSE
- Inserting words to make a sentence CSE
- Circling words that would make a sentence CSE
- Correcting errors
- ...and more!