This lesson gets the children to use their historian skills to firstly determine what the different types of crime and punishment were, by discussing sources. It then get them to evaluate which methods of punishment were the most useful to the anglo-saxons by using a diamond nine. The smart board acts as a lesson plan, using partner talk for discussions, explaining what the different photos were and then it explains what a diamond 9 is and how they can use it.

These minimalist posters of inspirational people include a quote from each of the famous people. We have them as a class display and talk about them a lot in our lessons. We have them as a class display and talk about them a lot in our lessons. We direct children to them when needed, or bring them into discussions when talking about topics such as LGBTQ+ (Alan Turing) The Civil Rights Movement (Dr Martin Luther King Jr, Maya Angelou and Rosa Parks), Feminism and equality (Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Taylor Swift, Frida Kahlo) and perseverance and supporting people when they need it.

This bookmark I use with my students so they can track which books they have read throughout the year. Since I have started using the bookmarks in the classroom, there’s been a noticeable improvement in the children wanting to read more so they can write the names of the books and colour the shelves of the bookmark on. The back has an editable name slot so they are easy to identify. I print them onto card, and they are used throughout the year.

Display lettering and book corner labels all in the style of Netflix. We use this as an interactive display where the children choose which books are the top 5 or the most popular and we change them depending on the cohort’s preferences. The book corner labels are a really easy way to keep the books organised, and the book monitor display we change regularly too so the children all take ownership of their learning.

A much shorter story that can be read in 10-15 minutes- with pictures. Or over a course of days broken down into smaller chunks. I made this because A Christmas Carol is a great story to read to children around the Christmas season to reinforce messages about kindess and empathy. There are reading comprehension questions to accompany the story, segmented to align with reading the book a few pages at a time. The questions are a mixture of retrieval, inference and word choice. There are also some worksheets attached to the story I have re-written. There are character analysis of Ebenezer Scrooge and Bob Cratchit, a comparison between Bob Cratchit’s Chirstmas and Scrooge’s Christmas. There’s a table about what each ghost shows Scrooge and what he learns from this. It’s a great week’s worth of lessons for the final week to Christmas, to keep some structure for the children while still letting them enjoy the festive period!

I have used this with my class for a few years. The labels all have a picture to show what lesson it is and I usually write the times next to each card on the whiteboard.

I use this card as a reminder card. I cut the main card out and all the other squares and then laminate them. You can get the children to choose their own targets and then throughout the day you put the emojis below to show how they are doing. I will also just use ticks to show where a child has met their targets for the lesson. Great for behaviour management as it is a visual reminder for children that shows what we are working on. I often include a note home to parents and a small reward time at the end of the day if there are lots of ‘smiley’ face present.

Perfect full lesson game for end of unit or end of term fun. This game tests the column addition skills of the children by getting them to roll a dice and multiply either the attacking number, or the defense number, depending on whose turn it is. Multiplication crosses the tens, and can be up-leveled by adding 2 dice so that the children are multiplying 2-digit by 2-digit numbers. The aim of the game is for the children to see who can cross the pitch board game first. Each player has 15 Match Attax cards and different coloured football pieces. The children will take it in turns to be the ‘attacking’ player. They will roll the dice and multiply the number on the dice by the number for ‘attack’ on their player’s card. The opposite player will then roll their dice and multiply that number by the number for the ‘defense’ on their player’s card. The child with the highest score wins and gets to place their football onto the pitch. The children put their cards to the bottom of the pile and it’s now the other child’s turn to be the ‘attacker’. This is continued until one player has reached the opposition’s side of the pitch. Included in the download are - Powerpoint explaining the rules visually to children, instruction sheet for the children, 30 different Match Attax card images on PDF, the football counters pdf and the board game on an A3 word document. Download, print and laminate for a great lesson. I use this at the end of every half-term and the children love it while still keeping a purposeful working environment.

I have used this smart board and worksheet for 3 years in a row now and it’s fantastic each time! It’s two-days worth of smart boards with worksheets at the end of the input slides for easy group marking. Work sheets for printing are on seperate PDF documents. They all have reasoning questions throughout and finish with a ‘platinum’ challenge which is a deeper learning mastery question. It follows the white rose scheme and has different levels to the worksheet as part of the mastery curriculum. All children can complete this sheet as the differentiation is done within the Bronze, Silver, Gold and Platinum element. Lower Ability children will be able to complete the bronze and usually the silver and these steps provide stepping stones for them to each gold which is the age related target. The middle and higher abilities will still be challenged as the reasoning questions sprinkled throughout will test their knowledge of multiplication.

My currant class love their peg labels and I will be using them again next year. I like to have a few different characters as I think it’s a fun way to start the first day of the new term! Characters include: Harry Potter, Willy Wonka, Peter Pan, How to Train your dragon, Greg (Diary of a wimpy kid), Alice in Wonderland, Cat in the Hat, Paddington Bear, 1 of the 101 dalmations and fantastic Mr Fox.

I made this smart board and corresponding booklet unit of work for my year 4 class last year. I used it again this year and made some adjustments to it as needed. Electricity is such a fun topic for children and this booklet and smart allows them to combine their knowledge of electrical circuits with design elements. There are work sheets included for a whole term as well as a brief smart too. We used it to build their knowledge gradually of circuits, and then how to properly draw a circuit and add buzzers, motors and lights. It all culminated in a final design project where they needed to follow a specification of a house that needed a doorbell, light bulb and a switch! They absolutely loved this and it is also a National Curriculum requirement for this year group.

Pokémon coat peg labels, my year 4 class love theirs! I have also used it for equipment tray lables too.

I have used these resources as a whole week’s worth of lessons with smart board and sheets from Tuesday - Friday. Monday’s sheets I just used basic Roman Numeral sheets. It’s a great resource that makes Roman Numerals fun as I did an Indiana Jones lesson where the children had to solve reasoning and fluency questions on Roman Numerals and place value to help Indiana escape. Directly linked to the White Rose Maths hub scheme for year 4 and includes lessons on place value for Thursday and Friday that test children’s varied fluency and reasoning skills. 3-4 levels of differentiation. Green = Lower ability, Blue = middle ability. Yellow = middle/higher ability and Red = higher ability/mastery.