This A3 sheet is a one stop shop for Mainstream Core Standards to give classroom staff the knowledge and power to reflect and analyse their provision for their children with SEND. The document itself provides the specific areas of need, which is subsequently broken down by barrier to learning and what this might look like in the classroom. These barriers are then cross referenced with resources and interventions that could be put in place to help that child. For example, if you have a child with cognition and learning difficulties, with a suspected issue with working memory, you could look in this section, see that the child might present with a difficulty in following instructions or may appear distracted and then see a list of suggested resources or interventions to use to support this child with their difficulty. In my school, this document is used for teachers to highlight the child’s needs and then gives them independence to put in place and try different strategies to support the child. They are encouraged to try this for a term and then record notes in the grid on the sheet about what they have tried and what the impact of this has been on the child. This process supports the use of the MCS and also helps to narrow down the area of need the child may have an issue with. It’s a really helpful resource for the teachers and a great tool to use as a SENCO when analysing children’s needs and planning their provision. Please see my other Area of Need MCS documents for sale or buy the whole set at a discounted rate.

Mainstream Core Standard Teacher Checklist Referral Cognition and Learning This A3 sheet is a one stop shop for Mainstream Core Standards to give classroom staff the knowledge and power to reflect and analyse their provision for their children with SEND. The document itself provides the specific areas of need, which is subsequently broken down by barrier to learning and what this might look like in the classroom. These barriers are then cross referenced with resources and interventions that could be put in place to help that child. For example, if you have a child with cognition and learning difficulties, with a suspected issue with working memory, you could look in this section, see that the child might present with a difficulty in following instructions or may appear distracted and then see a list of suggested resources or interventions to use to support this child with their difficulty. In my school, this document is used for teachers to highlight the child’s needs and then gives them independence to put in place and try different strategies to support the child. They are encouraged to try this for a term and then record notes in the grid on the sheet about what they have tried and what the impact of this has been on the child. This process supports the use of the MCS and also helps to narrow down the area of need the child may have an issue with. It’s a really helpful resource for the teachers and a great tool to use as a SENCO when analysing children’s needs and planning their provision. Please see my other Area of Need MCS documents for sale or buy the whole set at a discounted rate.

This A3 sheet is a one stop shop for Mainstream Core Standards to give classroom staff the knowledge and power to reflect and analyse their provision for their children with SEND. The document itself provides the specific areas of need, which is subsequently broken down by barrier to learning and what this might look like in the classroom. These barriers are then cross referenced with resources and interventions that could be put in place to help that child. For example, if you have a child with cognition and learning difficulties, with a suspected issue with working memory, you could look in this section, see that the child might present with a difficulty in following instructions or may appear distracted and then see a list of suggested resources or interventions to use to support this child with their difficulty. In my school, this document is used for teachers to highlight the child’s needs and then gives them independence to put in place and try different strategies to support the child. They are encouraged to try this for a term and then record notes in the grid on the sheet about what they have tried and what the impact of this has been on the child. This process supports the use of the MCS and also helps to narrow down the area of need the child may have an issue with. It’s a really helpful resource for the teachers and a great tool to use as a SENCO when analysing children’s needs and planning their provision. Please see my other Area of Need MCS documents for sale or buy the whole set at a discounted rate.

Mainstream Core Standard Teacher Checklist Referral Cognition and Learning This A3 sheet is a one stop shop for Mainstream Core Standards to give classroom staff the knowledge and power to reflect and analyse their provision for their children with SEND. The document itself provides the specific areas of need, which is subsequently broken down by barrier to learning and what this might look like in the classroom. These barriers are then cross referenced with resources and interventions that could be put in place to help that child. For example, if you have a child with cognition and learning difficulties, with a suspected issue with working memory, you could look in this section, see that the child might present with a difficulty in following instructions or may appear distracted and then see a list of suggested resources or interventions to use to support this child with their difficulty. In my school, this document is used for teachers to highlight the child’s needs and then gives them independence to put in place and try different strategies to support the child. They are encouraged to try this for a term and then record notes in the grid on the sheet about what they have tried and what the impact of this has been on the child. This process supports the use of the MCS and also helps to narrow down the area of need the child may have an issue with. It’s a really helpful resource for the teachers and a great tool to use as a SENCO when analysing children’s needs and planning their provision. Please see my other Area of Need MCS documents for sale or buy the whole set at a discounted rate.

This week long whole class guided reading resource is based on the Lighthouse short animation that is available on You Tube. We have used this animation many times in Year 4 and it goes beautifully alongside our other lighthouse resources so be sure to have a look in the shop to truly maximise your cross curricular links with Science, DT and English! Using DERIC as a frame for questioning (Decode, Explain, Retrieve, Infer / Interpret / Choice), this resource matches the National Curriculum content domains set out for KS2. With a heavy focus on inference and deduction skills, this resource is perfect for a Year 4 class but could also be used for Year 5 to strengthen their inference skills. A true hit with my class for both reading and writing lessons!

This is a complete unit of writing including everything you need for the 2 week cross-curricular piece of writing. Resources included: Teaching slides for 10 lessons 2 week of written plans writing up in best template Lessons include: *Lesson 1 - This lesson includes everything you need to teach your children about the discovery of King Tut’s tomb. This lesson has been used as the unit hook previously so the chn need no prior knowledge before teaching this lesson. This lesson includes 37 teaching slides using primary sources such as telegrams, photos of the tomb and treasures and newsreel. *Lesson 2 - Focuses on vocabulary development and gives the children 9 unfamiliar words to look up in the dictionary and find the definition of before using them in sentences that can be used in their newspaper reports. *Lesson 3- explores newspaper orientations and scaffolds how to write our own orientation. Lesson 4 - hot seat interviewing the main characters from the story and thinking about how they felt and what they would have said in an interview. Lesson 5 - teaches the chn how to use their character interviews using inverted commas. Lesson 6, 7 and 8 - all teach the main body and reorientation of the newspaper report using event checklists for each paragraph, uses spaces for whole class modeled examples and shares common misconceptions and gives a chance to edit these as a whole class. Lesson 9 & 10 - editing, writing headlines and starting to write up in best.

This lesson was planned and used as part of our Black history topic where we explored Black History and achievements in different fields including art. This resource is one art lesson which shares and explores Lorna Simpson’s art in a way that’s pitched for LKS2 but could certainly be used and explored with UKS2 students too. The only things you will need to provide are black and white photos of your class, straws and paint. My class loved this lesson and I would highly recommend it to any KS2 teacher.

Used as a fun lesson to boost well-being during our live lessons but could be used as a fun mini lesson as a whole class reward or to finish the week or term. This 10 questions quiz has all the answers included so you just need to download and enjoy with your class. Works perfectly alongside my Happy poetry writing unit.

Complete week long unit with planning and all supporting materials and resources. This is a favourite in my year group and always makes the perfect cross-curricular link for Mental Health week or when your class need some time to reflect on their emotions and identify what they feel like. This unit will be more valuable than ever at the moment in the aftermath of the pandemic. Included in this English unit is: Complete lesson teaching slides with modeled examples of tasks and poems. Planning All resources needed for all lessons (poem planning sheets, emotions identifying task sheet, charades emotions, poem writing templates, writing up in best frames). You really can’t go wrong with this unit. I hope your class enjoy it as much as mine have!

This one off lesson is the ideal art lesson to ease back into school in Term 3. Using a video of the 2021 London New Year fireworks, the children can recreate the London skyline and use chalks to add fireworks to this picture.

This is a big hit with Year 4 at Christmas! With over 30 questions, this resource is a week’s worth of whole class Guided Reading. Using DERIC as a question frame, the questions in this resource are centered around retrieval, explain and interpret / inference. A great resource to teach fundamental Reading skills while making it fun and engaging with a lovely Christmas story.

This resource is a week’s worth of planning that I use in our final week of school to enjoy whole class Guided Reading in a fun way while still promoting those fundamental reading skills. Questions are appropriate for Year 4 but this resource could easily be adapted across Key Stage 2. Questions framed around DERIC: Decode Explain Retrieve Infer / Interpret Choice

Diary of a Cornflake Diary Writing unit. I created these resources to use in the classroom however, they would also make an excellent unit for live learning. Included is a sequence of 10 lessons including exploring new vocabulary, sequencing events, describing a setting, the big write lessons with some modeled paragraphs and editing sessions embedding in each big write. Here is a break down of each lesson included: Talk Treasure Chest - exploring adventurous vocabulary to include in this piece of writing. Sequencing key events in the journey of the digestive system and creating a cartoon strip. How to describe a setting using Jane Considine’s FANTASTIC tool. Setting the scene - exploring how and when people write their diaries. The opening paragraph - the beginning of the story with teacher example to set the scene. Writing paragraph 3 including modeled paragraph, editing section and checklist for writing. Writing paragraph 4 including editing example and checklist. Writing up in best lesson which encourages children to practice and perfect their handwriting. This unit was planned and used by me and is a great unit of writing to get children hooked and enthusiastic about the digestive system - a simple but effective way to show writing across the curriculum. All resources supporting this writing unit are included.

This resource has been used in the classroom but would also work well for live or recorded home lessons. This Guided Reading resource will provide a full week’s unit of work (possibly 2 - which is how long it lasted for us) with opportunities for wider curriculum / writing links too. Using DERIC as a frame for questioning (Decode, Explain, Retrieve, Infer / Interpret, Choice), this resource matches the National Curriculum content domains set out for KS2. With a heavy focus on inference, this resource is perfect for a Year 4 class but could also be used for a bright Year 3 class or LA Year 5 group to strengthen their inference skills. The PowerPoint resource is 114 slides and is good value for money. I never sell anything I haven’t tried and testing before and fully believe this resource is good value for money and of high quality. A true hit with my Year 4 class and a great text too! Note to buyer - you will need to have a copy of the book along side this resource to be able to use the questions provided.

This lesson was used to round off Term 1 after using How to Train your Dragon as our class reader and as a stimulus for a unit of writing. During this afternoon, children chose which activities they liked and created work based on what they enjoyed in the book. Designed using a Voices for Choices approach this resource shares varied ideas based on different skills i.e. writing, art, design etc.

Used as a kindness afternoon resource for my class to choose their own way to spread kindness, this PowerPoint uses the Christmas 2020 John Lewis advert to encourage children to ‘Give a Little Love’. Please leave feedback :-)

Used as part of Children’s Mental Health Week, our Year 4 classes all participated in a Reading For Pleasure live session where they shared their favourite books, made recommendations and discussed story lines and their likes and dislikes. This lesson could be used across Key Stage 2 and supports the reading for pleasure strands of the National Curriculum.

2/3 week Guided Reading unit based on Ice Trap! the story sharing Shackleton’s expedition story across Antarctica. This resource includes pages taken from the picture book for children to examine the text and illustrations. Questions framed using the DERIC approach, matched to end of Key Stage expectations.