We provide a wide range of high quality primary resources to enhance learning opportunities and save teacher's time! They have been trialled in school before publishing to test how effective they are. We are delighted with the results and hope you will be too!
We provide a wide range of high quality primary resources to enhance learning opportunities and save teacher's time! They have been trialled in school before publishing to test how effective they are. We are delighted with the results and hope you will be too!
An interactive PDF file exploring the different types of sentences. Perfect for using on ipads, kindles and laptops. A great set activity to add to a google classrooms lesson or as a homelearning/ homework activity.
Please ensure you have an adobe reader to access the interactive elements of the activity.
Running through the alphabet to revise handwriting. Children can copy into their books from the board or print out and they can copy onto the page. Good for morning work, extra home learning or as practise of key letters.
A set of 39 Bingo activities that cover number facts for the year 2 National Curriculum. Included is a powerpoint with 39 slides to show the children and separate powerpoint with 39 slides for the teacher to read out. There is also a recording sheet.
Children pick 5 numbers or calculations and write them on the recording paper or whiteboard.
Print off the teacher powerpoint and read the numbers or calculations for children to solve the problem. Children cross off each number they have chosen if they are the answer. When all 5 are crossed off, they jump up and call BINGO. You must be the first one of the room to win!
An excellent activity to make revising key facts fun! This resources could be used as early morning work during the register or as a Numeracy lesson starter.
Topics include:
- nearest 10
- addition facts
- number bonds to 10, 20, 100
- subtraction facts
- 2,5,10 times tables
-2,5,10 division facts
- sequences
- shapes
- numbers in between
A range of seasonal themed reading comprehensions suitable for year 2-4. All differentiated for a wide range of reading abilities. A fun way to introduce some fascinating facts and develop retrieval, inference and deduction skills. Many open questions to enable for class discussion in the plenary and some questions relating to grammar and word choice.
Did you know Guy Fawkes was actually born a protestant? Did you know the Queen still has the cellars checked for gunpowder before she enters Westminster?
2 fact-filled reading comprehension sheets with a full description of the fascinating history leading up to the plot and modern day traditions.
One comprehension on the story of the Gunpowder Plot and one about Bonfire Night celebrations. Both have two versions of the reading text with worksheet questions or ‘write out in your book’ questions and sentence starters.
A set of 4 seasonally themed chatterboxes. A fun way to introduce or conclude a topic. Most include three different templates: a fun one, a facts one and one for children to design themselves. Children can learn some exciting new facts or organise their own to wow their family with what they have learnt. Enjoy!
A fun way to introduce or conclude learning about Bonfire Night. 3 different templates: Bonfire Night, the Gunpowder Plot and an empty one for children to add their own facts. Children can learn some exciting new facts or organise their own to WOW their family with what they have learnt. Enjoy!
Have you ever wondered how London would have changed if the Gunpowder plot had been successful? Did you know the queen still has the cellars of Westminster checked by a guard before she arrives?
A range of fact-filled Bonfire Night themed resources for years 2 - 4. Great opportunities to create a class display. Resources include 3 chatterbox templates, two reading comprehensions, a lesson to create a wonderful fire poetry display and 2 themed word searches.
A flexible Literacy lesson that uses the topic of fire to generate ideas of a poem. This is an excellent lesson for the end of a poetry topic. Children are encouraged to use their senses as well as simile and onomatopoeia to create a poem all about fire. this would fit in very well with Bonfire Night, the Stone Age, Fire of London or Halloween. Children can write their poetic phrases onto flames and build up their poem like a real bonfire. This makes for a wonderful class display. Alternatively, there is writing paper for the children to use instead.
A seasonal-themed resource aimed to improve children’s knowledge of sentence structure. This lesson will reinforce the language needed to reinforce the construction of a sentence (noun, verb, adverb, adjective and conjunction). By focusing on one or two sentences, children can develop the language needed to talk about their word choice.
A range of whole class and individual checklists to assist with the collection of evidence and assessment of children’s achievement throughout the year. All checklists follow the interim framework criteria which was previously used for SATs assessments and moderations. They are all editable so you can add or remove objectives as you see fit.
Whole class checklists allow the teacher to have an overview of the whole class on one page and identify gaps to cover further. They include working at, working towards and greater depth checklist. Additionally, there is a spelling checklist of a shortened version of the common exception words, contractions and some suffix words.
Individual checklists for pupil books allow children to identify how well they are doing and what they need to work on next. Checklists are available using the exact language of the interim framework and a ‘child speak’ version.
A range of whole class and individual checklists to assist with the collection of evidence and assessment of children’s achievement throughout the year. Both checklists follow the interim framework criteria which was used for SATs assessments and moderations.
Whole class checklists allow the teacher to have an overview of the whole class on one page and identify gaps to cover further. They include working at, working towards and greater depth checklist. Additionally, there is a spelling checklist of a shortened version of the common exception words, contractions and some suffix words.
Individual checklists for pupil books allow children to identify how well they are doing and what they need to work on next. Checklists are available using the exact language of the interim framework and a ‘child speak’ version.
Three exciting investigations to get your children using and applying their mathematic skills to a real life problem. Children are encouraged and modelled how to find solutions by work systematically to solve a problem.
A range of whole class and individual checklists to assist with the collection of evidence and assessment of children’s achievement throughout the year. Both checklists follow the interim framework criteria which was previously used for SATs assessments and moderations. They are all editable so more objectives can be added or removed as you see fit.
Whole class checklists allow the teacher to have an overview of the whole class and identify gaps to cover further. They include working at, working towards and greater depth checklist.
Individual checklists for pupil books allow children to identify how well they are doing and what they need to work on next. Checklists are available using the exact language of the interim framework and a ‘child speak’ version.
A range of whole class and individual checklists to assist with the collection of evidence and assessment of children’s achievement throughout the year. Both checklists follow the interim framework criteria which is used for SATs assessments and moderations. All resources can be edited to add or remove objectives as you see fit.
Whole class checklists allow the teacher to have an overview of the whole class on one page and identify gaps to cover further. They include working at, working towards and greater depth checklist. Additionally, there is a spelling checklist of a shortened version of the common exception words, contractions and some suffix words.
Individual checklists for pupil books allow children to identify how well they are doing and what they need to work on next. Checklists are available using the exact language of the interim framework and a ‘child speak’ version.
Children use their mathematical understanding of shape to generate as many different ways of organising 5 squares. They are asked by a building company to find all the different ways of laying out 5 rooms for a new block of flats. Fits in well with ‘Houses’ topic in Geography. Lesson plan, photocopy pages and flipchart included.
PLEASE NOTE: this resource requires ActivInspire software
A seasonal themed investigation to model how to think logically to solve a problem. Children must work with groups of eggs to make up the target number. They are encouraged to work systematically to find the answer. This lesson includes a comprehensive flipchart and lesson plan with a photocopy sheet.
An exciting Maths investigation based on the book 'The Lorax' by Dr Seuss. This lesson explores the possible colour combinations that can be created by joining different coloured tufts to the trunks of the Truffula trees. This is a complete lesson with flipchart, lesson plan, recording sheet and photocopy sheet for children to make the combinations before recording them. Children are extended to explain how they solved the problem and consider what they would need to do in a new colour is added.
