Fun, colourful and engaging resources created over 17 years experience as a primary school teacher. Please have a look at my free and premium resources and let me know what you think. If you like my resources, 'follow me' to find out when more become available. The more followers, the merrier!
Fun, colourful and engaging resources created over 17 years experience as a primary school teacher. Please have a look at my free and premium resources and let me know what you think. If you like my resources, 'follow me' to find out when more become available. The more followers, the merrier!
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A week long unit based on The Twits to use during Whole Class Reading. Ideal for KS2.
Resources include:
Teaching Plan including assessment opportunities
National Curriculum Objectives
Examples of text
Thoughts and Ideas on Whole Class Teaching
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A week long unit based on Danny the Champion of the World to use during Whole Class Reading. Ideal for KS2.
Resources include:
Teaching Plan including assessment opportunities
National Curriculum Objectives
Examples of text
Thoughts and Ideas on Whole Class Teaching
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A 2 week unit plan for teaching Jack and the Beanstalk. Children are actively involved in learning - activities are differentiated and the plan is adaptable to suit the needs of your children.
Resources include:
2 week unit plan with differentiated activities
PowerPoint and PDF of the story with actions(Pie Corbett technique)
Word Cards for display
Word Mat
Giant Character Portrait Worksheet
Pictures of Giant and Villains
Sequencing Pictures
Story Sequencing Snake(Pie Corbett technique)
Storyboard Worksheet - 3 levels of differentiation
Synonyms for BIG worksheet
You might also be interested in Plants and Butterflies Plan and Resources as a Science topic.
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A set of 19 Phase 5 Phoneme Spotters. Each 'spotter' is written as a postcard and encourages children to read, recognise and find words containing a particular phoneme.
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A week long unit based on We’re Going on a Bear Hunt to use during Whole Class Reading. Ideal for Reception or Year 1.
Resources include:
Teaching Plan
National Curriculum Objectives
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Put those fidget spinners to good use with fun and engaging maths activities.
Pack includes:
Fidget Spinner Addition - 5 levels of differentiation
Fidget Spinner Subtraction - 5 levels of differentiation
Fidget Spinner Multiplication - 5 levels of differentiation
Fidget Spinner Division - 3 levels of differentiation
You might also be interested in Fidget Spinner Phonics
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This pack includes a Maths assessment for each year group from Year 1 to Year 5. The pack includes:
Maths assessment per year group
Answer sheet for each assessment
Analysis sheet for each assessment
Class score sheet
Notes about using the assessments.
These assessments are clear and fuss-free, they are intended to show gaps in learning and help you identify which areas to cover.
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This pack includes a Spag assessment for each year group from Year 1 to Year 5. The pack includes:
Spag assessment per year group
Answer sheet for each assessment
Analysis sheet for each assessment
Class score sheet
Notes about using the assessments.
These assessments are clear and fuss-free, they are intended to show gaps in learning and help you identify which areas to cover.
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A set of 18 Phase 3 Phoneme Spotters. Each 'spotter' is written as a postcard and encourages children to read, recognise and find words containing a particular phoneme.
To own a complete set of Phase 3 resources you might be interested in Phase 3 Teaching Pack
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A 43 page Power Point presentation and 9 activities to use with your new class at the start of the new school year or on transition day.
Slides include:
Would You Rather questions
Find A Friend game
Conversation Starters
Thoughts on new school year
School Tweets activity
If you like this, you might also be interested in Back to School for KS1 and KS2
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A week long unit based on Jasper’s Beanstalk to use during Whole Class Reading. Ideal for Reception or Year 1.
Resources include:
Teaching Plan
National Curriculum Objectives
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A great game for children to read words containing Phase 3 sounds. Just roll the dice, read a word in that row and cover it with a counter.
To own a complete set of Phase 3 resources you might be interested in Phase 3 Teaching Pack
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A variety of different sized labels for use in EYFS, KS1 and KS2 classrooms. All labels are editable to suit the needs of your classroom.
You might also be interested in a complete class pack
You might also find useful Transition Resourcesto get to know your new class.
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Make the most of those fidget spinners and use them to help with your children's phonics. Use them for daily phonics exercises, assessment or as an intervention.
Included in this pack:
Fidget Spinner Phonemes - Phase 3, 4 and 5
Fidget Spinner Phonics Words - Phase 3, 4 and 5
Fidget Spinner Tricky Words - Phase 3, 4 and 5
Fidget Spinner Alien Words
You might also be interested in Phase 5 Teaching Pack and Phase 3 Teaching Pack</>
Why not have a go at Fidget Spinner Maths
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This is a pack of 85 activities for EYFS and KS1 to complete during lockdown over the summer months.
It contains PSHE, Science, History and English activities.
Science: a practical science topic on Plants and Butterflies.
History: re-live Victorian Seaside Holidays ending with your own picnic!
PSHE: activities to allow your child to think about themselves and how they fell about returning to school.
English: Topics based on Jack and the Beanstalk, The Very Hungry Caterpillar and lots of Summer Writing Frames to print.
A fun pack of resources to get to know your new class a little better. Suitable for both KS1 and KS2 - there is a mix of worksheets which could be used for an instant display and also talking points for circle time.
Resources include:
All About Me Apps worksheet
All About Me Puzzle Piece worksheet - ideal for an instant display
Describing Me worksheet
Find a Friend game
My Numbers Are Game
Conversation Starters for Circle Time
Would You Rather questions for Circle Time
You might also be interested in Back to Schjool and Transition day power point
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A pack of 15 fun summer writing activities to keep everyone amused on those hot days summer days!
The pack includes:
Word Mat
Summer Writing Frames
Acrostic Poem templates
3 things to do this Summer
Noisy Seaside Poem
Summer Senses worksheet
Summer Vowels worksheet
Summer Sounds worksheet
Summer Alphabet worksheet
Summer Bucket List
You might also be interested in Transition Day Resources and Transition Day Power Point</>
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A complete 12 week Key Stage 1 science and theme plan. Children will learn all about plants and butterflies and how to grow them! The plan includes Learning Objectives linked to the new N.C , teaching activities and assessment opportunities. The plan includes 3 science investigations and plenty of practical lessons to keep the little ones interested and active. The plan can be adapted to suit the needs of your children and can be used to link English activities to your class topic.
This pack includes:
12 week unit plan
3 Facts about Butterflies worksheet
A Chrysalis Feels Like...
Butterfly Fact Poster template
Butterfly Life Cycle worksheet
Butterfly Life Cycle PowerPoint
Investigation Planning Grid
Labeling a Plant worksheet
Life Cycle of a Plant PowerPoint
Plant Life Cycle worksheet
My Butterfly Diary
My Plant List worksheet
If you like this, you might also be interested in The Very Hungry Caterpillar Plan and Resources
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Over 80 colourful labels to organise your classroom.
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This bundle contains 5 comprehension packs based on popular stories ( Room on the Broom, The Gruffalo, Five Minutes’ Peace, Peace at Last and Elmer) to teach comprehension skills in Reception or KS1.
Each pack contains a short extract and 5 comprehension activities ideal for EYFS and KS1. They also contain answer sheets and EYFS and NC objectives covered.
The activities include:
Cloze Passage - fill in the gaps from the given extract
Sequencing - order the events
Multiple Choice Questions
Word Choices
Inference Questions.
Answer sheet
EYFS and NC Objectives
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