Hello! We're creating resources for busy primary school teachers. All our writers are themselves experienced KS1 and KS2 professionals and we design our resources to be as appealing and accessible as possible.
Hello! We're creating resources for busy primary school teachers. All our writers are themselves experienced KS1 and KS2 professionals and we design our resources to be as appealing and accessible as possible.
This long division PowerPoint uses colour-coded steps to support teaching long division in KS2 maths. Teachers can share the step-by-step instructions on the board in front of the class, highlighting key vocabulary such as ‘divisor’ and ‘dividend’, making the process of long division clear to all pupils.
The pack also contains two posters, which can be used for wall displays, or printed out and used as long division worksheets.
The resources in this KS2 art ideas lesson pack are designed to support teaching the use of warm and cold colours in drawings and paintings. It contains:
A lesson plan – The can be used during one lesson or can be broken down and used over more than one session. Children will learn how using warm or cold colours can affect the look and feel of a painting, and then apply this to their own artwork.
PowerPoint – This supports the teaching of the lesson plan with examples of different famous paintings, looking at what effect altering the colours has on the viewer.
This pack contains six SATs style spelling tests – perfect for assessment at the end of each half term. Each test contains 20 questions and an answer sheet. A question overview grid indicates which spelling patterns are covered by each question so that you can see which spelling patterns need further support.
The spelling patterns covered on this Year 4 spelling test are:
Use more prefixes.
Add suffixes beginning with vowel letters to words of more than one
Use the suffix -ly
Spell words with endings sounding like ‘zh’ and ‘ch’
Spell words with endings which sound like ‘zhun’
Spell homophones
Spell words that are often misspelt
Spell words containing the ‘i’ sound spelt ‘y’ elsewhere than at the end of words
Spell words containing the ‘u’ sound spelt ‘ou’
Spell words with the ‘k’ sound spelt ‘ch’
Spell words with the ‘sh’ sound spelt ‘ch’
Spell words with the ‘ay’ sound spelt ‘ei’, ‘eigh’ or ‘e’
Use the prefixes in-, im-, il-, i-r, sub-, inter-, super-, anti-, auto-
Understand and add suffix -ation,
Add endings which sound like ‘shun’ spelt -tion, -sion, -ssion, -cian
Spell words ending with the ‘g’ sound spelt ‘gue’ and the ‘k’ sound spelt -que
Spell homophones and near-homophones
Spell more complex words that are often misspelt for Years 3 and 4
Spell words with the ‘s’ sounds spelt ‘sc’
Place the possessive apostrophe accurately in words with regular plurals
These spelling word worksheets provide a great way to practise and review the Year 3 words from the National Curriculum Spelling List.
All of the Year 3 spelling words are covered across 11 challenging worksheets, each containing three different types of spelling check challenges, including anagrams and cryptic clues.
The spelling patterns covered are:
use the prefix un-, dis-, mis-, re-
add suffixes with vowel letters to words of more than one syllable.
add the suffix -ly
spell words with endings sounding like ‘zh’ and ‘ch’
spell words with endings which sound like ‘zhun’
spell homophones
spell words containing the ‘i’ sound spelt ‘y’ elsewhere than at the end of words.
spell words containing the ‘u’ sound spelt ‘ou’
spell words with the ‘k’ sound spelt ‘ch’
spell words with the ‘sh’ sound spelt ‘ch’
spell words with the ‘ay’ sound spelt ‘ei’, ‘eigh’ or ‘ey’
Use these primary school worksheets to practise and review Year 4 spelling patterns for words from the National Curriculum spelling list. Year 6 spelling words are covered across five challenge sheets, each containing three different types of spelling challenge.
The spelling patterns covered are:
use the prefixes in-, im-, il-, ir-, sub-, inter-, super-, anti-, auto-
understand and use the suffix -ation
add endings which sound like ‘shun’ spelt -tion, -sion, -ssion, -cian
spell homophones and near homophones
spell words with the ‘s’ sounds spelt ‘sc’
place the possessive apostrophe accurately in words with regular plurals and in words with irregular plurals
understand and use the word ‘ous’
Use these KS2 reading comprehension worksheets to teach your children about the Abominable Snowman. The text covers sighting and photographs, related geography and famous explorers who claim to have seen evidence of its existence.
A set of comprehension questions are included, which tackle key reading skills such as inference and retrieval.
This pack is also a great prompt for writing scary stories.
This KS2 story writing inspiration pack will help children develop quality writing around a science fiction theme.
The image prompts in this pack will give pupils lots of ideas to work with and details that will make their stories and characters come alive. There are also some short example texts to help them on their way.
The pictures in this pack are grouped into sets, allowing the children to describe characters, settings and objects in detail.
The resources include:
A pupil planning booklet with images and space for text
Planning sheets where children can develop characters, settings and objects for their stories
Images to use as posters
This KS2 grammar resource provides everything you need to teach five 15-minute lessons on expanded noun phrases. As well as learning how to identify and construct expanded noun phrases, children are challenged to come up with creative responses in their writing to this area of grammar, with colourful images included to help inspire their work.
The five SPaG lessons are designed to be taught across one week. Alternately, you may wish to teach the sessions in larger chunks, spread over a longer period of time or intersperse them with different grammar, punctuation and spelling lessons.
The resources included in this pack are:
PowerPoint
Expanded noun phrase worksheets
Noun cards
Upleveling sentences worksheets
This writing review worksheet is an excellent way to develop children’s understanding and use of persuasive writing in KS2. There are a number of activities that demonstrate different types of persuasive writing, along with a model text, examples of adverts, and writing challenges.
There are images to included to help inspire children’s writing, as well as sentences for the children to rewrite and improve upon.
It’s a great way to revise previous learning, and to experiment with new ideas.
This Greek myth, retelling the tale of the Minotaur and how it was defeated by the Greek hero Theseus, can be used to test reading comprehension skills in KS2. It also provides a model text and prompts for writing activities.
The text is accompanied by 17 reading comprehension questions. These questions target key comprehension skills such as retrieving information, making inferences and understanding unfamiliar vocabulary.
This pack contains five posters that illustrate different ways of using cohesive devices in writing.
Each poster uses an exciting fantasy image accompanied by text boxes or word balloons, which include examples of cohesive devices in writing inspired by the picture.
Blank balloon templates enable you to use the children’s own ideas. The teaching points covered in this pack are:
repetition
pronouns
adverbials of time
adverbials
conjunctions
There are three versions of each poster:
Completed poster - these writing posters can go straight on your classroom wall. The image is accompanied by text which illustrates the cohesive device.
Blank poster - these posters are blank and ready for the class to add their own text in the blank speech bubbles provided. These can then be arranged around the poster.
Giant poster - a large version of the blank poster. This can be printed off in four parts and assembled to create a larger display.
This Y6 grammar resource provides everything you need to teach five 15-minute lessons on powerful verbs. Starting by looking at a speech by Barack Obama, this resource pack helps children analyse how cohesive devices can be used effectively in pieces of persuasive writing. There are other texts to compare and contrast, prompts for children’s own writing, and a planning sheet for pupils’ work.
The five SPaG lessons are designed to be taught across one week. Alternately, you may wish to teach the sessions in larger chunks, spread over a longer period of time or intersperse them with different grammar, punctuation and spelling lessons.
The resources included in this pack are:
PowerPoint
Hands Off Our Libraries texts
Cohesion within paragraphs worksheet
Persuasive writing transition cards
Persuasive writing prompts
Persuasive writing plan
Classroom pet text
This booklet contains 15 mental maths challenges for Key Stage 2 pupils, covering the four processes of addition, subtraction, multiplication and division, plus squared numbers and brackets. The booklet can be used as morning work, a lesson starter or during a shorter session. It contains 15 question sheets, each with 25 target numbers for children to create using a combination of the numbers and processes listed underneath.
Also included is a scorecard, enabling children to see how their mental maths skills are improving over the weeks.
These worksheets review the grammar and punctuation objectives covered during Year 6. They are an excellent way to identify areas of strength or weakness before the end of the year, and to revise this content before the KS2 SATs.
The worksheets are divided into five different types of activity including writing challenges and GPS sample test questions.
The activities in this pack help KS2 children understand the subtle differences between adjective synonyms so that they can use them accurately in their own writing.
This Greek myth retells the tale of how Pandora released all the evils of the world. It can be used to test comprehension skills, including inference, and as a model text for story planning and writing activities.
The text is accompanied by 20 reading comprehension questions. These questions target key comprehension skills such as retrieving information, making inferences and understanding unfamiliar vocabulary, including Tier 2 words.
A planning sheet is included for children to plan out their own Greek myth.
These editing dice are a fun way to engage children with editing and improving their work.
After completing their writing, children roll the die. Each face of the die highlights a different aspect of their writing for children to look at, and suggests an improvement to make.
These review worksheets for Years 3 and 4, covering words ending in -sure or -ture’, are an excellent way to revise and practise these spellings.
The worksheets include 5 different activities in which children look at spelling patterns, identify misspelt words and apply their spellings in context.
The worksheets are suitable for Year 3 and Year 4 pupils and older SEN or EAL pupils. They can be used within lessons, as an assessment or as a homework task.
These reading challenge worksheets provide a quick burst of comprehension practice, ideal for morning work, a short reading session or even sparking an interest in a classic text.
Each activity sheet contains a brief extract from a classic text with a range of reading challenge questions focusing on the key reading skills of inference, information retrieval and the use of language.
The stories included are:
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne
Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift
Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe"
This writing review worksheet is an excellent way to revise and practise using similes in KS2 English. It contains examples of similes and 5 different simile challenges, which can be used during one lesson or spread over a number of teaching sessions.
Questions encourage creative responses as well as revision, and include interesting images to stimulate ideas.