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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.
These activity sheets have been created to match the small steps on the White Rose maths schemes of work. They are for the autumn term, weeks 5-8.
The questions include varied fluency with reasoning with problem solving, and an additional sheet with extension activities.
Children are given a variety of pictorial examples to work with and questions to provoke deeper thinking.
National Curriculum Links
Year 1 Number – Addition and Subtraction
Read, write and interpret mathematical statements involving addition (+), subtraction (-) and equal (=) signs.
Add and subtract one digit numbers to 10, including 0.
These activity sheets have been created to match the small steps on the White Rose maths schemes of work. They are for the autumn term, weeks 5-8.
The questions include varied fluency with reasoning with problem solving, and an additional sheet with extension activities.
Children are given a variety of pictorial examples to work with and questions to provoke deeper thinking.
National Curriculum Links
Year 1 Number – Addition and Subtraction
Add and subtract one digit numbers, to 10, including zero.
These activity sheets have been created to match the small steps on the White Rose maths schemes of work. They are for the autumn term, week 9.
The questions include varied fluency with reasoning with problem solving, and an additional sheet with extension activities.
Children are given a variety of pictorial examples to work with and questions to provoke deeper thinking.
National Curriculum Links
Year 1 Geometry – Shape
Recognise and name common 2-D and 3-D shapes, including: 3-D shapes (for example, cuboids (including cubes), pyramids and spheres).
Add and subtract fractions with the same denominator.
These adding and subtracting fraction maths worksheets provide extra challenge for Year 4 children. A variety of fraction problems are spread across three sections, enabling you to use the whole sheet during a lesson or to select specific problems for different teaching sessions.
A separate answer sheet for all sections is included.
This KS2 historical settings inspiration pack will help children develop quality writing around a Wild West theme.
In order for children to write stories set in a particular period of history, they need to be able to know enough about the setting to distinguish it from life in their own time. 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 Grammar, Punctuation and Spelling review worksheet is an excellent way to revise and practise using the -er and -est suffixes in Year 2.
The worksheets are divided into five different types of activity for KS1 pupils, including writing challenges and GPS sample test questions. Children will need to define the -er and -est suffixes using their own words, and there are images and challenges to prompt creative responses.
This KS2 imaginary settings inspiration pack will help children develop quality writing around a fantasy theme.
In order for children to write stories set in a particular genre, they need to be able to know enough about the genre to include its key features and themes. 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
Inspire discussion and writing in your primary class with these six KS1 interactive display posters on zoo animals. Each poster contains statistics and interesting facts about the animals. Additional bubbles are provided so that the children can add their own facts and expand the posters. The sheets include these animals:
elephants
giraffes
lions
camels
rhinos
hippos
This pack contains 8 interactive posters illustrating Year 2 spelling concepts.
Each poster shows a spelling pattern surrounded by eight images. Each image illustrates a word that includes the same spelling pattern.
There are two versions of each poster. Posters with text – the images on these posters are labelled with the word they are illustrating. Posters without text – the images on these posters are not labelled so that children can look at the pictures and try and identify the words they represent and the spelling pattern or patterns common to them all.
There are also graphics for you to make your own posters, which can be cut out and arranged in different patterns on the classroom wall.
The spelling rules illustrated in these posters are:
‘ff’, ‘ll’, ‘ss’, ‘zz’ and ‘c’ words
-nk words
Syllables
-tch words
Words that end in the ‘v’ sound
Adding ‘s’ and ‘es’ to words
Adding -ed, -ing and -er
Adding -er and -est
These Year 3 and Year 4 spelling review worksheets, covering the -ly suffix, are an excellent way to revise and practise this word ending.
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 Y2 spelling review worksheets, covering the ‘g’ sound spelt ‘gue’, are an excellent way to revise and practise these words.
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 2 pupils and older SEN or EAL pupils. They can be used within lessons, as an assessment or as a homework task.
Use these KS2 reading comprehension worksheets to teach your children about the Loch Ness Monster. The text covers Scottish folklore, sighting, photographs and modern day interest.
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.
These spelling review worksheets, covering the Year 2 suffixes -ed, -ing, -er and -est, are an excellent way to revise and practise these word endings.
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 2 pupils and older SEN or EAL pupils. They can be used within lessons, as an assessment or as a homework task.
This pack contains 14 interactive posters illustrating Year 2 spelling concepts.
Each poster shows a spelling pattern surrounded by eight images. Each image illustrates a word that includes the same spelling pattern.
There are two versions of each poster. Posters with text – the images on these posters are labelled with the word they are illustrating. Posters without text – the images on these posters are not labelled so that children can look at the pictures and try and identify the words they represent and the spelling pattern or patterns common to them all.
There are also graphics for you to make your own posters, which can be cut out and arranged in different patterns on the classroom wall.
The spelling rules illustrated in these posters are:
The ‘j’ sound spelt ‘ge’ and ‘dge’ at the end of words, and sometimes spelt as ‘g’ elsewhere in words before ‘e’, ‘i’ and ‘y’
The ‘s’ sound spelt ‘c’ before ‘e’, ‘i’ and ‘y’
The ‘n’ sound spelt ‘kn’ and ‘gn’ at the beginning of words
*The ‘r’ sound spelt ‘wr’ at the beginning of words
The ‘ul’ sound spelt –le at the end of words
The ‘ul’ sound spelt –el at the end of words
The ‘ul’ sound spelt –al at the end of words
Words ending –il
The ‘ai’ sound spelt ‘y’ at the end of words
Adding –es to nouns and verbs ending in ‘y’
Adding –ed, –ing, –er and –est to a root word ending in ‘y’ with a consonant before it
Adding the endings – ing, –ed, –er, –est and –y to words ending in –e with a consonant before it
Adding –ing, –ed, –er, –est and –y to words of one syllable ending in a single consonant letter after a single vowel letter
This KS2 times tables challenge pack provides children with a term’s worth of practice on recalling multiplication facts for their 3,4 and 8 times tables.
The pack contains 13 worksheets of 60 problems. The children can complete as many of these as possible as a timed challenge.
Also included in this pack is a scorecard, so that children can see how their recall is improving across the term.
This KS2 times tables challenge pack provides children with a term’s worth of practice on recalling multiplication facts for their 1 – 12 times tables.
The pack contains 13 worksheets of 60 problems. The children can complete as many of these as possible as a timed challenge.
Also included in this pack is a scorecard, so that children can see how their recall is improving across the term.
These spelling word worksheets provide a great way to practise and review the Year 5 and 6 words from the National Curriculum Spelling List.
All of the Year 5 and 6 spelling words are covered across five challenging worksheets, each containing three different types of spelling check challenges, including anagrams and cryptic clues.
This writing review worksheet is an excellent way to revise and practise using idioms in KS2. It contains examples of idioms and 5 different idiom 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.
This pack contains a variety of Key Stage 1 spellings split into different spelling patterns. Children can be given sets of word cards and asked to discuss the common spelling patterns, before sorting the cards into groups. It’s a hands-on way to revise and improve pupils’ understanding of key spellings.
The spelling patterns covered in the Year 2 spelling test are:
ge and dge sound
s sound spelt c before e, i and y
n sound spelt kn or gn at the beginning of words
r sound spelt wr
l or el sound at the end of a word spelt -le
l or el sound spelt el at the end of words
The l or el sound spelt al at the end of words
Words ending -il
ai sound spelt y at the end of words
Add -es to nouns and verbs ending in -y
adding -ed, -ing, -er and -est to a root word ending in -y with a consonant before it
Adding the endings – ing, –ed, –er, –est and –y to words ending in –e with a consonant before it
Adding –ing, –ed, –er, –est and –y to words of one syllable ending in a single consonant letter after a single vowel letter
The /ɔ:/ sound spelt a before l and ll
The u sound spelt o
The long e sound spelt –ey
The /ɒ/ sound spelt a after w and qu
The ur sound spelt or after w
The /ɔ:/ sound spelt ar after w
The zh sound spelt s
The suffixes –ment, –ness, –ful , –less and –ly
Contractions
The possessive apostrophe (singular nouns)
Words ending in –tion
Homophones and near-homophones
This Year 5 spelling patterns pack contains 10 spelling worksheets each related to a different KS2 spelling pattern. On each sheet, children need to search through a word grid and find hidden words. Once they have found all the words, should then identify the common spelling pattern.
Two versions of each worksheet are available - one with the list of words that children need to find, and one without. Answer sheets for all the word searches are also included.