A fun game to practise rounding to tens, hundreds or thousands versions. You will also need counters and dice to make up the numbers. How to Play In pairs, each child has a number of counters of the same colour (their pirates). Taking it in turns, the children roll the dice to make a number and round up or down to tens, hundreds or thousands depending on ability. they move one of their pirates along the plank to that number e.g if their number is 23, they move to the first 20 on the plank. Each “pirate” has to reach the last number before “walking the plank”. The winner is first person to have all their pirates walk the plank.

Halloween story dice to help children come up with ideas for either writing or telling a story. There are three dice- one for character, setting and objects to be included in the story.

Collaborative art project for Mary Queen of Scots. Enlarge to print on numerous pages before cutting the portrait into squares, numbering the back is helpful for putting them back together if you cut into the smaller squares. Each child gets a square or a couple of squares to paint before putting the squares back together again to create the portrait.

Hand drawn blank slides that can be added as a background to your daily slides. If you use Power Point, I would recommend changing your slide size to A4 and then click on “Ensure Fit” when asked. Then add your text boxes and anything you need for the lessons. Pictures for Map of the Day not included

Handy activities for pupil wellbeing and reflecting on their week. Includes; booklet front cover pages (illustrated or blank to decorate) kindness bingo brain dump page for recording any thoughts and ideas zentangle page for mindfulness reflections of the week

A display poster reminding pupils how to treat everyone in the class with kindness and compassion even when they are not best friends.

A worksheet for children to show their number representation knowledge for numbers 1-10.

A template for a mini-beast fact file, an activity perfect for an ‘In the Garden’ or mini-beast topic.

Here are a few ideas for a Scotland topic which could be easily completed at home as well as in the classroom.

A brief overview of how I implemented Plan Do Review in my class, it is a great way to implement play at any stage. It is a great way to cover different curriculum outcomes. I am no expert, I haven’t done the training, this is just how it worked in my classroom*

A visual guide to all the aspects of phonological awareness, important to know before teaching phonics.

A bright display poster to remind children of word attack strategies when reading. Goes well with my Flip the Sound poster!

Activities to improve children’s auditory discrimination which is one of the important aspects for increasing a child’s phonological awareness.

A few ideas for learning about Lunar New Year.

A useful guide for teaching phonics. Tells you all the different jargon you will hear.

Small booklets to encourage children to practise high frequency words. Children get stickers for each level they complete; Bronze- when they can read the word Silver- when they can write the word Gold- when they can use the word correctly in a sentence.

In the Garden topic ideas organised into subjects areas.

A display poster with strategies for children to use when they get stuck with spelling.

Simple book review for children to fill in, includes a box for drawing the front cover of the book.

Double-sided bookmark to remind children of word attack strategies. Remember to print on both sides along the short edge.