Who’s behind the costume halloween celebrity quiz. Learners have to try to guess who is behind each costume. Answers are provided at the end

This resource encourages learners to describe halloween characters through the use of descriptive and figurative language. It then builds up to the learners creating their or own or describing a well known character. Lesson includes a planning page that can be printed.

This resource contains a variety of 15 min writing ideas for learners across a variety of genres.

This lessons encourages pupils to develop their budgeting skills by planning a Halloween party. Budget and prices could be adapted to suit the age and stage of learners.

Visual timetable cards. Designed in pastel colours.

Pastel Fractions, Decimal and Percentages Display

This resource explains what probability is then explains the language used for probability e.g. Certain, likely, impossible etc. It gives a few examples which encourage the children to use this language. It then goes on to show how we can use fractions, decimals and percentages to show probability and it provides a few examples of this.

This resource works best with an interactive whiteboard that learners can write on. It can also be adapted for use on Seesaw or other online platforms. This resource begins with a time conversions starter quiz on units of time. It then begins by explaining the key differences between 12 and 24 hour time. It then provides digital clocks for learners to practise converting between the two different formats. It has ten practice questions for learners to try independently. Finally, it progress to using analogue and digital clocks and writing times in both 12 and 24 hour format. This challenges learners and provides good assessment of which areas of time learners find challenging. A template for these slides is available which can be printed for learners to write on directly either with pencil or work well with smart pals or wallets.

Discursive Writing - Should Animals be Kept in Zoos. This resource explains discursive writing, models a table for learners to complete, provides a short planning format example, includes a modelled paragraph and contains a word bank for learners.

Short grammar input which revises the rules for direct speech and includes some written activities.

This resource teaches some key Halloween French vocabulary. It then contains links to 6 different games via QR codes. Pupils can play the games independently by scanning the QR code or the games can be played as a whole class on an interactive whiteboard by clicking on the QR codes (they are hyperlinks). There are also 4 follow up worksheets that learners can choose from.

This resource revises what instructional writing is and the different kind of instructions we can get. It then goes on to model the layout and key features of an instructional text. The resource models a text on how to make fairy cakes, however this could be used as an example and changed. At the end of the resource there a few slides showing learners how to improve their instructions by adding in sentence openers, powerful verbs, adverbs and adjectives.

This resource focuses on describing setting during creative writing. It begins with a starter which focused on personification and teaches learners how to use personification and create it. The resource then shows a number of winter settings and encourages learners to describe the setting using the five senses. This can be printed as a page for learners to complete independently or in small groups. Alternatively, it can be completed as a whole class on the interactive whiteboard. The resource then talks the learners through the process of planning. This resource uses the story mountain format which has been attached as a pdf. Finally, the resource gives a modelled story opener to discuss with learners.

This lesson provides an introduction to positive and negative integers. It begins by explaining what an integer is and discussing different examples of how we use negative integers in real life. It then has a few different examples and discussion points using real life examples which can be done as whole class, individuals or groups e.g. weather, money etc. The resource then goes on to describe positive integers as hot numbers and negative integers as cold numbers. I find this really helps learners when performing calculations involving integers. The resource also contains a simple tug of war game that can be printed and played in pairs or played on the board with volunteers. For the game, someone is positive and someone is negative, they roll a dice and they move that number of spaces on the number line. Negative player moves to the left and positive player to the right. The winner is the person who makes it to their end of the number line. This is just a very simple game that encourages the children to add positive or negative integers and helps them visualise it on a number line. The resource then goes through different examples of adding and subtraction integers. It has a visual number line to support learners. When explaining this to learners, I use the terminology of hot and cold numbers and use the example of a drink e.g. adding hot numbers will increase the temperature, adding cold numbers will decrease it or subtracting hot numbers will decrease the temperature and subtracting cold numbers will increase the temperature. Finally, there are 6 quick questions that learners can answer and this can be used as a means of formative assessment.

Short resource which teaches french vocab about my family. It teaches learners to introduce their family member and then tell their name. it contains a short match- up activity to assess learning then a short jotter task where pupils have to sketch their family member then introduce them correctly e.g. This is my mum. She is called Anne.

Reflective Writing - The Best/Worst Day of My Life As pupils progress in their writing, it is important to teach them how to progress their basic recount writing into reflective writing. Rather than just retell events pupils will describe their thoughts/emotions and reflect on how these events impacted them positively or negatively. Pupils really enjoyed this writing piece and I emphasised that it didn’t have to be a hugely emotional experience which could upset them. The pupils had recently visited a residential stay so I felt that this was a good one to model for them as many of them had different experiences of it. This resource takes you through what it means to be reflective. It also provides examples for the pupils which allows them to discuss if the paragraph recounts or reflects. There is also a modelled writing piece which breaks the writing into sections for the pupils.

This resource introduces learners to microsoft excel and what it is used for. It starts off with basics and shows cells, columns and rows and how these are identified and accessed. It engages learners with this through the use of games e.g. -cell art where they have to fill the cell with the correct colour and make the picture. -cell mine field which they play with a partner (like battleships) cell bingo (there is a linked spinning wheel with all cells ref) Finally it leads children up to a mini project where they plan and budget a dinner for their family. They can use the internet or magazines to get prices or simply make them up. They must record their costs, quantities etc on their spreadsheet. For more challenge, I introduced more confident learners with simple formulas to calculate their totals.

This powerpoint demonstrates the connection between common F,D & P. It uses visuals to supports learners understanding.