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 resources aims to teach equivalent fractions using both pictorial and the multiply and dividing method. It works well on an interactive board as the learners can colour the fraction strips themselves. It also contains 12 questions at the end to assess the learners understanding

This yearbook is a great end of year activity for school leavers. It contains multiple pages where pupils can add information about themselves, class mates, teachers and memories. This is in a PPT format so can be easily edited to suit the school and printed.

This powerpoint teaches learners how to calculate simple and then more complex percentages of amounts. It contains finisher questions for both which can be used as a means of formative assessment. It also contains a set of three questions sets which are differentiated by stars to challenge all learners.

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

This resource revises the place value of five digit whole numbers. It also covers writing five digit numbers in words and ordering five digit numbers.

This powerpoint is split into two lessons. Lesson 1 - focuses on the properties of quadrilaterals. Lesson 2 - focuses on regular and irregular pentagons and hexagons

This powerpoint contains a variety of different sections that can be grouped together into one lesson or be taught as independent concepts. This resources covers: Converting from fraction to decimals Ordering decimals Place value of decimals up to tenths Placing decimal tenths on a number line

This resource revises the place value of a number up to decimal thousandths. It then briefly covers partitioning/expanding of decimal numbers and ordering decimal numbers. It contains links to two games that can be played on an interactive whiteboard with learners.

This resource introduces learners to basic equations. It then progresses to solving equations which involve mulitplication of a variable e.g. 2x = 20 so x = 10. It then progresses to solving two step equations by using the balancing strategy. For each topic covered the Powerpoint has a few quick questions and links to games that can be played on an IWB with learners.

This resource helps learners understand the different gifts of the Holy Spirit by explaining each gift in child friendly language and using symbols to represent each gift. It contains a short matching worksheet and a variety of games that can be accessed by clicking on or scanning QR codes.

This resource contains a variety of quizzes or activities that can be used to encourage learners to read more, share about what they read and introduce them to more authors or books. It contains. Become an illustrator Lesson and Worksheet. In this activity, pupils will see the blurb of a book but not the front cover. Based on what they read, they have to decide what front cover they should design to illustrate. It contains four different blurbs and a worksheet with four blank book covers. Who Am I? Book character quiz. Book Speed Dating Worksheet. Learners would each have a book on their table and when told they must move to another table. They then have a short time to skim and scan the book then review on their speed dating worksheet. Who is my author quiz. Pupils must match the front cover to the author of the book. Book activities. This resource contains five different activities that can be completed in class or independently as a home learning activity.

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.

This PDF resource explains the zones of regulation to learners. It explains each zone and allows learners to consider how they feel in each zone. It then progresses to explaining ways learners can help themselves in each zone. Finally it contains a zones of regulations wheel where pupils right down how THEY feel in each zone (inside circle - six emotions for each zone) then in the outside zone they must right ways that help them. This is a great visual resource to support learners when managing their emotions. *These resources have been adapted from the original zones of regulation resources.

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.

This resources contains 7 short quizzes which can be used as short starters or completed as a large quiz. The different quizzes it contains are: Christmas Film Characters (contains characters from modern and older films) Christmas anagrams Christmas Surveys (Similar to family fueds - pupils have to pick what they think the most popular answer is) Christmas song lyrics - pupils have to name the song the lyrics come from. Christmas Around the World - a challenging trivia quiz about Christmas traditions around the world. This could be simplified by giving pupils multiple choice. Merry Christmas in Different languages - pupils have to match the greeting to the language it is written in. Christmas True or False - a short T or F quiz I have also included an answer sheet if this required. It is marked out of 88 and allows pupils to keep track of their scores as they go and they can add totals up at the end.

10 x Christmas literacy starters covering spelling, grammar, writing and talking & listening (KS2 or 2nd Level)

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 resource teaches learners how to use persuasive strategies and use these to create a persuasive letter to Santa. It discusses the effect of different persuasive devices then provides a modeled letter that can be the basis of class discussion for learners to identify the strategies used and the effect they have. It also models the correct layout of a letter.

This resource contains a variety of resources relating to the World Cup 2022 in Qatar. The activities link to a range of curricular areas. The activities included are: Class sweepstake - This includes a link to randomiser so the countries can be randomly allocated to pupils. Name the flag quiz World Cup in numbers - estimation quiz Design a football strip - relates to the country that pupils got from sweep stake. It also has printable template. Who will win the world cup survey - Takes the pupils through the process of a survey. Pupils must collect info in a tally chart then create a graph of their choice to present their information. County fact file - again this relates to their sweep stake country. The activity gives a modelled fact file. World Cup debate - Should the World Cup have been held in Qatar. Pupils must gather evidence for both sides of the debate then argue one side of it during a class debate.