All children can have the same card. Words include right/left/clockwise/anti-clockwise/N/E/S/W etc with a little arrow or symbol next to each. Highlight or circle 4/5 words. Teacher mimes the word and children put their hand up to guess which word it is. If they have it tick or put a counter on it. Winner is first to get all 4/5 and stand up and shout BINGO!. Sticker for winner! Ideal starter/ plenary game. PLEASE LEAVE FEEDBACK!

There are two levels of work and a plan. There is a Smart board too but you don't need it. PLEASE LEAVE FEEDBACK!The children draw a true/false chart in their books and have to cut and work out which reasons are true and which are false. Ask them to let you check whether they are correct before sticking down.

A simple concise Smartboard to introduce the build up to war and the causes. There is a video link to Horrible Histories. There are three levels of reading comprehension for the children. Most suitable for year 6+.PLEASE LEAVE FEEDBACK!

This is fun and quick to play. The simple instructions are on the bingo sheet. They can all have the same sheet. They have to highlight 5 of the verbs but they have to take care as I have included some nouns! I hope they enjoy it! PLEASE LEAVE FEEDBACK!

Please leave feedback!This is a poetry idea by the excellent Pie Corbett, to use with Key Stage 2, which I have made into easy to follow smart board slides to use with the class. I did this in Big Write and it was my most successful poetry lesson this year. Enjoy!

Children work in groups of 3 with one worksheet to record ideas. Rotate the pictures round, one for each group. PLEASE LEAVE FEEDBACK!I had a replica coin and necklace as well. The children have to guess what they were for-some are easier that others. Use the Smartboard to reveal what the pictures are of at the end.

Ask the children to think of some questions to ask Malvolio, for example they could work with a partner to write at least 5 questions in their books. They need to understand the plot of the play.Teacher can hot seat as Malvolio. Use his 'thoughts&' below to help you answer as though you are him. Ask the children to draw him, use the pictures of Malvolio to help them, and write thought bubbles of what he is thinking.Give the vocabulary list (words that you have used) so they can magpie these and reward them if they include a certain number in their writing.

A fun game to help children to get to know their new class mates at the beginning of the year! There are two games, one of older junior school children. This resource could easily be adapted for older pupils. PLEASE LEAVE FEEDBACK!

Children choose from a list of numbers and have to work out all the multiplication sums that could make that number in total. There is an answer sheet for them at the end and a plenary/reflection sheet. They can only multiply 2 numbers (but you could make it harder by allowing more) and they are told how many possible ways there are. if you use it PLEASE LEAVE FEEDBACK!

The children are introduced to the activity on the smart board slides and have to try to guess what the task is about. This is challenging as they will have to think for themselves. You need drinking straws and blue tac. PLEASE LEAVE FEEDBACK! It helps the children to understand the vocabulary related to 3D shapes, such as shape names, 'edges' and &'vertices&'; and it aids their measuring skills too. There is a link on the slides to this activity which is taken from the nrich website. Take photos as you do the activity as the shapes are fragile.

PLEASE LEAVE FEEDBACK! The children are given a net of a cube separated in two parts and they have to work out the different ways to stick the two parts together so that the two pieces make a cube when folded. It works well when the children work in pairs. There is another activity in case any of them solve it quickly, but it look them longer than I thought so you might not need the second activity. There is a link of the smart board slides to the activity and the sheets you will need, which are from the nrich maths website. Please leave feedback!

You will need a Smartboard. Follow the slides to create a factory poem based on pictures and photographs focusing on the outside features of the factory. The slides take you though how to teach it. Create 5 or more lines following a structure e.g. The + adjective + noun + verb e.g. 'The callous chimney smoked..&' Then complete the line with a simile (like or as) or something else. This encourages them to use alliteration and personification. Use the useful adjectives sheet to extend their vocabulary. Please leave feedback!

This is a great song I have found to help children understand square numbers. I have made a song sheet to go with this and there are parts for simple instruments too. If you have a Smart Board there is a square numbers lesson related to this too. I have included a link to the song. Enjoy! PLEASE LEAVE FEEDBACK!

We do 'Surprise Writes&' in my school on Fridays, once every half term (usually we do &';Big Write'), where all year groups (Year 3 to 6) complete the same writing activity. The children and teachers do not know what it will be until that morning. This resource links to a TES video story start and there is a link on here. The children LOVED creating spooky stories from this! The idea is that they have very little help when they write so that it can be assessed.

The children can all have the same grid. See grid sheet for instructions. A fun way to help children to remember what multiples of 2 end in. Could be part of a starter or quick recap.

This teaches children how to write 'spine' poems which I learned how to do on a Pie Corbett course. The Smart board explains exactly how to structure it and once you know how to write a spine poem it can be used to describe most things including animal and insects etc. PLEASE LEAVE FEEDBACK! I have included pictures of the scare crows to print out and stick in their books with the poem.

Follow the SB and the web link. The children have to make all the sides equal the same by trial and error. On the web link complete the first one together and then ask them to use the worksheet to find other totals. There is a reflection/plenary sheet for them to fill in at the end.

There is a lesson plan to follow. The children read the first hand accounts of real evacuees and have to sort them into positive or negative experiences. PLEASE LEAVE FEEDBACK! They can highlight the words that tell them whether the experience was good and bad. They can order them from most negative to most positive. Finally they can take a scene from one of the accounts and illustrate it with speech bubbles.

This resource links to my BIG SPELLING resources, which contain spelling lists for years 3 to 6 and assessment lists. This shows you how you can ensure that your children learn the statutory spelling lists in the new national curriculum, bit by bit, in a manageable way, whilst continuing with Big Spellings.

These writing tips are posters/reminders designed to be placed around the classroom. They include synonyms for nice, beautiful, don't like, angry and really/very so you can teach children to avoid the most obvious &'every day&'; words. There is also one which encourages them to extend their sentences. PLEASE LEAVE FEEDBACK!