Powerpoint showing different types of building materials and why they are used for different things. Houses and Homes. Wood, brick, concrete, glass.

Five carousel activity cards for practising connectives! Connective chains Connective butterflies Connective board game (twinkl linked) Connective construction Connective wheel of fortune (twinkl linked)

12 family fun activities to send out as homework during the festive period!

Worksheet on toothed whales, fill in the gaps, cloze exercise, underwater creatures, ocean, sea and the seashore.

Children in groups create a 'leaning tower' from any sort of materials, art straws, sellotape, newspaper etc. They gradually tilt the base of their completed item whilst measuring the angle with a protractor. They keep tilting until the tower collapses! There is a planning sheet and there is an accompanying results sheet. Angles, Europe, Italy, Towers, Building, Maths.

Powerpoint showing different building tools for discussion.

This is a worksheet which requires children to think of their special place and person and relate that to a Christian's special place and person. A very simple introduction to Christianity and beliefs.

After reading the story of the first Christmas, I got the children to recount the story in comic strip form to assess their understanding. Can be used with younger children as a story and sentence activity or in greater depth higher up the school.

This is a writing frame for a missing person poster. It can be used to encourage character description using adjectives and similes. Could be used as a first day activity or a getting to know you activity - children could write a poster for themselves or a friend in class.

Writing frame for planning a letter of complaint featuring success criteria.

This is a great getting to know you activitiy for a class or first day. Children create a recipe based on themselves, ingredients could be personality traits, looks, hobbies, family members etc. They write a method and produce a picture of themselves at the bottom. Just a bit of fun to help you get to know them!

Powerpoint using pictures to inspire creative writing. setting, visual, space, planets, description, senses.

Here is a planning sheet and activity sheet for creating a new room for Roald Dahl's Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. This activity is to encourage children's writing to become more descriptive especially with the setting. It can also be taught alongside the dvd for inspiration. Complete with success criteria sheet.

Story beginning for children to continue about a haunted house. Writer's craft actvity for children to complete story ending, continuing setting and character.

This is a powerpoint to accompany the novel, Why the Whales Came by Michael Morpurgo. It has several pictures of different settings and leads to a discussion on why setting is important to a story. You can either give the children a copy of a chapter describing setting or get them to take notes of words and phrases relating to setting as you read aloud.

Planning frame to go with Journey to another Planet Powerpoint. Creative writing, setting, space.

A writing frame for children to invent their own superhero and write a descriptive piece about the character. There is also an accompanying planning sheet to get children thinking about ideas for their superhero.

Writing frame for a message in a bottle letter. Sea and Seashore, pirates, letters

Children must choose objects from around the classroom and test them to see whether they float or sink in water. This report frame lets them think how to fairly test this and to predict their results first.

I created this sign and laminated it. There is a space to stick on the photo of the pupil of the week and a space for them to write on why they have achieved pupil of the week.