I specialise in English and my experience includes literacy consultancy, management, a role as an English lead teacher and teaching at both primary and secondary. Take a look at my resources for English and other useful bits and bobs. magicinkstand@hotmail.com
I specialise in English and my experience includes literacy consultancy, management, a role as an English lead teacher and teaching at both primary and secondary. Take a look at my resources for English and other useful bits and bobs. magicinkstand@hotmail.com
This resource consists of a bumper pack of book related quizzes with two levels of difficulty for primary aged children. Included are eight quizzes:
Book Quiz - difficulty 1
Character Quiz - difficulty 1
Setting Quiz - difficulty 1
Title Quiz - difficulty 1
Book Quiz - difficulty 2
Character Quiz - difficulty 2
Setting Quiz - difficulty 2
Title Quiz - difficulty 2
This quiz is fully editable and also includes answers. Please leave a review if you find this resource useful. Thank you !
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This resource consists of spelling lists for reception to year 6. The lists are also presented in a precision teaching grid format. To make this resource, I referred to the common exception word lists in the National Curriculum which consist of combined word lists for years 3 and 4 and for years 5 and 6. I separated these by difficulty to create lists for each year group. The words for reception to year 2 are from the National Literacy Strategy. Please leave a review if you find this resource helpful.
This document is an example of an action plan for leading Maths in a primary school. Some of the ideas could also be used in secondary. Included are objectives for improving teaching and learning in maths and 100 strategies for achieving these objectives. Please leave a review if you find this resource useful. Thank you !
This resource is a pack of three reading comprehensions on the subject of ancient Rome. The topics are as follows: Entertainment in Ancient Rome, The Roman Army and The Roman Baths. They are designed for KS2 and the questions reflect content domains 2a- 2d: explaining the meaning of words in context, retrieval, summarising and inference using evidence. Question formats include multiple choice, true/false, ordering and find and copy. Answers are included. Please see my other Roman resources including an assembly script, a Roman day resource and a Roman activity pack. Please leave a review if you find this resource useful.
Bastille Day, or La Fete Nationale, is on 14th July. This resource consists of a quiz worksheet and 30+ page PowerPoint presentation which includes:
- important vocabulary
- what is Bastille day?
- history of Bastille Day
- the storming of the Bastille
- how is Bastille Day celebrated?
- French facts
- the French National anthem
- the French flag
- Bastille Day quiz
- matching activity
- ordering activity
- French foods activity
- useful maps and diagrams
- links to videos
Please note that the quiz questions on the worksheet are the same as those on the presentation and that the answers to the quiz are at the end of the presentation. This resource is fully editable and could be used for an interactive assembly or a lesson. All images are copyright free. Please leave a review if you find this useful. Thank you!
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Bastille Day Pack, Independence Day Pack , St Swithin’s Day Pack, Tour de France Presentation , Tour de France Activity Pack
Tags:
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I have been involved in many interviews for the role of lunchtime supervisor. This is a thorough list of questions which are organised into the following categories: behaviour and safety, equal opportunities, personal qualities and other. Please leave a review if you find this resource helpful and good luck with your interview!
This resource consists of a PowerPoint presentation with four supporting word documents for an hour-long training session on methods for teaching reading.
Includes:
- looking at a range of methods of teaching reading from the past and present
- an activity in which staff attempt to decode five mystery texts
- discussion of diagrams which show the skills used for reading
- a task to match activities to reading skills
and
- an opportunity for teachers to reflect on the provision for reading in their own classrooms.
This staff meeting is interactive, up to date for 2017-2018 and fully editable. It has been tried and tested with a large staff team and well received. Please leave a review if you find this useful. Thank you!
You may also be interested in the following English Staff Meetings:
WRITING Staff Meeting: SPAG Activities (Grammar, Spelling, English, INSET, Training)
A staff meeting regarding enjoyable activities for teaching spelling, punctuation and grammar.
WRITING AND READING Staff Meeting: Activities for Teaching Reading and Writing (SPAG, English, INSET, Training)
A staff meeting in which staff will learn about and participate in five strategies for improving English skills.
PHONICS Staff Meeting: Subject Knowledge and Teaching Strategies
A staff meeting for teachers or support staff regarding phonics theory and how to teach phonics.
WRITING Staff Meeting: Punctuation (English, INSET, Training)
A staff meeting regarding subject knowledge of punctuation and ideas for teaching activities.
A staff meeting regarding enjoyable activities to teach spelling, punctuation and grammar.
This pack provides all resources needed for an hour-long staff meeting about activities to use in class for teaching spelling, punctuation and grammar. Your staff team will look at examples of SPaG questions from SATs, reflect about the SPaG requirements for their year group and how they have been covered, complete a grammar terminology activity, take part in whole group grammar activities and then try out several fun grammar activities on their tables. I delivered this meeting to a large staff team and received a round of applause!
Included:
- requirement activity
- terminology activity
- spelling strategies
- grammar activities to demonstrate to team (x7)
- grammar activities for staff to participate in on tables (x5)
- 10 files to download
This resource is fully editable and all images are copyright free. Please leave a review if you find this useful. Thank you!
You may also be interested in the following English Staff Meetings:
**WRITING AND READING Staff Meeting: Activities for Teaching Reading and Writing (SPAG, English, INSET, Training)
**A staff meeting in which staff will learn about and participate in five strategies for improving English skills.
PHONICS Staff Meeting: Subject Knowledge and Teaching Strategies
A staff meeting for teachers or support staff regarding phonics theory and how to teach phonics.
**[
READING Staff Meeting: Pedagogy / Strategies for Reading]( https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/reading-staff-meeting-pedagogy-strategies-for-reading-english-inset-training-11540049)**
A staff meeting regarding the teaching and learning of reading.
**WRITING Staff Meeting: Punctuation (English, INSET, Training)
**A staff meeting regarding subject knowledge of punctuation and ideas for teaching activities.
5x reading comprehension papers, each with 20 questions, which reflect all KS1 content domains and question types used in SATs reading papers. Includes:
Crab’s Birthday Reading Paper with 20 questions (answers included)
How the Turtle got his Shell Reading Paper with 20 questions (answers included)
The Frog Princess Reading Paper with 20 questions (answers included)
Shops in Westbury Reading Paper with 20 questions (answers included)
and
The Pirate Ship Reading Paper with 20 questions (answers included)
The papers are divided into two sets of ten questions so that the first set can be modelled /supported if necessary.
Question types included: find and copy, true or false, draw lines to match, tick a table, multiple choice and ordering.
Content domains covered: 1a -Draw on knowledge of vocabulary to understand texts. 1b - Identify and explain key aspects of fiction and non-fiction texts, such as characters, events, titles and information. 1c - Identify and explain the sequence of events in texts. 1d - Make inferences from the text. 1e -Predict what might happen on the basis of what has been read so far.
24 page PowerPoint presentation and resources for a training session on phonics / Letters and Sounds which is suitable for teachers or support staff. The presentation includes:
What is Phonics?
Terminology
Letters and Sounds Phases
How to Structure a Phonics Session
Ideas for Activities
Irregular Words
Split Vowels
The Phonics Screening Check
and
Dos and Don’ts.
Please note that the DFE recommends ‘synthetic’ phonics programmes, which can be used in conjunction with the wide range of ideas and activities in Letters and Sounds.
This presentation is interactive and includes five activities including a quiz. Hand outs are also included.
This resource is fully editable and all images are copyright free.
Please visit my shop for other English resources and leave a review if you find this helpful. Thank you!
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WRITING Staff Meeting: SPAG Activities (Grammar, Spelling, English, INSET, Training)
A staff meeting regarding enjoyable activities for teaching spelling, punctuation and grammar.
**WRITING AND READING Staff Meeting: Activities for Teaching Reading and Writing (SPAG, English, INSET, Training)
**A staff meeting in which staff will learn about and participate in five strategies for improving English skills.
READING Staff Meeting: Pedagogy / Strategies for Reading
A staff meeting regarding the teaching and learning of reading.
**WRITING Staff Meeting: Punctuation (English, INSET, Training)
**A staff meeting regarding subject knowledge of punctuation and ideas for teaching activities.
I have led English successfully in several schools. This document is an example of an action plan for leading English in primary, which would be useful for English subject leaders. Included are ten objectives for improving both progress and attitudes to reading and writing and 100 strategies for achieving these objectives.
This document is an example of an action plan for leading Art in a primary school. Many of the ideas could also be used in secondary. Included are ten objectives for improving both progress and attitudes with regard to art and also 100 strategies for achieving these objectives.
This document contains over 150 questions stems which reflect every question used in the new SATs reading papers. The stems have been cross referenced with the 2016 sample reading papers for KS1 and KS2, the 2016 reading papers for KS1 and KS2 and the 2017 reading papers for KS1 and KS2. The question stems are sorted into tables for content domains 1A-1E for KS1 and 2A-2H for KS2 and next to each question stem is the original question from the SATs paper so that you can see an example of how to use it. Also included is a list of all the question types which have ever been used e.g. ‘ordering question’, ‘tick a drawing question’. This document can be used to create your own reading comprehension which reflects the new content and will prepare pupils for the reading SATs.
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Tags: question stems, reading comprehension question stems, reading papers, KS1 reading paper, Year 2 reading paper, KS2 reading paper, Year 2 reading paper, Year 6 reading paper, SATs preparation
This resource consists of a presentation for a staff meeting/ training session regarding Child Protection/ Safeguarding and the Prevent Duty.
Includes:
- Key principles of child protection
- Serious case review
- Signs of neglect
- Vulnerable groups
- Reporting concerns
- Child protection updates
- FGM
- The Prevent Duty
- Signs of Radicalisation
- Statutory Guidance
- Issues to discuss
- Interactive activities
This presentation is fully editable and copyright free.
Please note that this presentation refers to the Counter-Terrorism and Security Act of 2015. You may need to check for further revisions and updates with regard to the Prevent Duty and Child Protection before sharing this resource.
Please leave a review if you find this helpful. Thank you.
I have raised my schools attendance and punctuality figures significantly through many carefully planned strategies. This resource includes 100 helpful and practical tips to improve attendance and punctuality in your school. Advice is organised into the following sections: Daily Routines, Partnership with Parents, Encouragement and Rewards and Working with the Local Authority. This resource is aimed at primary but many of the tips are applicable to secondary schools. Please leave a review if you find this resource useful.
Epiphany is on the 6th of January. This resource consists of a quiz worksheet and visual, 30 + page PowerPoint presentation which includes:
• Important vocabulary
• Key information about Epiphany
• Information about the Magi
• The Epiphany Story
• Epiphany traditions
• Church services, chalking the door, king cake, winter swimming
• Other Traditions around the world
• Music
• Interactive picture activity
• Interactive gift matching activity
• Song activity
• Quiz
• Useful information
• Recipe for King cake
• Links to videos and music
and more!
Also included is a worksheet to accompany the quiz. Please note that the quiz questions are the same as those on the presentation, and that the answers are at the end of the presentation. This resource is fully editable and could be used for an interactive assembly or a lesson. All images are copyright free. Please leave a review if you find this useful. Thank you!
Valentine’s Day is on February 14th. This resource consists of a quiz worksheet and visual, interactive, 30 page PowerPoint presentation which includes:
• Important vocabulary
• Key information about Valentine’s Day
• The history of Valentine’s Day
• The story of St Valentine
• Valentine’s Day celebrations
• Valentine’s Day traditions
• How is Valentine’s Day celebrated around the world?
• Valentine’s Day Quiz
• ‘Complete the love poem’ interactive activity
• Anagram activity
• ‘Match the famous couples’ activity
• ‘Complete the love sayings’ activity
• Useful images
• Links to videos and music
and more!
Also included is a worksheet to accompany the quiz. Please note that the quiz questions are the same as those on the presentation, and that the answers are at the end of the presentation. This resource is fully editable and could be used for an interactive assembly or a lesson. All images are copyright free. Please leave a review if you find this useful. Thank you!
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This twelve slide presentation includes ten true or false questions based on general knowledge of Easter. It could be used with pupils from year 2 – 6. Answers are provided at the end of the presentation. Please see my other Easter resources and leave a review if you find this useful. Thank you!
13 page presentation with general knowledge questions about Easter and answers at the end. The presentation includes Easter photographs and could be used with children from year 2 upwards. Please see my other Easter resources and leave a review if you find this useful. Thank you!
Getting to know you games / icebreakers for KS1 and KS2. 40 ideas included.
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Tags:
Getting to know you games KS1 , Getting to know you games KS2 , Getting to know you games Year 1, Getting to know you games Year 2, Getting to know you games Year 3 4 5 6, Icebreakers KS1 , Icebreakers KS2 , Icebreakers Year 1 2 3 4 5 6 , circle games KS1 , circle games KS2 , circle games year 1 2 3 4 5 6 , back to school, start of term , free