Sample materials which combine the test papers and mark scheme to help teachers prepare for the 2016 tests. The idea being a student can answer one question and then together the class checks the answers. The original test papers can be found at https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/2016-key-stage-2-mathematics-sample-test-materials-mark-schemes-and-test-administration-instructions. This is a great way of reviewing the maths tests as a whole class either as a way of revising after doing the sample tests or simple working through each question as a class.

You could look at it directly as a presentation and discuss the different activities being shown in each of photos. I have combined a great presentation on volunteering with 31 different fun teaching activities you can try to do with your class. These activities will help boost their confidence, memory and vocabulary skills. You could print off and laminate the photos to make an interesting, eye-catching display about International Volunteer Day. The students could also take the laminated photos and sort them into different voluntary activities. The students can then discuss what they think each one was saying or thinking. The photos could also be used as prompts for creative writing, factual writing or descriptive writing.

I want to make KS2 SATs revision fun. I want it to be something students and teachers really enjoy. I have taken each of the SATs revision tests and combined the original test papers and the original marking schemes into PowerPoints where you ask a question and immediately see the the answer on the next slide. This teaching packs covers KS2 Maths and KS2 SATs SPAG tests (Spag is English grammar, punctuation and spelling Papers) The idea is that you can now ask a question and all your students show you the answer on their mini-whiteboards and then you discuss the answers together and see what would have got one or two points. As the students can work in pairs or small groups on the questions, they are less stressed and enjoy the whole revision process. In addition, it gives them a chance to learn about other student’s strategies. This pack could be used in the classroom for whole class teaching, for small groups or at home as a great teaching resource.

I love to teach KS2 English grammar, punctuation and spelling. I make it into a game. The students see the question and then answer them on a mini whiteboard. I sometimes put them into pairs or teams to discuss their ideas. Then I show them the answers. We discuss the different answers together. I hated having to have the answers and questions separately and so I have combined the different question and answer papers into a single presentation. This presentation also tells them what would have been acceptable or unacceptable answers. The tests are differentiated so there are Level 3-5 tests and Level 6 tests. The students should try to do them all, to both consolidate and extend their learning. These KS2 SPAG Revision test materials will make learning more fun and the students more motivated to achieve. You will notice in the sample 2016 tests, there is now a single test for all students, which explains why there is no separate tests for levels 3-5 and level 6.

Enhancing Classroom Management: The Importance of a Noise Level Monitor PowerPoint Presentation for Educators Investing in a Noise Level Monitor PowerPoint Presentation is a smart choice for teachers looking to maintain a productive and focused learning environment. This engaging presentation serves as a valuable tool for managing classroom noise levels effectively, fostering better communication and collaboration among students. Here’s why educators should consider incorporating a Noise Level Monitor PowerPoint Presentation into their teaching practices and how it can be utilized effectively. Visual Representation of Expectations: The Noise Level Monitor presentation provides a clear visual representation of acceptable noise levels in the classroom. By using engaging graphics and indicators, teachers can set expectations for students, helping them understand when it’s appropriate to speak quietly or collaborate energetically. Promoting Self-Regulation: By displaying the noise levels, students can monitor their own volume and adjust accordingly. This promotes self-regulation and encourages students to take responsibility for their behavior, fostering a more respectful classroom atmosphere. Encouraging Collaboration: The presentation can be utilized during group activities to remind students to maintain an appropriate noise level. This ensures that collaboration can happen without disrupting others, allowing for effective teamwork while maintaining focus on learning objectives. Behavior Management Tool: The Noise Level Monitor serves as a behavior management tool, where teachers can refer to the presentation when noise levels become disruptive. This proactive approach helps maintain classroom order without constant verbal reminders. Interactive Learning Opportunity: Educators can involve students in discussions about noise levels and their impact on learning. This interactive approach fosters critical thinking and encourages students to reflect on their own contributions to the classroom environment. Customizable Features: The PowerPoint presentation can be easily customized to fit the unique needs of any classroom. Teachers can modify the noise level indicators, add classroom-specific rules, or incorporate visuals that resonate with their students, enhancing relevance and engagement. In summary, a Noise Level Monitor PowerPoint Presentation is an invaluable resource for educators, promoting effective classroom management, self-regulation, and collaboration. By providing clear visual cues, this tool not only enhances the learning environment but also empowers students to take an active role in maintaining a productive classroom atmosphere, making it an essential addition to every teacher’s toolkit.

In 2016, there will be a new Maths test format. I have taken the sample 2016 Maths SATs tests and combined the original question and answer papers into single documents. This means you can ask a single question to the class, wait for a response on their mini white boards and then check their answers against the official marking scheme. Check out my new video on how to make this lesson extra successful. The great thing about this is it really reduces the amount of stress in the classroom as the students are able to work on their own, in pairs or small teams to work out the answer. They can then discuss their different strategies at resolving each of the questions.. This is a nice set of teaching resources to keep a lesson well paced and snappy. Please leave your comments about it below.

Fostering Positive Behavior: The Benefits of a Positive Behavior Display for Educators Investing in a Positive Behavior Display is an innovative and effective solution for teachers aiming to promote positive behavior management in their classrooms. This interactive tool empowers both students and teachers to collaboratively define and reward desirable behaviors, creating a vibrant and engaging learning environment. Here’s why educators should consider incorporating a Positive Behavior Display into their classroom management strategies and how it can be utilized effectively. Collaborative Goal Setting: The Positive Behavior Display allows teachers and students to work together to identify 12 key positive behaviors they want to encourage in the classroom. This collaborative approach fosters a sense of ownership and investment in maintaining a positive classroom culture. Engaging Rewards System: By collectively deciding on 12 rewards for achieving these positive behaviors, the display makes behavior management fun and engaging. Students are motivated to strive for these rewards, which enhances their commitment to exhibiting positive behaviors. Visual Motivation: The bright and colorful design of the Positive Behavior Display captures students’ attention and serves as a constant reminder of the behaviors they are working towards. The inclusion of track and racing cars adds an element of excitement, making the process of tracking progress visually appealing. Encouraging Peer Support: As students work towards achieving positive behaviors, they can support and encourage each other. This promotes a sense of community and collaboration within the classroom, enhancing social skills and teamwork. Flexible Implementation: The Positive Behavior Display can be easily customized to fit the unique dynamics of any classroom. Teachers can adapt the behaviors and rewards based on their students’ preferences, ensuring that the display remains relevant and motivating. Boosting Classroom Morale: Celebrating achievements and rewarding positive behavior fosters a positive classroom atmosphere. When students see their efforts recognized, it boosts their self-esteem and encourages them to continue striving for excellence. In summary, a Positive Behavior Display is an essential tool for educators seeking to implement effective behavior management strategies. By promoting collaboration, engagement, and visual motivation, this display not only enhances classroom management but also contributes to a positive and supportive learning environment, making it a valuable addition to every teacher’s toolkit.

I love to work through SATs papers are part of my revision program. These two PowerPoints are designed for whole class interaction. All the students need are some whiteboards. Each question is immediately followed by its answer. This has lots of motivational and organisational benefits. The first is the students get immediate feedback on their ideas and misconceptions, without needing to wait until the end of a test. It also means different students can explain each of their solving strategies to the class and help everyone become more effective learners. As the answers are straight after the questions, it is possible to simply use these PowerPoints for 5 minutes a day and still get the full benefit as all the questions are immediately solved. This is also a nice way of tutoring students at home. The tutor can then focus on the areas the students to need to work harder in.

Are you looking for some nice, eye catching motivational quotes to hang around your classroom and in the corridors to motivate children towards being more self confident and more successful? Perhaps you are looking for a simple set of pictures to use in an assembly? I have collected together some great quotes, which you could discuss with your class or the whole school. You could look at it directly as a presentation and discuss the different ideas being shown in each of photos. You could print off and laminate the photos to make an interesting, eye-catching display about Motivational Quotes for the classroom.. The students could also take the laminated photos and sort them into types of quotes. The students can then discuss how they could use this idea in their own lives. The photos could also be used as prompts for creative writing, factual writing or descriptive writing.

I love to revise grammar. I don't like needing to constantly refer between the answers and the questions to get the most out of each lesson. I decided the simplest thing was to simply combine the question paper and the marking schemes into a single document. The idea is simple - you ask a question - the children then show their answers and then you check the answers as a class against the official marking scheme answers. This helps to keep revision fun and the lessons snappy. Let me know what you think of them!

The KS1 Guided Reading Thinking Hats worksheets provide students a chance to explore different approaches to thinking and reading a book. When students use Thinking Hats with their guided reading book, they can view the same book from 6 different angles. The worksheets are non-book specific and can be used with a wide range of different books from any levelled or unlevelled reading scheme. These worksheets are particularly useful when a student has finished a book before they move onto a new book. It is a great way of checking their understanding and making sure they have got as much as they can from every book they read. I have been teaching as a primary school teacher for over 14 years. These worksheets can be used both in the classrooms and as homework sheets. The students will enjoy the wide range of activities on offer and be motivated to read more books and share their ideas with others.

Are your students studying about the seaside or beach? These creative writing prompts ask the students to look at each picture and use their 5 senses to describe the image. What can they see, touch, smell, taste, hear and feel in each picture? They then use these notes to write a fuller, more detailed description of the picture. This is a great way to prepare for the KS1 SATs tests and the KS2 SATs tests while still having a lot of fun! You could look at it directly as a presentation and discuss the different seaside locations being shown in each of the photos. You could print off and laminate the photos to make an interesting, eye-catching set of story prompts. The students could also take five of the laminated photos and create them into a story . The photos could also be used as prompts for creative writing, factual writing or descriptive writing.

When I am revising the SPAG (KS2 English grammar, punctuation and spelling tests), I want to have all the questions and all the answers in one place. This means I can ask the class a question and then after they have shown me their responses on their mini-whiteboards, I can immediately show them the answers and the acceptable alternatives. As I could not find this anywhere, I thought it would be easier to simply make it myself. So here it is! This particular set of resources comes from the 2014 test. I have also done this for the 2015 test and the 2016 tests. This resource could be used in school or it could be used at home. It could be used with a whole class or in pairs, one asks the question, the other answers the question and then they swap roles. It contains both Levels 3 to 5 and a second presentation for level 6. All children should try all the tests to either consolidate their learning or to extend their learning.

I wanted to make Year 6 SATs revision more fun. I have combined each of the 2015 Past SATs papers for maths questions and the marking scheme into a single document. This means that a teacher can now show a single question and get the students to find the answer before moving onto the next question. This makes revision a lot less stressful. I have removed the time limits and of course students can now work in pairs or small teams to discuss their different strategies and answers. It also helps to make the lessons faster paced and snappier as the children start to gain confidence in their abilities to solve maths problems. This resource could be used in the classroom or at home to prepare for the UK Year 6 SATs exams. Students should try all the tests to gain the deepest knowledge of this subject. Please leave me a comment below about this teaching resource.

Are your students studying about Literacy Day or Book week? I have created both a set of photos for display and a fun set of visual writing prompts. These creative writing prompts ask the students to look at each picture and use their 5 senses to describe the image. What can they see, touch, smell, taste, hear and feel in each picture? They then use these notes to write a fuller, more detailed description of the picture. This is a great way to prepare for the KS1 SATs tests and the KS2 SATs tests while still having a lot of fun! This pack contains a 31 Teaching Activity Teacher Guide using these photo flash cards. These activities are quick and fun to do and will improve both your students' memory and vocabulary skills. You could look at it directly as a presentation and discuss the different materials being shown in each of the photos. You could print off and laminate the photos to make an interesting, eye-catching display about International Literacy Day. The students could also take the laminated photos and sort them into different types of Literacy. The students can then discuss how they sorted them. The photos could also be used as prompts for creative writing, factual writing or descriptive writing.

Are your students studying about space, planets or the moon? These creative writing prompts ask the students to look at each picture and use their 5 senses to describe the image. What can they see, touch, smell, taste, hear and feel in each picture? They then use these notes to write a fuller, more detailed description of the picture. This is a great way to prepare for the KS1 SATs tests and the KS2 SATs tests while still having a lot of fun! You could look at it directly as a presentation and discuss the different space locations and space craft being shown in each of the photos. You could print off and laminate the photos to make an interesting, eye-catching set of story prompts. The students could also take five of the laminated photos and create them into a story . The photos could also be used as prompts for creative writing, factual writing or descriptive writing.

Teaching grammar should be fun, fast paced and enjoyable. I have taken the 2014 SATS past papers and I have combined the test paper and the official marking schemes into single PowerPoint presentations. This means you can now ask a question, get the students to show you the answer, and then show the original answer and check their understanding. I know my class really enjoys this teaching method.

I have created a PowerPoint presentation combining Paper 1 and the mark scheme so you can ask a question, and immediately see the answer and the explanation. This is great for a wide range of different circumstances. If the students have completed the test this lets the teacher review the paper question by question. It also a great what of revising grammar at the whole class level. Each student shows the answer on whiteboard and then immediately check their answers. A variety of questions has been included in this sample test to demonstrate the formats and curriculum content that pupils may encounter in a live test. A commentary is provided in the mark scheme that accompanies each question. This sample test mark scheme is provided to give teachers an indication of how the tests will be marked. The mark schemes for the sample tests have been subject to a shorter process than the full, rigorous development process that is used for live mark schemes. The sample test and mark schemes have been reviewed by teachers and other expert reviewers.