This Talk time discussion activity was inspired by NCETM Mastery documents. Zippy Onion our class mathematician sparks reasoning and discussion on place value around the Year 4 Learning Objective - Find 1000 more or less than a given number. I have given four to page for ease of printing.

A printable template to encourage children to see calculations as arrays, on a number-line , as repeated addition and pictorially. Shrink them down and use them for starter activities too. I used it this week with my Year 3 class and they loved it.

Inspired by the Year 5 mastery document, Zippy Onion and his Spanish moustache return to help students solve reasoning place value problems. I have presented to identical sets on the same sheet for ease of photocopying. Learning objective – to determine the value of each digit in numbers up to 1 million

A weeks worth of reciprocal / guided reading activities to accompany an extract from the book `The Firework Makers Daughter`by Philip Pullman. Plus word of the day activities, with spelling from the latest Year 3 & 4 spelling list. Planning and text is attached, plus Blooms questioning grid to model higher level thinking question stems. Each activity has instructions attached.

This was so useful in showing the class a range of different graphs for the same data, and in improving their reasoning ability on what each graph shows. Correct reasoning is modelled in the task and the students then went on create their own, using mastery level reasoning skills. Superb for sparking discussion. In both powerpoint (editable) and pdf format

Make basic addition and subtraction more engaging with these triominoes. Students simply cut out the individual triangles on each sheet, and then reassemble into a larger triangle with each calculation matching its correct answer. Four differentiated sheets: Higher ability (addition and subtraction with numbers into millions) Middle ability (addition and subtraction with numbers to 1 million) Lower ability (addition and subtraction with numbers into thousands) SEN (addition with numbers to 25) In two different formats - pdf and powerpoint (editable)

I have broken the GPS (SPaG) progression documents into objectives per strand, to make it easier to track progress, or isolate gaps in student knowledge. Really useful if you have a mixed year group class or a class with a wide range of abilities.

Inspired by the Year 5 Mastery documents, these maths trails practice basic addition and subtraction skills. Calculations are presented within parenthesis to begin to expose students to algebraic layouts in Year 5. Four differentiated trails: High ability (numbers to 10,000), Medium ability (numbers into 1000`s), Lower ability (numbers in the 100`s) SEN (numbers up to 100)

A thinking skills activity to encourage students to consider why the Romans were such successful invaders. All discussion points are true, students need to order them in a diamond ranking, there are no wrong answers so all students can safely enjoy discussing their ideas, without fear of failure. As a further challenge I asked students to design one more battle tactic to add to the Roman arsenal. Learning Objective is from the new 2014 Curriculum.

A week of reciprocal / guided reading activities to accompany an extract from the book The BFGby Roald Dahl. (Suitable for Year 3 or Year 4). Planning and text is attached, each activity has instructions attached.

My mixed Year 3/4 loved these activities. A week of reciprocal / guided reading activities to accompany an extract from the book The Scarecrow and his Servantby Philip Pullman. Planning and text attached .

Two activities for students to practice representations of tenths as fractions, pictures, decimals and in words. Covers LO: LO: Recognise that tenths arise from dividing an object into 10 equal parts

This activity combined our History topic of Romans, with our Maths focus of measurement, plus a little bit of shapes and fractions thrown as an assessment of the previous units taught. Students receive a letter from Emperor Hadrian, with the command to rebuild sections of Hadrian`s Wall. They then worked in differientiated groups for calculate the correct measurements for the wall. Once the correct measurements had been calculated they then used their knowledge of 3-D shapes to build the wall. I have included the activity and instructions in pdf and word format for editing. My class loved it, but I have to be honest - it took them all morning! Learning Objectives covered: Geometry: Property of Shapes: • Draw 2-D shapes and make 3-D shapes using modelling materials. Measurement: • Measure, compare, and add lengths (m/cm/mm) • Continue to measure using the appropriate tools and units, progressing to using a wider range of measures, including comparing and using mixed units and simple equivalents of mixed units (for example, 5m = 500cm). Fractions: • Recognise, find and write fractions of a discrete set of objects. • Recognise that tenths arise from dividing an object into 10 equal parts and in dividing one-digit numbers or quantities by 10

A week of Guided Reading & Spelling planning and resources based on an extract from The Magic Fingerby Roald Dahl.

A week of lesson plans and activities for reciprocal / guided reading to accompany an extract from the book Clever Polly and the Stupid Wolfby Catherine Storr.

A weeks worth of reciprocal / guided reading activities to accompany an extract from the book The Twitsby Roald Dahl. Planning and text is attached, each activity has instructions attached. Learning objectives from 2014 English National Curriculum covered include: Understand how writers use figurative and expressive language to create images and atmosphere. Be able to locate key information for a purpose Identify the main ideas from more than one paragraph Make predictions based on what is stated and implied Ask questions to improve understanding Begin to understand what the writer is implying in a text

A week of planning, spelling and resources for guided reading/reciprocal reading to accompany an extract from the book Clockworkby Philip Pullman. All learning objectives taken from the Year 3 / 4, National Curriculum guidance (2015).

Inspired by NCETM guidance (which is attached), this bundle of multiplication resources is superb for moving students through CPA process (concrete, pictorial, abstract), also includes NCETM lesson plan and questions from the `Models and Images`resources. Bundle includes: Multiplication as an arrray Multiplications as repeated addition Multiplication on a number line Problem solving

Four reciprocal / guided reading activities to accompany the book `The Owl Babies`by Martin Waddell. The text is also attached. Each activity has instructions attached.