I am an ex-primary head teacher and English, Maths and History specialist. I've mostly worked in KS2, often in Year 6. Although for the last two years, I've been working in Year 1, which has been delightful!
All the resources have been used successfully with children in a range of schools all over the country.
I am constantly reviewing and updating my resources. Please follow me to ensure that you have the most up to date versions of the resources you buy.
I am an ex-primary head teacher and English, Maths and History specialist. I've mostly worked in KS2, often in Year 6. Although for the last two years, I've been working in Year 1, which has been delightful!
All the resources have been used successfully with children in a range of schools all over the country.
I am constantly reviewing and updating my resources. Please follow me to ensure that you have the most up to date versions of the resources you buy.
This Unit is ideal for providing evidence of English across the curriculum.
Drawing on the new History Curriculum and focussing on Aims: Strands 4 and 5 this resource includes:
A collection of nine extended quotes (with summary information) from contemporary sources,
An explanation of five activities that can be carried out using these resources
Planning Templates to support arguments and a chart to help summarise arguments about Workhouses
Learning Objectives
• To understand historical concepts such as continuity and change, cause and consequence, similarity, difference and significance,
• To make connections, draw contrasts, analyse trends, frame historically-valid questions and create their own structured accounts, including written narratives and analyses
• To understand the methods of historical enquiry, including how evidence is used rigorously to make historical claims, and discern how and why contrasting arguments and interpretations of the past have been constructed.
Learning Outcomes:
Pupils will be able to:
• Recognise the difference between fact and opinion.
• recognise and discern between arguments made for and against education.
• draw on primary resources to produce a reasoned debate on the pros and cons of universal education.
• produce their own persuasive argument in favour (or against) the introduction of universal education.
• produce a balanced argument on the advantages and disadvantages of universal education.
• Produce their own written narrative of life in a school.
A series of questions, answers and reading journal activity based around all areas of reading. Great alternative to SATs tests or written comprehensions - one week sample
A sample resource for all teachers using the Assertive Mentoring Grammar Hammer system
A flipchart for use with Promethean whiteboard
Simply carry out the first Grammar Hammer test mark it and put this up on Whiteboard.
Children can then carry out corrections for any part of the test they got wrong.
There are challenge activities for children getting everything correct.
NB it is recommended that no child corrects more than 5 questions.
A series of questions, answers and reading journal activity based around all areas of reading. Great alternative to SATs tests or written comprehensions.
LO: To be able to empathise with a character in a difficult situation.
A series of questions, answers and reading journal activity based around all areas of reading. Great alternative to SATs tests or written comprehensions - one week sample
A sample resource for all teachers using the Assertive Mentoring Grammar Hammer system
An Interactive Whiteboard file for use with Smart's notebook.
Simply carry out the first Grammar Hammer test mark it and put this up on Whiteboard.
Children can then carry out corrections for any part of the test they got wrong.
There are challenge activities for children getting everything correct.
NB it is recommended that no child corrects more than 5 questions.
Sets of two syllable words for use in planning week’s 6 to 10 of Phase 3, for reading and writing two syllable words.
This has been uploaded due to the paucity of plans and resources that address the need to teach two syllable words as part of Phase 3.
A series of questions, answers and reading journal activity based around all areas of reading. Great alternative to SATs tests or written comprehensions - one week sample
A set of resources designed to support learning in the classroom with resources available for distance learning in event of school or class closure.
The week’s lessons cover:
Revisit / Review alternative spellings for/ow/ ou, ough
Teach reading, writing and spelling alternative GPCs for /oi/ oy, oi
Teach / Practice spelling the tricky words looked, called, asked, shouted…
Practice recognition and recall of graphemes and different pronunciations of graphemes as they are learned p134
Practice reading and spelling words with adjacent consonants and words with newly learned graphemes
Apply reading sentences p142
Apply writing sentences p149
Today’s lesson revises reading Phase 3 GCPs words with GPCs ai, ee, igh and oa and teaches reading two syllable words.
A youtube video to be used by parents at home with children who are on Phase 4 of Phonics using Letters and Sounds. The lesson consists of:
Revisit / Review revising spelling ai, ee, igh and oa using a runaround activity
Teach reading two syllable words.
Practice play What’s in the box with two syllable words.
Apply reading a sentence using CVCC words.
Today’s lesson revises spelling alternative graphemes /ee/ and teaches alternative /ee/ - ey, y, ee, ea, split digraph e-e
A youtube video to be used by parents at home with children who are on Phase 5 of Phonics using Letters and Sounds. The lesson consists of:
Revisit / Review revising words based on alternative /ee/ - ee, ea, split digraph e-e using a Phoneme Spotter
Teach writing and spelling words based on alternative /ee/ - ee, ea, split digraph e-e, ey, y
Practice playing word relay to revise reading, writing and spelling alternative /ee/
Apply reading an alien sentence including words using alternative /ee/ and substituting words that make sense into the sentence.
A youtube clip to be used by parents at home with children who are on Phase 5 of Phonics using Letters and Sounds.
The lesson consists of:
Revisit - a series of flashcards presented using PowerPoint to recap the sound oi and oy
Review of /air/ sound
Teach Reading alternative grapheme ere for /air/, quick copy and segmenting for spelling
Practice write a sentence using one of the words,
Practice read and quickly copy tricky words when, what, why, where.
Apply reading sentence
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The lesson consists of:
Revisit - a recap the sound /w/, /h/ and wh
Review grapheme /ai/, split digraph a-e
Teachalternative grapheme a-e for /ai/, quick copy of words with split digraph a-e
Practice Reading and spelling of tricky words do, so, come little
Apply Writing a sentence
A youtube clip to be used by parents at home with children who are on Phase 5 of Phonics using Letters and Sounds.
The lesson consists of:
Revisit - a phoneme spotter for the alternative /ear/ sounds, ere, ear and eer
Review of /air/ sound
Teach A countdown of /air/ sounds revising alternative air, are, ear, and ere
Practice Play word challenge - writing as many different words for each of the alternative /air/ sounds
Apply reading sentence using all of the alternative /air/ trigraphs
A youtube clip to be used by parents at home with children who are on Phase 5 of Phonics using Letters and Sounds.
The lesson consists of:
Revisit - a series of flashcards presented using PowerPoint to recap the sound /ear/
Teach Reading alternative grapheme ear for /air/, quick copy and segmenting for spelling
Practice write a sentence using one of the words,
Practice read and quickly spell tricky words when, what, why, were.
Apply writing sentence
A youtube clip to be used by parents at home with children who are on Phase 5 of Phonics using Letters and Sounds.
The lesson consists of:
Revisit - a series of flashcards presented using PowerPoint to recap the sound oi and oy
Teach Reading alternative grapheme are for /air/, quick copy and segmenting for spelling
Practice write a sentence using one of the words,
Practice read and quickly copy tricky words when, what, why, where.
Apply reading alien sentence and substituting words for alien word.
A youtube clip to be used by parents at home with children who are on Phase 5 of Phonics using Letters and Sounds.
The lesson consists of:
Revisit - a series of flashcards presented using PowerPoint to recap the sound ear, ere, ere to runaround.
Teach Reading alternative grapheme are for /air/, quick copy and superhero spelling.
Practice read and quickly copy tricky words when, what, why, where.
Practice write a sentence using one of the tricky words
Apply writing sentence
A youtube clip to be used by parents at home with children who are on Phase 5 of Phonics using Letters and Sounds.
The lesson consists of:
Revisit / Review writing the alternative /air/ sounds, are, ear and are
Teach reading, writing and spelling of alternative /c/ sounds teaching alternative k
Practice Reading tricky words said, little, people, there, Quick spell of tricky words
Apply writing sentence using alternative /c/ - k
Today’s lesson revises alternative /air/ sounds and teaches reading and writing all the alternative /c/ - ck, k, ch
A youtube clip to be used by parents at home with children who are on Phase 5 of Phonics using Letters and Sounds.
The lesson consists of:
Revisit / Review runaround checking spelling of the alternative /air/ sounds, are, ear and are
Teach reading, writing and spelling of alternative /c/ sounds teaching alternative ck
Practice Reading tricky words said, little, people, there, Quick spell of tricky words
Apply writing sentence using alternative /c/ - ck
A youtube clip to be used by parents at home with children who are on Phase 5 of Phonics using Letters and Sounds.
The lesson consists of:
Revisit / Review Phoneme Spotter for alternative /air/ sounds, are, ear and are
Teach reading of all alternative /c/ sounds ch, k, ck using countdown
Practice Writing and spelling tricky words using all alternative /c/ graphemes.
Apply reading a sentence using alternative /c/ graphemes