A series of questions, answers and reading journal activity based around all areas of reading. Great alternative to SATs tests or written comprehensions. LOs To understand how an author uses everyday objects as a portal to a fantasy world. To understand how an author uses familiar and unfamiliar words to create a fantasy setting. To understand how an author builds a sense of wonder. To draw conclusions based on what has been read to date. To skim and scan a text to find evidence to support opinions and answer questions. To understand how an author draws on his own life, his beliefs and his experiences. To reflect on a completed text.

A five comprehension pack designed to support work on the Tudors. There are two comprehensions per topic, one for Higher and Middle Ability children, a second for those of lower ability. The comprehensions can be used as stand-alone lessons or set as homework. Each comprehension consists of glossary work on words in text, comprehension questions tied to each text, and either an imaginative piece of writing (HA/MA) or a summary and matching activity (LA). Comprehensions cover: Life in Tudor Times Law and Order The Break with Rome The Spanish Armada Tudor Childhood.

A plan, set of teaching resources, Interactive Whiteboard presentations for both Promethean and Smartboards. This resource uses the questions on 2016 Key Stage 2 SATs papers 1, 2 and 3 to revise your class' understanding of quick arithmetic methods and revise a specific aspect of the reasoning papers finishing with an AfL style plenary using exemplar questions from the 2016 SATs paper. This is the fifth lesson in a revision programme designed to prepare Year 6 children for the Maths SATs papers 1, 2 and 3. Learning Objectives covered: To divide whole numbers, decimals or fractions quickly (arithmetic starter) To solve problems involving multiplication

A plan, set of teaching resources, Interactive Whiteboard presentations for both Promethean and Smartboards. This resource uses the questions on 2016 Key Stage 2 SATs papers 1, 2 and 3 to revise your class' understanding of quick arithmetic methods and revise a specific aspect of the reasoning papers finishing with an AfL style plenary using exemplar questions from the 2016 SATs paper. This is the eighth lesson in a revision programme designed to prepare Year 6 children for the Maths SATs papers 1, 2 and 3. Learning Objectives covered: To division whole numbers, decimals or fractions quickly (arithmetic starter) To solve problems involving fractions and decimals

A series of questions, answers and reading journal activity based around all areas of reading. Great alternative to SATs tests or written comprehensions. LOs: To develop an understanding of the genre – real life stories To be able to empathise with a character in a difficult situation. To draw conclusions about a whole text.

A series of questions, answers and reading journal activity based around all areas of reading. Great alternative to SATs tests or written comprehensions. LOs To read a classic text. To be able to explain the meaning of archaic language. To be able to use inference and deduction to make predictions about the plot of a short story.

A series of questions, answers and reading journal activity based around all areas of reading. Great alternative to SATs tests or written comprehensions. To find evidence that shows that a story has been written in the past. To explore how an author uses language to bring a story alive. To understand how an author uses contrast to describe two major characters. To be able to make informed predictions using clues like Chapter titles and knowledge of preceding story. To understand how an author can use secondary characters to develop a primary character. To recognise the climax of a novel. To understand how an author can relate a story within a story.

A plan, set of teaching resources, Interactive Whiteboard presentations for both Promethean and Smartboards. This resource uses the questions on 2016 Key Stage 2 SATs papers 1, 2 and 3 to revise your class' understanding of quick arithmetic methods and revise a specific aspect of the reasoning papers finishing with an AfL style plenary using exemplar questions from the 2016 SATs paper.. This is the third lesson in a revision programme designed to prepare Year 6 children for the Maths SATs papers 1, 2 and 3. Learning Objectives covered: To subtract whole numbers, decimals or fractions quickly (arithmetic starter) To add and subtract whole numbers with more than 4 digits using columnar addition and subtraction (All) To solve addition and subtraction multi-step problems including money, deciding which operations and methods to use. (Most) To apply addition and subtraction strategies to multi-step problems including negative numbers and decimals. (Some)

Learning Objectives Starter: - To perform (mental) calculations. - To recognise prime numbers Main Lesson: To know and use the vocabulary of prime numbers, prime factors and composite (non-prime) numbers (Year 5) To identify prime numbers and (prime) factors (Year 6) To use the concepts and vocabulary of factors, prime numbers and prime factorisation (KS3) This lesson consists of: A Starter consisting of a series of progressively harder addition, subtraction, multiplication and division calculations and revision of highest common factors. A connect activity getting children to identify the correct and incorrect definitions of prime numbers and a second Connect to get children explain why a specific number is prime or not. . An Interactive Whiteboard teaching introduction for both Notebook and ActivInspire, to teach how to recognise prime numbers, composite numbers and prime factors and how to use factor trees to identify the latter.. A 4-way differentiated series of tasks requiring children to identify prime numbers, composite numbers and prime factors. Answer sheet provided to support marking. Two AFL / Next Steps tasks, introducing multistep calculations based around prime numbers and a second revising the definitions from start of lesson.

A 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. LOs To understand how an author uses flashbacks to tell a story. To understand what life was like a hundred years ago. To understand how different viewpoints affect a narrative. To form your own opinions about the main characters and their interaction with a bully. To gain an understanding of how ordinary soldiers felt about one another in the Great War. To understand how a character’s actions can be viewed in different ways.

A series of questions, answers and reading journal activity based around all areas of reading. Great alternative to SATs tests or written comprehensions. LOs To identify how the key features of a book can make it distinctive. To use inference and deduction to understand the point of view of secondary characters. To explore the relationships in a family. To draw conclusions about the main character in relationship to the title of the book. To empathise with the main characters’ feelings in a range of situations.

A series of questions, answers and reading journal activity based around all areas of reading. Great alternative to SATs tests or written comprehensions. LOs To be able to scan and skim pages to find evidence from a text. To be able to understand the relationship between characters To infer and interpret information from a text. To understand how the author shows the similarities between the German and English soldiers. To understand how and why an author links characters’ fates together. To respond to a completed text.

Key Stage 2 comprehensions. Text includes a range of non fiction, fictionalised, historical texts and short poetry. Questions include whole range of SAT style questions such as: inference and deduction, prediction and factual recall. Ideal for Guided groups, homework or whole class activity,

Key Stage 2 comprehensions. Text includes a range of non fiction, fictionalised, historical texts and short poetry. Questions include whole range of SAT style questions such as: inference and deduction, prediction and factual recall. Ideal for Guided groups, homework or whole class activity,

A plan, set of teaching resources, Interactive Whiteboard presentations for both Promethean and Smartboards. This resource uses the questions on 2016 Key Stage 2 SATs papers 1, 2 and 3 to revise your class' understanding of quick arithmetic methods and revise a specific aspect of the reasoning papers finishing with an AfL style plenary using exemplar questions from the 2016 SATs paper. This is the fourth lesson in a revision programme designed to prepare Year 6 children for the Maths SATs papers 1, 2 and 3. Learning Objectives covered: To divide whole numbers, decimals or fractions quickly (arithmetic starter) To solve addition and subtraction multi-step problems deciding which operations and methods to use. To apply addition and subtraction strategies to multi-step problems including negative numbers (and decimals.)

A plan, set of teaching resources, Interactive Whiteboard presentations for both Promethean and Smartboards. This resource uses the questions on 2016 Key Stage 2 SATs papers 1, 2 and 3 to revise your class' understanding of quick arithmetic methods and revise a specific aspect of the reasoning papers finishing with an AfL style plenary using exemplar questions from the 2016 SATs paper. This is the seventh lesson in a revision programme designed to prepare Year 6 children for the Maths SATs papers 1, 2 and 3. Learning Objectives covered: To multiply whole numbers, decimals or fractions quickly (arithmetic starter) To solve problems involving multiplication and division To use inverse operations

Who’s who? Do you know your Anglo Saxon from your Norman? LO: To understand historical concepts such as continuity and change, cause and consequence, similarity, difference and significance, and use them to make connections and draw contrasts (KS2) LO: To apply the above to the study of an aspect or theme in British history that consolidates and extends pupils’ chronological knowledge from before 1066 (KS3) A complete activity to help children understand the similarities and differences between the Anglo Saxon and Normans invaders and settlers in Britain between the fall of the Roman Empire and the early medieval period. The activity consists of: Teaching Input: 1. A powerpoint identifying the key similarities and differences between the Anglo Saxons and Normans including information about their: - Origins - settlements - everyday lives - lives of women and children - laws and punishments - beliefs - stories and legends - legacy. This can either be run as an introduction, or shared with children in groups or pairs. Independent Task: 2. A sorting activity consisting of a series of statements which apply to Normans, Anglo Saxons, both, or neither. (This includes a fact sheet for teacher use, providing the correct answers and a series of websites which provide additional source information) 3. A set of different templates to allow you to choose how this information is then represented. Challenge / Extension / AG&T Using websites listed, children could try to find additional information about both peoples. Plenary Mark with the children, getting them to identify which description applies to which people. Pose and discuss the statement The Norman invasion destroyed more than it created.

Learning Objectives: Starter: - To recognise when a division sum leaves a remainder. Main Lesson: - To use formal short division and interpret remainders appropriately for the context (Year 5) - To interpret remainders as fractions (Year 6) - To use division including formal written methods, applying it to integers and fractions(KS3) This lesson consists of: A starter focusing on revising when calculations give remainders using the context of Word Problems. A connect to get the children to start thinking about the link between fractions and decimals (which will be built upon in the AfL / next steps section of the lesson.. An Interactive Whiteboard teaching introduction for both Notebook and ActivInspire, to teach how to convert remainders into fractions . A 4 way differentiated series of calculations (including a Challenge Activity) where children are expected to solve a series short and long division problems which give remainders and convert these remainders into fractions, and one Word Problem per ability group. Answers are supplied to ease marking. An AFL / Next Steps task to challenge children to consider how they can use their knowledge of fractions and decimals to convert a division sum which results in a simple fraction to an answer with a decimal.

Learning Objectives Starter: - To perform (mental) calculations, including with mixed operations and large numbers. Main Lesson: - To solve problems involving addition, subtraction, multiplication and division (Year 5) - To use their knowledge of the order of operations to carry out calculations involving the 4 operations (Year 6) - To use the 4 operations, including formal written methods, applied to integers and decimals, (KS3) This lesson consists of: A Starter consisting of a series of progressively harder addition, subtraction, multiplication and division calculations. A connect activity getting children to consider how they might check answers using informal methods and inverse operations. An Interactive Whiteboard teaching introduction for both Notebook and ActivInspire, to teach when to use inverse operations and when to use informal methods in order to check calculations. . A 4 way differentiated series of calculation checks where the children take on the role of a teacher, marking a series of sums, and showing the inverse operations / informal methods that they have used to check the answers. Answers are supplied to ease marking. An AFL / Next Steps task introducing the idea of using estimation to check problems where miscalculations are linked to Place Value.