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.
A set of arrow cards which can be used to visually represent place value of a given digit from 1 - 99,999,999.
Available for Smartboard as notebook file and Promethean ActivInspire Interactive Whiteboards
A step by step PowerPoint Presentation modelling the process involved to allow children to find prime factors.
The video clip is of the same PowerPoint allowing you to run the PowerPoint directly from youtube.
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 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 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 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
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.
This resource is designed to be used in conjunction with either of the following resource packs:
The Victorians - a complete Unit of Work
The Victorians - a complete Unit of Work - with guided reading.
Word searches with clues linked to new 'needs to be used' spelling vocabulary.
Clues and word answer sheet.
Outcomes will familiarise children with meaning of words they MUST use in their independent writing.
Wordsearches proven way of revising / teaching spelling vocabulary.
Now include 3 wordsearches. First one revised to correct a injury to an injury (sorry)
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
An explanation of how to make best use of the Guided Reading resources provided by MikeRichards in his shop. Includes
- 3 different strategies for managing guided reading in your classroom
- planning grids for delivering Guided Reading
- additional links to Deduction, Inference, Authorial and Literal (DIAL) activities.
A plan, set of teaching resources, Interactive Whiteboard software and links to four videos modelling how to deliver each section of the lesson which can either be used by teachers or by teachers with the whole class.
2018 update now includes PowerPoint version of both presentations, and a AFL / Next steps Word document for easy printing and including in maths books as evidence of Using and Applying / Reasoning.
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 how place value can be used to sequence, round and identify closest numbers, finishing with an AfL style plenary using exemplar questions from the 2016 SATs paper.
This is the first lesson in a four week revision programme designed to prepare Year 6 children for the Maths SATs papers 1, 2 and 3.
**Learning Objectives covered: **
To add whole numbers, decimals or fractions quickly (arithmetic starter)
To demonstrate an understanding of place value, including large numbers 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 - one week sample
This is a first in a series of resources designed to develop children's understanding of time-lines and their appreciation of where a particular historical period fits into the chronology of history.
Learning Objective:
To know and understand the history of these islands (Great Britain) as a coherent, chronological narrative, from the earliest times to the present day.
A series of activities designed to begin any history topic linked to the British Isles including:
Resource 1: Time-line of the British Isles – with dates
Resource 2: Definition cards BC / AD.
Resources 3: Timeline of the British Isles – without dates.
Resource 4: Time-line Cards
Resource 5: Interactive Time-line without dates.
A Word document detailing some suggested activities for working with time-lines.
Learning Outcomes:
Children will be able to:
• Understand how the islands of Britain have changed over time.
• Understand the difference between AD and BC
• Understand the difference between BC, First millennium and Second millennium.
• Understand that dates before Christ are older the bigger the number (cf negative numbers)
• Sequence a series of BC and AD dates.
• Compare and contrast key events in British history.
Any feedback on these resources, their effectiveness, additions and areas in which they can be improved would be very welcome.
(Update - corrects 1 incorrect link in Resource 5 - Interactive Timeline of British isles)
Set in the Highlands of Scotland around the time of the Battle of Culloden, this short story has a definite twist in its tail. Ideal for any work on historical fiction, this text was written specifically for this purpose.
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 sets a story in the past.
To use inference and deduction to understand the main characters’ feelings.
To reflect on a completed text.
Please note to print the text from Word, select two sided along short edge. This will print the book in A5 book format.
This is a second in a series of resources designed to develop children's understanding of time-lines and their appreciation of where a particular historical period fits into the chronology of history.
Learning Objective:
To know and understand how people’s lives have shaped this nation and how Britain has influenced and been influenced by the wider world.
A series of activities designed to begin any history topic linked to the Tudor period including:
Resource 1: Tudor Time-line – with dates
Resource 2: The five Tudor Monarchs.
Resources 3: Tudor Time-line– without dates.
Resource 4: Tudor Time-line Cards
Resource 5: Interactive Tudor Time-line without dates.
Resource 6: Interactive Tudor Time-line with dates.
A Word document detailing some suggested activities for working with time-lines.
Learning Outcomes:
Children will be able to:
•Learning Outcomes:
Children will be able to:
• how the five Tudor monarchs shaped Britain.
• how other individuals have also shaped Britain.
• how Britain’s relationship with Catholic Europe changed during this period.
• how Britain has influenced and been influenced by its relationship with Europe.
• how Britain began to influence America.
• Sequence a series of 4 digit numbers.
• Compare and contrast key events in British history.
Any feedback on these resources, their effectiveness, additions and areas in which they can be improved would be very welcome.
A set of resources for display to be used to support Year 1 learning about length and height. Supports Year 1 Spring Term Week 8 and 9 of the White Rose Maths scheme and Year Term 1 Week 3 of the Lancashire Maths scheme.
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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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 understand how a character’s viewpoint affects a story
To understand how two characters show their emotions through their actions.
A complete youtube lesson prepared to facilitate home learning during the school closure,
The lesson consists of:
a starter linked to halves and quarters of quantities
an explanation of positional language next to, right, under, left, above, in between, over and below.
a game and an activity for independent learning when the video ends.