This lesson was used to round off Term 1 after using How to Train your Dragon as our class reader and as a stimulus for a unit of writing. During this afternoon, children chose which activities they liked and created work based on what they enjoyed in the book. Designed using a Voices for Choices approach this resource shares varied ideas based on different skills i.e. writing, art, design etc.

This resource is a week’s worth of planning that I use in our final week of school to enjoy whole class Guided Reading in a fun way while still promoting those fundamental reading skills. Questions are appropriate for Year 4 but this resource could easily be adapted across Key Stage 2. Questions framed around DERIC: Decode Explain Retrieve Infer / Interpret Choice

This is a big hit with Year 4 at Christmas! With over 30 questions, this resource is a week’s worth of whole class Guided Reading. Using DERIC as a question frame, the questions in this resource are centered around retrieval, explain and interpret / inference. A great resource to teach fundamental Reading skills while making it fun and engaging with a lovely Christmas story.

This one off lesson is the ideal art lesson to ease back into school in Term 3. Using a video of the 2021 London New Year fireworks, the children can recreate the London skyline and use chalks to add fireworks to this picture.

This is a complete unit of writing including everything you need for the 2 week cross-curricular piece of writing. Resources included: Teaching slides for 10 lessons 2 week of written plans writing up in best template Lessons include: *Lesson 1 - This lesson includes everything you need to teach your children about the discovery of King Tut’s tomb. This lesson has been used as the unit hook previously so the chn need no prior knowledge before teaching this lesson. This lesson includes 37 teaching slides using primary sources such as telegrams, photos of the tomb and treasures and newsreel. *Lesson 2 - Focuses on vocabulary development and gives the children 9 unfamiliar words to look up in the dictionary and find the definition of before using them in sentences that can be used in their newspaper reports. *Lesson 3- explores newspaper orientations and scaffolds how to write our own orientation. Lesson 4 - hot seat interviewing the main characters from the story and thinking about how they felt and what they would have said in an interview. Lesson 5 - teaches the chn how to use their character interviews using inverted commas. Lesson 6, 7 and 8 - all teach the main body and reorientation of the newspaper report using event checklists for each paragraph, uses spaces for whole class modeled examples and shares common misconceptions and gives a chance to edit these as a whole class. Lesson 9 & 10 - editing, writing headlines and starting to write up in best.

This A3 sheet is a one stop shop for Mainstream Core Standards to give classroom staff the knowledge and power to reflect and analyse their provision for their children with SEND. The document itself provides the specific areas of need, which is subsequently broken down by barrier to learning and what this might look like in the classroom. These barriers are then cross referenced with resources and interventions that could be put in place to help that child. For example, if you have a child with cognition and learning difficulties, with a suspected issue with working memory, you could look in this section, see that the child might present with a difficulty in following instructions or may appear distracted and then see a list of suggested resources or interventions to use to support this child with their difficulty. In my school, this document is used for teachers to highlight the child’s needs and then gives them independence to put in place and try different strategies to support the child. They are encouraged to try this for a term and then record notes in the grid on the sheet about what they have tried and what the impact of this has been on the child. This process supports the use of the MCS and also helps to narrow down the area of need the child may have an issue with. It’s a really helpful resource for the teachers and a great tool to use as a SENCO when analysing children’s needs and planning their provision. Please see my other Area of Need MCS documents for sale or buy the whole set at a discounted rate.

This A3 sheet is a one stop shop for Mainstream Core Standards to give classroom staff the knowledge and power to reflect and analyse their provision for their children with SEND. The document itself provides the specific areas of need, which is subsequently broken down by barrier to learning and what this might look like in the classroom. These barriers are then cross referenced with resources and interventions that could be put in place to help that child. For example, if you have a child with cognition and learning difficulties, with a suspected issue with working memory, you could look in this section, see that the child might present with a difficulty in following instructions or may appear distracted and then see a list of suggested resources or interventions to use to support this child with their difficulty. In my school, this document is used for teachers to highlight the child’s needs and then gives them independence to put in place and try different strategies to support the child. They are encouraged to try this for a term and then record notes in the grid on the sheet about what they have tried and what the impact of this has been on the child. This process supports the use of the MCS and also helps to narrow down the area of need the child may have an issue with. It’s a really helpful resource for the teachers and a great tool to use as a SENCO when analysing children’s needs and planning their provision. Please see my other Area of Need MCS documents for sale or buy the whole set at a discounted rate.

Mainstream Core Standard Teacher Checklist Referral Cognition and Learning This A3 sheet is a one stop shop for Mainstream Core Standards to give classroom staff the knowledge and power to reflect and analyse their provision for their children with SEND. The document itself provides the specific areas of need, which is subsequently broken down by barrier to learning and what this might look like in the classroom. These barriers are then cross referenced with resources and interventions that could be put in place to help that child. For example, if you have a child with cognition and learning difficulties, with a suspected issue with working memory, you could look in this section, see that the child might present with a difficulty in following instructions or may appear distracted and then see a list of suggested resources or interventions to use to support this child with their difficulty. In my school, this document is used for teachers to highlight the child’s needs and then gives them independence to put in place and try different strategies to support the child. They are encouraged to try this for a term and then record notes in the grid on the sheet about what they have tried and what the impact of this has been on the child. This process supports the use of the MCS and also helps to narrow down the area of need the child may have an issue with. It’s a really helpful resource for the teachers and a great tool to use as a SENCO when analysing children’s needs and planning their provision. Please see my other Area of Need MCS documents for sale or buy the whole set at a discounted rate.

Mainstream Core Standard Teacher Checklist Referral Cognition and Learning This A3 sheet is a one stop shop for Mainstream Core Standards to give classroom staff the knowledge and power to reflect and analyse their provision for their children with SEND. The document itself provides the specific areas of need, which is subsequently broken down by barrier to learning and what this might look like in the classroom. These barriers are then cross referenced with resources and interventions that could be put in place to help that child. For example, if you have a child with cognition and learning difficulties, with a suspected issue with working memory, you could look in this section, see that the child might present with a difficulty in following instructions or may appear distracted and then see a list of suggested resources or interventions to use to support this child with their difficulty. In my school, this document is used for teachers to highlight the child’s needs and then gives them independence to put in place and try different strategies to support the child. They are encouraged to try this for a term and then record notes in the grid on the sheet about what they have tried and what the impact of this has been on the child. This process supports the use of the MCS and also helps to narrow down the area of need the child may have an issue with. It’s a really helpful resource for the teachers and a great tool to use as a SENCO when analysing children’s needs and planning their provision. Please see my other Area of Need MCS documents for sale or buy the whole set at a discounted rate.