Writing frames differentiated on ability. Children to draw a picture to reflect the beginning, middle and end of the story, and either write a sentence, caption or beginning/middle/end or trace over words.

Pictures to be used for paired discussion. Children to study the picture carefully, and talk about it: What is the picture about? Who are the characters? What do you like about the picture? Imagine you are in the picture, who would you be? Where would you be? What are you doing? Designed to be used with R-time lesson Year 1 lesson 1.15. Also useful for SEAL lessons and other times where images of multicultural families and people are needed.

Great ideas if you are planning to set up a florist in your role-play corner.

Termly assessment of phonemes and graphemes known. Using a different colour each assessment, I draw a semi-circle above for phoneme known and underneath for grapheme known. Listed in order of teaching from Phases 2 and 3 of Letters and Sounds phonic teaching materials.

Early Years topic planner covering the 6 areas of learning, and suggested activities to be covered.

Mindmap set out in 6 areas of learning + role-play. Road, rail, air and water transport covered. Activity ideas for a vehicle-based topic. Indoor and outdoor activities included.

Introduction to space topic and letter writing. Letter format for studying how a letter is written. Encouraging independent letter writing from an imaginery setting.

5 sentences containing pictures to sequence to create a recount about the Moon landing.

A role-play assistance sheet designed to be kept in the topic resource box to help teachers and TAs/NNs set up the role-play area with the kids. Suggested resource list and possible scenarios

A KS1 instruction template for writing a recipe. Includes sections for equipment, ingredients, method. The second page (photographs and then an evaluation) are for after following the instructions!

A mindmap of ideas for cross curricular teaching of Jack and the Beanstalk and Spring for the Early Years.

Words with the Phase 5 phonemes zh, wh and ph in, as well as a paragraph containing all three phonemes for reading.

A worksheet based on Eric Carle's book Brown Bear Brown Bear what do you see? Inspired by Chalk Talk a kindergarten blog featured on Pinterest I created this sheet to create a class name book. Each child writes their own name at the top twice (Annie Annie who do you see? I see Oliver looking at me) etc. I made our book in class alphabetical order! The child will then draw a picture of their friend in the middle of the page.

Introduction to writing sentences. Pictures at top as prompts - children to locate the missing word/picture and insert into sentence correctly.

Homework / classwork sheet designed to help children find out information about the countries of the Commonwealth. To find out the continent, capital city, population, languages spoken, interesting facts etc. Children can use internet, atlas or other non-fiction book to find out the information.

Topic planner mindmap for Christmas activities, plus Bears. Activities planned across the 6 areas of learning

EYFS topic web on robots covering all areas of learning, apart from PSED

A set of reading comprehension sheets to go alongside the Lime level books. New vocabulary - write the definition (promoting dictionary skills), answering what, where, why, how questions, writing facts in a list, reviewing the book

Word cards with flag of the countries of the Commonwealth. Designed to be used alongside the Queen's Diamond Jubilee.

An assessment tool to be used on all new arrivals to the school, to all initial concerns/low achievers and also across all SEN pupils. The SLCN screen helps to focus on the needs of the individual (if any). To be used in conjunction with the Leicester City Meeting Individual Needs SLCN manual.