A notebook with explanations of past and present tense including a short activity quickly writing verbs in the past/present tense. Sentences for pupils to sort in to two piles (past and present) followed by mild and medium differentiated activities (mild = ticking past or present and identifying the verb. medium = re-writing the sentence in the other tense). The spicy alternative was to write any sentence and then write it in the other tense.

5 eye-catching word mats, with visuals, for the stone age, each with a different theme: general, animals, people, tools, lifestyle.

Differentiated 3 ways.

An own-design farmyard with lengths of fencing and a series of word problems (differentiated 3 ways) to encourage addition and subtraction of lengths. You can cover up the title of the farm when you photocopy it and make it your own!

6 week reading comprehension unit based on Philip Pullman’s Aladdin and the Enchanted Lamp. Aimed at year 3 reading skills. Supporting notebook with colour coded slides to fit with each session.

Problem solving and code-cracking worksheet to show mastery of counting in 50s and 100s forwards and backwards. The children really enjoyed it and it helped link maths to our topic by using Ancient Egyptian numerals!

A progressive worksheet adding numbers to numberline ranging between 100 and 300, 2 forward, one counting backwards. Used for LA in a fluency lesson on numberlines.

Cut and match antonym words for group task or individual work.

Making puppets lessons inspired by Where the Wild Things Are. The resources revolve around the key processes of DT: analysing products already out there, designing and making and evaluating your own product. Activities are differentiated three ways with mild, medium and spicy challenges. There's a 'sewing tips' poster/mat for the tables.

A notebook with clear progression from multiplication as repeated addition to arrays with an activity at the end (poster making) which the children completed in pairs and stuck up around the classroom. A document full of pictoral arrays - I printed loads of these out, spread them on the tables and children picked one up, stuck it in and wrote the array that matched.

An activity where pupils sort through a pile of cheques making sure they are filled in correctly e.g. writing the numbers as words and the words as numbers.

Notebook progression of skills of written multiplication revisiting partitioning skills then using grid method and long multiplication. The notebook includes a dice game which can be presented either in their books or on a sheet of blank grids (also provided). For grid method, we did lots of practical examples using dienes and whiteboards and then moved on to pre-drawn grids which they drew the dienes in the right boxes. There are two maths investigations included for extending and deepening understanding.

Lesson starter > matching the activity to the length of time A practical experiment using stopwatches to measure and record a series of events. Plenary > putting lengths of times in the right order (could be used as a starter for second lesson)

Notebook exploring the conjunctions for, and, nor, but, or, yet, so. Worksheets applying coordinating conjunctions based on Emma's Lamb farm story.

Investigating words that are linked through a root word and the addition of suffixes and prefixes. A series of activities to be delivered over a few days in short 10-15 minute sessions (Teach, Practice, Apply - coloured backgrounds on the notebook). There is also a word bank of prefixes and suffixes pupils should know by the end of year 4

Great for mastery of place value and problem solving skills. Differentiated three ways - mild, medium and spicy Use the clues to crack the code and discover what the number is. The children really enjoyed writing their own too!

Covers national curriculum strands about understanding nutrition and diet. Looks at the different food groups with meal planning activities, making a healthy plate and sorting foods. This was really practical and engaging. We had some deep discussions about food types and the children were confident taking healthy eating beyond 'healthy and unhealthy' into carbohydrates, fats, proteins, sugars etc.

Resources to support learning 4s and 8s times tables using doubling/halving flowcharts and techniques. A notebook to model the flow chart and support progression.

Sea-side themed (fish bubbles, turtle snap, harbour wall bar models) activities and work sheets to support developing of column subtraction starting with subtracting using a place value grid to spotting which number sentences can/can't be done. Activities follow a mild, medium, spicy structure of difficulty displayed by chilli pepper clipart. Also included: a notebook for the progression of skills.

I show my students a photo of the day (taken from google) linked to our topic which is about going on wellie adventures/being outdoors/nature. There are 3 levels of questioning they work through and discuss with their partners progressing from what can I literally see, to what questions I want to ask and then what can I infer from the picture.