Hello, thank you for looking around my shop. I am a teaching deputy head teacher, with 16 years of experience, who works in a rural primary school. I know how wearing many hats can eat into your time but understand how important excellent resources are for engaging pupils so they make accelerated progress. I have included lots of free resources in my shop but placed a small charge for resources which have taken me many hours to create. I hope you enjoy them and use them to motivate your pupils.
Hello, thank you for looking around my shop. I am a teaching deputy head teacher, with 16 years of experience, who works in a rural primary school. I know how wearing many hats can eat into your time but understand how important excellent resources are for engaging pupils so they make accelerated progress. I have included lots of free resources in my shop but placed a small charge for resources which have taken me many hours to create. I hope you enjoy them and use them to motivate your pupils.
Here are 3 different templates (Green, Red and Blue) for a great end of year report. It includes the following sections:
• A table to record attainment and pupil's learning behaviour in that section
• A section where pupil’s write what their successes have been that year
• A section for pupil’s to write what they need to improve next year
• Teacher’s comment
• Head Teacher’s comment
• 4 spaces for photographs
• English comment section
• English target
• Maths comment section
• Maths target
• Topic comment section
• A key for explaining the codes for attainment and also learning behaviour judgements
This report prints onto an A3 double sided so it is easy to fold and present on one piece of paper. I usually save it to pdf before I print them to allow the borders to fit the page perfectly. Feedback from parents is they love the simplicity of the design.
This is a word mat of words with the prefix dis. This is targeted at years 3 and 4 as it is part of the spelling curriculum. This is a useful resource for pupils to use to improve their spellings as well as a useful tool to improve their word choices and quality of their writing. It has two versions; one with colour and the other just in black and white to save on printing costs.
This is a set of AFL tracking sheets for Reading, Writing and Maths. The yearly objectives are broken down into three parts, called phases, based on the Hampshire assessment model.
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This is a whole school tracking AFL tracking system for Maths. Each year group's required objectives are broken down into 3 phases as it is using the Hampshire phase model for the new curriculum. There is a tracking sheet for year 1 to year 6 created using Excel.
This is a whole school tracking AFL tracking system for Writing. Each year group's required objectives are broken down into 3 phases as it is using the Hampshire phase model for the new curriculum. There is a tracking sheet for year 1 to year 6 created using Excel.
This is a tracking document I have made for pupils working below age expectations. It allows you to track back to the correct year's objective in each of the domains so you can target interventions at the point of need. This is a great tool for making interventions really work.
This is an assessment table which for all year Primary year groups that includes the following groups;
Whole class
Boys
Girls
SEN
Pupil Premium
EAL
Traveller
Prior Attainment Group Below
Prior Attainment Group ARE
Prior Attainment Group GDS
There is another table which also allows you to track the progress of pupils in the groups; Prior Attainment Group Below, Prior Attainment Group ARE and Prior Attainment Group GDS. This is very important if you want to prove your school is making better than expected progress.
This bundle includes 3 units of work with all the resources and display elements you will need for your Working Walls.
The 3 units are:
Diary Extract in Role based on Street Child by Berlie Doherty
Explanatory Texts based on Cracking Contraptions by Wallace and Gromit & Until I Met Dudley by Roger McGough
Persuasive Letter based on Sweet Clara and the Freedom Quilt by Deborah Hopkinson
These units of work use the 3 stage planning process of:
• Stimulate and generate
• Capture, sift and sort
• Create, refine and evaluate
Stimulate and generate = This usually starts with a hook to interest the class where the class realise who they are going to write for so they have a clear purpose and audience. Acticitives can include reading excellent model texts, drama or researching more about the author or the content of the book.
Capture, sift and sort = This is the part of the unit where pupils look at key features, practise skills they will need in order to complete the final piece or new learning for objectives they have not learnt yet.
Create, refine, evaluate = This is where you bring all you have learnt together and plan the final piece before you write it and then edit it to improve the piece. This can include self, peer or teacher led reviewing.
I made this to email parents how we teach all 4 operations in my primary school. It includes visual examples of how addition, subtraction, multiplication and division are taught. There are 14 pages and these are the different stages I include along with examples of mental strategies pupils will need to learn.
These are sections for addition, subtraction, multiplication and division. Here are the areas covered in multiplication.
Multiplication = Stage 1 – Continual addition of groups/steps of same size, Stage 2 – Arrays (leads to area method), Stage 3 – Mental multiplication using partitioning, Stage 4 – The Grid Method, Stage 5 – Expanded Short Multiplication, Stage 6 – Short Multiplication, Stage 7 – TU by TU (grid method and column method)
This is a Forces Fairground display that I made which ends up being a colourful Ferris Wheel. The display includes explanations for the following forces:
Gravity
Water Resistance
Pulleys
Forces
Parachutes
Machines
Air Resistance
Friction
Levers
Mechanisms
Springs
Movement
The display has a quiz which pupils can interact with too.
This is a paragraph display that has an eye catching upturned pyramid and a full explanation on how to write a paragraph using a topic sentence. It also has a few versions of a paragraph that is colour coded to help pupils understand how to write their paragraphs. This display is best utilised by printing it out as A3 sized.
These are pupil tracking sheets for Reading, Writing and Maths. There is a commentary section at the bottom where you can record pupils who need targeting and what interventions you plan to provide them. This allows you to target interventions across the school and monitor what has impact which allows you to make better than expected progress for the pupils in your school.
This is a display which is eye catching as well as useful to have displayed all year round. It reminds pupils the importance of considering the best possible conjunction to use each time they want to write and. It has an explanation why pupils should try to only use and in lists furthermore a list of possible alternative words for pupils to use.
Simple mnemonics really help pupils to remember key information they need to improve their writing. This one is: PAMPAS
P owerful verbs
A dverbs
M etaphors
P owerful nouns
A djectives
S imiles
This display has an explanation for each part and it has 13 pages which include large letters to display the PAMPAS mnemonic clearly on your wall.
Simple mnemonics really help pupils to remember key information they need to write great advertisements. This one is: SEAQAB
S logan
E xaggeration
A lliteration
Q uestions
A djectives
B enefits
This display has an explanation for each part and it has 13 pages which include large letters to display the SEAQAB mnemonic clearly on your wall.
This is a colourful display that is great to have displayed all year round. It explains what a simple, compound and complex sentence is. Each type of sentence has a description and an example with each part colour coded.
This is a great whole book planned guided reading unit based on the book Mysterious Traveller by Mal Peet & Elspeth Graham. The story tells of an old man finding an abandoned baby in the desert who he adopts as his own grand-daughter. he teaches her how to track her way through the desert and she travels with him while he guides traders through the deserts of northern Africa. When he loses his vision she becomes his eyes and they work in tandem on their adventures. I have planned a unit of work that is split into 9 different reading comprehensions as each set of questions has between 6 and 8 questions and covers 5 pages of the book.
I have also included printer friendly pages where there are 3 copies of the questions on each page so it is easy to prepare for lessons. I have included all the answers too as this is a great time saver. The questions are designed to easily fit English books as I have adjusted the margins so they fit. I hope your class enjoys this book as much as mine have always done.
This is a something I get the pupils to complete before they write to focus their minds on why, what and for who they are writing. It also includes a larger version for display on a working wall.
Purpose
• What does the writing aim to do?
• Persuade, advise, inform, explain, describe analyses, review, and comment or instruct?
Audience
• Who is the text written for?
• Your teacher, friends, parents, head teacher or younger pupils.
Viewpoint
• What is the point you are trying to make?
• Have you written a theme that runs through the story?
Form
• Consider the formality of the piece.
• Is it a formal or informal? What tense is it written in; 1st person (I), 2nd person (you) or 3rd person (he/she/they).
• What types of words or phrases are being used?
• Technical, scientific, descriptive, informative, factual, emotive, serious or humorous.
• What linguistic devices are being used?
• Fact, opinion, rhetorical questions, hyperbole (exaggeration), irony, anecdote or puns.
• How is the text presented?
• Headlines, sub-headings, slogans, bullet points, diagrams, captions or in columns.
Here are some team work cards which explain each member's responsibilities. I use these every time I put pupils into groups so they can practise all of the roles. This really develops their confidence as many pupils do not get these opportunities unless you manage different team roles.
The roles are as follows: Leader, Organiser, Motivator and Reporter. Below is an example of what the Leader is.
As the leader you are responsible for ….
• Making sure everyone has a role or task to complete
• Making sure it is finished on time
• Making the final decision if your group cannot agree
• Speaking with an adult if your group is struggling
I have put these resources together using the NCTEM Teaching for Mastery questions and have used it as an assessment tool for my year 4 pupils at the end of the year.
