This 30-page early years resource pack is perfect for introducing children to the emergency services in a fun, engaging way. Packed with hands-on activities, it helps children learn about the important roles of the police, firefighters, and doctors while developing key maths, literacy, and fine motor skills.
Activities include:
Colouring pages – firefighters, police officers and doctors
Add features to faces – creative drawing activity
Match workers to the correct vehicles
Cutting and sticking activities – build fine motor skills
Identify the correct equipment for each worker
Make your own headbands – colour, cut, and stick
Writing frames – “Police help to…”, “Fire service help to…”, “Doctors help to…”
Fine motor skills practice – trace along lines, cut along lines
Maths activities – count and write the correct number, repeating patterns
10 and 5 frames on ambulance, police car, and fire engine mats (with counters)
This pack is ideal for EYFS classrooms, nurseries, or home learning, supporting topic work on People Who Help Us while keeping children engaged with a wide variety of practical activities.
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Superworm Themed Literacy Activities – EYFS & KS1
Bring literacy to life with this exciting and engaging Superworm-inspired activity pack! Based on the popular story by Julia Donaldson, these resources help children develop key early literacy skills in a fun, story-linked way.
What’s included (11 pages total):
🪱 Describing Superworm – develop vocabulary and use of adjectives
🪱 Rhyming words activity – explore rhymes based on the story
🪱 Wanted poster – creative writing and character focus
🪱 Superworm’s actions – identify verbs and action words
🪱 Labelling worksheet – build word recognition and topic vocabulary
🪱 Book review sheet – reflect on the story in a structured format
🪱 Recalling events – sequence key story moments
🪱 Favourite part writing sheet – express opinions with reasoning
🪱 Pencil control sheet – support early handwriting and fine motor skills
Perfect for:
✔ EYFS and Year 1 literacy lessons
✔ Whole-class or small-group activities
✔ Independent work or guided sessions
✔ Story-based topic planning
✔ Writing corners and early morning work
These activities are designed to be accessible, meaningful, and fun — with a clear link to the much-loved Superworm story. They support development in speaking, listening, reading, and writing.
If you find this resource helpful, your positive feedback would be greatly appreciated!
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Written by JCL
The early years of Hitler is an introduction into the early life of Hitler. The Learning Object asks whether he was already showing signs of strong leadership. The students are given both literacy and history GCSE skills to complete before answering the LO questions as a 4 mark GCSE answer.
All resources belong to Julie Claydon Light
Aimed at Years 5-11, this resource includes two Literacy Mats for general writing support in middle and high school. They come in both colour and black and white PDFs. Best stuck in exercise books or to desks as tools for improving students’ written work!
Each mat covers…
Common errors
Apostrophes
Connectives and conjunctions
Paragraphs
Sentence types
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Map out your core texts with clarity and intention.
This editable Literacy Long Term Plan template helps you map your core books across the academic year.
Designed for Nursery and EYFS, it lets you sequence your focus texts term by term, link them to your themes (if you use them), and build a language-rich curriculum that values depth, repetition and ambitious vocabulary.
What’s included:
An editable long term literacy map template
Clear term-by-term layout (Autumn, Spring, Summer)
Space to organise core texts and themes
My completed plans from the last two academic years (2024–2025 and 2025–2026) for real-life examples and inspiration.
These are the actual documents I use to organise our core story approach - mapped carefully, reviewed regularly and adapted when the children need something different.
Perfect for:
EYFS teachers refining their literacy spine
Settings developing a strong core book approach
Subject leaders reviewing curriculum intent
Anyone who wants clarity without rewriting everything from scratch
Use it as it is, tweak it, or completely reshape it to match your curriculum. It’s fully editable.
Editable EYFS Baseline Assessment Template for under 2s and 2–5 years. Covers all learning areas and allows teacher personalisation.
This Editable Baseline Assessment Template is designed to support early years practitioners in accurately recording and evaluating children’s developmental starting points across all EYFS learning areas. It includes two versions:
Baseline Assessment 1: For children under 2 years
Baseline Assessment 2: For children aged 2–5 years
Templates are aligned with the EYFS framework and cover the seven areas of learning:
Personal, Social and Emotional Development (PSED)
Communication and Language
Physical Development
Literacy
Mathematics
Understanding the World
Expressive Arts and Design
Each section is clearly laid out, allowing educators to make observations, record developmental levels, and note individual strengths or areas needing support.
The templates are fully editable, giving teachers the flexibility to:
Add setting-specific language or goals
Tailor assessment comments to their cohort
Include personal targets or next steps
These templates are ideal for use during the child’s settling-in period and provide a strong foundation for tracking progress throughout the year. They also support meaningful conversations with parents and can be used as part of ongoing documentation or inspection preparation.
Literacy / English planning with questioning, links, vocabulary discussion and reading and writing tasks. This resourse was created for EYFS but is very suitable for year 1. The documents are editable so the objectives can be addapted. The tasks include;
• Labelling Zog with adjectives to describe his personality to noun phrases to describe how he looks.
• Zog’s super power is flying. What would your superpower be? Draw a picture and label / write a caption.
• Creating a new dragon. What does your dragon look like, Can you write a sentence to describe it?
• Can you write a school report for Zog?
• What are the similarities and differences between dragon school and your school? What school rules would dragons have? Can you think of one and write it down?
• Match the rhyming words from the story.
• The two human characters become doctors. Can you think of some questions you would like to ask them? Then take it in turn to hot seat Princes Pearl and Sir Gadabout.
• Can you read the words and stick them next to the correct pictures in the first aid kit?
• Can you answer the Zog comprehension questions?
Assignment 2 Part 1 - Occupational Specialism Assessment - Early Years Educator
4 detailed assessment plans covering all 111 competencies with an holistic approach. Created with structured observations in mind, preparing students whilst developing their planning techniques and practical skills but overall building confidence. These planned activities provide an opportunity for students to reflect and improve ready for any future observations.
This bundle is perfect for Early years. Fine motor skills help to build strength in their fingers. This will then help then with their writing whilst completing a range of Little Red Riding Hood activities. The doubling game is a fun way to practice their Maths skills.
A activity designed to support those working within an early years setting. This activity will cement the importance words and meanings surrounding literacy and phonics.
This will help learners to understand the different terms used within literacy and phonics and within early years.
A nice simple activity to refresh learning or help learners understand the terms in literacy.
Here is a simple labeling activity for EYFS children around the story of the Smartest Giant in Town. There are three different versions of this worksheet.
Boxes and labeling arrows already present: ease of use for the children to focus solely on phonic skills, be it initial sounds or whole words.
As above but with the opportunity to write a sentence below. This space for writing was included as we have been thinking about character descriptions recently. eg. ‘He is sad’ or ‘he is very tall!’
Space for children to draw their own lines for labeling and space for sentence writing below.
I hope they are of some use to others.
Our children loved using them and the widget symbols along the top were a very useful prompt to help the children stay focused on the task.
32 colour cards the children can use to play a mime game.
A child / pair or group can choose a card and mime for the rest of the class to guess.
Points or stars can be allocated for correct answers.
Play against the clock for more fun.
Encourages speaking and listening, drama, using imagination and working in groups.
Activities to support all areas of the curriculum from early years to year 6. The activities can be used stand alone or as part of an introduction or plenary session. Each activity has teacher guidance notes attached.
These activities have been made to support all areas of the curriculum from Early Years to Year 6.
The activities can stand alone or used as part of an introduction or plenary session.
Each activity has teacher guidance notes attached.
Includes word searches, gap fill activities and sort activities.
This pack contains wall displays and flash cards explaining the processes and some hints/tips for the six reading strategies of Active Literacy.
These are based off the guidance for (Scottish) Active Literacy stages 4/5 and 6/7 and will be useful for children working within these stages of AL.
If you find these useful, please share some feedback!
Thank you :)
The ultimate Christmas bundle for EYFS & KS1! Includes fine motor, phonics, writing, counting, editable colouring, and addition activities for festive learning.
Brighten your classroom this December with the Christmas Early Years Literacy & Maths Bundle — a magical collection of festive activities designed to support phonics, fine motor skills, early writing, number recognition, and addition.
Packed with printable resources and an editable Christmas colouring page, this bundle is perfect for provision, adult-led tasks, independent learning, and festive rotations in EYFS & KS1.
What’s included:
Christmas Bauble Pencil Control Sheets – strengthen fine motor control and mark-making
Christmas CVC Word Present Tag Matching Game – build blending and decoding skills
Christmas CVC Word Writing List Activity – practise segmenting and handwriting
Christmas Letter to Santa Template (A4 & A5) – meaningful early writing using phonic knowledge
Editable Christmas Colouring Page – personalise with a child’s name in PowerPoint
Christmas Counting/Number Present Stacks – build cube towers to match numbers 1–10
Christmas Domino Addition Maths Activity – add domino dots and match numbers up to 12
This all-in-one festive resource supports key early learning skills while keeping lessons fun, engaging, and beautifully seasonal.
Perfect for:
✔ EYFS & KS1 classrooms
✔ Literacy and maths provision
✔ Fine motor development
✔ Christmas projects, rotations, and festive days
✔ Teachers needing quick, print-and-go resources
This comes from the BLEW (Bilingual Learners Early years Work box) document. I typed out useful extracts to keep somewhere prominent for teachers and observers to refer to. I thought it was an excellent basis for judging where bilingual learners are in their acquisition of English.