A creative and exciting short story based on ‘Around the World in 80 Days’. Written in line with the ‘Talk for Writing’ Literacy scheme but applicable to all KS2 schemes. Includes key KS2 taught writing features… fronted adverbials descriptive adjectives creative verbs alliteration repetition sentences of three elipses progressional story paragraphs

Written reasoning challenge cards (x2) for KS2 decimals unit. Suitable for Years 3-6, dependent on children’s abilities. Knowledge required… understanding of decimal places (to three/four places) ability to order numbers with decimal places (including 0 as a decimal place) written/verbal skills to explain errors Differentiation… Green challenge - up to three decimal places Blue challenge - up to four decimal places

Match the questions (i.e. ‘291 to the nearest 10’) to the answer (i.e. ‘290’). Print out the sections Give children a matching set (either A or B) - 1 question sheet & 1 answer sheet per child 3.Children cut out the answers, match & stick in books Differentiation… A = two-/three-digit numbers, rounding to nearest 10/100 B = two-/three-/four-digit numbers, rounding to nearest 10/100, numbers written as words sometimes