Year 6 maths - whole class mixed ability group challenge, needs two lessons worth of time. Children work together in mixed ability groups of 4-6 to examine evidence statements about a murder! From the evidence statements they have to choose the relevant evidence, choose which type of graph or chart is most suitable to present the evidence it shows, and use it to work out who the murderer was! Lots of fun and can be embellished with props for an immersive experience!

Year 5 Maths: Notebook lesson and two activities for practicing familiarity between multiplication and division, recognising the inverse and related number facts, division by 10 and 100 shortcuts.

Notebook lesson and paper resources provided. Examine evidence such as modern artistic impressions and retellings of her life in story and song form to make inferences and describe her character. Create a storyboard to summarise her life and discuss why she was important.

Upper KS2 maths lesson on 2D shape properties/translation/coordinates. Notebook lesson guide and 10x10 grid sheet (needs photocopying one each and laminating). Fun paired activity that works a little like battleships and describing by using accurate vocabulary. Can be differentiated by extending higher achievers to use positive and negative scale grids.

A week's worth of fun 'get to know your class' activities on one handy Notebook file, suitable for upper KS2 for first week back in September.

To be able to make good instructions that are easy to follow:<br /> To be able to verbally describe the way something looks.<br /> To be able to choose the words I use to describe with carefully.<br /> <br /> Plan: Sort tables into mixed ability, volunteer 1 from each table to be the artist for their table using pencil and A3 to replicate what their class mates describe to them. They are the only people allowed to draw. Can use pencil crayons too.<br /> <br /> Picture of a house (the one I used is on slide 4 as an example, feel free to create your own personalised one) is hidden behind somewhere secure like a store room or behind Teacher's desk. Invite volunteers (1 from each table) up to look at the picture for 30 seconds and commit as much of it as possible to memory because they are going to describe to someone on their table what they need to draw to copy the picture they have seen.<br /> <br /> After 30 seconds is up, go back to tables and they have 2 minutes to tell the artist what to draw. After 2 minutes, send another person up from each table to have a 30 second look (not the artist) then go back and tell them what to draw, 2 mins.<br /> Repeat once more with new volunteers.<br /> Judge how many goes they need.<br /> <br /> Share revealed picture on IWB. Give a point for each key feature drawn eg fireplace etc. Which table got the highest score?<br /> <br /> Ask drawers – What were some of the good instructions given to you? What were some difficult instructions? Why was it difficult to follow?<br /> What makes good instructions? (create list on IWB)<br /> <br /> Activity – In pairs<br /> Write a sheet of instructions for how to draw the house on the IWB.<br /> <br /> Plenary – Volunteers to read out their instructions for me or another group to draw on IWB, assess how clear the instructions are.

Year 5 Maths: To be able to recognise different angles.<br /> Success Criteria:<br /> To be able to identify a right angle, acute angle, obtuse angle, reflex angle.<br /> To be able to categorise angles according to whether they are acute, obtuse, right angles or reflex.<br /> To be able to explain the relationship between amount of degrees and category of angle.<br /> Complete Notebook lesson, interactive modelling, guided short learning activities followed by worksheets, included on pages 11 and 12.

Olympics themed maths lesson and activity, aimed at year 4/5. Fun for learning partitioning, ordering, rounding numbers to two decimal places. Activities engage through the fun angle of throwing and jumping sports events, where scores that are collected include decimal numbers. Children work in groups to compare, order and round distances thrown / jumped from given examples. Notebook lesson guide, lesson plan and paper resources are included. Envelopes, string and pegs optional.

KS2 literacy activity - Notebook lesson guide for whole class or small group activity using volunteers, facial expressions and drama skills to create ideas for descriptive sentences. Can be extended to included adverbs, simile, metaphor, extended sentences.

Pink screen plenary activity with six interactive buttons for volunteer children to choose a plenary assessment question regarding mathematical language used to describe properties of 2D and 3D shapes. Suitable for upper KS1/Lower KS2.