Created for a Year 4 class but easily adapted to suit any year group. 8 activities/ worksheets to be carried out independently and in pairs/ groups and an accompanying editable PowerPoint presentation. Useful for gathering information about your new class, giving the opportunity to get to know each other again and settle in, and the presentation can be adapted to include information about yourself to share with the class. Can be adapted for the summer term and getting to know your new class!

A comprehensive set of questions and short tasks based on Guy Bass’s brilliant book, Stitch Head. There is a side or two of questions for each of the 16 chapters (plus the prologue and epilogue) with space to provide written answers in different formats. A variety of question types cover the reading objectives for LKS2. The questions can be printed out and made into a booklet and given to children to complete independently or as part of a guided reading group session. **Could easily last a whole term. ** PDF format as well as a Word doc. so you can adapt to suit your class’s needs. It proved to be a very popular book with a Y4 class - they enjoyed the story and loved the mad professor / monster theme! Stitch Head is the first book in a series and reluctant readers were encouraged to read Bass’s other books!

I wrote this assembly for a Year 4 class. It lasts approx. 20 minutes and has upwards from 22 parts. Extra parts can easily be added. It (lightly) tells the story of Boudicca’s revolt and ends with ‘Just like a Roman’, a song with actions which can be found on You Tube It went down well!

A PowerPoint presentation and activity suitable for Year 4 (or revision for Y5) on finding and comparing unit and non-unit fractions of amounts (money and measures). Start the lesson with a practical demonstration showing how to find fractions of amounts of money and water (use different sized bottles filled with coloured water). To answer the ppt questions, the children need to work out fractions of amounts themselves and choose the larger amount of money/ water. MA and HA children can then complete tasks A and B. A = unit fractions B= non-unit fractions They will need existing knowledge of equivalent fractions (1/2 for MA, 1/2, 1/3 and 1/4 for HA) in order to answer the challenge questions at the end. LA can continue to use water bottles and measuring jugs and carry out a practical investigation to find fractions of amounts of water.

Ideal for Year 4 (as it involves 4-digit numbers) or as a revision activity for Year 5. Included is a ppt to introduce the activity - solving ancient Egyptian-themed word problems involving addition and subtraction. The column method is used in the demonstration. The presentation recaps on using RUCSAC to solve word problems then includes two examples of word problems (+ and -) with an ancient Egyptian theme. Two sheets of word problems (one is slightly harder) are included for the children to complete after the presentation, during the lesson. One set is a pdf, the other a word document for editing. Also included is an ancient Egyptian story and word problems related to it to solve (editable Word doc). This can be used as an extension activity or as a lesson in itself. This story is also available as a free resource on its own. Please check out my other resources!

I made this double-sided word mat for a Y4 class as I wanted to include examples of the sentence openers I has taught them over the year. I have tried to keep it simple by only including grammatical terms covered in Y4. Print out both pages and stick them back-to-back then laminate for children to use as a writing prompt, or enlarge it for display.

A variety of writing challenges suitable for KS2 (Y3-6) to be accessed either independently or used in whole class/ group teaching. Word docs or PDFs and challenges are also on the PowerPoint presentation (except for write 100 words grids). Activities could be printed and laminated for a challenge table/ area. Activities include: 4 x improving description tasks 4 x descriptive writing challenges 6 x instructional writing tasks 4 x eight-sentence story tasks 16 x write 100 words challenges on a variety of topics (including topics encouraging higher-level thinking) to help children to edit their work and write concisely 2 x 100 word challenge editable templates (grid and lined) 1 x ppt presentation including the above (except the write 100-word challenges)

Set of three differentiated editable questions in speech bubbles to encourage children to respond verbally or in writing to texts & larger versions for reading area display. 1 = Easier (yellow), 2 = Core (blue), 3 = Higher level (green). Can be used during whole class/ guided reading sessions as a prompt sheet, as a display in the reading area or as an assessment sheet to record children’s responses. I’ve uploaded single sheets and larger speech bubbles for display, both pdfs and Word docs. The display speech bubbles are in Sassoon. It’s a free download font but of you don’t have it, they’re also downloadable as pdfs.

Created for KS2, used for Y3/4 class Designed as a quiz for four teams to compete against each other. 3 Rounds of team Qs, 3 rounds of Qs for individuals (buzzer rounds) Round 1 - Team round - Europe Round 2 - Buzzer round - Europe Round 3 - Team round - Asia Round 4 - Buzzer round - Africa Round 5 - Team round - South America Round 6 - Buzzer round - Misc Also included is an answer sheet and a score sheet Please adapt to suit your needs and include countries and cities you are focusing on

Here’s another prompt sheet to help children to improve their own writing/ correct mistakes. Designed for Y3/4 Please let me know if you think this (and my other one - capital letters) are going to be useful or if they’re missing anything. Cheers!

I’ve created just the one sign. I wanted something simple and clear, and would really appreciate some feedback. Do you think it’ll be easy for children to use? Are there any parts I’ve missed out? I’ll be creating more prompt mats to cover other areas of punctuation and grammar. Is this a comprehensive list of what to make? -end of sentence punctuation, punc direct speech, commas, apostrophes, pronouns, verb/ subject agreement, tense, sentence openers, extending sentences with conjunctions, check your spelling guide…any more? Thank you!

Simple outline of counties, countries, capitals, oceans, continents that need to be learnt in Y1&2, Y3&4 and Y5&6 in line with the geography curriculum. Counties will differ according to the location of your school. This plan is designed for a school in London.

This is a story I wrote including some basic facts about life in ancient Egypt. There are 9 questions at the end for children to answer by using addition, subtraction and multiplication. Suitable for year 3 or 4. Good for making cross-curricular links. Easily differentiated.

A sheet of 100 multiplication questions and a sheet of 100 division questions. Word docs so editable. Good for assessment. Children are encouraged to identify targets.

A Concept Cartoon to encourage children to discuss the importance of punctuation plus a differentiated group activity where the children must decide which types of punctuation are more important than others.

Editable table to encourage children to generate questions. Ideal for use during class discussions, group reading sessions, in response to texts, during role play, etc.

A page of tasks linked to Roman Britain that could be completed for homework. Activities are linked to Bloom’s Taxonomy of questions: Remember, Understand, Apply, Analyse, Evaluate & Create, and is therefore differentiated. Resource is editable.

Punctuation checklists Word doc. differentiated three ways and editable. Can be used to as a self/ peer assessment tool and together with counters. Ideal for KS2. Punctuation counters PowerPoint resource explains how children can earn differently coloured counters for including different punctuation. You will need to purchase counters but these could be assigned points (different points can be attributed to different colours) or used to play independent/ paired grammar/ punctuation games at the end of a writing activity.

A template made using shapes from Word. I’ve used this for a number of things - Big Maths questions, story planning, note-taking…the list is endless. Just though it could save you time…

A few small signs to laminate and put on a challenge table / in a challenge area.