Find different combinations of numbers (weights for a strong man's weight bar) which add up to a certain amount. Differentiated three ways.

Cross Curricular Maths/History activity. Word problems involving the four operations.

Short sentences are used to build tension and describe fast action sequences. This short piece of text would be better written in short sentences and can be used in various ways to encourage children to use this technique. Feel free to use in as creative a way as you can!

A informal, 'chatty' eyewitness account of the Peloponnesian War. Suitable to use during a topic on The Ancient Greeks. We used this as a Talk 4 Writing Text.

A cross-curricular resource using real Victorian criminals based on their crime and their time! Children have to use written methods of division to answer the questions ' Which criminal got the hardest sentence?' -Or- 'How many days punishment did each crook get per shilling they stole?' Formatted as posters to go up in the classroom so it can be quite an active activity.

A reading resource for a David Walliams excerpt made using an EAL reading comprehension structure: http://thatboycanteach.blogspot.co.uk/2016/12/structuring-reading-comprehension-for.html With its colour-coding and symbols it also links to my Reading Roles: http://thatboycanteach.blogspot.co.uk/2016/12/reading-roles-cognitive-domains-made.html - a way of making the cognitive domains memorable for staff and children.

Includes a sequence for teaching subtraction using numberlines and a sequence for teaching addition using column addition.

The siege account provides two parallel accounts - one from someone inside the castle defending it, one from someone outside attacking. One poem is by Alexander Anderson and has lots of great descriptive and figurative language to describe castles. The other poem is by me and looks at a castle in three time periods - in a time of peace, in a time of conflict and in the modern day.

A powerpoint version of these two blog posts: http://thatboycanteach.blogspot.com/2017/12/why-you-might-be-getting-feedback-wrong_15.html This is a presentation about marking and is based on the EEF document: https://educationendowmentfoundation.org.uk/public/files/Publications/EEF_Marking_Review_April_2016.pdf

Reading Roles PLUS Generic Reading Activity The aim of this activity is to help children gain a better understanding of a text. It focuses on using 5 of the main widely-acknowledged reading strategies. Although the activity itself has a goal of enabling understanding of one text, the cumulative effect of doing several of these activities is intended to be that children begin to use these strategies automatically when they read any text. For more on Reading Roles: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/reading-roles-plus-teaching-metacognitive-reading-comprehension-strategies-11890964 & http://www.thatboycanteach.co.uk/2018/04/reading-roles-metacognitive-reading-strategies.html

With various focuses on vocabulary and retrieving and inferring information, particularly about characters. Colours/symbols linked to Reading Roles: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/reading-roles-plus-teaching-metacognitive-reading-comprehension-strategies-11890964