Classroom Secrets is a growing educational resource company based in Halifax. We pride ourselves in offering a wide range of exciting, engaging and high-quality resources for all early-years and primary year-groups. All of our resources are carefully created by qualified teachers, so you have more time to enjoy a #LIFEworkbalance.
We offer both great value annual and month-by-month subscriptions, or you can download our resources individually on our TES shop.
Classroom Secrets is a growing educational resource company based in Halifax. We pride ourselves in offering a wide range of exciting, engaging and high-quality resources for all early-years and primary year-groups. All of our resources are carefully created by qualified teachers, so you have more time to enjoy a #LIFEworkbalance.
We offer both great value annual and month-by-month subscriptions, or you can download our resources individually on our TES shop.
End of Year 6 Maths Test Assessment
This Year 6 End of Year Maths Assessment (zip) helps identify progress by assessing against each of the Year 6 National Curriculum Mathematics objectives. The questions are grouped by strands so you can assess each area of the Mathematics curriculum separately, or as one assessment.
This pack includes:
End of Year Maths Assessment for Year 6. Answers included.
Tracking spreadsheet to help identify gaps in knowledge.
End of Year 4 GPS Assessment
This resource (zip) is to support teachers with end of year progress assessments by assessing against the Year 4 Vocabulary, Grammar and Punctuation objectives from the National Curriculum and English appendix 2. It also includes answers and a tracker sheet to help identify gaps in knowledge.
Reading Skills - Varjak Paw - Chapter 27
This Reading Skills resource contains a range of questions about chapter 27 from ‘Varjak Paw’ by S. F. Said. (pdf)
What’s included in the pack?
This pack includes:
Reading Skills - Varjak Paw - Chapter 27
Reading comprehension questions organised by skill
Reading comprehension questions grouped into focused sections
Written answer practice questions
Reading Skills - Varjak Paw - Chapter 29
This Reading Skills resource contains a range of questions about chapter 29 from ‘Varjak Paw’ by S. F. Said. (pdf)
This pack includes:
Reading Skills - Varjak Paw - Chapter 29
Reading comprehension questions organised by skill
Reading comprehension questions grouped into focused sections
Written answer practice questions
Reading Skills - Rooftoppers - Chapter 9
This Reading Skills resource contains a range of questions about Chapter 9 from ‘Rooftoppers’ by Katherine Rundell. (pdf)
What’s included in the pack?
This pack includes:
Reading Skills - Rooftoppers - Chapter 9
Reading comprehension questions organised by skill
Written answer practice questions
This Classroom Secrets Reading Skills resource contains a range of questions about chapter 24 from ‘Holes’ by Louis Sachar. The questions are organised into content domains to allow a focus on one or more specific skills, and this resource also includes questions for more in-depth written answer practice.
This Classroom Secrets Reading Skills resource contains a range of questions about chapter 1 from ‘The Last Wild’ by Piers Torday. The questions are organised into content domains to allow a focus on one or more specific skills, and this resource also includes questions for more in-depth written answer practice.
This Classroom Secrets resource is aimed at Year 6 Expected and has been designed to give children the opportunity to consolidate the skills they have learned in Summer Block 3 – Statistics
The questions are based on the ‘small steps’ that are addressed in the block, but are presented in a different way so children can work through the pack independently and demonstrate their understanding and skills. This resource is themed around a team of scientists who are trying to develop a vaccine for a virus which causes zombie-like symptoms.
This Classroom Secrets resource is aimed at Year 2 Expected and has been designed to give children the opportunity to consolidate the reasoning and problem solving skills they have learned in Summer Block 4 – Mass, Capacity and Temperature
The questions are based on the ‘small steps’ that are addressed in the block, but are presented in a different way so children can work through the pack independently and demonstrate their understanding and skills. This resource is themed around two children running smoothie stalls at their school summer fayre.
This Classroom Secrets resource is aimed at Year 3 Expected and has been designed to give children the opportunity to consolidate the skills they have learned in Summer Block 4 – Mass and Capacity
The questions are based on the ‘small steps’ that are addressed in the block, but are presented in a different way so children can work through the pack independently and demonstrate their understanding and skills. This resource is themed around children running a healthy food and drink stall at a charity gala.
This Classroom Secrets resource is aimed at Year 2 Expected and has been designed to give children the opportunity to consolidate the skills they have learned in Summer Block 1 – Position and Direction
The questions are based on the ‘small steps’ that are addressed in the block, but are presented in a different way so children can work through the pack independently and demonstrate their understanding and skills. This resource is themed around completing challenges to get through a maze.
This resource is for Year 5 and covers the arithmetic objectives from the 2014 National Curriculum. It is differentiated in 6 levels and builds on skills from Year 5 Autumn Terms 1 and 2 and Spring Terms 1 and 2.
Year 5 GPS Omitting Relative Pronouns Lesson
This Omitting Relative Pronouns lesson covers the prior learning of relative clauses before moving onto the main skill of omitting relative pronouns.
The lesson starts with a prior learning activity to check pupils’ understanding. If they need more practice, you can choose other resources for that step. The interactive lesson slides recap the prior learning before moving on to the main skill. Children can then practise further by completing the activities and can extend their learning with engaging reasoning and application tasks.
This pack includes:
Main Activity Worksheet
Homework Extension
PowerPoint Lesson Slides
Application and Reasoning
Varied Fluency
Prior Learning
Answers
Year 2 Maths Counting in 3s Lesson
This Year 2 Counting in 3s lesson covers the prior learning of counting forwards and backwards from any given number, before moving onto the main skill of counting in 3s.
The lesson starts with a prior learning worksheet to check pupils’ understanding. The interactive lesson slides recap the prior learning before moving on to the main skill. Children can then practise further by completing the activities and can extend their learning by completing an engaging extension task.
This pack includes:
Main Activity Worksheet
Discussion Problems
Homework Extension
PowerPoint Lesson Slides
Reasoning and Problem Solving
Varied Fluency
Practical Activities
Prior Learning
Supporting Activities
This free Grammar, Spelling and Punctuation scheme of work has been created to support your teaching of the English National Curriculum. We have grouped the Year 2 objectives into blocks for you to teach throughout the academic year, with each block including guidance on what should be taught. The blocks are broken down into smaller steps to enable your pupils to deepen their understanding of grammar, spelling and punctuation. This resource is Autumn Block 4 for Year 2.
Year 5 Reading Skills - Fairtrade Fair Approval
This Classroom Secrets resource (pdf) Year 5 Reading Skills - Fairtrade Fair Approval resource contains a newspaper about a school as it begins to take on Fairtrade initiatives and wins the FairAchiever award along with a range of questions covering each content domain and questions for more in-depth written answer practice.
This pack includes:
Year 5 Reading Skills - Fairtrade Fair Approval newspaper article
Reading comprehension questions organised by skill
Reading comprehension questions organised by page
Written answer practice questions
Answer reference matrix for easy marking
Year 2 Writing & Whole Class Guided Reading using Rabbit’s Bad Habits Extract
This resource includes a differentiated whole class guided reading comprehension and a separate writing activity for Year 2 based on Rabbit’s Bad Habits by Julian Gough. The reading activity includes differentiated questions for the teacher to ask at the end of each page, same questions in comprehension style activity and an activity to practise retrieval skills. The writing activity includes four differentiated prompt sheets to describe their favourite character from the extract.
KS2 Reading Skills British Values
Six differentiated versions of a text about British values designed to enhance skimming and scanning reading skills needed for reading tests.
Dyslexia Intervention Programme Week 3
This Dyslexia Intervention Programme is aimed to support the development of the working memory, sequencing skills, fine motor skills and phonological awareness.
Each lesson starts with a recap on the lesson taught previously. Children can then work through each activity within each lesson to provide a daily practice of the relevant skills that can often be a barrier for those with Dyslexia.
Teachers can choose to deliver this using a Powerpoint, so that the lesson is on screen for the child, or there is a PDF provided which will guide you through a way to deliver this lesson practically.
Week 3:
Teaching Powerpoint with questions and answers included for sounds to be covered in the following order: c; k; ck; e; u
Printable guide to deliver the intervention practically for sounds c, k, ck, e, u
Dyslexia Intervention Programme Week 1 & 2 - With Assessment Tool
This Dyslexia Intervention Programme is aimed to support the development of the working memory, sequencing skills, fine motor skills and phonological awareness.
Each lesson starts with a recap on the lesson taught previously, apart from Lesson 1 which includes a warm-up activity. Children can then work through each activity within each lesson to provide a daily practice of the relevant skills that can often be a barrier for those with Dyslexia.
Teachers can choose to deliver this using a Powerpoint, so that the lesson is on screen for the child, or there is a PDF provided which will guide you through a way to deliver this lesson practically.
Dyslexia Intervention Programme Assessment Tool
This Dyslexia Intervention Programme Assessment Tool allows you to carry out a pre and post assessment which enables you to track and report on progress when delivering the Dyslexia Intervention Programme.
Week 1:
Teaching Powerpoint with questions and answers included for sounds to be covered in the following order:
s; a; t; p; i
Printable guide to deliver the intervention practically for sounds s,a,t,p,i
Week 2:
Teaching Powerpoint with questions and answers included for sounds to be covered in the following order:
n; m; d; g; o
Printable guide to deliver the intervention practically for sounds n, m, d, g, o