Experienced KS1 and KS2 teacher currently teaching in Year Six. Specialist Leader for Mathematics across three Local Authorities.
All resources have been tried and tested. I'm open to suggestions and requests and aim to help anyone who requires it.
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Experienced KS1 and KS2 teacher currently teaching in Year Six. Specialist Leader for Mathematics across three Local Authorities.
All resources have been tried and tested. I'm open to suggestions and requests and aim to help anyone who requires it.
Please leave feedback and rate my resources.
Ideal for revision, assessment or purely for fun, this fully interactive game features increasingly challenging questions including:
- Scale
- Recipes (quantities, mass etc.)
- Calculating a proportion
- Calculating a ratio
- Determining a total
- ...and more!
This fully interactive high-quality gameshow features all the exciting sounds, background music and drama of the TV show. Each possible answer is linked to either a pass or fail screen indicating the amount of money ‘won’. A free trial of my best-in-class version is available here:
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/millionaire-quiz-free-trial-edition-11697409
Please see my shop for other gameshows, worksheets, activities and time-saving ideas.
All feedback is welcome so please do comment and rate.
N.B The original logos for Who Wants to be a Millionaire are property of Sony Pictures Television. For this reason they have not been included, but a similar non-trademarked version has.
A massive time-saving resource that'll save you hours! Covers all the KS2 expectations for mixed numbers and improper fractions.
Five differentiated activity sheets, each differentiated four ways. Included are opportunities for children to create pictorial representations of fractions, interpret pictorial representations of fractions, practice their fluency skills, use mathematical language in reasoning responses and problem solve.
Sheet 1 - Add two mixed numbers together - WITH ANSWER SHEET
Sheet 2 - Subtract a mixed number from another mixed number. - WITH ANSWER SHEET
Sheet 3 - Convert an improper fraction into a mixed number. - WITH ANSWER SHEET
Sheet 4 - Convert a mixed number into a proper fraction. - WITH ANSWER SHEET
Sheet 5 - Multiply a mixed number by an integer. - WITH ANSWER SHEET
Additionally, children will practise their simplifying skills throughout all five sheets.
Word versions have also been included so you can adapt each activity to your own cohort.
Three fantastic reading comprehensions based on three of the best fantasy texts for children. Each contains comprehension questions with question stems from the 2016, 2017 and 2018 SATs assessments and a detailed mark scheme.
1. The Hobbit - J.R.R Tolkien
2. The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe - C.S Lewis
3. Alice’s adventures in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
Perfect for guided reading, whole class text dissection or homework. Tried and tested with great results.
Three famous poems and reading comprehension questions to go with them. Questions include question types found in the 2016 and 2017 SATs papers or in End of Year assessments.
Poem 1 - You are old, Father William - Lewis Carroll
Poem 2 - Sick - Shel Silverstein
Poem 3 - Mary’s Lamb - Sarah Josepha Hale
I have used these as whole class exercises and for specific groups in guided reading to great effect.
Three famous poems and reading comprehension questions to go with them. Questions include question types found in the 2016 and 2017 SATs papers or in End of Year assessments.
Poem 1 - The Fisherman - Abbie Farwell Brown
Poem 2 - Jabberwocky - Lewis Carroll
Poem 3 - Wynken, Blynken, and Nod - Eugene Field
I have used these as whole class exercises and for specific groups in guided reading to great effect.
Perfect for tracking earnings over time, year on year comparisons and for month-on-month comparisons.
Tracks earnings for TES and TPT and provides an automatically updating graph for each.
The figures used in the spreadsheet are placeholder.
Twenty-five wordsearches covering every spelling pattern found in the National Curriculum for Years 2-6.
Ideal as homework, morning tasks, afternoon tasks, interventions or as golden time.
A fun way to learn the Year 2 spellings. Each wordsearch focuses on a different phoneme/spelling pattern:
-Long (o) as –old, -ost and -oll
-ss words
-Long (i) as –ild and -ind
-ll words
-wa and squa
-ck words
-war and wor
-ff and zz words
-all
-ch words
-short (u) as o 1
-sh words
-short (u) as o 2
-th words
A fun way for Year 5 & 6 children to revise and learn the National Curriculum spellings.
All spellings have been taken directly from the National Curriculum spelling appendix.
Can be used for homework, morning/afternoon tasks, golden time etc.
A fun way for Year 3 & 4 children to revise and learn the National Curriculum spellings.
All spellings have been taken directly from the National Curriculum spelling appendix.
This bundle includes fun ways to master fraction, decimal and percentage equivalencies.
1. An activity that uses short division and multiplying by 100 to convert a fraction into a decimal and percentage.
2. A fun, whole class Quiz, Quiz, Trade game.
3. Two fully interactive and hugely fun Millionaire Quiz! games for assessing progress.
4. Practice KS2 Sats questions in the form of a powerpoint.
Used to great success in Years 4, 5 and 6.
This resource specifically targets the skill of converting a fraction into a decimal and a percentage.
Children will be required to convert a fraction into a decimal using short division on the grid provided.
They will then convert that decimal into a percentage using the grid provided.
For struggling learners there is an A3 place value grid included to assist with multiplying by 100.
There is a worked example on the children's sheet.
Fully worked example answer sheet is included.
A worksheet aimed at Years 5-7 to secure their knowledge of passive verbs.
Activities include identifying passive verbs, using passive verbs in sentences, converting the active voice into the passive voice and using multiple passive verbs in a single paragraph, all within Victorian-themed sentences
Takes children through a progression to mastery, all on one sheet. Easy to understand and easy to mark.
Featuring functional correct/wrong screens and 50/50 lifelines, this is perfect for assessment or discovering what children already know. This new and improved interactive gameshow is an entertaining way to teach groups about The Nativity.
A free trial of my best-in-class version (minus the 50/50 functionality) is available here:
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/millionaire-quiz-free-trial-edition-11697409
There are 15 questions, testing children's knowledge of:
- Why Mary and Joseph had to travel
- The gifts the three wise men brought
- Advent Wreaths
- King Herod
...and more!
N.B The original logos for Who Wants to be a Millionaire are property of Sony Pictures Television. For this reason they have not been included, but a similar non-trademarked version has.
Please see my shop for other gameshows, worksheets, activities and time-saving ideas.
All feedback is welcome so please do comment and rate.
A very simple to use tracking grid that can be passed up with cohorts. All a teacher/LSA needs to do is put in the short date of when a child moved on to the next level/box.
Features approximate tracking of:
Target Tracker Band
Read, Write, Inc group
Old curriculum book bands
Can track as many or as few children as desired
A very simple template/proforma for children to fill in as they research a geographical area. This can easily be trimmed to fit on an A4 page in a book. Two versions have been included: an editable word document version and a PDF version.
Areas to be researched are:
Place/s of interest
Continent/s?
Approximately how many people live there?
What notable wildlife has their habitat there?
What notable bodies of water are at the location or nearby?
What natural resources (oil, wood, metals etc) are present?
What other continents or countries are nearest?
A page of blank cards that can be cut out, laminated and written on with whiteboard marker. Coloured green to match VCOP colouring for conjunctions.
I use these as visual prompts on all my working walls.
This resource is perfect for providing high-quality lessons for multiplying and dividing by 10, 100 and 1000.
The two activity sheets are each differentiated four ways and are designed to help you assess children’s abilities when presented with problems focused on various aspects of this National Curriculum Statement.
I have also included an editable A3 place value grid which will support less able children with some of the easier challenges.
Furthermore, if you wish to have a fun plenary or assessment game for this topic, I also have created an excellent, fully interactive Millionaire Quiz game that is tried, tested and well loved which is available here:
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/-11474442