A simple and child friendly assessment to allow you to quickly see where your children are within the Year 2 English curriculum and highlight any individual or class gaps in learning. Can be used each term to show progress.

Differentiated division activities, enough for two sessions. The first activity introduces division, the second activity includes division with remainders. Both intended as adult led activities, but could be practise once children have been taught the skills.

Differentiated activities to teach children to recognise and use adverbs in their writing, enough for two sessions.

An introduction to the world map and the map of the British Isles, and a simple activity to go with it.

I created this PowerPoint to teach the Homes from the Past history unit to my Year 1s. It contains teaching material such as photos and captions, links to interactive websites, etc. At the end of the PowerPoint is a small unit on Homes around the World, a geography unit.

A sheet that encourages children to imagine what thet could see, smell, hear and feel in a setting.

Activities based on the Alfie and Annie Rose stories by Shirley Hughes. The first activity is for the children to describe both characters, and the second is for the children to retell the story of Mr McNally's hat in a story-map style.

Differentiated activties to allow children to practice finding halves and quarters of 2D shapes and numbers, and then a follow up lesson in the same format to allow children to find quarters of 2D shapes and numbers.

I made this Powerpoint to encourage children to focus on punctuation and capital letters.

I made a 'character drawer&', full of brightly coloured laminated well known characters (from children&';s literature, Disney, Pixar, etc), and a 'settings drawer&', full of laminated A4 sheets showing all sorts of different settings, including photographs, animated and multicultural scenes. The idea is that children choose a character/characters and a setting, and write an imaginative story or some sentences. I also included tiny flashcards saying each of the characters names, so the children can match up the pictures with the words.

I made this powerpoint for those few minutes that appear every now and again during the school day, just before dinner or breaktime or if the children just really need a quick break. I have used it countless times since I started teaching and it has always been popular with the kids, I used to leave them with a riddle 'cliffhanger&' - Sending them out to break without revealing the answer, they&';d spend all breaktime discussing what the answer could possibly be!

Simple bunting for each child to fill out with their name, age and a drawing of themselves. To be hung up in the classroom during the first week back!

I made this resource to help my Year 1's become familiar with matching up lower case letters to their equivalent capital letters, by matching the ice-cream to the correct cone.

I wanted to enrage my Year 3 children in order to encourage them to do some brilliant persuasive writing, so I mocked up a letter from 'Bruce Boggington&', the chief director of a pickled onion factory, who wrote to the children explaining that he would be building his new factory all over their school field. The children were suitably outraged by the letter and produced some great writing, with lots of good points!

I made a Powerpoint to tell the story of The Giving Tree by Shel Silverstein. The story has a powerful message about friendship and being selfless, as well as being kind to others. I have also uploaded a simple worksheet that my class used as a story map, recreating the story in a comic strip style.

I wanted an activity that my Y1 children could access independently whilst sitting on the carpet before the register first thing in the morning. I put together a selection of 'spot the difference' activities, to encourage quiet teamwork, counting and observation skills, and to allow me time to talk to parents etc if I need to.

A look at the different teeth and skulls of herbivores, carnivores and omnivores. The skulls on the sheet are (from top to bottom): Horse (Herbivore - Flat molars for grinding plants) Rabbit (Herbivore - Sharp canines for nibbling) Wolf (Carnivore - Pointed canines and incisors) Sealion (Omnivore - Eats fish and plants - Flat molars and pointed canines). The children wrote information about each picture in the speech bubbles: 'I have flat molars for grinding plants', etc.

A quick and simple science investigation to show how plants use water. Just cut the end off a piece of celery and pop it in some red or blue food colouring - Eventually, the celery will have a red or blue tint as it absorbs the colouring, particularly on the end. We left it over the weekend to ensure nice bright results, but overnight would probably work too.

My class 'received&' a letter from Captain Pete Pigeon, during our literacy unit on writing letters. We wrote back to him on the &';scrolls' and it made a really nice display, along with the old fashioned map, compass and title.

I used this during our Ancient Egypt topic as part of a wall display.