Solve the code to reveal the shape names and match them to the correct shape. Perfect for Key Stage 1/lower Key Stage 2 revision of common 2D and 3D shape recognition and naming. There is an answer key included so that children can mark their own work if desired. I recently printed pages 2 and 3 of the file double-sided and used it as an end of term activity with my Year 1s - it kept them very quiet! It could also be used as a back to school baseline activity or to provide AfL information when you are about to teach a unit on shape. Shapes included on the worksheet are: 2D - circle, square, rectangle, pentagon, triangle, hexagon 3D - cube, sphere, pyramid, cuboid, cylinder, cone

Practise counting in 2s, 5s and 10s with these fun Easter puzzles! Perfect for Year 1 and revision in Year 2. The pictures help children to access the activity independently. I encouraged my pupils to work systematically, looking for the lowest multiple and working up because those that didn’t were more prone to making errors. I thought they would walk this activity but there was enough challenge in there to keep them interested and engaged. Spotting errors was a good way to check their understanding. There are six puzzles in total with the following multiples: 2, 4, 6, 8, 10, 12, 14, 16, 18, 20 5, 10, 15, 20, 25, 30, 35, 40, 45, 50 10, 20, 30, 40, 50, 60, 70, 80, 90, 100 22, 24, 26, 28, 30, 32, 34, 36, 38, 40 30, 40, 50, 60, 70, 80, 90, 100, 110, 120 35, 40, 45, 50, 55, 60, 65, 70, 75, 80

29 pages of Year 1 activities for teaching, practising and applying knowledge of counting forwards and backwards to 100. The learning journey allows for plenty of practice and consolidation to build fluency and understanding, beginning with numbers to 10 then 20 and finally 100. The activities provide opportunities for straightforward skills practise as well as reasoning and problem-solving. For more place value mastery resources for Year 1 take a look at: Finding one more and one less Counting in multiples of 2, 5 and 10

Great for Key Stage 1 SATs revision! Help your pupils to practise and become confident with the types of questions that arise on the end of KS1 SATs reading comprehension papers. Use these editable question templates to create limitless questions - based on your choice of text - and practise the content domains that the children will encounter in the KS1 reading SATs papers. These question templates create smarter comprehension questions for whole class and guided/focused reading groups. Example templates include: - 'Tick one' and 'tick two' style questions - True or false tables - Sequencing events by number - Matching boxes - 2 mark extended answer questions ...and many more. Also included in this download are two samples to model how to copy, paste and edit the template questions to create SATs style comprehensions either in PowerPoint or Word. Additionally, a 'question of the day' style model is included, generated from the editable question templates, that gives children practise at one particular style of question. Make sure your children are prepared and being tested on their reading ability, not their exam technique. All the best, Katharine7

These are one step more and less problems that I've been using in Year 1. We're practising the vocabulary of 'more' and 'less' and their association with add and subtract. I'm also doubling up on a bit of "know and recognise the value of different coins." The last three slides require secure understanding and reasoning skills and so are good for extension or mastery/more able work. They ask questions such as: "Stu has 8p. Every week he spends 2p on sweets. How many weeks will his money last for?" Or: 'Amandeep has 2p. Meera has 5p more in her purse. Which coins does Meera have in her purse? Can you draw all the different combinations of coins that Meera might have? I hope you find it useful!

Another set of red herring slides for my Year 1 class! Handy for the Year 1 phonics screening check, Year 2 revision and even end of Year R. The red herrings are a bit random, but the children love looking out for them. The ‘red herrings’ are slides within the powerpoint that don’t contain the featured grapheme, e.g. in a set of words for ‘ea’, a slide will pop up saying ‘shirt’ - a red herring. When they arrive the children put their hands together, make a fishy movement and call out ‘red herring!’ For some reason, they think it’s hysterical and I’m happy to go with it because they are engaged, they’re paying attention to the graphemes and best of all they’re having fun - I love hearing their cheeky giggles! I also use the slides to teach silent blending, how to break down longer words for reading and spelling patterns we’ve practised, e.g. words ending in ‘ed’ or ‘y’. I’ve really noticed their reading coming along and although it’s not entirely down to the red herring powerpoints as we do lots of stuff, I think they’re a solid part of it. I don’t use them every day because I don’t want the concept to get boring but I always get a ‘yessss!’ when I do. I’ve checked Letters and Sounds carefully against the National Curriculum and believe that all of the digraphs and trigraphs listed are included (between this set of powerpoints and the Phase 3 set) but if you spot any discrepancies, please get in touch and I’ll update the slides. I hope your class enjoy using this as much as mine do!

Words containing Phase 3 graphemes for reading practise. I made this resource this term for my Year 1 class and they love it! The red herrings are a bit random, but the children love looking out for them (they are words in the powerpoint that don’t contain the featured grapheme). When they arrive the children put their hands together, make a fishy movement and call out ‘red herring!’ They generally fall about laughing too. I don’t know why it’s so funny but I’m happy to go with it because they are engaged, they’re paying attention to the graphemes and best of all they’re having fun! I also use the slides to teach silent blending and how to break down longer words for reading. Handy for preparing for the Year 1 phonics screening check and I’ve really noticed their reading coming along. It’s not entirely down to the red herring powerpoints, they’re only one aspect of what we do, but I think they’re a solid part of it. I don’t use them every day because I don’t want the concept to get boring but I always get a ‘yessss!’ when I do. I’ve included the graphemes are, ore and ear (as in pear) in the trigraphs powerpoint as they’re in the Year 1 curriculum (although not in letters and sounds). I thought they would fit most conveniently in the trigraphs powerpoint. I also took out ‘ure’ as it doesn’t appear in the curriculum until Year 2 but you can easily add it back in by editing the powerpoint if you would like to use it. Many of the graphemes are also appropriate for Year R. I hope your class enjoy using this as much as mine do!

We've been teaching number bonds for a few weeks now. It makes me nervous to spend so long on a single objective but I am noticing fringe benefits. Obviously, the children are all doing well with their number bonds but they are also using and embedding their understanding of + and = symbols which they now all use without thinking. Also, somewhat subconsciously, they know what addition is. Many children are starting to notice the commutativity of addition and share what they've realised in plenaries. As they have noticed it for themselves, they really get it, which is great. I'll be using the same resources to teach related subtraction facts shortly and I'm hoping all the solid work we've done on number bonds to date will give us a good springboard for subtraction and its relationship to addition. This resource contains: - a range of number bond printables for 3 strategies - grid, bar and cherry picking. - a range of mastery printables to extend more able children and embed learning. - a few photos of the children's work. Year 1 national curriculum objective: Pupils should be taught to represent and use number bonds and related subtraction facts within 20.

Stories include: Little Red Riding Hood, The Gingerbread Man, The Frog Prince, The Three Little Pigs and Jack and the Beanstalk. Opportunities for pictorial or written responses - perfect for Year R and Year 1! This resource contains two files: 1. Making connections - children are encouraged to relate their own experiences to five different traditional tales. 2. Retelling - children are given a framework and some simple story vocabulary for retelling five different traditional tales. There is also a character and a speech bubble from each story where children can write recurring character phrases. Year 1 National Curriculum reading comprehension objectives: Pupils should be taught to: - develop pleasure in reading, motivation to read, vocabulary and understanding by: - being encouraged to link what they read or hear read to their own experiences. - becoming very familiar with key stories, fairy stories and traditional tales, retelling them and considering their particular characteristics. - recognising and joining in with predictable phrases.

Holiday and half term homework sheets targeted at Year 1 and linked to the 2014 National Curriculum. Children choose from a range of cross-curricular activities that suit their learning styles, interests and family time together. There are holiday sheets for all three half terms and the winter and spring holidays. There are two copies of the homework sheets. The first copy is a ready-to-use pdf file for you to simply print & go. The second copy is an editable powerpoint file as you may wish to change some of the tasks to suit your curriculum. You will need to add your own clip art to the editable file due to copyright terms and conditions.

Eight pages containing 32 progressive, pirate themed, 2-step word problems involving addition and subtraction. Each word problem is printed on a mini-treasure map and is intended to be stuck in individually so that working out can be shown around the word problem. The learning journey in this document is as follows: - Addition/subtraction of single digit numbers; - Addition/subtraction of 2-digit and single digit numbers; - Addition/subtraction of 2-digit numbers and tens; - Addition/subtraction of 2-digit numbers. Mathematics programme of study - Year 2: Pupils should be taught to: - solve problems with addition and subtraction. - add and subtract numbers using concrete objects, pictorial representations, and mentally, including: - a two-digit number and ones - a two-digit number and tens - two two-digit numbers - adding three one-digit numbers

A range of Carroll Diagrams for the classification and sorting of information. Themes include categories such as odd/even numbers, in the 5 times table/not in the 5 times table which hit multiple maths curriculum targets in one activity. Alternatively, there are cross-curricular and popular culture themes, e.g. animals, Star Wars and Pop Artists. National Curriculum: - interpret and construct simple tables (Year 2) - interpret and present data using tables (Year 3) - identify and describe the properties of 2D shapes, including the number of sides and line symmetry in a vertical line (Year 2) - identify right angles (Year 3) - recall and use multiplication and division facts for the 2, 5 and 10 multiplication tables, including recognising odd and even numbers (Year 2) - use the language of more than, less than (Year 1)

Children create their own A5-sized 2D shape fact file. They cut out the shape headings, matching shape image and description from the muddled up shapes document and stick it onto blank A4 paper, folded in half. Finally, put all the pages together with the cover pages to create the shape fact file and write a blurb for the back. I originally created this as an independent task for my more able Year 3’s but this would also suit Year 4 children and as revision for upper KS2. Included in this resource: - Fact file front and back cover pages - Muddled up 2D shapes document National curriculum references: - recognise angles as a property of shape - identify right angles, identify whether angles are greater than or less than a right angle - identify pairs of perpendicular lines - compare and classify geometric shapes, including quadrilaterals and triangles, based on their properties and sizes - identify acute and obtuse angles

Comprehensive KS2 unit of work on recounts based around a school trip or school event but could easily be adapted for other recount subject matter. The planning uses Red Nose Day as a model and was originally written for Year 3, also suitable for Year 4. The unit of 6 lessons follows the composition progression laid out in the National Curriculum - plan, draft and write, evaluate and edit, including proof-reading. Planning includes ideas for cutaway and pullback groups and EAL/SEN activities. All resources required to deliver the unit of work are included in this download. There are starter activities as pdfs, but if you would like to change any of these, or edit the success criteria to suit your class, there are also editable powerpoint slides for you to adapt. All editable resources are indicated below; if they do not include ‘editable’ they will be a pdf file. There’s so much in here! Included in this unit: - Recount unit of work planning document (editable) - Session 1 presentation - Session 1 presentation (editable version) - Recount example (editable) - Time connective word cards - Recount writing prompt cards - More able recount lesson planning activity template (editable) - Photos of my recount skeleton framework and recount plan displayed in my classroom - Recount planning writing frame (editable) - Session 2 presentation (editable) - Four starter activity slides as a pdf - Session 3 presentation (editable) -Sentence builder activity for SEN/EAL (editable) - More able evaluation checklist (editable).

Children experiment with applique, running stitch, back stitch and over-sewing in this textiles unit of work. They design, plan and make a tabard-style Stone Age tunic for a teddy of their own from home. Finally, children evaluate their final product against their plan and look at textile artists in the UK. My class loved this unit, they worked with such focus and I was very proud! Threading the needles was a bit tricky so I allocated some of my more able needle-threaders to tables to help sort out problems. One child sewed her tunic to her jumper, so warn your class about that classic mistake! Contained in this unit: Planning for a 7 lesson unit of work Planning template for the tunics Starter game Evaluation scaffold Less able evaluation writing frame DT National Curriculum references: When designing and making, pupils should be taught to: Design - generate, develop, model and communicate their ideas through discussion, annotated sketches (and) pattern pieces. Make - select from and use a wider range of tools and equipment to perform practical tasks [for example, cutting, shaping, joining and finishing], accurately - select from and use a wider range of materials and components, including (construction materials,) textiles (and ingredients), according to their functional properties and aesthetic qualities. Evaluate - evaluate their ideas and products against their own design criteria and consider the views of others to improve their work

This Year 1 unit of maths work is for early on in Year 1. The learning journey focuses on learning to read and write the numbers 1 - 10 in numerals and words as well as counting to 30 forwards and backwards. These numbers are lower than the end of year (EOY) expectations for Year 1 but activities can easily be extended for more able pupils or if you are teaching this unit later in the year. NC objectives covered: • Count to and across 30 (EOY = 100), forward s and backwards, beginning with 0 or 1 or from any given number. • Count, read and write numbers to 50 in numerals. • Read and write numbers from 1-10 (EOY = 1-20) This unit includes: - a unit of work overview - an entry/exit pass for AfL - number frames and number cards (pupils pick a card and dot in the number frames) - editable pom-pom serving game (group game: pupils pick a card, 'waiter' has to serve the correct number and colour of pom-poms - use tweezers for fine motor skill practise!) - roll and write recording frame - shape investigation - shapes and instructions - rainbow spelling sheet - 1 - 10 in words bookmarks

Three differentiated 'Seaside Snack Shack' menus for addition and subtraction work as well as one-step problem solving involving addition and subtraction, including missing number problems. The three menus cover objectives as follows: Menu 1 - - use number bonds within 10. Menu 2 - - use number bonds within 20 - add and subtract one-digit and two-digit numbers to 20, including 0. Menu 3 - - solve one-step problems that involve addition and subtraction, using concrete objects and pictorial representations, and missing number problems such as 7 = ? - 9.

Year 1 writing frames/scaffolds for our first topic - 'Wish you were here...' We will be using the 'Holidays - joining with and - writing scaffolds' to practise orally rehearsing sentences including words joined with 'and' before writing them. Moving on from using the scaffold we will be writing sentences about our holiday with more independence. We'll be using the postcard templates as role-play writing materials but they could be used in a variety of ways including phonics application, early morning work or incorporated into a whole lesson. The postcards include three levels of differentiation.

Set up independent spelling practise of the Year 1 CEW with a selection of meaningful spelling activities to suit a range of learning styles. These could be used as morning jobs or small group work allowing you to work with a focus group whilst knowing that your independent groups are carrying out learning activities and not just ‘holding’ tasks. The recording sheets contain the 45 common exception words contained in National Curriculum for Year 1. There are two designs with a few different headings to suit your classroom practise. I use one for recording which words they can read and then a second one for those they can spell. Children enjoy colouring in the sheet and working towards completing the whole sheet. Included with this resource: Spelling practise menus in colour or in black and white. Notes on each activity for the teacher/TA. Rainbow spelling worksheet (colour / black and white) Spelling Hunt worksheet (colour / black and white) Common Exception Words pupil recording sheet

Bookmark targets cards in a variety of colours and with a range of headings, including a blank space for you to write on your own if preferred. The target cards include a 'Personal Best' box for children/teacher to record their achievement and attempt to improve upon it. E.g. I can use full stops correctly. PB - 5 (full stops used correctly). I've found 'PB's to be very motivating in the past! They also give children a sense of ownership and involvement with their targets.