Convince me why. Give me a reason. Learning to write persuasively is an important skill for our students to acquire. How else are they going to convince their parents to let them get a pet or their school to host a non-uniform day? Get equipped for your next Writing lesson with these sets of child-speak persuasive writing success criteria! This pack includes: Child-speak success criteria for persuasive text and persuasive letter writing Differentiated sets of success criteria with three levels of challenge Display posters with WALTs and success criteria Mini success criteria for students to stick into books Editable text fields so you can customise to suit your learners Link to a Google Doc with full editable success criteria When you purchase this resource, you will be able to download a pdf which has a link to give you access to a Google Drive folder with: A 31-page Google Slides presentation with editable success criteria (+ pdf version) A 2-page Google Doc with full list of differentiated success criteria (+ pdf version) This resource is appropriate for students who are just learning to write about their opinions through to those who are working towards utilising rhetorical questions and emotive language for effect. The easiest level is suitable for Year 1/2 students (aged 5-6), the mid level is suitable for Year 2/3 (aged 6-7), and the high level is suitable for Year 3/4/5 (ages 7-9). After more persuasive writing resources? Here are some other products you might like: Persuasive Writing Planner Persuasive Writing For & Against Chart Looking for other writing resources? Check out these sets: Success Criteria for Recount Writing Success Criteria for Narrative Writing Success Criteria for Letter Writing Success Criteria for Instruction Writing Success Criteria for Explanation Writing Success Criteria for Descriptive Writing Success Criteria for Biography Writing Happy teaching & learning! Be purposeful teachers Who are in control Feel inspired And know they’ve done enough. ☆ If you found this product helpful, please leave a review below! @attheminute.teaching

Get your students conducting their own statistical investigations - come up with a question to investigate and get surveying! Students need to form simple conclusions from their data at the end of the activity. Optional challenge included. Happy teaching & learning! Be purposeful teachers Who are in control Feel inspired And know they’ve done enough. ☆ If you found this product helpful, please leave a review below! @attheminute.teaching

So you’ve laid the groundwork by introducing multiplication with materials, your students have done lots of practice and get the concept - now, you just need a worksheet to consolidate what that mysterious ‘x’ symbol means…ta da! This download includes two worksheets with the Learning Intention WALT use skip counting to solve multiplication equations. The first worksheet includes visuals showing groups of two to help students make connections between their use of materials and the written multiplication equation. The second worksheet provides a numberline to support students with skip counting in 2’s and checks students’ understanding of the multiplication symbol with word problems and challenge questions. Happy teaching & learning! Be purposeful teachers Who are in control Feel inspired And know they’ve done enough. ☆ If you found this product helpful, please leave a review below! @attheminute.teaching

This task requires students to draw and list the properties of the following quadrilaterals: square, rectangle, rhombus, parallelogram, kite, arrowhead and trapezium. Use this worksheet as a Geometry pre-test to check that your students know a square has 4 sides or, after you’ve taught them a thing or two, get them marking equal angles and identifying rotational symmetry like a pro! Happy teaching & learning! Be purposeful teachers Who are in control Feel inspired And know they’ve done enough. ☆ If you found this product helpful, please leave a review below! @attheminute.teaching

Have your students mastered finding quarters using materials? Test their mental maths skills with the handy trick of finding half and half again! This worksheet steps students through calculating 1/4’s of numbers using their knowledge of halves. Includes WALT, Success Criteria and Key Words. Happy teaching & learning! Be purposeful teachers Who are in control Feel inspired And know they’ve done enough. ☆ If you found this product helpful, please leave a review below! @attheminute.teaching

Don’t you just hate it when you do all this work with materials and then don’t have a follow-up worksheet which matches what you did? In this finding quarters worksheet, students can reinforce materials learning by sharing out counters and then show their understanding with a couple of word problems. Worksheet includes WALT, Success Criteria and Key Words. Happy teaching & learning! Be purposeful teachers Who are in control Feel inspired And know they’ve done enough. ☆ If you found this product helpful, please leave a review below! @attheminute.teaching

Sick of wonky lines and missing axis labels on your students’ graphs? Get them on track with this blank bar graph template! This worksheet includes a WALT, Success Criteria and Key Words for presenting data in a bar graph. Happy teaching & learning! Be purposeful teachers Who are in control Feel inspired And know they’ve done enough. ☆ If you found this product helpful, please leave a review below! @attheminute.teaching

Want to test out your students’ basic facts knowledge or looking for a practice task for homework? You can’t go wrong with a basic facts worksheet! This download includes the following worksheets: x2 Basic Facts Addition to 10 (50 questions) x2 Basic Facts Addition to 20 (50 questions) x2 Basic Facts Subtraction to 20 (50 questions) x1 Basic Facts Multiplication 2’s, 5’s, 10’s (50 questions) x1 Basic Facts Multiplication up to 12 times tables (100 questions) Worksheets include a space for students to record the basic facts they need to learn. Happy teaching & learning! Be purposeful teachers Who are in control Feel inspired And know they’ve done enough. ☆ If you found this product helpful, please leave a review below! @attheminute.teaching

We want to promote curiosity in our learners right? Where better to start than by constructing questions! Instead of writing 10 questions starting with ‘What’, get students to use the sentence starters on this grid - easy! Comes with 2 copies per page. Happy teaching & learning! Be purposeful teachers Who are in control Feel inspired And know they’ve done enough. ☆ If you found this product helpful, please leave a review below! @attheminute.teaching

Worried that your students are living increasingly sedentary lives? Encourage them to get moving - whether that’s through organised sport, dance, running, jumping or climbing! 60 minutes of physical activity is a must for children - let’s make it happen! Happy teaching & learning! Be purposeful teachers Who are in control Feel inspired And know they’ve done enough. ☆ If you found this product helpful, please leave a review below! @attheminute.teaching

Let’s admit it, we probably need to use this as much as the kids. Get your students thinking about what they’re actually eating each week! Are they eating a balanced diet? Could they choose a new food or recipe to try next week? (ask mum or dad first!). Are vegetables mysteriously missing off their meals in the weekends? This printable worksheet can be used to support learning about diet in Health lessons and also give students an awareness and ownership of their own eating habits. Makes for an easy homework task or quiet activity to settle students at the beginning of the school day. Now, tuck in! Happy teaching & learning! Be purposeful teachers Who are in control Feel inspired And knows they’ve done enough. ☆ If you found this product helpful, please leave a review below! @attheminute.teaching

Can’t get outside for PE because the heavens opened up moments before your lesson was due to start? How about some cross-curricular work instead? Get your students to create their own game - complete with a comprehensive equipment list! Happy teaching & learning! Be purposeful teachers Who are in control Feel inspired And knows they’ve done enough. ☆ If you found this product helpful, please leave a review below! @attheminute.teaching

Oh the dreaded start of term goal setting! Forget the fancy wall displays that go untouched for the rest of the year! Keep this goal setting chart in an easy-to-access place and get your students to track each time they take an action towards achieving their goals by colouring in a square of the border! Happy teaching & learning! Be purposeful teachers Who are in control Feel inspired And knows they’ve done enough. ☆ If you found this product helpful, please leave a review below! @attheminute.teaching

Create a colourful classroom display with buckets of possibilities! Use this as a one-off activity or make a weekly time to show gratitude and get students to write a post-it message for a peer to stick on their poster and ‘fill their bucket’. Happy teaching & learning! Be purposeful teachers Who are in control Feel inspired And knows they’ve done enough. ☆ If you found this product helpful, please leave a review below! @attheminute.teaching

Get your students thinking abstractly - what makes them special? A cup of love, a splash of the giggles, a can of worms and a tinkle of trouble? Flour, eggs and milk are fine too. Looking for other start of term activities? Check out this new Back to School Activity Booklet! Happy teaching & learning! Be purposeful teachers Who are in control Feel inspired And knows they’ve done enough. ☆ If you found this product helpful, please leave a review below! @attheminute.teaching

Sick of the same old ‘All About Me’ worksheets that you do EVERY year? Well, here’s a fresh one! This worksheet has 23 questions for students to answer about themselves which will give you a great insight into what makes them tick (and what gets on their nerves)! These can be used as a wall display or tucked away for students to reflect on later in the year. *24 Takes for 2024 now added! Looking for other start of term activities? Check out this new Back to School Activity Booklet! Good luck for the new school year! Be purposeful teachers Who are in control Feel inspired And know they’ve done enough. ☆ If you found this product helpful, please leave a review below! @attheminute.teaching

Get set for the new school year with these ready-to-go printable activities! NOW ALSO INCLUDING: Back to School booklet! Here’s a little bit about each of the worksheets included: Goal setting template Oh the dreaded start of term goal setting! Forget the fancy wall displays that go untouched for the rest of the year! Keep this goal setting chart in an easy-to-access place and get your students to track each time they take an action towards achieving their goals. 23 Takes for 2023 - Getting to Know You Worksheet - UPDATE 11/01/24: 2024 version now added! Sick of the same old ‘All About Me’ worksheets that you do EVERY year? Well, here’s a fresh one! It’s the same but different. No more “Choose 3 adjectives to describe yourself” …hooray! Just “3 must-have items for surviving lockdown”. Oh. Such fun. Recipe for Me - Getting to Know You Activity Get your students thinking abstractly - what makes them special? A cup of love, a splash of the giggles, a can of worms and a tinkle of trouble? Flour, eggs and milk are fine too. Summer Highlights Template - Surfboard Surf’s up! Time may be up for the holidays but don’t let that stop you riding the wave of summer into your start of term activities! Students can write about or draw the highlight of their holiday. PDF comes with a blank version for colouring in. Summer Recount Writing Frame - Ice Creams Your #1 go-to start of term writing topic: Summer holiday recounts! What screams summer more than ice cream? PDF includes wide and narrow-lined versions. Summer Recount Writing Frame - Jandals Your #1 go-to start of term writing topic: Summer holiday recounts! That footwear you see lining the borders is 100% “jandals”. “Sandals”, “flip-flops” and “thongs”? Ahhh yeah nah mate. PDF includes wide and narrow-lined versions. Summer-Themed Senses Recording Chart Get students generating vocab beyond ‘yellow sun’ for their summer recounts. Give students this recording chart to brainstorm what they saw, heard, smelt, felt and tasted. Challenge them to add a range of interesting adjectives and verbs. What Fills My Bucket Create a colourful classroom display with buckets of possibilities. Use this as a one-off activity or make a weekly time to show gratitude and get students to write a post-it message for a peer to ‘fill their bucket’. Happy teaching & learning! Be purposeful teachers Who are in control Feel inspired And know they’ve done enough. ☆ If you found this product helpful, please leave a review below! @attheminute.teaching

Give your students the opportunity to get creative with these four design tasks! These worksheets are designed for students to complete independently and can be used as a start of term or fast-finisher activity. The tasks provide a great opportunity to promote discussion around personal preferences and the need to back up your views with reasons. Students will need a basic understanding of ‘bird’s-eye view’ and keys to complete the first two tasks. This pack includes: My Dream Classroom Design Are your students looking with envy at the class next door wondering why they didn’t get brand new modern learning furniture? You may not be able to change anything but what’s wrong with dreaming? Get those future designers err…designing! My Dream House Design Dream big or create a cosy hideaway - either goes! Get your students working on their bird’s-eye view drawing skills and throw in a key for those fast-finishers! My Dream Day at School Get an insight into what your students really rate at school - who knows, they may come up with some brilliant ideas! If not, well I’m sure they’ll enjoy the chance to be the master planners! Rethinking the Class Timetable Are your students always moaning about having Maths first on a Monday? Do they wish there was more time for PE? Let them be the master planners and come up with a new class timetable! Happy teaching & learning! Be purposeful teachers Who are in control Feel inspired And know they’ve done enough. ☆ If you found this product helpful, please leave a review below! @attheminute.teaching

Snag yourself some PE & Health activities! 16 Fitness Circuit Cards Need a ready-to-go fitness activity? Need to get your students out of class to let off some steam? Set up between 1-16 exercise stations in a circuit and hit start on your 1 minute timer. You WILL break a sweat (or at least your students will!). Bonus resources: Exercise Log Worried that your students are living increasingly sedentary lives? Encourage them to get moving - whether that’s through organised sport, dance, running, jumping or climbing! 60 minutes of physical activity is a must for children - let’s make it happen! Design a Game Template Can’t get outside for PE because the heavens opened up moments before your lesson was due to start? How about some cross-curricular work instead? Get your students to create their own game - complete with a comprehensive equipment list! Food Diary Let’s admit it, we probably need to use this as much as the kids. Get your students thinking about what they’re actually eating each week! Are they eating a balanced diet? Could they choose a new food or recipe to try next week? (Ask mum or dad first!). Happy teaching & learning! Be purposeful teachers Who are in control Feel inspired And know they’ve done enough. ☆ If you found this product helpful, please leave a review below! @attheminute.teaching

Blank Venn diagram perfect for illustrating similarities and differences between two things. Happy teaching & learning! Be purposeful teachers Who are in control Feel inspired And know they’ve done enough. ☆ If you found this product helpful, please leave a review below! @attheminute.teaching