I am an ex-primary head teacher and English, Maths and History specialist. I've mostly worked in KS2, often in Year 6. Although for the last two years, I've been working in Year 1, which has been delightful!
All the resources have been used successfully with children in a range of schools all over the country.
I am constantly reviewing and updating my resources. Please follow me to ensure that you have the most up to date versions of the resources you buy.
I am an ex-primary head teacher and English, Maths and History specialist. I've mostly worked in KS2, often in Year 6. Although for the last two years, I've been working in Year 1, which has been delightful!
All the resources have been used successfully with children in a range of schools all over the country.
I am constantly reviewing and updating my resources. Please follow me to ensure that you have the most up to date versions of the resources you buy.
Drawing on the new History Curriculum and focussing on Aims: Strands 4 and 5 this resource includes:
A collection of nine quotes from contemporary sources,
An explanation of five activities that can be carried out using these resources
Planning Templates to support arguments and a chart to help summarise arguments about the campaign for votes for women.
Learning Objectives:
• To understand historical concepts such as continuity and change, cause and consequence, similarity, difference and significance,
• To make connections, draw contrasts, analyse trends, frame historically-valid questions and create their own structured accounts, including written narratives and analyses
• To understand the methods of historical enquiry, including how evidence is used rigorously to make historical claims, and discern how and why contrasting arguments and interpretations of the past have been constructed.
Learning Outcomes:
Pupils will be able to:
• recognise and discern between arguments made for and against allowing women the vote.
• draw on primary resources to produce a reasoned debate on the pros and cons of allowing women the vote.
• produce their own persuasive argument in favour (or against) allowing women the vote.
• produce a balanced argument on the advantages and disadvantages of allowing women the vote.
• Produce their own written narrative about the campaign for women to be allowed to vote.
Complete resources allowing you to deliver the phonics lessons to children in school or at home in the event of a class, school or local closure.
The resource consists of:
a youtube version of each class based lesson for use when your pupils are learning at home.
planning, resources, interactive whiteboard lessons both for Promethean and Smartboard, a PowerPoint starter and all additional resources required to deliver the same lesson yourself.
A complete half term’s resources (Y1 Autumn 1 or Autumn 2) allowing you to deliver the phonics lessons to children in school or at home in the event of a class, school or local closure.
The resource consists of:
a youtube version of each class based lesson for use when your pupils are learning at home.
planning, resources, interactive whiteboard lessons both for Promethean and Smartboard, a PowerPoint starter and all additional resources required to deliver the same lesson yourself.
A complete half term’s resources (Y1 Autumn 2 or Spring 1) allowing you to deliver the phonics lessons to children in school or at home in the event of self-isolation or a class, school or local closure.
The bundle consists of:
• a youtube version of every class-based lesson for use when your pupils are self-isolating and learning at home.
planning,
• resources,
• interactive whiteboard lessons both for Promethean (Activinspire) and Smartboard Whiteboards.
• a PowerPoint starter, and
• all additional resources required to deliver the same lessons yourself.
A complete half term’s resources (Y1 Spring 1 or Spring 2) allowing you to deliver the phonics lessons to children in school or at home in the event of self-isolation or a class, school or local closure.
The bundle consists of:
• a youtube version of every class-based lesson for use when your pupils are self-isolating and learning at home.
planning,
• resources,
• interactive whiteboard lessons both for Promethean (Activinspire) and Smartboard Whiteboards.
• a PowerPoint starter, and
• all additional resources required to deliver the same lessons yourself.
If your class enjoyed these activities, visit: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resources/shop/MikeRichards
A complete half term’s resources (Y1 Spring 2 or Summer) allowing you to deliver the phonics lessons to children in school or at home in the event of self-isolation or a class, school or local closure. The bundle consists of:
• a youtube version of every class-based lesson for use when your pupils are self-isolating and learning at home.
planning,
• resources,
• interactive whiteboard lessons both for Promethean (Activinspire) and Smartboard Whiteboards.
• a PowerPoint starter, and
• all additional resources required to deliver the same lessons yourself.
If your class enjoyed these activities, visit: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resources/shop/MikeRichards
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
18 weeks worth of Guided Reading
Key Stage 2 comprehensions. Text includes a range of non fiction, fictionalised, historical texts and short poetry. Questions include whole range of SAT style questions such as: inference and deduction, prediction and factual recall. Ideal for Guided groups, homework or whole class activity,
A set of resources to enable you to bring the Anglo Saxon period to life.
This includes a choice of two different sets of comprehension questions (the latter differentiated) , as well as two investigation type activities and a time line which can be used for display as well as at the start and end of the topic for assessment.
Also inow ncluding a Time-line of British history to allow you to provide a context of where Anglo Saxon Britain fits in the larger history of the British Isles.
Key Stage 2 comprehensions. Ideal for homework or closed activity. Differentiated for main group and More able. Activity includes: Two texts factual and eye witness, a sequencing activity, two sets of comprehension questions, stimuli for short written task. MA also includes glossary dictionary work.
A collection of activities, comprehensions and internet research projects ideal for topic work linked to dinosaurs.
The pack includes four comprehensions, three internet research led display activities and a skimming and scanning matching activity.
There are also two example simplified comprehension activities that could be run for your support groups, while the rest of the class complete the dinosaur comprehensions.
Key Stage 2 comprehensions. Text includes a range of non fiction, fictionalised, historical texts and short poetry. Questions include whole range of SAT style questions such as: inference and deduction, prediction and factual recall. Ideal for Guided groups, homework or whole class activity,
A collection of resources to prove a background to life in Roman Britain including two investigative activities and a collection of comprehensions which could be used for homework.
Three interactive quizzes designed as assessment or revision of grammar knowledge. They cover:
- recognising and giving examples of common grammatical terms.
- knowledge and use of punctuation.
- knowledge and use of verbs including progressive and perfect tenses, passive and active voice and subjunctive.
A complete set of Guided Reading resources for a half term.
George's Marvellous Medicine - HA
The Were-puppy - HA/ MA
Horrid Henry / The Mousehole Cat - MA
The Worst Witch - MA
Connie and Rollo / ESP - LA
A ten comprehension pack designed to support work on Natural Disasters.
Each comprehension consists of glossary work on words in text, sequencing words within sentences, word recognition sentences, comprehension questions tied to each text.
Comprehensions cover:
An introduction to Natural Disasters
Volcanoes
Pompeii
Earthquakes
The Lisbon Earthquake
The Kobe Earthquake
Earthquakes Today
The Richter Scale
The Mercalli Scale
Earthquake Prediction
Earthquake Defence
A complete Programme of work for teaching the Victorians in either Key Stage 2 or Key Stage 3. The pack includes Summary Planning providing a suggested sequence of teaching which includes Time-line work and a series of Historical Investigation and debate activities based using quotes from people alive in the Victorian times and Victorian novels.
Additionally, there are ten comprehensions included that could be used as additional whole class activities or as homework.
