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.
Topics covered are:
Arithmetic (Paper 1) - addition, subtraction, multiplication and division of 2 digit - 6 digit numbers, decimals, fractions and BODMAS
Maths reasoning (Paper 2 and Paper 3) - problem solving involving multiplication and division; problems involving fractions and decimals (sequencing and converting and calculating fractions of quantities ) problems involving measures and conversion.
Each session ends with AfL work drawn from the 2016 SATs papers.
Each session is supported by presentations for Smartboard and for Promethean, worked examples in the form of You Tube clips for your own use or with your class and 4 way differentiated independent activities.
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.
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.
Alfred the Great – Fact from Fiction
LO: To understand how people’s lives have shaped this nation and how Britain has influenced and been influenced by the wider world. (KS2)
LO: To apply the above to the study of an aspect or theme in British history that consolidates and extends pupils’ chronological knowledge from before 1066 (KS3)
A complete activity to help children understand the way that information about historical figures although rooted in fact, can also have legends attached to them.
The activity consists of:
Teaching Input:
1. A powerpoint providing information about the life and significance of Alfred the Great, both fact and fiction organised around the following sections:
- who Alfred was
- his early life
- his early reign
- Wessex under siege
- his flight and exile in the Marshes of Althelney
- his victory over the Vikings
- the subsequent peace
- the end of his reign
- his legacy to Britain.
This can either be run as an introduction, or shared with children in groups or pairs.
Independent Task:
2. A sorting activity consisting of a series of statements which are either factual or legendary about King Alfred. (This includes a fact sheet for teacher use, providing the correct answers and a series of websites which provide additional source information)
3. A template to allow children to sort the information provided into Truth or Legend.
Challenge / Extension / AG&T
Using websites listed, children could try to find additional information about both peoples.
Plenary
Mark with the children, getting them to identify how they knew whether or not something was a legend or the truth (links with Literacy language of myths and legends).
Pose and discuss the statement Why do you think there are so many stories told about Alfred the Great.
A plan, set of teaching resources, Interactive Whiteboard presentations for both Promethean and Smartboards.
This resource uses the questions on 2016 Key Stage 2 SATs papers 1, 2 and 3 to revise your class' understanding of quick arithmetic methods and revise a specific aspect of the reasoning papers finishing with an AfL style plenary using exemplar questions from the 2016 SATs paper.
This is the seventh lesson in a revision programme designed to prepare Year 6 children for the Maths SATs papers 1, 2 and 3.
Learning Objectives covered:
To multiply whole numbers, decimals or fractions quickly (arithmetic starter)
To solve problems involving multiplication and division
To use inverse operations
A plan, set of teaching resources, Interactive Whiteboard presentations for both Promethean and Smartboards.
This resource uses the questions on 2016 Key Stage 2 SATs papers 1, 2 and 3 to revise your class' understanding of quick arithmetic methods and revise a specific aspect of the reasoning papers finishing with an AfL style plenary using exemplar questions from the 2016 SATs paper.
This is the twelfth lesson in a revision programme designed to prepare Year 6 children for the Maths SATs papers 1, 2 and 3.
Learning Objectives covered:
To solve arithmetic multiplication problems involving large numbers, decimals and fractions .
To make use of BODMAS to solve multistep arithmetic problems
To solve problems involving geometry
Learning Outcomes:
Pupils can:
• draw 2-D shapes using given dimensions and angles.
• compare and classify geometric shapes based on their properties and sizes and find unknown angles in any triangles, quadrilaterals, and regular polygons.
• recognise angles where they meet at a point, are on a straight line, or are vertically opposite, and find missing angles.
4 pairs of IWB presentations linked to Place Value covering all aspects of Place Value to allow you to meet expectations of current (2014 onwards) National Curriculum for Mathematics.
The worksheets cover the following learning objectives:
Year 5
- read, write, order and compare numbers to at least 1,000,000 and determine the value of each digit
- round any number up to 1,000,000 to the nearest 10, 100, 1,000, 10,000 and 100,000
Year 6
- read, write, order and compare numbers up to 10,000,000 and determine the value of each digit
- round any whole number to a required degree of accuracy
KS3
- understand and use place value for decimals, measures and integers of any size
- round numbers and measures to an appropriate degree of accuracy [for example, to a number of decimal places or significant figures]
NB also available are the worksheets to go with these presentations, also for £2 and a complete 5 lesson teaching package (including both presentations, worksheets, starters and lesson plans) for £2.50.
3 lessons designed to introduce the use of negative numbers in Year 5 and Year 6.
Also would be useful for children who are struggling with the concept in Key Stage 3.
A complete set of Guided Reading resources for a half term.
The Silver Sword- HA
Flour Babies / Diary of a Wimpy Kid - MA
Charlotte's Web / James and the Giant Peach- LA
A complete set of guided reading for a half term.,
The Eagle of the Ninth - HA
War Horse / Why the Whales Came - MA
Yes, No, Maybe / Molly McBride - LA/MA
The Angel of Nitshill Road - LA.
A complete half term's Guided reading for Year 3 or Year 4
Why the Whales Came - HA
Billy the Kid / the BFG - MA
the Ruthless Romans / Esio Trot / the Magic Finger - LA
3 sets of 4 way differentiated worksheets covering all aspects of Negative Numbers to allow you to meet expectations of current (2014 onwards) National Curriculum for Mathematics.
The worksheets cover the following learning objectives:
to count forwards and backwards with positive and negative whole numbers (Year 5)
to interpret negative numbers in context, count forwards and backwards with positive and negative whole numbers, including through 0 (Year 5)
to use negative numbers, and calculate intervals across 0 (Year 6)
use negative numbers in context, and calculate intervals across 0 (Year 6)
to solve problems involving negative numbers (Year 5 & Year 6)
to order positive and negative integers (KS3)
to apply this knowledge to bar and line graphs. (KS3)
to select appropriate concepts, methods and techniques to apply to unfamiliar and non-routine problems (KS3)
3 sets of interactive presentations / teaching introductions covering all aspects of Negative Numbers to allow you to meet expectations of current (2014 onwards) National Curriculum for Mathematics.
The presentations are suitable for use with Smartboard Notebook software and Promethean ActivInspire flipchart software.
The presentations cover the following learning objectives:
to count forwards and backwards with positive and negative whole numbers (Year 5)
to interpret negative numbers in context, count forwards and backwards with positive and negative whole numbers, including through 0 (Year 5)
to use negative numbers, and calculate intervals across 0 (Year 6)
use negative numbers in context, and calculate intervals across 0 (Year 6)
to solve problems involving negative numbers (Year 5 & Year 6)
to order positive and negative integers (KS3)
to apply this knowledge to bar and line graphs. (KS3)
to select appropriate concepts, methods and techniques to apply to unfamiliar and non-routine problems (KS3)
A complete half term's set of guided reading activities for Year 2.
James and the Giant Peach - HA
The Owl who was afraid of the Dark / Flat Stanley - MA
The Worst Witch strikes again / Sophie's Snail - LA
A collection of 5 lessons' worksheets for Year 5 and Year 6, differentiated for 4 different ability groups. 3 sets of worksheets include a Word Problem, while the other 2 sets are Word problems relating to short multiplication and long multiplication.
LO's covered include:
To use short or long multiplication.
To solve Word problems requiring short or long multiplication (Year 5 and Year 6)
To develop their mathematical knowledge, in part through solving problems and evaluating the outcomes, including multi-step problems (KS3)
Learning Objectives
Starter:
- To perform (mental) calculations, including with mixed operations and large numbers.
Main Lesson:
- To use rounding to check answers to calculations (Year 5 Year 6)
- To use the 4 operations, including formal written methods, applied to integers and decimals, (KS3)
This lesson consists of:
A Starter consisting of a series of progressively harder addition, subtraction, multiplication and division calculations. A connect activity getting children to consider how they might check answers using estimation.
An Interactive Whiteboard teaching introduction for both Notebook and ActivInspire, to teach how to use estimation in order to check calculations. It also includes a Knowledge check to ensure that your class are familiar with rounding.
A 4 way differentiated series of calculations where children first estimate, and then solve addition, subtraction, multiplication and division problems including decimals (for MA and HA).
An AFL / Next Steps task reviewing when to use estimation and when to use inverse operations to accurately check calculations.
Learning Objectives
Starter:
To convert between mixed numbers and improper fractions
Main Lesson:
To add fractions with the same denominator, and denominators that are multiples of the same number (Year 5)
To use the 4 operations applied to proper and improper fractions all both positive and negative (KS3)
This lesson consists of:
A Starter consisting of a series of progressively harder conversion problems involving improper fractions and mixed numbers. A connect activity challenging children to identify the kind of errors that can be made when adding improper fractions and mixed numbers – allowing you to correct misunderstandings and assess prior learning. .
An Interactive Whiteboard teaching introduction for both Notebook and ActivInspire flipchart, to teach children to understanding how to add improper fractions with common denominators, with denominators where one is a multiple of the other and where two fractions have different denominators, and changing fractions to have the same denominator in order to add these fractions. The introduction also teaches children to convert from mixed numbers to improper fractions before carrying out any calculations
A 4-way differentiated series of tasks requiring children to add improper fractions and mixed numbers.
A final AFL / Next Steps task, asking children to apply their understanding of the addition of fractions to subtracting fractions.
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 differentiated starter, introduction for both ActivInspire and Smartboard, and 3 way differentiated activity and AFL / Next Steps plenary class activity. Also included is a youtube video and resources for distance learning.
Learning Objectives: : To use Part, Part Whole to add numbers. (starter), To solve simple one-step problems that involve addition and subtraction, using concrete objects and pictorial representations, and missing number problems, such as 7 = □ – 9 (main lesson).
This lesson consists of:
A starter revising the use of Part / Part / Whole diagrams.
An Interactive Whiteboard teaching introduction for both Notebook and ActivInspire flipchart teaching how to use crossing off objects in order to solve visual subtraction problems.
A youtube video link for distance learning introducing the starter, main part of the lesson and the AFL / Next Steps plenary.
A 3-way differentiated set of independent tasks where children use crossing off objects in order to solve visual subtraction problems.
A Next steps / AFL Challenge plenary to allow you to assess learning through the lesson by challenging children to create a subtraction calculation and visual representation based on a word problem.
A complete unit of work for maths for September. Each of the twenty lessons includes a daily plan, a starter, introduction, differentiated tasks and plenaries, as well as a link to a youtube video which can be used to provide distance learning as and when required.
The unit cover the following areas of the curriculum:
• Place Value working with numbers to 20 (and beyond for HA)
• An introduction to addition using Part / Part / Whole
• Measures – length and height including recording length using non-standard and standard measures.
• Addition – introducing counting on and recording methods using + and = signs.