Four weeks of comprehension, dictionary and grammar homework based on the Greek Myths of: The birth of Zeus Theseus and the Minotaur Jason and the Golden Fleece Perseus and the Gorgon

A series of questions, answers and reading journal activity based around all areas of reading. Great alternative to SATs tests or written comprehensions. LOs To use recall, inference and deduction to find out about two characters. To be able to empathise with characters from the past To use inference and deduction to understand a character’s actions To understand how authors use chance encounters to shape their stories. To understand how an author can choose archaic words and expressions when writing a story set in the past. To understand how historical research is used to write a historical novel.

Learning Objectives: Starter: - To recognise when to use short or long division methods. Main Lesson: -To apply short division to integers and decimals (Year 5 & Year 6) - To use division including formal written methods, applying it to integers, (KS3) This lesson consists of: A starter focusing on revising the differences between short and long divisions using the context of Word Problems. A connect to get the children explaining what a remainder is. An Interactive Whiteboard teaching introduction for both Notebook and ActivInspire, to teach how to show remainders in short and long division and to explain just why there is a remainder in certain calculations. A 4 way differentiated series of calculations (including a Challenge Activity) where children are expected to solve a series short and long division problems which give remainders, and one Word Problem per ability group. Answers are supplied to ease marking. An AFL / Next Steps task encouraging children to be able to rapidly predict the remainder in a given calculation.

A series of questions, answers and reading journal activity based around all areas of reading. Great alternative to SATs tests or written comprehensions. LOs: To understand how non fiction books differ from fiction books, to be able to scan non fiction books for information. To understand the way that non fiction books follow certain conventions.

A series of questions, answers and reading journal activity based around all areas of reading. Great alternative to SATs tests or written comprehensions. LOs To make comparisons between similar experiences today and those in the past. To be able to understand the conventions of a non-fiction text. To be able to skim and scan for information in a whole text

A series of questions, answers and reading journal activity based around all areas of reading. Great alternative to SATs tests or written comprehensions. To look at how an author can drop hints about a story at the very beginning of a book. To understand how an author decides how to make up nonsense words. To understand how dialogue can be used to develop characters. To understand how an author develops a particular aspect of a fantasy world. To understand how dialogue can be used to move a plot forward. To reflect on the whole book and the way it ends

A plan, set of teaching resources, Interactive Whiteboard presentations for both Promethean and Smartboards. (***New for 2018 – PowerPoint Presentations, and Word AFL / next steps question for printin***g) 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 fourteenth lesson in a revision programme designed to prepare Year 6 children for the Maths SATs papers 1, 2 and 3. **Learning Objectives covered: ** To add whole numbers, decimals or fractions quickly (Arithmetic Starter) To solve problems involving all 4 operations. **Learning Outcomes: ** All use their knowledge of the order of operations to carry out calculations involving the 4 operations with ThHTU by U Most use their knowledge of the order of operations to carry out calculations involving the 4 operations with ThHTU by TU Some will use their knowledge of the order of operations to carry out calculations involving the 4 operations with ThHTU by TU including decimals and negative numbers.

A resource for all teachers using the Assertive Mentoring Grammar Hammer system An Interactive Whiteboard file for use with Smart's notebook. Simply carry out the first Grammar Hammer test mark it and put this up on Whiteboard. Children can then carry out corrections for any part of the test they got wrong. There are challenge activities for children getting everything correct. NB it is recommended that no child corrects more than 5 questions.

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 eleventh 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 subtraction problems involving large numbers, decimals and fractions . To make use of BODMAS to solve multistep arithmetic problems To solve problems involving algebra Learning Outcomes: All will use simple formulae Most will be able to find pairs of numbers that satisfy an equation with 2 unknowns Some will be able to express missing number problems algebraically

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.

A series of questions, answers and reading journal activity based around all areas of reading. Great alternative to SATs tests or written comprehensions. LOs: To understand how an author introduces secondary characters to a story. To understand how an author can use typographical devices to control how they present information to the reader To understand how a writer using figurative language, metaphors and similes to help a reader.

A series of questions, answers and reading journal activity based around all areas of reading. Great alternative to SATs tests or written comprehensions.

A series of questions, answers and reading journal activity based around all areas of reading. Great alternative to SATs tests or written comprehensions. LOs To understand how we can reach our own conclusions based on the information contained in a text To be able to use deduction and inference to help predict what’s going to happen in a story. To understand the way an author ends a story by drawing ideas together.

A plan, set of teaching resources, Interactive Whiteboard presentations for both Promethean and Smartboards. (New for 2018 – PowerPoint Presentations) 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. This is the fifteenth 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 simple algebraic equations. (LA) To solve multistep algebraic equations (MA) To solve and explain multistep algebraic equations. (HA) The lesson consists of: A powerpoint to introduce the lesson A set of algebraic problems are provided to be cut and distributed in three areas of the classroom A score card is provided to allow children to compete as equals while Teachers / TAs mark each question before children are free to move on to the next.

A series of questions, answers and reading journal activity based around all areas of reading. Great alternative to SATs tests or written comprehensions. LOs To be able to use clues to decide what a new book will be about. To understand that stories can be told from different points of view. To form opinions about characters and justify these. To understand how an author can describe feelings using a character’s actions. To understand how an author builds tension. To reflect on the whole story.

A series of questions, answers and reading journal activity based around all areas of reading. Great alternative to SATs tests or written comprehensions. LOs To understand how we can use clues like blurb, contents and covers to decide what a book is about To understand how an author can update a traditional theme or idea. understand how an author can communicate character’s feelings and opinions

A series of questions, answers and reading journal activity based around all areas of reading. Great alternative to SATs tests or written comprehensions. LOs To use recall, inference and deduction to form opinions about a central character. To empathise with a central character and his problems. To be able to make predictions based on your understanding of the main character. To use skimming and scanning to find information from a text. To be able to use recall, deduction and inference to form opinions about a text To make predictions based on what has happened in a story to date. To reflect on a completed text.

A series of questions, answers and reading journal activity based around all areas of reading. Great alternative to SATs tests or written comprehensions. LOs To understand how an author creates a sense of mystery. To understand how Michael Morpurgo uses stories within stories To be able to empathise with the central character of a novel. To understand how two stories can have parallels with each other. To understand how a significant event affects characters in different ways. To retrieve information from the text to answer questions and form opinions. To respond to the twist in the tail of the story

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 activities.

Drawing on the new History Curriculum and focussing on Aims: Strands 4 and 5 this resource includes: A collection of eleven 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 Workhouses 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 the role of Workhouses. • draw on primary resources to produce a reasoned debate on the pros and cons of Workhouse. • produce their own persuasive argument in favour (or against) the abolition of Workhouses. • produce a balanced argument on the advantages and disadvantages of Workhouses. • Produce their own written narrative of life in a Workhouse