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 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 use recall and retrieve evidence to describe the main characters in a short novel. To be able to emphasis with the main characters of a story. To be use information within a text to predict what will happen in a story. To use inference and deduction to explain the different characters’ behaviour. To consider whether or not it is ever acceptable to steal To explore how the layout and language of a book contributes to its meaning.

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 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 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 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, 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 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 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.

Boudicca – 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 Boudicca, both fact and fiction organised around the following sections: - who Boudicca was - her early life - her relationship with the King Prasutagus - her marriage - The uprising - The destruction of Camulodunum (Colchester - her Victories - her defeat and the end - her 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 Boudica. (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 Boudica.

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.

Learning Objectives Starter: - To perform (mental) calculations. - To recognise factors Main Lesson: - To identify common factors (Year 5 and Year 6) - To use the concepts and vocabulary of factors, and common factors (KS3) This lesson consists of: A Starter consisting of a series of progressively harder addition, subtraction, multiplication and division calculations and revision of multiples. A connect activity getting children to identify the correct and incorrect definitions of multiples and a second Connect to get children identify the first 3 multiples of common times tables. An Interactive Whiteboard teaching introduction for both Notebook and ActivInspire, to teach how to find factors, common factors and highest common factors, and how these can be identified from lists and using Venn Diagrams. A 4-way differentiated series of tasks requiring children to identify factors (LA) common factors of 2 (LA) and 3 digit numbers (MA, HA) and highest common factors of 3 and 4 different numbers (HA). Answer sheet provided to support marking. Two AFL / Next Steps tasks, the first introducing the concept of prime numbers in terms of factors and the second reviewing the definitions of common factors, and highest common factors and challenging most able to define prime factors

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 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