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We provide a wide range of high quality primary resources to enhance learning opportunities and save teacher's time! They have been trialled in school before publishing to test how effective they are. We are delighted with the results and hope you will be too!

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Weekly handwriting
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Weekly handwriting

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Running through the alphabet to revise handwriting. Children can copy into their books from the board or print out and they can copy onto the page. Good for morning work, extra home learning or as practise of key letters.
Christmas Reading Comprehension
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Christmas Reading Comprehension

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A seasonal themed reading comprehension linked to the year 2 National Curriculum objectives. Questions direct children to practise inference, deduction, skimming and scanning skills as well as links to different word types. Can be completed individually or as a Christmas Quiz in partners. This resources has been differentiated three ways.
LCWC for Year 1 and Year 2 Common Exception words
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LCWC for Year 1 and Year 2 Common Exception words

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A different take on spellings where repetition and teacher assessment is at the forefront. Each week, children are introduced to 4 new spellings and are given 4 spellings from the previous week. This allows children two weeks to practise each word so that they can build a solid memory of each word when using them in their writing. This pack contains spelling lists, test sheets and home learning with words that match up to the common exception list in the new national curriculum.
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Christmas Pack
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Christmas Pack

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A wide range of resources for those last weeks of school. Educational and fun activities that link to the Science, Numeracy and Literacy national curriculum. Activities include word problems, chatter boxes, animal fact files, paper chains, word searches and a reading comprehension. Enjoy!
Build up a super Christmas sentence!
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Build up a super Christmas sentence!

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A seasonal-themed resource aimed to improve children’s knowledge of sentence structure. This lesson will reinforce the language needed in the Year 2 curriculum (noun, verb, adverb, adjective and conjunction) and allow opportunities it to develop their own sentences. By focusing on one or two sentences, children can develop the language needed to talk about their word choice.
34 Wordsearches Common Exception Words for year 1 and 2
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34 Wordsearches Common Exception Words for year 1 and 2

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A set of 34 word searches covering the year 1 and year 2 common exception words with some additional word searches for words that add suffixes, prefixes and some contractions. An excellent addition to weekly spellings allowing children an opportunity to play with words and spot patterns between them. This resources could be used as early morning work during the register or as an additional home learning activity.
Anagram Egg Hunt
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Anagram Egg Hunt

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A set of 20 eggs to laminate and hide around your classroom. Children collect the letters under each egg and switch them around to reveal an easter phrase. A fun way to challenge your class. The recording sheet and answer included.
Spring Non fiction differentiated Reading Comprehension
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Spring Non fiction differentiated Reading Comprehension

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An engaging non fiction text about spring differentiated three ways. Text includes statements, questions and exclamations. A range of questions are asked that link to the year 2 National Curriculum. Topic include: Spring babies Spring flowers What is Easter? Weather Written in a simple form for young children to be able to access. Questions challenge children to retrieve information as well as consider their own opinions.
Interesting words Egg Hunt
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Interesting words Egg Hunt

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A set of 20 Easter eggs to laminate and hide around your classroom or school. Children will enjoy finding the words and collecting them on the included recording sheet. An excellent way to introduce new vocabulary for the class to use in their writing. After the Easter egg hunt, discuss the meaning of the words they found and then children can experiment by using the words in a short story. Recording sheet included.
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Spring and Easter
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Spring and Easter

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A selection of activities linked to the theme of Spring and Easter. Activities include a range of egg hunts, word searches, reading comprehension and chatterbox templates.
New vocabulary
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New vocabulary

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A set of 15 word searches and 12 cloze paragraphs to help children practise using new vocabulary. An excellent activity for Guided Reading, extra home learning or as early morning work. Children will practise putting interesting words into sentences, as well as link words with a similar meaning together so they can use them in their own writing. Words include: calculate, majestic, sneaky, petrified, glide, glisten, soothing, magnificent and many more.
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3 Seasonally themed Reading Comprehensions
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3 Seasonally themed Reading Comprehensions

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A range of seasonal themed reading comprehensions suitable for year 2-4. All differentiated for a wide range of reading abilities. A fun way to introduce some fascinating facts and develop retrieval, inference and deduction skills. Many open questions to enable for class discussion in the plenary and some questions relating to grammar and word choice.
13 interactive PDF Literacy KS1
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13 interactive PDF Literacy KS1

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A range of Literacy topics covered through 13 interactive pdf activities. Children can complete the activities using a kindle, ipad or laptop from home or school. A great resource to add to a google classrooms lesson or as a homelearning/ home work activity. Topics covered include: describing story writing connectives reading comprehension Please ensure you have an adobe reader to access the files. If you are unsure, then please try downloading this free resources to see if you can use the interactive elements: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/ks1-interactive-pdf-types-of-sentences-12482721 If you have found these activities useful and have more ideas of worksheets you would like to use please add them to the comments below and I will try to make them.
Year 2 Writing Assessment Checklist
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Year 2 Writing Assessment Checklist

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A range of whole class and individual checklists to assist with the collection of evidence and assessment of children’s achievement throughout the year. Both checklists follow the interim framework criteria which is used for SATs assessments and moderations. All resources can be edited to add or remove objectives as you see fit. Whole class checklists allow the teacher to have an overview of the whole class on one page and identify gaps to cover further. They include working at, working towards and greater depth checklist. Additionally, there is a spelling checklist of a shortened version of the common exception words, contractions and some suffix words. Individual checklists for pupil books allow children to identify how well they are doing and what they need to work on next. Checklists are available using the exact language of the interim framework and a ‘child speak’ version.
Year 2 Reading assessments key objectives
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Year 2 Reading assessments key objectives

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A range of whole class and individual checklists to assist with the collection of evidence and assessment of children’s achievement throughout the year. Both checklists follow the interim framework criteria which was used for SATs assessments and moderations. Whole class checklists allow the teacher to have an overview of the whole class on one page and identify gaps to cover further. They include working at, working towards and greater depth checklist. Additionally, there is a spelling checklist of a shortened version of the common exception words, contractions and some suffix words. Individual checklists for pupil books allow children to identify how well they are doing and what they need to work on next. Checklists are available using the exact language of the interim framework and a ‘child speak’ version.
Build up a super Bonfire Night sentence
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Build up a super Bonfire Night sentence

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A seasonal-themed resource aimed to improve children’s knowledge of sentence structure. This lesson will reinforce the language needed to reinforce the construction of a sentence (noun, verb, adverb, adjective and conjunction). By focusing on one or two sentences, children can develop the language needed to talk about their word choice.
Ks1 Fire Poetry
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Ks1 Fire Poetry

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A flexible Literacy lesson that uses the topic of fire to generate ideas of a poem. This is an excellent lesson for the end of a poetry topic. Children are encouraged to use their senses as well as simile and onomatopoeia to create a poem all about fire. this would fit in very well with Bonfire Night, the Stone Age, Fire of London or Halloween. Children can write their poetic phrases onto flames and build up their poem like a real bonfire. This makes for a wonderful class display. Alternatively, there is writing paper for the children to use instead.
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Year 2 Assessment checklists
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Year 2 Assessment checklists

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A range of whole class and individual checklists to assist with the collection of evidence and assessment of children’s achievement throughout the year. All checklists follow the interim framework criteria which was previously used for SATs assessments and moderations. They are all editable so you can add or remove objectives as you see fit. Whole class checklists allow the teacher to have an overview of the whole class on one page and identify gaps to cover further. They include working at, working towards and greater depth checklist. Additionally, there is a spelling checklist of a shortened version of the common exception words, contractions and some suffix words. Individual checklists for pupil books allow children to identify how well they are doing and what they need to work on next. Checklists are available using the exact language of the interim framework and a ‘child speak’ version.
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Bonfire Night Pack
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Bonfire Night Pack

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Have you ever wondered how London would have changed if the Gunpowder plot had been successful? Did you know the queen still has the cellars of Westminster checked by a guard before she arrives? A range of fact-filled Bonfire Night themed resources for years 2 - 4. Great opportunities to create a class display. Resources include 3 chatterbox templates, two reading comprehensions, a lesson to create a wonderful fire poetry display and 2 themed word searches.