This is one of a series of PowerPoint presentations designed to get students analysing and talking about the work of well-known artists, and then creating their own artwork inspired by the art they have studied. Each presentation should be sufficient for a project lasting several lessons. The presentations contain the following: brief biographical text links to online resources questions to focus looking at artworks activity based on an aspect of the artist’s work (not a copying exercise) evaluation of project Artists in this series: Camille Pissarro, Jean Cocteau, Amedeo Modigliani, James McNeill Whistler, Marc Chagall, Gustav Klimt, David Hockney, NB Copyright restrictions have made it necessary to rely on online material for images of artists’ work. If links cease to work, please contact me and I will do my best to put things right!

60 worksheets aligned to Y5 National Curriculum Objectives. There’s enough here to last for the whole school year, plus extras that can be used for homework or revision. The worksheets have been sorted into 4 folders corresponding to National Curriculum areas of study, and the last section of every worksheet focusses on this. The first sections all consist of number work: place value, arithmetic and fraction/decimal/percentage exercises, which need to be practised throughout the year. In addition to these 4 folders, there is a number lines folder with work on fractions, decimals and positive/negative numbers. There is also a set of worksheets providing further practice on fractions/decimals/percentages, which is an area of difficulty for many pupils. The standard of the exercises is intentionally challenging, and weaker pupils may need to work with adult support. Answer sheets are included in each folder. They provide useful teacher support during introductions when working through problems with children.

A reading comprehension about the life and work of Van Gogh. Suitable for pupils from 11 to 16. A four page text relating changes in the artist’s work to events in his life is followed by a comprehension exercise of 20 questions totalling 40 marks. A mark scheme is supplied.

This is the first of a series of short texts for teaching SPaG. I was looking for material that I could use for teaching spelling, grammar and punctuation, and which could be used at the end of the week as a dictation assessment. Unable to find anything suitable, I ended up scribbling them myself on a Monday morning. Most of the themes are directed at the class I was teaching at the time, but some teachers may relate to them. I called them The Monday Nag, for obvious reasons! The pack contains a PowerPoint presentation, and five activities. There is a spelling sheet covering the points highlighted in the text, a Cloze activity, a supported dictation worksheet for lower ability learners, a writing task, and a crossword on grammatical terms best suited for more able pupils. I would suggest working through the PowerPoint on the first session of the week and leading up to the writing task and the dictation at the end of the week, by which time children should be thoroughly familiar with both text and SPaG content.

This is a collection of 50 worksheets which should provide a weekly challenge for Y6 pupils working towards their SATs. There is enough material to last for the whole school year, with plenty left for homework or revision. Each worksheet provides extensive number skills practice covering National Curriculum statutory requirements (place value, arithmetic, fractions, decimals and percentages). In addition, it targets one of 5 additional areas: measurement, algebra, geometry, ratio, statistics. The teacher should decide which folder is appropriate, according to what the current teaching focus is. It would be a good idea to begin with the ‘measurement’ set, as the number questions are less demanding than those in other sets. Less able students will need to be supported by an adult. Answer sheets are included in each folder.

The resource contains the texts of three poems: November and No! by Thomas Hood and an acrostic by Lewis Caroll. Pupils are asked to compare the two texts by Hood and to consider why the poet might have written two versions of what is, essentially, the same poem. They are introduced to the acrostic form and challenged to draft and redraft their own acrostic on November.

Covering the Y6 NC requirement relating to synonyms and antonyms, this constitutes a week’s unit of work leading to a writing outcome. A separate lesson plan is supplied for each day, with suggested timings for each section. Towards the beginning of the first lesson, individuals fill in the first two sections of a Know/Wonder/Learnt chart which they give in and complete at the end of the week. The lesson presentation includes pupil activities, such as finding antonyms and preparing synonym charts. Pupils will need to use dictionaries and thesauri for this. The final slide consists of a formal exercise for completion in exercise books. This provides an assessment opportunity. A class list of common words to be avoided in writing is begun and added to each day. On Day 2 there is more work on antonyms, but as the week progresses, the focus is more on synonyms. The main activity for this lesson is a drama activity which pupils should find fun. Day 3 begins with a pelmanism game on antonyms , and is followed by some teacher-directed work on antonyms and synonyms. The main activity is an antonym crossword, which can be used as assessment. There are three versions of the crossword, to allow for differing levels of ability. In the plenary, the concept of showing rather than telling is introduced, along with the beginning of what will become the subject of an extended writing task. The fourth lesson begins with a synonym contest in which pupils win points for coming up with answers nobody else thinks of. Then there is a writing warm-up followed by the start of writing: initially paired work, but leading to an independent task. In the plenary, pupils share their work with each other in a simple speaking and listening activity. The final day, there is an extended writing session to be used for formal assessment. During the plenary, pupils feed back briefly on the week’s work, and then complete the final column of the KWL chart.

This resource contains a selection of engaging activities for Shrove Tuesday. The interactive quiz consists of a PowerPoint grid where 16 tiles are flipped one by one to reveal a pancake picture. To accompany it is a maths/general knowledge quiz. The answer to each question is a number between 1 and 16. Give out the quiz sheets and let the class work on them for a short time. Pupils then put their hands up to offer answers and come up to interactive board to flip the corresponding tile. The reading text is a recipe for pancakes. This would be a great practical activity in the morning, with the opportunity to eat pancakes at break! The accompanying comprehension questions, worth 20 marks, are accompanied by a mark scheme. For English, there is a further activity - a pancake poem by Christina Rossetti, which can be exploited for teaching/revising imperative verbs. A follow up task could be to find out something about the poet. The maths task consists of five word problems based on the recipe. Some are quite challenging (eg involving scaling the original recipe).

For Upper KS2 and KS3, a text about Burns, his poetry, and his place in Scottish life. The reading comprehension comprises 15 questions, with mark allocation indicated. The question type ranges from simple retrieval to inference and interpretation of language. Mark scheme is provided.

A PowerPoint presentation contains screencasts demonstrating how multiplication is used to generate equivalent fractions, and division is used to simplify fractions. Accompanying the presentation are two folders of 3 worksheets (plus answer sheets): one set is for classwork practice and the other for homework. An exit ticket is also included.

The revised and extended 16-slide presentation includes a short text to be used at the beginning of the week as a whole class presentation and basis of SPaG discussion and challenges for the rest of the week. The main spelling area covered is the schwa, particularly in words ending in er, ar and or. The punctuation focus is on apostrophes for contractions, and on the 3 different types of sentence. The grammar lesson is on the infinitive. Other topics include fronted adverbials, interjections and dashes This is supported by worksheet activities to be used on subsequent days. There is a language based comprehension (30 marks), a punctuation activity, a cloze exercise and a spelling crossword. All are based on the original text. The final activity is a dictation, which is provided at two levels. The material was written for a mixed age Y4/5/6 class.

The language level of this resource makes it suitable for able KS2 classes and KS3. It comprises an interactive presentation based on a specially written text themed on New Year resolutions. The text and presentation target the following SPaG areas: SPELLING -whose/who’s, loose/lose, choose/chose silent g (gnome, consign, diaphragm ) PUNCTUATION capital letters for festivals and religions ellipsis commas brackets GRAMMAR simple, compound and complex sentences elision of '‘that’ and ‘whom’ in some complex sentences Two slides cover how structure can be manipulated to improve writing. There is an example of how the first paragraph of my New Year text moved from simple to compound and then complex sentences, and finally to ‘hidden’ complex sentences. Plenty of written follow-up work is provided: SPELLING CROSSWORD (silent g) PUNCTUATION WORKSHEET (the unit text (stripped of commas and capital letters) DICTATION : this is a supported activity, where pupils fill the gaps in the text. More able pupils should be expected to write the whole text without the help of the worksheet. TEST (worth 30 marks. The final question is a writing assignment.) The pack would be good to use over a whole week , using the spelling, punctuation and grammar sections over consecutive days (possibly as lesson starters), with the dictation on the fourth lesson, and the test taking up the whole of the final session. If you find this works for you, look in my shop, where you will find several others text-based SPaG resources.

The zip file contains 12 folders, each with 5 versions of a worksheet. The topics covered are taken from the Y1 statutory curriculum for mathematics and include the following: • Counting forwards and backwards in 1s and 2s from a given number • Pictorial counting and addition • Addition and subtraction within 20 • One step word problems to 20 • Before, after and between given numbers • Money (5p, 2p and 1p coins) • Analogue time to the hour and the half hour With the exception of some of the very simple number activities, answer sheets are provided. In addition there are two single worksheets on shape recognition. A summary of the National Curriculum for mathematics is included for parents’ reference. There is also a PDF help sheet with ideas for structuring a 1 hour maths lesson, including simple ideas for mental and oral starters.

Five fully resourced lessons to cover Y5 objective on comparing and ordering fractions. A comprehensive set of resources, including lesson plans, presentation with teacher notes, worksheets, activities/games and display material. More than enough for five lessons. Sufficient worksheets for homework/assessment as well as class work.