I provide a wide range of resources for use in the classroom and around school. My resources build on children's learning and consider the smaller steps children need to take to achieve the learning. My resources have a focus on 'mastery' style questions where possible, to develop children's critical thinking and reasoning skills. As a practicing primary teacher myself, I know how essential it is to have well organised lesson resources with engaging activities that focus on the learning.
I provide a wide range of resources for use in the classroom and around school. My resources build on children's learning and consider the smaller steps children need to take to achieve the learning. My resources have a focus on 'mastery' style questions where possible, to develop children's critical thinking and reasoning skills. As a practicing primary teacher myself, I know how essential it is to have well organised lesson resources with engaging activities that focus on the learning.
End of unit science assessment for Y4 'Living things and their habitats' topic .
A range of questions from basic recall to data analysis and reasoning/explanations, to suit all abilities of learner.
22 questions over 4 pages. Total marks - 43
Mark scheme provided for answers.
Ideal for finishing off the series of 'Living things and their habitats' lessons.
Ideal practise for if children later do the KS2 science sampling SATs.
Lesson PowerPoint, planning and Activity for grouping living things.
The second in a series of lessons to develop children's knowledge about 'Sound,' for the 2014 primary curriculum. Links to coverage of the curriculum are explicit in the planning.
We are learning to explain how sound travels to the ear.
An interesting fact or fiction starter to engage and intrigue children.
Follows on from previous session so revisiting the homework section is optional.
Children consider and learn how a sound travels as a wave.
Builds on previous learning. Explores why a sound travels faster through a solid than a liquid and a liquid than a gas.
Opportunity for children to work in mixed ability groups to investigate how a sound travels through a solid and a gas. Children also think about how to make their experiment a fair test.
Develop's children's scientific explanations.
'Mastery' thinking required through the questions posed, for deepening and mastering learning.
Choice of 3 differentiated follow up activities (all of which are provided as well as being explained on the PowerPoint)
Plenary is a thought provoking mastery style question to identify who has understood the learning at a deeper level and to encourage interesting scientific discussion - could also link to a space topic.
All images have been taken from: http://search.creativecommons.org/ where no attribution is required.
A comprehensive scheme of work for children in year 6 to follow.
Clear teaching points, mastery questions and suggested resources/activities.
Links to 2014 Primary National Curriculum.
3 main areas of learning: e-awareness, online communication and searching the internet.
Very clear and easy to plan from to help children progress in this area and stay safe on the internet at school and at home.
A comprehensive scheme of work for children in year 2 to follow.
Clear teaching points, mastery questions and suggested resources.
Links to 2014 Primary National Curriculum.
3 main areas of learning: e-awareness, online communication and searching the internet.
Very clear and easy to plan from to help children progress in this area and stay safe on the internet at school and at home.
A comprehensive scheme of work for children in year 5 to follow.
Clear teaching points, mastery questions and suggested resources/activities.
Links to 2014 Primary National Curriculum.
3 main areas of learning: e-awareness, online communication and searching the internet.
Very clear and easy to plan from to help children progress in this area and stay safe on the internet at school and at home.
A comprehensive scheme of work for children in year 4 to follow.
Clear teaching points, mastery questions and suggested resources.
Links to 2014 Primary National Curriculum.
3 main areas of learning: e-awareness, online communication and searching the internet.
Very clear and easy to plan from to help children progress in this area and stay safe on the internet at school and at home.
A comprehensive scheme of work for children in year 1 to follow.
Clear teaching points, mastery questions and suggested resources.
Links to 2014 Primary National Curriculum.
3 main areas of learning: e-awareness, online communication and searching the internet.
Very clear and easy to plan from to help children progress in this area and stay safe on the internet at school and at home.
A comprehensive scheme of work for children in year 3 to follow.
Clear teaching points, mastery questions and suggested resources.
Links to 2014 Primary National Curriculum.
3 main areas of learning: e-awareness, online communication and searching the internet.
Very clear and easy to plan from to help children progress in this area and stay safe on the internet at school and at home.
10 pages of quick fire maths questions - enough for 10 lessons. You set the time for each question, depending on your class.
Questions cover a range of topics including:
Times tables
Addition/subtraction
Time
Shape
Perimeter
Money
Problem solving
Decimals
Times by 10
We are learning to understand what different types of communication are available on the internet.
Link to website for children to conduct their own research into types of online communication.
Some questioning to develop children's thinking, particularly around which types of communication are most useful for what.
Touches on being respectful, kind and polite online.
Choice of activity for differentiation.
Plenary is a self assessment, which is included.
Lesson plan and PowerPoint included.
This is a lesson PowerPoint the explores some aspects of Jewish life in the Roman Empire and how the Jewish people came to be persecuted by the Romans. At the end of the PowerPoint are three different follow up tasks.
Links well with topics on the Romans/Judaism.
27 mark SPaG test for the end of year 4. Answer paper and mark paper included.
The test covers:
Writing and punctuating fronted adverbials
Correct use of being/been
Converting indirect/reported speech into direct speech
Some year 4 spellings
verbs
Choosing appropriate co-ordinating conjunctions
Correcting tense
Correct use of were/where/we're
Determiners
Using subordinating conjuncitons and writing a subordinate clause.
Lesson PowerPoint, planning and Activity for grouping living things.
The first in a series of lessons to develop children's knowledge about 'Sound,' for the 2014 primary curriculum. Links to coverage of the curriculum are explicit in the planning.
We are learning to investigate how a sound is made.
An interesting mastery starter to engage and intrigue children.
Children consider how a sound is made and investigate vibrations.
Opportunity for children to work in mixed ability groups to investigate how a range of items make a sound and observe for vibrations (equipment list provided, although other items could also be used).
Develop's children's scientific explanations of how a sound results from a vibration.
'Mastery' thinking required through the questions posed, for deepening and mastering learning.
Interesting Minions related hook to engage all children in the follow up task.
Choice of 3 differentiated follow up activities (all of which are provided as well as being explained on the PowerPoint)
Plenary leads into the next lesson and also links to the homework task (this is optional, but would boost children's learning).
All images have been taken from: http://search.creativecommons.org/ where no attribution is required.
Self and Peer assessment forms to encourage children to critically consider the learning that they or their partner has achieved and give praise for these by identifying what has gone well. Children also become more aware of the presentation of their work.
Encourages children to think about giving constructive feedback to themselves or a peer and set a target to work toward next time. Children are much more engaged in remembering and responding to such targets.
Can be edited to include specific learning objectives or success criteria, hence this resource can be used for any lesson.
Helps you identify what children really know about their learning and how well they are doing.
A great edition to children's books to for book scrutiny or inspections, particularly in line with the 2014 curriculum.
Could support your marking, cutting down the time you spend on marking.
Used very effectively across KS2 and has really improved children's thinking about their own work. They no longer finish work and never look back over it again. It has really started children talking about their work. For less able children, a class discussion before hand about what learning may look like and possible targets to set has been helpful.
16 worksheets for working on area and progressing against the year 4 and year 5 curriculum.
All work sheets have answer sheets
All work sheets have 'We are learning to' at the top, which can be edited to suit your school format.
1 - Counting squares to find the area of quadrilaterals, using the measures cm, and m (2 worksheets).
2 - Counting squares INCLUDING HALF SQUARES to find the area of quadrilaterals, using the measures cm and m (2 worksheets plus bonus challenge work sheet, including quarter squares).
3 - Counting squares to find the area of compound shapes, using the measures cm and m (2 worksheets).
4 - Estimating the area of right angled triangles by counting squares (1 worksheet).
5 - Calculating the area of quadrilaterals, using the measures mm, cm, m, km (2 worksheets, 1 with supporting grid lines, one without).
6 - Calculating the area of quadrilaterals INCLUDING HALF SQUARES, using the measures mm, cm, m, km (2 worksheets, 1 with grid lines, 1 without).
7 - Calculating the area of compound shapes, using the measures mm, cm, m, km (2 work sheets, one with prompt lines, one without).
8 - Measuring sides to the nearest mm to calculate area (2 worksheets, 1 quadrilaterals, 1 compound shapes).
10 Round Quiz (80 questions) with certificates for each round and overall winner.
Round 1 - Weird and Wacky News (True or False)
Round 2 - Sports
Round 3 - Celebrities
Round 4 - Britain's Got Talent
Round 5 - In the News
Round 6 - Films
Round 7 - General Knowledge
Round 8 - Geography and the Environment
Round 9 - Making History
Round 10 - Photo Gallery.
Questions are engaging for children (KS2 or KS3). Questions cover a range of topics, from celebrities of interest to children, to events that are happening in the world at the moment that children should know about. A great opportunity for all the class to get involved and shine!
There is:
A quiz PowerPoint
PowerPoint with answers
Certificates (for each category and an overall winner)
Answer sheets for children to write on.
Lesson PowerPoint covering the life of Julius Caesar, his role in Ancient Rome and his assassination. You may prefer to print the PowerPoint and hide it around your classroom for children to research for themselves.
At the end of the PowerPoint are three different task options.
Used with my Y4 task as part of a literacy project.
A set of 26 scenarios that children/ teenagers may be facing on social media to stimulate discussion/debate on what is and is not acceptable on social media.
Covers a range of scenarios, from making social media accounts private, to sharing photos, cyber bullying and fake new - plus much more. Some scenarios are a clear no-no, whilst some are less clear cut and some are acceptable.
Could be used as a set or to use over a period of time to keep e-safety fresh in the children's minds.
Ideal for Y5 to fit with the SPaG 2014 curriculum. Could also be used for recapping with Y6. This lesson has also successfully introduced Y4 to relative clauses during the summer term.
Introduces what a relative clause is.
Introduces a relative pronoun.
On screen activity in identifying relative clauses, relative pronouns and noun phrases.
Very easy to follow - step by step.
Two differentiated follow up tasks are included for children to work on identifying relative clauses (and relative pronouns where appropriate).
This lesson has led to children using relative clauses successfully in their writing.
42 Mark test and answer sheet.
Ideal for year 4 in the Autumn term. Could also be used for year 3.
Tests children's knowledge on:
Using 'a' or 'an'
Past/present/future tense verbs
Identifying adjectives
Identifying verbs
Pronouns
Paragraph punctuation
Punctuating speech
Possessive 's'
Plural 's'
Time conjunctions.