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Hello! We're creating resources for busy primary school teachers. All our writers are themselves experienced KS1 and KS2 professionals and we design our resources to be as appealing and accessible as possible.
This writing review worksheet is an excellent way to revise and practise using idioms in KS2. It contains examples of idioms and 5 different idiom challenges which can be used during one lesson or spread over a number of teaching sessions.
Questions encourage creative responses as well as revision, and include interesting images to stimulate ideas.
This Maths Bingo activity pack is a fun way to support KS1 and KS2 children in the recall of their 2, 3, 4, 5, 8 and 10 times tables during maths lessons. Included in this pack are:
30 bingo cards each containing 6 calculations
3 bingo caller ticklists
This writing review worksheet is an excellent way to revise and practise using alliteration in KS2. It contains examples of alliteration and 5 different alliteration challenges which can be used during one lesson or spread over a number of teaching sessions.
Questions encourage creative responses as well as revision, and include interesting images to stimulate ideas.
This pack contains a variety of Key Stage 1 spellings split into different spelling patterns. Children can be given sets of word cards and asked to discuss the common spelling patterns, before sorting the cards into groups. It’s a hands-on way to revise and improve pupils’ understanding of key spellings.
The spelling patterns covered in the Year 2 spelling test are:
ge and dge sound
s sound spelt c before e, i and y
n sound spelt kn or gn at the beginning of words
r sound spelt wr
l or el sound at the end of a word spelt -le
l or el sound spelt el at the end of words
The l or el sound spelt al at the end of words
Words ending -il
ai sound spelt y at the end of words
Add -es to nouns and verbs ending in -y
adding -ed, -ing, -er and -est to a root word ending in -y with a consonant before it
Adding the endings – ing, –ed, –er, –est and –y to words ending in –e with a consonant before it
Adding –ing, –ed, –er, –est and –y to words of one syllable ending in a single consonant letter after a single vowel letter
The /ɔ:/ sound spelt a before l and ll
The u sound spelt o
The long e sound spelt –ey
The /ɒ/ sound spelt a after w and qu
The ur sound spelt or after w
The /ɔ:/ sound spelt ar after w
The zh sound spelt s
The suffixes –ment, –ness, –ful , –less and –ly
Contractions
The possessive apostrophe (singular nouns)
Words ending in –tion
Homophones and near-homophones
This pack contains a variety of Upper Key Stage 2 spellings split into different spelling patterns. Children can be given sets of word cards and asked to discuss the common spelling patterns, before sorting the cards into groups. It’s a hands-on way to revise and improve pupils’ understanding of key spellings.
The Spelling patterns covered in the year 5 spelling pack are:
Spell word endings which sound like ‘shus’ spelt -cious or -tious
Spell word endings which sound like ‘shul’ spelt -cial or -tial
Spell words ending in -ant, -ance/-ancy, -ent, -ence/ -ency
Spell words ending in -able and -ible also -ably and -ibly
Spell words containing the letter-string ‘ough’
Spell some words with ‘silent’ letters
Words with the /i:/ sound spelt ei after c
This Year 5 spelling patterns pack contains 10 spelling worksheets each related to a different KS2 spelling pattern. On each sheet, children need to search through a word grid and find hidden words. Once they have found all the words, should then identify the common spelling pattern.
Two versions of each worksheet are available - one with the list of words that children need to find, and one without. Answer sheets for all the word searches are also included.
This KS2 science resource enables teachers to review learning following a topic on animals and their habitats in Upper Stage 2. It covers areas on the science curriculum including vertebrates, microorganisms, and classification keys.
The worksheet is split into sections that check children’s scientifc vocabulary, understanding, and their ability to explain, predict and deduce what is happening in difference scientific scenarios.
This KS2 science resource enables teachers to review learning following the teaching of a topic on Earth and space in Upper Key Stage 2. It covers areas on the science curriculum including the solar system, the phases of the moon, and orbits.
The worksheet is split into sections that check children’s scientific vocabulary, understanding, and their ability to explain, predict and deduce what is happening in difference scientific scenarios.
Add and subtract numbers with up to 4 digits using the formal written methods of columnar addition and subtraction where appropriate.
These inverse operation review maths worksheets provide extra challenge for Year 2 children. A variety of inverse operation problems are spread across three sections, enabling you to use the whole sheet during a lesson or to select specific problems for different teaching sessions.
A separate answer sheet for all sections is included.
Recognise and use the inverse relationship between addition and subtraction and use this to check calculations and solve missing number problems.
These inverse operation review maths worksheets provide extra challenge for Year 2 children. A variety of inverse operation problems are spread across three sections, enabling you to use the whole sheet during a lesson or to select specific problems for different teaching sessions.
A separate answer sheet for all sections is included.
This Year 3 science resource enables teachers to review learning following a topic on light in Lower Key Stage 2. It covers areas on the science curriculum including light sources, shadows and reflection.
The worksheet is split into sections that check children’s scientific vocabulary, understanding, and their ability to explain, predict and deduce what is happening in difference scientific scenarios.
This KS2 science resource enables teachers to review learning following the teaching of topic on plants in Lower Key Stage 2. It covers areas on the science curriculum including parts of a flower, pollination, life cycles, and growth.
The worksheet is split into sections that check children’s scientific vocabulary, understanding, and their ability to explain, predict and deduce what is happening in difference scientific scenarios.
These review worksheets for Years 3 and 4, covering words spelt with ‘ei’, ‘ey’ or ‘eigh’, are an excellent way to revise and practise these spellings.
The worksheets include 5 different activities in which children look at spelling patterns, identify misspelt words and apply their spellings in context.
The worksheets are suitable for Year 3 and Year 4 pupils and older SEN or EAL pupils. They can be used within lessons, as an assessment or as a homework task.
These review worksheets for Years 5 and 6 provide an excellent way to practise spelling words with the -cial or -tial suffix.
The worksheets include 5 different activities in which children look at spelling patterns, identify misspelt words and apply their spellings in context.
The worksheets are suitable for Year 5 and Year 6 pupils and older SEN or EAL pupils. They can be used within lessons, as an assessment or as a homework task.
This KS2 English pack contains three interactive posters illustrating different ways to use creative magery in writing. Each poster is based on an amusing or interesting image accompanied by word balloons to explain this idea. These word balloons are optional. Blank balloon templates enable you to use the children’s own ideas, or to add to the existing examples. It’s an ideal resource for starting up conversations about the choices we make as writers, and what effect these choices have on readers.
The writing techniques demonstrated in this pack are:
*Metaphors
*Similes
*Personification
This Year 4 science resource enables teachers to review learning following a topic on states of matter in Lower Key Stage 2. It covers areas on the science curriculum including condensation and evaporation, the water cycle and solids, liquids and gases.
The worksheet is split into sections that check children’s scientific vocabulary, understanding, and their ability to explain, predict and deduce what is happening in difference scientific scenarios.
These spelling review worksheets provide an excellent way to test and practice Year 5 and Year 6 words ending in -cious and -tious.
The worksheets include 5 different activities in which children look at spelling patterns, identify misspelt words and apply their spellings in context.
The worksheets are suitable for Year 5 and Year 6 pupils and older SEN or EAL pupils. They can be used within lessons, as an assessment or as a homework task.
This writing review worksheet is an excellent way to develop children’s understanding and use of story settings and descriptions in KS2. There are a number of activities that demonstrate how authors create and evoke settings, with model texts for children to discuss and comment on.
The resource includes some inspiring images of settings for children to write about and English lessons.
It’s a great way to revise previous learning, and to experiment with new ideas.
*Support children’s writing with this Wild West fact file. It includes a great selection of images and facts that will help pupils create a convincing historial setting for their stories. It includes information about food, transport, communication, jobs, shops, leisure and the dangers of the Wild West - everything they need to produce great creative writing. *
This Coyote tale, retelling the tale of how Coyote stole the sun and moon, can be used to test comprehension skills in KS2.It also provides a model text and prompts for writing activities.
The text is accompanied by 20 reading comprehension questions. These questions target key comprehension skills such as retrieving information, making inferences and understanding unfamiliar vocabulary.
A planning sheet is included for children to plan out their own Coyote tale.