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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.
These activity sheets have been created to match the small steps on the White Rose maths schemes of work. They are for the autumn term, weeks 1-4.
The questions include varied fluency with reasoning with problem solving, and an additional sheet with extension activities.
Children are given a variety of pictorial examples to work with and questions to provoke deeper thinking.
National Curriculum Links
Year 1 Number – Place Value
Identify and represent numbers using concrete objects and pictorial representations including the number line, and use the language of: equal to, more than, less than (fewer), most, least
These activity sheets have been created to match the small steps on the White Rose maths schemes of work. They are for the autumn term, weeks 5-8.
The questions include varied fluency with reasoning with problem solving, and an additional sheet with extension activities.
Children are given a variety of pictorial examples to work with and questions to provoke deeper thinking.
National Curriculum Links
Year 1 Number – Addition and Subtraction
Read, write and interpret mathematical statements involving addition (+), subtraction (-) and equal (=) signs.
Add and subtract one digit numbers to 10, including 0.
These activity sheets have been created to match the small steps on the White Rose maths schemes of work. They are for the autumn term, week 9.
The questions include varied fluency with reasoning with problem solving, and an additional sheet with extension activities.
Children are given a variety of pictorial examples to work with and questions to provoke deeper thinking.
National Curriculum Links
Year 1 Geometry – Shape
Recognise and name common 2-D and 3-D shapes, including: 3-D shapes (for example, cuboids (including cubes), pyramids and spheres).
Teach children how to write engaging and scary stories with this KS2 text types resource pack. There are sheets to help pupils plan against success criteria, instructions on the ingredients of scary tales, two detailed model texts and a story planner to help children structure their stories.
The three sections to the resource are:
A vocabulary and scary story writing guide
A scary story text writing plan
Two model scary story texts
Add and subtract fractions with the same denominator.
These adding and subtracting fraction maths worksheets provide extra challenge for Year 4 children. A variety of fraction 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 Grammar, Punctuation and Spelling review worksheet is an excellent way to revise and practise using the -er and -est suffixes in Year 2.
The worksheets are divided into five different types of activity for KS1 pupils, including writing challenges and GPS sample test questions. Children will need to define the -er and -est suffixes using their own words, and there are images and challenges to prompt creative responses.
Count backwards through zero to include negative numbers.
These negative number review worksheets provide extra challenge for Year 4 children. A variety of negative number 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.
Compare and order numbers up to 1000.
These ordering number worksheets provide extra challenge for Year 3 children. A variety of 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.
Inspire discussion and writing in your primary class with these six KS1 interactive display posters on zoo animals. Each poster contains statistics and interesting facts about the animals. Additional bubbles are provided so that the children can add their own facts and expand the posters. The sheets include these animals:
elephants
giraffes
lions
camels
rhinos
hippos
Inspire discussion and writing in your primary class with these six KS1 interactive display posters on pets. Each poster contains statistics and interesting facts about the animals. Additional bubbles are provided so that the children can add their own facts and expand the posters. The sheets include these animals:
Dogs
Cats
Rabbits
Fish
Tortoises
Hamsters
This pack contains 8 interactive posters illustrating Year 2 spelling concepts.
Each poster shows a spelling pattern surrounded by eight images. Each image illustrates a word that includes the same spelling pattern.
There are two versions of each poster. Posters with text – the images on these posters are labelled with the word they are illustrating. Posters without text – the images on these posters are not labelled so that children can look at the pictures and try and identify the words they represent and the spelling pattern or patterns common to them all.
There are also graphics for you to make your own posters, which can be cut out and arranged in different patterns on the classroom wall.
The spelling rules illustrated in these posters are:
‘ff’, ‘ll’, ‘ss’, ‘zz’ and ‘c’ words
-nk words
Syllables
-tch words
Words that end in the ‘v’ sound
Adding ‘s’ and ‘es’ to words
Adding -ed, -ing and -er
Adding -er and -est
These Year 5 and Year 6 review worksheets, covering ‘ough’ words, are an excellent way to revise and practise spelling.
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 pack contains seven interactive posters illustrating Year 5 spelling concepts.
Each poster shows a spelling pattern surrounded by eight images, each of which demonstrates a different spelling pattern.
A version of the posters without text is also included, so that children can look at the pictures and add their own labels, once they have indentified the correct word. And there are posters without pictures or text which can be used as templates for pupils to develop their own spelling wall displays.
The spelling rules illustrated in these posters are:
word endings which sound like ‘shush’ spelt -cious or -tious
word endings which sound like ‘shul’ spelt -cial or -tial
words ending in -ant, -ance/-ancy, -ent, -ence/ -ency
words ending in -able and -ible also -ably and -ibly
words containing the letter-string ‘ough’
words with ‘silent’ letters
Words with the /i:/ sound spelt ei after c
This science resource enables teachers to review learning following the teaching of an electricity topic in Upper Key Stage 2. It covers areas on the science curriculum including parallel and series circuits, and different electrical components.
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.
Use these KS2 reading comprehension worksheets to teach your children about the Loch Ness Monster. The text covers Scottish folklore, sighting, photographs and modern day interest.
A set of comprehension questions are included, which tackle key reading skills such as inference and retrieval.
This pack is also a great prompt for writing scary stories.
This spelling Bingo resource pack is a fun way to support children in Year 5 and above in practising key spelling patterns. The game can be played as a class or in small groups.
Included in this pack are:
30 bingo cards, each containing 16 words containing spelling patterns from Year 2.
1 tick-list to mark off the spelling patterns called out.
The spelling patterns covered in this pack include:
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 spelling Bingo resource pack is a fun way to support children in Year 3 and above in practising key spelling patterns. The game can be played as a class or in small groups.
Included in this pack are:
30 bingo cards each containing 9 words containing a Year 3 spelling pattern.
1 tick-list to mark off the spelling patterns called out.
The spelling patterns covered in this pack include:
dis- prefix
mis- prefix
re- prefix
un- prefix
Add suffixes beginning with vowel letters to words of more than one syllable.
Add the suffix -ly
Words with endings sounding like ‘zh’ and ‘ch’
Words with endings which sound like ‘zhun’
Homophones
Words containing the ‘i’ sound spelt ‘y’ elsewhere than at the end of words
Words containing the ‘u’ sound spelt ‘ou’
Words with the ‘k’ sound spelt ‘ch’
Words with the ‘sh’ sound spelt ‘ch’
Words with the ‘sh’ sound spelt ‘ch’
Words with the ‘ay’ sound spelt ‘ei’, ‘eigh’ or ‘ey’
This KS2 times tables challenge pack provides children with a term’s worth of practice on recalling multiplication facts for their 1 – 12 times tables.
The pack contains 13 worksheets of 60 problems. The children can complete as many of these as possible as a timed challenge.
Also included in this pack is a scorecard, so that children can see how their recall is improving across the term.
These spelling word worksheets provide a great way to practise and review the Year 5 and 6 words from the National Curriculum Spelling List.
All of the Year 5 and 6 spelling words are covered across five challenging worksheets, each containing three different types of spelling check challenges, including anagrams and cryptic clues.
This school assembly with an environmental theme shows children that they too can make a difference. It includes a story to illustrate this point, demonstrating how a schoolchild has made a difference to the discussion around climate change, and ends with a fun magic trick.
The only additional resources need are straws, a coloured drink, a transparent cup, and a blindfold.