The resources in this art and design resource pack are designed to support the teaching of different shading techniques in KS2 art lessons. It contains: Lesson plan – This can be used during one lesson or it can be broken down and used over more than one session. Children will learn how to use different shading techniques and apply these to their own drawings. PowerPoint – This supports the teaching of the lesson plan with examples for the whole class to view. Technique cards – These explain how to use each of the different art techniques covered in the pack. They include sample images. Worksheets – Two worksheets which support the children in practising their shading techniques.

These bright and engaging worksheets encourage children to revise and practise the standard features needed when writing limericks. The sheets offer five different challenges, under the headings understand, explain, challenge, test and apply. These can be completed during a single lesson, spread over a number of sessions, or used for homework. The questions encourage creative responses as well as revision, and use interesting images to spark children’s imaginations.

This booklet contains 15 mental maths challenges for Key Stage 2 pupils, covering the four processes of addition, subtraction, multiplication and division, plus squared numbers and brackets. The booklet can be used as morning work, a lesson starter or during a shorter session. It contains 15 question sheets, each with 25 target numbers for children to create using a combination of the numbers and processes listed underneath. Also included is a scorecard, enabling children to see how their mental maths skills are improving over the weeks.

This classic texts challenge pack provides a quick burst of comprehension practice - ideal for morning work, a short reading session or even sparking an interest in a classic text. Each challenge includes a brief extract from a classic text with a range of reading challenge questions focusing on the key skills of inference, information retrieval and vocabulary use. The classic texts in this pack are: The stories included are: Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson Great Expectations, by Charles Dickens The War of the Worlds, by H.G. Wells

This KS2 lesson plan uses The Balaclava Story by George Layton to support the teaching of story structures and plans, as well as enhancing children’s skill at analysing texts, retrieval and inference. The pack includes a lesson plan, planning grids, supporting images and unfamiliar vocabulary cards for sorting and display. You will need a copy of The Fib, by George Layton - a collection of short stories of which The Balaclava Story is the first.

This spelling Bingo game is a fun way to support children in Year 4 and above to practise and master key spelling patterns. The game can be played as a class or in small groups.

This powerful KS2 grammar resources pack provides everything you need to teach a series of five lessons on using commas to avoid ambiguity, culminating in an extended writing task where children can use their grammatical understanding in context.

These worksheets review the grammar and punctuation objectives covered during Year 3. They are an excellent way to identify areas of strength or weakness in preparation for the next school year, and to revise this content before SATs in Year 6. The worksheets are divided into five different types of activity including writing challenges and GPS sample test questions.

This pack of story planning resources is based on the idea of ‘The Hero’s Journey’, in which the central character of a tale progresses through 12 stages as his or her story unfolds. Once children can recognise this structure in familiar tales, they can use it to plan their own myths, legends or fantasy stories.

Revise Year 5 grammar terms and examples using this fun and challenging tarsia game - perfect for home learning or classroom use! A tarsia is a simple jigsaw puzzle, in which small equilateral triangles fit together to form one, giant triangle. Here, children need to match grammatical terms with model sentences to complete three separate puzzles. Templates are also included to allow children to come up with their own model sentences, and create new grammar puzzles for their classmates.

Tier 2 words are ones which children might encounter in text but are less likely to use in everyday conversation. As these words are often unfamiliar to children, they can sometimes act as a barrier to reading. We have chosen 48 Tier 2 words for this Year 4 pack. The Tier 2 words in this pack can be used by children to add more adventurous or formal vocabulary to their writing. The worksheets can also be used as a reading comprehension activity.

Use this KS2 grammar game to help introduce Year 4 children to fronted adverbials, and to revise the topic with Years 5 and 6. The activity pack contains more than 100 fronted adverbial sentence starters grouped into categories of ‘how’, ‘where’ and ‘when’. Also included are clauses which can be matched to the fronted adverbials to create sentences. Teaching ideas: Children can sort the fronted adverbials into categories, and add their own to the lists Children can match fronted adverbials with clauses to create sentences (including silly ones!) Children can use the fronted adverbial cards to start their own sentences The cards are great for display, too!

This resource pack provides opportunities for year 2 pupils to develop comprehension and writing skills in preparation for SATs and end of year assessments. It part of a collection of resources, covering a variety of fiction and non-fiction texts, and includes a model text with questions and answers, plus a fully resourced writing task. A PowerPoint is also provided.

This resource pack provides opportunities for year 2 pupils to develop comprehension and writing skills in preparation for SATs and end of year assessments. It is part of a collection of resources, covering a variety of fiction and non-fiction texts, and includes a model text with questions and answers, plus a fully resourced writing task. A PowerPoint is also provided.

This resource pack provides opportunities for year 2 pupils to develop comprehension and writing skills in preparation for SATs and end of year assessments. It is part of a collection of resources, covering a variety of fiction and non-fiction texts, and includes a model text with questions and answers, plus a fully resourced writing task. A PowerPoint is also provided.

This resource pack provides opportunities for year 2 pupils to develop comprehension and writing skills in preparation for SATs and end of year assessments. It is part of a collection of resources, covering a variety of fiction and non-fiction texts, and includes a model text with questions and answers, plus a fully resourced writing task. A PowerPoint is also provided.

This resource pack provides opportunities for year 2 pupils to develop comprehension and writing skills in preparation for SATs and end of year assessments. It is part of a collection of resources, covering a variety of fiction and non-fiction texts, and includes a model text with questions and answers, plus a fully resourced writing task. A PowerPoint is also provided.

This resource pack provides opportunities for year 2 pupils to develop comprehension and writing skills in preparation for SATs and end of year assessments. It is part of a collection of resources, covering a variety of fiction and non-fiction texts, and includes a model text with questions and answers, plus a fully resourced writing task. A PowerPoint is also provided.

These reading challenge sheets provide a quick burst of comprehension practice, ideal for morning work, a short reading session or even sparking an interest in a classic text. Each sheet comprises a brief extract from a classic text with a range of reading challenge questions focusing on the key reading skills of inference, information retrieval and the use of language. Answer sheets are included. The classic texts in this pack, all written by Mark Twain, include : A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court The Prince and the Pauper The Celebrated Jumping Frog Of Calaveras County

This year 2 writing assessment resource pack provides the opportunity for KS1 pupils to produce cross-curricular writing that can be assessed against the year 2 Teacher Assessment Framework (TAF). Pupils will write a story about an animal in the wrong habitat after revisiting their science knowledge of how animals are adapted to the environments that they live in. A pupil writing checklist is provided to encourage independent proofreading and editing. Year 2 writing checklists with TAF statements can be used to assess pupils against the year 2 writing standards for working towards, expected and greater depth standards.