I am an assistant head who has over 10 years teaching experience. I have created resources to support you with your own wellbeing and to help you manage a healthy work-life balance so that you can focus on your class. You will find a variety of lessons and templates to support your year group as well as the whole school. I hope you enjoy these well designed sessions.
I am an assistant head who has over 10 years teaching experience. I have created resources to support you with your own wellbeing and to help you manage a healthy work-life balance so that you can focus on your class. You will find a variety of lessons and templates to support your year group as well as the whole school. I hope you enjoy these well designed sessions.
All of the Pre Key Stage objectives on one handy sheet!
Can be used in combination with other writing assessment grids in my shop if a child is still not meeting below statements.
Useful as a planning tool: to see what needs revisiting or even planning altogether, as well as assessing and planning for progress. I would use one sheet per child but this is not necessary.
All reviews are welcome.
You might also like to see other year group writing assessments on my online shop: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resources/shop/Teach_wise
or alternatively you might want to save money and buy each year groups in one handy inexpensive bundle:
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-13012758
Here is a unit of work for a whole term that includes a range of writing types:
Formal Letter to the Government (writing for a purpose extremely evident and children thrive off of this).
Setting Description - Air Raid
War Poems
Informal Letter as an evacuee
Biography
Flashback Story
It includes 6 Active Inspire flipcharts and the PDF versions for each text type, learning journeys, models of excellence and resources. Each lesson in the week also has star questions attached to extend children further or alternatively give opportunity for post-teach time in the following session. The work focuses on the history of war and looks in depth at a range of events/people, including Walter Tull and Operation Mincemeat. There is also a week unit which focuses on the Literacy Shed Video ‘The Piano’.
It includes a range of videos and history to engage all children. There are many opportunites for paired, individual and group work. The range of models of excellence allows children to have the opportunity to magpie new vocabulary, whilst developing their writing and editing techniques.
Written for KS2 it covers many SPAG skills and genres.
If you are interested in just one of these writing units then they can also be sold seperately. Visit my shop at: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resources/shop/Teach_wise to find all the planning, powerpoints and resources you need to survive teaching!
All reviews welcome.
The importance of speaking and listening is often forgotten about, yet is an essential life skill. Therefore, it is crucial to inspire, motivate and give children opportunities to speak in public.
An enaging assessment tool that allows children to peer and self assess their performances: great for debating and performance poetry sessions. Statements on how to engage an audience as well as improve dictation and tone are split across year groups to ensure that they are progressive across each year group.
You will also find display posters of the success criteria for Speaking and Listening so that all children know what is expected of them as they are performing.
If you think these would be useful, check out my writing assessment checklists for the whole school:
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/writing-assessment-checklist-for-whole-school-13012758
You might also like my test scoring tracker:
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/excel-sats-test-score-assessment-tracker-13013344
This resource can be used easily alongside my Oracy resources, which can be found on my shop page:
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resources/shop/Teach_wise
This Art CPD for the whole school includes the following information:
-Why we need to diversify artists
-Which groups we need to represent more in art
-Examples of diverse artists
-How we can include new artists in our teaching
The purpose of this CPD is to look at your Art Overview and ensure that it covers a huge range of artists. This small bundle offers you an example plan of lessons for Years 2 on the theme of India, a template for planning diverse artists, example artists for each year group with links to other NC subject areas and a CPD flipchart to deliver the session.
I hope you enjoy the resource and that it saves you valuable time in organising your schools Art Overview- feel free to review it below.
You may also like my free art resources:
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/art-warm-up-activities-to-support-fine-motor-skills-and-tool-control-13012076
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/art-assessment-guidance-what-makes-good-art-13012093
A whole terms English writing unit including: learning journey, resources, models of excellence, powerpoints and scaffolds, based on the story of The Savage by David Almond. In particular, boys have really enjoyed this writing unit and have thrived with their writing. This unit of writing includes a character description, suspense writing, diary entry and a newspaper report.
In this bundle you will also find 5 guided reading lessons which focus on a range of VIPERS skills. It includes all the tools needed in order to success at active reading and inference.
I hope you have as much fun with this unit as I did!
Let me know what you liked about the lessons.
Take a look at my shop to see more of my exciting resources: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resources/shop/Teach_wise?p=2
Five essential resources for improving your own and your school’s behaviour management:
1) Behaviour Rota - Make sure it is clear which member of SLT is on duty for reflection time. This will reduce the anxiety of teachers and pupils as they will know exactly what room to go to and who will be working with them.
2) Behaviour Tracker - For SLT to log behaviour concerns of children who have been in missed play 3x. Keep track of those children who are regularly attending so that you can put in place a behaviour strategy form and involve the parents.
3) Reflection Time Slips - For teachers to give their children to take to reflection time. This will allow the SLT member to clearly identify what happened - think about how many children have ever said to you, “I’m not sure what I’ve done.” This will certainly prevent this happening!
4) Reflection Time Response - Remember: children aren’t sent to reflection time to be told off but to discuss and reflect on their actions when they are calm and ready to explain. There is usually a reason children will act out, so this is the time where they can express their own needs and reflect on what went wrong.
5) ABC chart - Keep track of children who display behaviour issues, can you spot any recurring triggers? You will often find there is a specific time or lesson that triggers specific responses.
You may also find my Wave 1 strategy sheet for SEND pupils beneficial:
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/wave-1-strategy-sheet-tracker-for-send-pupils-with-plan-do-review-supporting-sheet-13012052
You can find more free and inexpensive resources at my shop:
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resources/shop/Teach_wise
If you enjoyed this pack, make sure you leave a review!
All you need to run a smooth training session to all staff members. It includes CPD slides, assessment guidance, warm up activity examples as well as effective art pedagogies.
Each resource is ready to go, to be shared with your staff members: bright, engaging and clear.
Check out my other popular resources in my online store: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resources/shop/Teach_wise
Check out my progressive spelling overview and teach spellings consistently across your school by focusing on the same sound each week.
Perfect time saver for any English leader looking at improving spellings across their school. This progressive overview will boost pupil’s attainment as they will be overlearning and recapping sounds every year while extending their vocabulary and challenging themselves with differentiated spelling lists.
Ready to distribute spellings to teach however you feel appropriate for your school.
Suggestion:
Monday - Identify sound (there will be different patterns and spellings for these phonemes - can they all be spotted?)
Tuesday - Sound buttons
Wednesday - Sorting activity (putting each word under the correct grapheme_
Thursday - Test your partner on these words
Friday - Dictation of 5/10 of these words.
Lessons could be complete in books or whiteboards!
A helpful resource to ensure that your spellings are progressive, consistent and recapped.
All reviews welcome.
If you like this resource, you may also find my free editing guidance helpful:
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/editing-guidance-resource-and-marking-for-writing-lessons-13012677
If you are struggling to moderate/assess writing, you might also want to see my assessment sheets for each year group. Now on sale in an inexpensive bundle!
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/writing-assessment-checklist-for-whole-school-13012758
Three complete lessons on using speech, with an engaging powerpoint and activities to enthuse the children. An easy to use powerpoint leads you through each lesson.
Planning a conversation.
Writing dialogue (ICAPI, burger resource, prepositions, adjectives and vocabulary)
Using expression - drama activity.
Written for Year 4 but easily adaptable for all KS2 year groups. Written based on the story ‘Leon and the Place Between’. Guarenteed to engage your class. Bright, colourful, clear and memorable.
All reviews welcome.
My speaking and listening assessment tool would go perfectly with this planning, take a look on the link below:
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/progressive-speaking-and-listening-assessment-tools-for-whole-school-13012777
Find my other Leon and the Place Between resources on my shop page:
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resources/shop/Teach_wise
If you’d like ready made speech lessons for UKS2, take a look here:
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/short-story-figurative-language-and-speech-13013503
A useful document to support teachers in having a succinct method and practice of teaching. Here are 10 Pedagogy principles relating to art and quotes to support the ideas behind them.
Make your school have a clear and unified idea on how art should be taught with this evidence based resource.
All reviews welcome.
Check out my other popular resources for teaching and leading Art:
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resources/shop/Teach_wise/Art and design
A complete lesson on identifying and writing relative clauses. Written for a higher ability Year 4 class but easily adaptable to suit your classes needs. A detailed lesson, with engaging activities on how to use who, whose, which and that relative pronouns. **All you need to make your class confident and secure at using relative clauses in their writing. **
Based on the book Leon and the Place Between, it is sure to enthuse your children and bring the magic into the classroom!
Slides explain how to use a relative clause, models examples of using each pronoun as well as giving children the opportunities to add some into sentences before beginning their work. With the help of a washing line activity, scaffolds, model of excellence and word banks the children are bound to thrive in their writing.
All reviews welcome on this free resource.
If you like this you may also like my Leon and the Place Between speech sequence of lessons:
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/speech-sequence-of-lessons-year-3-4-lks2-13014657
Or how about some editing support with my free editing guidance and CPD:
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/editing-guidance-resource-and-marking-for-writing-lessons-13012677
Take a look at my online store for many more exciting free and inexpensive resources! https://www.tes.com/teaching-resources/shop/Teach_wise?p=2
Please find this helpful template for a rapid action plan (RAP). It covers all the things you need to map out staff meetings, teacher training, CPD and subject specialist time for your staff across each term. It can also help with tracking cover and supply teachers on days where your teachers will be out of class.
Enjoy this free resource and feel free to review.
If you like this, you may also find my personal development template helpful:
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/personal-development-plan-including-british-values-and-smsc-13012821
You might also like my subject monitoring forms:
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/subject-leadership-monitoring-forms-evaluation-schedule-and-supporting-questions-13012343
Check out my other resources and supportive documentation on my online shop: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resources/shop/Teach_wise
An engaging sequence of four reading lessons for easily teaching the skills:
Vocabulary
Prediction
Summarising
Inference
Fluency of reading (prosody, intonation, fluency and expression through FASE reading).
Contains all you need for active reading sessions, where the children can confidently discuss and generate ideas. This resource is excellent in engaging children in conversations, they will need to reflect on what they already know as well as as what they see inside the book.
Each lesson builds and expands on the previous one. Based on the book Leon and the Place Between, children are motivated by the vibrant pages and engaging storyline.
If you like this resource you may also enjoy my writing session based on the book:
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/speech-sequence-of-lessons-year-3-4-lks2-13014657
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/relative-clause-spag-lesson-13014677
You might also want to try my guided reading lessons on The Savage:
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/david-almond-guided-reading-vipers-lessons-13013761
Feel free to review!
**A simple, easy to use proforma to track your SLT meetings. **
Reviews welcome.
This goes hand in hand with my free rapid action template:
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/rapid-improvement-plan-template-13010836
Alternatively, you might like my performance management/pupil progress resources: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/pupil-progress-meeting-data-pack-analysis-13014100
or how about my Personal Development template:
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/personal-development-plan-including-british-values-and-smsc-13012821
If your focus is on behaviour, you may like this resource:
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/behaviour-concern-forms-and-reflection-time-slips-13014031
Relevant English pupil conferencing questions for primary school children but easily adaptable for secondary. Choose from over 60 deep and meaningful questions, clearly split into topics of these main areas:
General Lessons,
Assessment,
Reading,
Exercise Books,
SPAG,
Wellbeing
Each section have a summary box for the strengths and next steps for each area.
Be confident that when Ofsted arrive you can clearly discuss what the understand, what they can do and what the children are likely to say.
These questions could be adapted to other subjects easily.
All reviews welcome.
If you like this free resource, you may also enjoy my monitoing log:
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/subject-leadership-overview-of-monitoring-log-13014821
or other subject specialist monitoring forms:
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/subject-leadership-monitoring-forms-evaluation-schedule-and-supporting-questions-13012343
Two engaging guided reading lessons focusing on the VIPERS skills retrieval and inference. Save time using this resource, complete with a PPT, video, questions and worksheet. All the neccessary resources needed to inspire your children: enhance vocabulary, engage the children and enjoy teaching.
Questions will prompt higher order thinking and answers will be scaffolded naturally by the children. All reviews welcome.
If you like this, then check out my sequence of guided reading lessons on Leon and the Place Between:
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/vocabulary-prediction-summarise-inference-reading-lessons-ks2-13014711
Don’t forget to check out my other useful and engaging lessons at my shop:
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resources/shop/Teach_wise
This useful document was put together in correlation with the EEF Writing Guidance. It contains the progression of editing skills as stated in the National Curriculum, the implementation needed for successful editing skills as well as examples of how it can be used in lessons.
There is also a PDF Flipchart that can be used to support staff in using this documentation.
Feel free to review this document when you have used it.
Check out other similar and supportive resources in my shop:
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resources/shop/Teach_wise
Handwriting lines to demonstrate the sizing of letters to all children.
Have the best handwriting class in school with this useful resource!
All reviews welcome.
Check out my online shop for more amazing and easy to use resources: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resources/shop/Teach_wise
3 simple, ready to use templates for your whole class reading folder. Simply add in the names of all the children, highlight any SEND, PP children or those who don’t read regularly so that yourself, any visitors and teaching assistants know who to go to regularly.
Find attached:
A front cover (to keep all the information together)
1:1 readers (to keep track of who you read with daily, weekly or termly)
Weekly reading (to ensure that each child is reading at home each week)
This will ensure that you have read with every child frequently and you can keep track of their progress throughout the year.
Enjoy this simple but essential resource! Don’t forget to review it and give my online shop a glance…
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resources/shop/Teach_wise
Here is a clear, concise overview template of all the subject monitoring you have completed across the year. They can be used as they are or edited to make it more specialist for your subject and school.
This would work perfectly alongside my in depth monitoring forms, which include:
Monitoring report
Questions for Pupil Interview
Subject Leader Progress Reports
Lesson Observation Proforma
Work Scrutiny Proforma – 2 templates
Action Plans
Take a look here: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/subject-leadership-monitoring-forms-evaluation-schedule-and-supporting-questions-13012343
All reviews welcome.