Make your way to the top of the board without treading on any of those treacherous snakes. Land on a spell square for the chance to get ahead by proving your spelling knowledge. This special Christmas edition features festive words. It is part of the Christmas Pack – available for both Lower and Upper Key Stage 2. If you like the Christmas edition, take a look at our standard Spelling Snakes and Ladders, which has word sets for Years 1 to 6 based on the UK National Spelling Appendix.

As Christmas approaches, get your children into the festive spirit from the moment they enter the classroom. These festive morning starters, which can also be used as time fillers in other spare moments during the day, are closely aligned with the UK National Curriculum for Years 5 and 6. The PowerPoint features 19 English morning starters and 19 maths morning starters. Answers are included on the following slide so pupils can self-mark. This resource is also available as part of the Christmas Pack for Upper Key Stage 2.

Assess your students' note identification knowledge and encourage them to practise and improve with these time challenges. Students start at level 1 and work their way through to level 13. They are given one minute to name all 30 notes. Once they have done so correctly, they can move on to the next level. Each week, alternate the two sheets for the level so students cannot memorise the pattern of notes. Level 1 – Treble clef spaces Level 2 – Treble clef lines Level 3 – Treble clef lines and spaces Level 4 – Bass clef spaces Level 5 – Bass clef lines Level 6 – Bass clef lines and spaces Level 7 – Treble and bass clef spaces Level 8 – Treble and bass clef lines Level 9 – Treble and bass clef lines and spaces Level 10 – Treble clef ledger lines Level 11 – Bass clef ledger lines Level 12 – Treble and bass clef ledger lines Level 13 – All notes The pack includes a full answer sheet. Record your students' results using the group tracker and/or individual tracker.

Improve your pupils' note recognition skills with a game of dominoes! This set contains 30 dominoes tiles, exactly based on the dot pattern from the classic version. The dots have been replaced with musical notes spanning two octaves. Two identical notes can be matched together, as can two notes of the same letter name in different octaves. Scientific pitch notation system: G3 to F5. You may be also be interested in the combined Treble and Bass Clef Dominoes Pack.

Improve your pupils' note recognition skills with a game of dominoes! This set contains 30 dominoes tiles, exactly based on the dot pattern from the classic version. The dots have been replaced with musical notes spanning two octaves. Two identical notes can be matched together, as can two notes of the same letter name in different octaves. Scientific pitch notation system: C2 to B3. You may be also be interested in the combined Treble and Bass Clef Dominoes Pack.

10 spelling tests using the words from the UK National Spelling Appendix. There are 5 tests for Lower Key Stage 2 and 5 tests for Upper Key Stage 2. Each test comes with a teacher sheet with example sentences to read aloud and a pupils’ answer sheet. There is also a class tracker. *Please note, you will need to extract/unzip the files after downloading to ensure they all open correctly.

This pack contains 5 spelling tests using the words from the UK National Spelling Appendix for Lower Key Stage 2 (Years 3 and 4). Each test comes with a teacher sheet with example sentences to read aloud and a pupils’ answer sheet. There is also a class tracker. Alternatively, buy the Upper and Lower KS2 sets together for the discounted price of £8: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/complete-ks2-spelling-pack-11818060 *Please note, you will need to extract/unzip the files after downloading to ensure they all open correctly.

This pack contains 5 spelling tests using the words from the UK National Spelling Appendix for Upper Key Stage 2 (Years 5 and 6). Each test comes with a teacher sheet with example sentences to read aloud and a pupils’ answer sheet. There is also a class tracker. Alternatively, buy the Lower and Upper KS2 sets together for the discounted price of £8: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/complete-ks2-spelling-pack-11818060 *Please note, you will need to extract/unzip the files after downloading to ensure they all open correctly.

Play dominoes with a twist! Each number of dots has been replaced by a rhyme sound. Children must play by the usual dominoes rules but match rhyming words instead of dots. Includes the sounds air, ite, ell, ing, at, oh and in. This resource is also available as part of the complete Poetry Pack at https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/poetry-pack-11817993?theme=1

Use your detective skills to find the syllables and complete this match game in record time. Syllable Search contains 9 words with 3-6 syllables and matching syllable number cards. This resource is also available as part of the complete Poetry Pack at https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/poetry-pack-11817993?theme=1

Get your children thinking about poetry terminology with this definitions game. Distribute the 25 cards amongst the class or group. Each card has a question (E.g. Who has another word for verse?) and an answer (E.g. I have stanza). The questions and answers follow each other around the room as pupils work out where their card fits into the sequence. Definitions: acrostic, alliteration, assonance, ballad, couplet, free verse, haiku, half-rhyme, internal rhyme, kenning, limerick, metaphor, narrative poem, onomatopoeia, personification, rap, repetition, riddle, rhyme, rhyme pattern, shape poem, simile, sonnet, syllable, stanza The cards are given in order so the teacher can keep a full copy as the answer sheet while pupils receive the cut up cards randomly. This resource is also available as part of the complete Poetry Pack at https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/poetry-pack-11817993?theme=1

This poetry success criteria contains: -Performance poetry -Analysing poems -Free verse -Planning and redrafting poetry -Comprehending poetry -Haiku -Narrative poem It is provided in an editable Word document so you can adapt it as required. This resource is also available as part of the complete Poetry Pack at https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/poetry-pack-11817993?theme=1

Ensure your children are confident with all the key aspects of grammar for Year 6 with these progress checks. The pack includes six checks, each with 20 questions. That’s one for each half term. The questions cover the range of grammar required in the UK National Curriculum for Year 6. The pack also includes a handy class tracker, which breaks down the children’s results into each area of grammar so you can view their progress at a glance. Answers are included. This resource is also available as part of the Year 3-6 Grammar Progress Checks pack: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/year-3-6-grammar-progress-checks-11818724 *Please note, you will need to extract/unzip the files after downloading to ensure they all open correctly.

Ensure your children are confident with all the key aspects of grammar for Year 4 with these progress checks. The pack includes six checks, each with 20 questions. That’s one for each half term. The questions cover the range of grammar required in the UK National Curriculum for Year 4. The pack also includes a handy class tracker, which breaks down the children’s results into each area of grammar so you can view their progress at a glance. Answers are included. This resource is also available as part of the Year 3-6 Grammar Progress Checks pack: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/year-3-6-grammar-progress-checks-11818724 *Please note, you will need to extract/unzip the files after downloading to ensure they all open correctly.

Ensure your children are confident with all the key aspects of grammar for Year 3 with these progress checks. The pack includes six checks, each with 20 questions. That’s one for each half term. The questions cover the range of grammar required in the UK National Curriculum for Year 3. The pack also includes a handy class tracker, which breaks down the children’s results into each area of grammar so you can view their progress at a glance. Answers are included. This resource is also available as part of the Year 3-6 Grammar Progress Checks pack: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/year-3-6-grammar-progress-checks-11818724 *Please note, you will need to extract/unzip the files after downloading to ensure they all open correctly.

Ensure your children are confident with all the key aspects of grammar for Year 5 with these progress checks. The pack includes six checks, each with 20 questions. That’s one for each half term. The questions cover the range of grammar required in the UK National Curriculum for Year 5. The pack also includes a handy class tracker, which breaks down the children’s results into each area of grammar so you can view their progress at a glance. Answers are included. This resource is also available as part of the Year 3-6 Grammar Progress Checks pack: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/year-3-6-grammar-progress-checks-11818724 *Please note, you will need to extract/unzip the files after downloading to ensure they all open correctly.

Ensure your children are confident with all the key aspects of grammar for Years 3-6 with these progress checks. The pack includes six checks for each year group; that’s one per half term. Every check contains 20 questions. The questions cover the range of grammar required in the UK National Curriculum for Years 3-6. The pack also includes handy class trackers, which break down the children’s results into each area of grammar so you can view their progress at a glance. Answers are included. The progress checks are also available to purchase by individual year group. *Please note, you will need to extract/unzip the files after downloading to ensure they all open correctly.

Play your favourite card games with your pupils and improve their note recognition skills. The standard card values (ace, two, king etc) have been replaced by musical notes. Treble clef = Middle C to A above the stave. Bass clef = Middle C to E below the stave. Pupils must recognise the notes to play the card games. This resource includes 52 treble clef playing cards and 52 bass clef playing cards in separate packs. The packs can be used separately or combined. Try the cards with: - Solitaire - Rummy - Go Fish - Snap - Cheat - And all your other favourite card games! Download and print.

Race to fill Santa's sleigh in this fast-paced musical notation game. Santa has received a lot of questions in the children's Christmas letters this year. If you can help him answer them, he'll be able to collect enough presents to fill his sleigh! Each player draws seven value cards (quavers/eighth notes, crotchets/quarter notes, dotted crotchets/dotted quarter notes, minims/half notes, dotted minims/dotted half notes and semibreves/whole notes) as well as the equivalent rests. The first player to answer Santa's question correctly, using their cards, wins a present. Santa's questions feature filling a bar in 2/4, 3/4 and 4/4 time, finding note and rest equivalents, addition and subtraction with musical notes, and balancing a seesaw with equivalent note lengths. Presents are drawn at random - your younger pupils will love seeing what they get. The winner is either the first person to win x number of presents or the person with the most presents after x minutes have elapsed. Sleigh Dash will give your students the practice they need to know their note values inside out.

This set has cards for every single possible scale combination for the ABRSM clarinet exams grades 1 to 8. Simply print out the page(s) for your student's grade and give them the sheets. They can then cut out the cards and place them in a pot/jar/bag. When they practise, they can pick them out at random to ensure they are practising all of their scales. For grades with more scales, they can sort them into different pots as they play through them - confident, needs some more practice, needs a lot more practice. They should then pick from the "needs a lot more practice" pot most frequently, until eventually all of the scales are in the "confident" pot. Each card tells the student which scale to play, whether it should be tongued or slurred (or, for higher grades, legato-tongued, staccato or slurred) and how many octaves should be played. It is just like having the teacher or examiner giving instructions, and it will ensure students are accustomed to playing each scale on demand. This resource can be used with every single one of your clarinet students as they progress through the grades. NB: I'm not affiliated with ABRSM in any way.