Save yourself HOURS of work with this lovely interactive resource pack providing practice materials for the pseudo words that children will encounter during the year one phonics screening check. The pack contains 2 colourful PowerPoint presentations, 2 sets of printable flash cards, a lesson plan and an activity sheet. The resources would provide a numerous lesson and can be used year on year. The pack focuses solely on the pseudo words as in my experience, these tend to be the words children find most challenging in the check, even for able readers. The materials have been carefully prepared following the principles of the Standards and Testing Agency (STA) screening checks, ensuring a broad coverage of sounds including vowel digraphs and common consonant blends.

Fully editable 100 square for lots of uses in the classroom. Fill the squares in different colours to explore number patterns or multiples. Delete numbers to set problem solving activities.

Blank lesson plan which can be easily adapted for individual settings.

A brightly coloured set of 50 flashcards designed to prepare children for the Y1 phonics screening check. The cards are based on the previous years screening checks but are different non words so can be used alongside previous years resources as additional practice. All relevant sounds are incorporated into the words and each flashcard has a different character to capture the interest of the children and get them used to reading non words accurately. Please note that if you have purchased the 'My Alien Friends' resource, these flashcards will contain duplicates.

A set of beautiful illustrations for use in a number of ways within the classroom. Perfect for cutting out and using for story boards, for making puppets or other story telling and literacy activities. Illustrations from a range of popular stories: Handa's Surprise, Mr Gumpy's Outing, Whatever Next!, The Enormouse Turnip, The Little Red Hen, The Papaya who spoke, The Snail and the Whale and The very hungry Caterpillar. These look much nicer and professional than clip art, photocopies or screen shots. Fully editable versions now added!

Quickly map your maths planning against the new national curriculum to ensure adequate coverage of all the areas of the curriculum. This is great if you are not following a bought in scheme of work but worry that you wont cover all of the statutory requirements. It is highly visual, allowing you to quickly identify areas that have little coverage. The document contains individual sheets for Year 1 and Year 2 detailing the relevant programmes of study for each year. Simply enter any keyboard character into a box and it will change to green to indicate that a curriculum area had been covered. Easily edited to personalise to your individual class/school.

A useful KS1 class assessment tool for the New Curriculum. This spreadsheet tool lists all of the Y1, Y2 and Y3 aims for the 2014 English (reading) Curriculum so you can record coverage and achievement and clearly identify gaps (Y3 aims have been included for children exceeding the statutory requirements for KS1). The tool has a separate page for each of the writing strands to make assessment clear and focused and gaps easier to identify The tool automatically calculates the percentage of year group expectations that each child attains. Teachers can then make a judgment on the strength that each child is working within age related expectations. The tool also makes mixed aged class assessment easier. The sheet comes with instructions and is simple to use, taking seconds to assess a whole class. There is also a tool for mathematics and for writing.

A very useful set of 5 PPT presentations to display clearly on the IWB and quickly move through them instead of flipping flashcards. Of course if you do wish to use them as flashcards, you could easily print off the slides. There is an illustrated 'imaginary creatures' PPT with pseudo words based on previous phonics screening materials. Each word is forst displayed without the sound buttons then with to enable children to try to apply their sound knowledge independently then 'sound out' together as a class/group. The remaining 4 PPT presentations contain all of the real words that have been used in the 2013, 2014, 2015 and 2016 phonics screening checks. They have been split into section 1 and section 2 as they are in the actual papers. There are 2 versions of each section, one with sound buttons and the other without. Having the complete variations of sections 1 and 2 and with and without sound buttons offers lots of ways to differentiate between groups of at different times of the year as the new sounds are veing taught.

A slightly adapted version of a resource contributed by another user 'essc&'. I have reformatted slightly and added Cornish to use with my year 2 class.

Straight forward, easy to adapt blank lesson plan for KS1/2.

Here is everything you will need to run a KS1 maths challenge in your school. All the challenge are based on mental arithmetic and number facts. They will need to not only learn the number facts but also be able to apply them. There are 15 levels to the challenge - which are called 'missions' and for each, there is an accompanying homework sheet which details their mission and the 'reward. The first reward is to earn their meteor proof space suit, and others include gravity defying space boots, gadget belt and a multi coloured laser (all virtual rewards of course, but fun to collect!). The whole class then has a timed challenge (4 minutes) to complete the challenge sheet for whatever mission they are on. The challenge has been designed to meet the increased requirements of the 2014 National Curriculum and support preparation for KS1 SAT's. This mega resource comes with instructions, 15 homework sheets, 15 challenge sheets, 2 sets of stickers for each mission (one for the children and one for their books so 30 sheets in total), display pictures, a cover for the folder to keep all the resources organised, an information letter for parents and a list of all of the missions and their learning objectives. This resource is the result of many hours of preparation and is completely usable as it is but is also fully editable to enable you to adapt or personalise all of the resources. You could also create some additional challenges if you wanted to extend this into KS2. If you are happy to use it as it is then please download the FREE version. Please note that sticker sheets have been made to fit Consortium 65 labels. Feedback welcome, enjoy!

Here is a calculation policy written to meet the aims of the 2014 National curriculum for KS1. It is fully editable so can be adapted to suit the needs of your individual school. I also have a FREE version in my shop that has been made generic so that it could be used by any school, or could be used as starting point for you to create own more personalised version. Both provide a progressive set of strategies based on a concrete, pictorial, abstract (CPA) approach and provides lots of images and examples to enable teachers to apply this in their classrooms. I wrote this policy after spending many hours trying to find something like it online but nothing was structured quite how I wanted it to look. I Hope you find the resource useful, please leave feedback.

Set of bingo cards of basic 2d and 3d shapes. Enough cards for whole class if working in pairs. Squares have been made the same size as square post it notes so that children can stick post its over the shapes and the teacher can easily lift the flap and see if they are right. Alternatively, if laminated, children can mark of with whiteboard pens. I use real shapes in a bag which I pull out, then children mark off the ones they have.

A useful KS1 class assessment tool for the New Curriculum. This spreadsheet tool lists all of the Y1, Y2 and Y3 aims for the 2014 English (writing) Curriculum so you can record coverage and achievement and clearly identify gaps (Y3 aims have been included for children exceeding the statutory requirements for KS1). The tool has a separate page for each of the writing strands to make assessment clear and focused and gaps easier to identify The tool automatically calculates the percentage of year group expectations that each child attains. Teachers can then make a judgment on the strength that each child is working within age related expectations. The tool also makes mixed aged class assessment easier. The sheet comes with instructions and is simple to use, taking seconds to assess a whole class. There is also a tool for mathematics and for reading. A free PDF printable version is available.

A useful KS1 class assessment tool for the New Curriculum. This spreadsheet tool lists all of the Y1, Y2 and Y3 aims for the 2014 Mathematics Curriculum so you can record coverage and achievement and clearly identify gaps (Y3 aims have been included for children exceeding the statutory requirements for KS1). The tool has a separate page for each of the writing strands to make assessment clear and focused and gaps easier to identify The tool automatically calculates the percentage of year group expectations that each child attains. Teachers can then make a judgment on the strength that each child is working within age related expectations. The tool also makes mixed aged class assessment easier. The sheet comes with instructions and is simple to use, taking seconds to assess a whole class. There is also a tool for reading and for writing.

Really useful assessment sheets I made which breaks down the 4 areas of KS1 maths into progressive and levelled skills based on APP to make assessment at the end of the term/year much easier and to provide a good overview of any gaps in learning/coverage. I have made a set for literacy also.

This is a simple activity for Christmas time. Children colour in the appropriate numbers on a 100 square as directed to reveal a picture of Rudolph.

A set of shape problem solving activities of various difficulty. Children have the template sheet, then cut out the shapes and try to fit them into the template. A solution sheet can be printed to assist the children if they are struggling.

Simple lesson for KS1 children which includes a powerpoint presentation containing an online activity and worksheets to accompany the presentation.

A really useful class assessment sheet for the New Curriculum. This sheet lists all of the Y1, Y2 and Y3 aims for the 2014 English (writing) Curriculum so you can record coverage and achievement and identify gaps (Y3 aims have been included for children exceeding the statutory requirements for KS1). There is a separate sheet for each of the writing strands to make assessment clear and focused. Having the objectives for the range of year groups on one document enables mixed aged assessment easier and allows for sheets to be used over a 2 year period to track children's progress. For a small fee I have interactive spreadsheet versions available for Reading, Writing and Mathematics for the new curriculum. The spreadsheet tool will automatically calculate the percentage of year group expectations that each child has attained. Teachers can then make a judgment on the strength that each child is working within age related expectations.