A PowerPoint designed to be reduced to 4 or 6 to a page and stuck into Learning Journey books for summative assessment. Characteristics of Effective Learning and Areas of Learning statements for Foundation Stage (EYFS 2012) children. I was inspired by a local EYFS teacher and their school's learning journeys to produce these. They will also be laminated and placed onto a ring to be carried by the staff during observations. I hope you find them useful xx

A PowerPoint lesson plan designed to be used to introduce children to The story of my name activity/homework. Includes information on how and why names are given. Please see my other resources 'The story of my name' - homework activity and parent letter.

A homework activity based on Karen Langdon from Teaching Ace's blog. Designed as a settling in activity so everyone can learn each other&'s names and for children to practice speaking about themselves in front of others. Children to find out the story of their name, ie why they were given that name and what it means. Includes an explanatory letter to parents.

Boots' Learning Store teacher and pupil resources for Sun Safety. Includes links to Boots&' website resources, as well as the e-book on PowerPoint to use an introduction. Certificates and teacher notes also included.

PowerPoint lesson plan on the life of a stamp from initial concept, through artwork and design to printing and use. Children are then encouraged to enter the competition to design a Christmas stamp for 2013.

The Leuven scales for well-being and involvement. Useful to assist with EYFS summative assessments, alongside a learning and development tracker and characteristics of effective learning. Specifies the levels of engagement and emotion displayed within the setting.

F2 Reception medium term plan on Special Books. Linked to Leicester City SACRE RE unit, but encompasses RE, PSED, CL, UW

F2 Reception medium term plan on Friends, PPt presentation. Linked to Leicester City SACRE RE unit, but encompasses RE, PSED, CL, UW

iPod/iPad themed activity for transition day. Children to design their own iPod/iPad apps to describe themselves as a person. Could then be used as a first display in the class, ready before they start in September. Differentiated so suitable from EYFS up to upper KS2. Idea taken from Pinterest, but updated to include differentiation across the primary age.

On the Ning Nang Nong by Spike Milligan. Designed as a printable book or e-book on the IWB. Nice bright illustrations to accompany the poem (some courtesy of linda29 - thank you). Designed to be used with my PowerPoint plan on Nonsense Rhymes and Poems. Please rate the resource.

Thanks to Miss Chief for some content. A 5 day lesson plan PowerPoint based on nonsense nursery rhymes and poems. 3 days looking at On the Ning Nang Nong by Spike Milligan, focusing on rhyming words, repetition, alliteration.

A PowerPoint tutorial to teach young children some of the basics of using MS Publisher. Relies on the notion that children are experienced in using MS Word and similar programs. How to create a document based on a template, creating a new document, inserting text boxes, clipart, aligning images/objects, changing the background and saving

A simple children's guide to using Windows Explorer, covering My Computer, My Documents, opening and saving documents, and creating files and folders.

PowerPoint lesson plan based on half of Hamilton Trust's Year 1 lessons. Main focus on taste and smell. If you like the resource, please rate it. Thanks for looking xx

Behaviour reflections form based on form seen on lauracandler.com, but just updated in UK English spellings. May be useful to record a meeting with parents before a behaviour IEP is put into place.

A pro-forma to complete for the end of year report for Reception F2 children. Based on the new EYFS Profile document. Each area of learning has the ELG expected statements included and room for the emerging (age and stage as appropriate) and exceeding as necessary. These will need to be added in, dependent on levels the child is working at. Space also provided for additional comments, as well as a page for the characteristics of effective learning, and general teacher/HT comments. Attendance etc can be added as appropriate.

Designed as a staff training session to become more familiar with the characteristics of effective learning. Different characteristics to be printed out on to card and laminated. Then individually/in groups to match the characteristics to the 3 main areas (Playing & Learning, Active Learning, Creating é thinking Critically). To then find an observation and discuss the characteristics that child has displayed.

Revised planning templates for the 7 areas of learning, including room to complete any characteristics of effective learning you should be looking for

RUCSAC picture designed to be stuck in numeracy books

Activity to encourage children to see addition and subtraction as inverse operations. To write the four fact family number sentences for a set of three numerals. Could be then made into a fact family neighbourhood display with a variety of different fact families. I have kept to number bonds to 10, but easily amended to whatever fact families you want the children to learn.