A PowerPoint plan covering 5 lessons on New Life. Specifically looking at new life in Spring and working towards understanding the Easter story. 1. Giving and receiving love 2. Loving and trusting 3. New life 4. Jesus as loving 5. Easter as a Christian festival You will need the books Dogger by Shirley Hughes and Badger's Parting Gifts by Susan Varley.

A PowerPoint all about pigs. Info on where they live, pets, piglets, food and eating, their bodies and senses etc. Designed as extra supporting material when studying the Farm, Animals or The Three Little Pigs.

An introduction (based on Scholastic's Festival Facts Holi) ton the Hindu festival of Holi. To be used in conjunction with the story of Prahlad and Holika. Holi is the festival of colours, and is celebrated with the throwing of coloured powder and water.

Thanks to Heidi Anne Giebel on Pinterest for this great idea for a simple assessment or homework sheet. To check up that children understand different ways to represent a numeral, eg, tally marks, pictures, calculation, written numeral word

Updated and animated version of cjhinchliffe's powerpoint. I have made into a 2 session lesson plan focusing on: 1. where are bananas grown and why? 2. Climates and why bananas are not grown in the UK. 3. The journey of a banana. 4. Fair-trade / local produce questions.

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.

Topic word cards created to be used in group discussion or a story sack activity, so children can read the words and learn how to write/spell them. Designed to go alongside a topic on Pumpkin Soup by Helen Cooper. Features pumpkin and squash images and well as the animal characters and cooking utensils used. Good for topics on autumn or Halloween

A sheet for children to complete all about maths concepts related to them (number of letters in name, number of boys/girls in family, house number etc)

A set of 10 different blank board game templates for children to design their own board game. Great to be used in Maths or as part of a topic on Toys.

An acrostic snow poem and a rain shape poem. To be used for teaching poetry or as a display. I designed these and the supporting images as a homework. The Powerpoint document has 6 pages of each poem, so can easily be printed on a handout to be cut up for each child's homework book. I have used in conjunction with Hamilton&'s Y1 unit 3b - Poems on a theme - weather

PowerPoint made as an intro to talking about all the different roles a mum has (cook, cleaner, nurse, taxi driver...)

Pictures of foods beginning with ch or not. Designed as a sorting activity for oral segmentation when learning the phoneme /ch/.

Large display cards for class marking display, a 1 side of A4 size for tables and individual bookmark styles for sticking into exercise books. The symbols are my school's marking policy symbols. Hope this is of use to someone else!

Look Say Cover Write Check spellings book. Cover and page as separate documents. Designed for daily use in school to practice each word twice.

An image of children holding hands around the world. Could be used as a starting point for similarities and differences; cultural, or new year discussions

General Literacy word work, although made to accompany group guided reading of RWInc book Stop!

Moderation prompt form for pupil progress meetings. Simple table ensuring that learning journeys are consistent, and analysis of percentage of progress made that term. Good progress of 78 points / average scale point of 6 per area of learning. Analysis of class make-up: SEN, G&T, EAL, LAC, FSM etc. Reasons for v high/low profile scores and any future CPD needs. Useful as a summary for the EYFS Co-ordinator when talking to SLT/HT/OFSTED/LA Profile Manager.

Assembly script based on Cleversticks by Bernard Ashley. The story is based on a Chinese child who is new to the class and doesn't speak much English. He feels withdrawn as everyone has a special talent apart from him, until he shows the class how to use chopsticks. A nice story/play to do as part of Chinese New Year.

A set of images of New Year celebrations around the world.

Action plans/school development plan templates based around the Every Child Matters outcomes. To be completed by Nursery Manager/staff, Headteacher/teaching staff together or independently, and then share outcomes. Q-Cards are the Leicester City Council’s response to action planning for OFSTED (Q for Quality & Risk Analysis)