Introducing children to new books is such a treat, especially when you theme it around a book cafe. Invite your children to Starbooks Cafe to enjoy a 5 course taster menu, where they dip into a range of your new books and fill out their thoughts. Bunting (in white, green and grey), a placemat and screen slide is also included. Just add the biscuits or cake and you’re away!

Download this trending online game that has been especially adapted for the classroom to develop spellings of the next 200 high frequency words. Pack includes: printable game boards for 3, 4, 5 and 6 letter words rules sheet HFW lists You can also get the children to come up with their own words or set your own.

Pupil self-editing is such an important skill and requirement, yet it can be such a challenge to motivate young writers to spend the time doing it. This powerpoint and poster set is an exciting way to inspire the children to self or peer edit, as they are encouraged to visit each area of the Wizarding World. Teach children the magical Defence Against the Dark (teacher) Mark! ‘You could do with heading to the Quidditch pitch’ is a far more exciting way of saying ‘Go check your puctuation!’ or ‘Why not visit Honeydukes and see if you can pick up some tasty sentences!’ or ‘Head over to the Platform 9 3/4 where the journey begins and see if you can add a more magical opener!’ You could use these ‘stations’ to teach each new SPAG unit. Edit each powerpoint slide to add specific areas/ devices for improvement or use the examples show. Once happy, export the slides to pdf’s and use them as physcial stations. Or simply use the PDF posters included.

This is a hugely successful, tried and tested tool for encouraging your class, year group or school to enjoy reading and to celebrate the completion of books. Once a child has completed their book, they grab a book end, decorate with the title of their book etc and stick it onto the bookshelf. Once the shelf is complete, celebrate as a group! With 8 different colours available, there’s schemes for any room with the option to use house colours for different groups/ classes or teams. Title posters available with 3 different text colours. Notes for printing: for best results, print the bookshelves on A3. Piece and stick together (2cm overlap for ease) print the bookends on A4 print the title poster as desired. Bookshelves also supplied as PNG grpahics and as single page PDFs

A popping lesson to learn all about onomatopoeias with the theme of fireworks! A perfect lesson for Bonfire Night, July 4th or Diwali! Includes the Powerpoint Presentation that introduces onomatopoeias, explores different fireworks, gives funky onomatopoeia examples for fireworks and leads into a lovely art/writing activity. Also includes printable onomatopoeia word cards

Printable sheets for your class to practise their spellings using the look, say, cover, write, check approach. 13 sheets with 5 words on each covering all of the 64 common exception words for Year 2. All words are unique designs to help children visualise them more effectively. Top tips: Teacher could also use set the task of using different style of practice each time (rainbow words, bubble writing etc)

This magical lesson pack contains a very high quality 28 page Powerpoint presentation, guiding the class through the process of designing a potion and then writing instructions on how to brew it and then write an explanation on how it works. (Content for a series of lessons) Your kids will absolutely love the creative links to the Wizarding World. In addition, is a template for a beautiful potions book to present their work in (both in full colour and ink saving templates). Draft sheets are also included. (No written plan, but the Powerpoint guides through the lessons)

Dobble/ Spot it inspired game for helping children to read and recognise the Year 1 Common Exception Words. There’s a matching word on every card. Can the children spot it? All 45 words included with a few animals thrown in! Includes A4 pdf version with all 57 cards 57 individual cards on pdf to be printed to your custom size. Suggested: print 6 cards per A4 page.

Get your class secure on reading and writing homophones using this amazing mesmerising agamograph activity! Children can decorate and fold their templates into magical transforming words before their very eyes! 21 homophone pairs included. see/sea, son/sun, one/won, bare/bear, read/red, hear/here, right/write, blue/blew, night/knight, quite/quiet, witch/which, piece/peace, missed/mist, except/accept, bury/berry, rain/reign, board/bored, who’s/whose, grate/great, meet/meat, their/there Instructions: Print onto A4 or A3, setting the print to full page (not to printer margin) Slice in half horizontally (2 templates per page) Fold in concertina along the vetical lines Children can then colour in the alternate sections. (stars appear on each alternate section to aid colouring) alternatively, colour first and then fold!

This pack includes 7 beautifully presented posters (plus some alternative colours) that are sure to inspire the little wizards in your classroom! Files as jpegs and as a PDF

A short PowerPoint inspired by Pie Corbett’s work to introduce really useful and creative sentence openers when writing facts. With whole class examples to have a go at, this a great resource to get you children writing more exciting non-fiction pieces.

Need to help build vocabulary around dragons? These magically presented dragon words mats will be hugely valuable in the classroom. 3 different word mats covering nouns, verbs and adjectives all related to dragons.

A fun way to exercise the use of conjunctions without a worksheet! Can your class make it across the board from left to right using the conjunctions in spoken or written sentences. Play it in pairs, as a whole class or as individuals. Instructions: Present the slide in full slideshow mode and click the hexagon to change its colour. (NOTE: you must click on the hexagon below each word in order to select it) Includes: Year 2 conjunctions Year 3 conjunctions Subordinates conjunctions Editable version to create your own

A printable 8 page booklet for children to record their information on life in Ancient Egypt. For best results, print on A3 (and trim if required) 3 formats included: lines & blank pages, all blank pages, wider lines & blank pages Instructions to fold: Fold in half along the short side Fold again along the new short side Open up the previous fold and then fold along long side (this creates the 8 sections) Open up previous fold again. Cut from the middle fold to the first intersection Open all folds up Fold along the long side push from both short ends inwards forcing the pages to form (adjust fold as needed for the front cover to be in correct position

Make SPAG tastier by giving it a delicious Honeydukes Sweets theme from the wizarding world of Harry Potter. This pack of printable graphics and activities is full of unique designs to bring Spelling, Punctuation and Grammar to life. 17 individual designs are included with printable resources to support many of the activities. Areas include: Fronted Adverbials Subordinate conjunction Spelling Menus Phonics Prepositions Verbs Adverbs Lego brick word classes Conjunctions Sentence Starters Some of the activites will require additonal items to create 3D elements as shown in the example photograph included in the pack.

Use this to bring the children’s character drawings to life. A great activity to use on book day.

A Powerpoint presentation with slides for punctuation used up to Y4. Poster printables included too.

This template can be used and adapted as desired to create a folding 8 sided book. A lovely way for children to present their work. Print on A3 for the best fit. Fold in half along the short side Fold again along the new short side Open up the previous fold and then fold along long side (this creates the 8 sections) Open up previous fold again. Cut from the middle fold to the first intersection Open all folds up Fold along the long side push from both short ends inwards forcing the pages to form (adjust fold as needed for the front cover to be in correct position)