Links to the objective: Reasoning about numbers or shapes
Solve mathematical problems or puzzles,recognise simple patterns and relationships,generalise and predict.Suggest extensions by asking ‘What if…?’
Explain methods and reasoning orally and,where appropriate, in writing.
5 Sheets with Answers and example strategies to solve the problem.
The overall aim is to help pupils to apply in a variety of situations the mathematics they have already learnt.The programme seeks to achieve this by teaching the strategies that will enable pupils to approach a variety of problems in a more logical and systematic way. The more specific aims of the programme are to promote the following:
• willingness to attempt problems and to persevere;
• confidence in one’s ability to solve problems;
• awareness of problem-solving strategies;
• awareness of the value of approaching problems in a systematic manner;
• ability to select appropriate solution strategies;
• ability to apply solution strategies accurately;
• ability to monitor and evaluate one’s thinking whilst solving problems.
The problems included:
1: Football Kit
2.Striped Shirts
3. Mountain Biking
4. Bike Tracks
5. On Target
Taken from Problem Solving Years 3&4
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All five questions link to:
Understand and use the relationships between the four operations, and the principles (not the names) of the arithmetic laws.
• Use brackets
Includes 4 pages with strategies to help problem solve
Problem 1: Teacher’s Age
Problem 2: Coloured Pegs
Problem 3: Gold Doubloons
Problem 4: Pirates
Problem 5: Football Stickers
Taken from Problem Solving Year 5&6
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Links to the objective: Make and describe, shapes, pictures and patterns using, for example, solid shapes, templates, pin-board and elastic bands, squared paper, a programmable robot… Relate solid shapes to pictures of them.
Use and begin to read the vocabulary related to length, mass and capacity.
12 Worksheets Sheets with Answers and example strategies to solve the problem.
The overall aim is to help pupils to apply in a variety of situations the mathematics they have already learnt.The programme seeks to achieve this by teaching the strategies that will enable pupils to approach a variety of problems in a more logical and systematic way. The more specific aims of the programme are to promote the following:
• willingness to attempt problems and to persevere;
• confidence in one’s ability to solve problems;
• awareness of problem-solving strategies;
• awareness of the value of approaching problems in a systematic manner;
• ability to select appropriate solution strategies;
• ability to apply solution strategies accurately;
• ability to monitor and evaluate one’s thinking whilst solving problems.
The problems included:
1: Towers
2.Goldfish
3. Bookshelf
4. Flags
5. Wellies
Taken from Problem Solving Years 1 &2
Links to the objective: Reasoning about numbers or shapes
Solve mathematical problems or puzzles,recognise simple patterns and relationships,generalise and predict.Suggest extensions by asking ‘What if…?’
Explain methods and reasoning orally and,where appropriate, in writing.
5 Sheets with Answers and example strategies to solve the problem.
The overall aim is to help pupils to apply in a variety of situations the mathematics they have already learnt.The programme seeks to achieve this by teaching the strategies that will enable pupils to approach a variety of problems in a more logical and systematic way. The more specific aims of the programme are to promote the following:
• willingness to attempt problems and to persevere;
• confidence in one’s ability to solve problems;
• awareness of problem-solving strategies;
• awareness of the value of approaching problems in a systematic manner;
• ability to select appropriate solution strategies;
• ability to apply solution strategies accurately;
• ability to monitor and evaluate one’s thinking whilst solving problems.
The problems included:
Goldfish
Toy Cards
Games
Motorbikes and Cars
Toyshop
Piggy Bank
Taken from Problem Solving Years KS1
Links to the objective: Measure
• Understand and use the vocabulary related to length, mass and capacity. Compare two lengths, masses or capacities by direct comparison; extend to more than two. Measure using uniform non-standard units (e.g. straws, wooden cubes, plastic weights, yogurt pots), or standard units (e.g. metre sticks, litre jugs).
Shape and space
• Use everyday language to describe features of familiar 3-D and 2-D shapes, including the cube, cuboid, sphere, cylinder, cone…, circle, triangle, square, rectangle…, referring to properties such as the shapes of flat faces, or the number of faces or corners… or the number and types of sides.
• Talk about things that turn. Make whole turns and half turns. Use one or more shapes to make, describe and continue repeating patterns…
The overall aim is to help pupils to apply in a variety of situations the mathematics they have already learnt.The programme seeks to achieve this by teaching the strategies that will enable pupils to approach a variety of problems in a more logical and systematic way. The more specific aims of the programme are to promote the following:
• willingness to attempt problems and to persevere;
• confidence in one’s ability to solve problems;
• awareness of problem-solving strategies;
• awareness of the value of approaching problems in a systematic manner;
• ability to select appropriate solution strategies;
• ability to apply solution strategies accurately;
• ability to monitor and evaluate one’s thinking whilst solving problems.
The problems included:
1:Shape and Sizes
2. Obstacle Race
3. Scarves
4. Rabbits
Taken from Problem Solving Years KS1
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2 full lessons with worksheets, visual flipbook and lesson plans
1st Lesson: Air in Soil
Learning objective-
Children should learn: • that soils have air within them • to recognise whether measurements need to be repeated • to use results to compare the amount of air trapped in different soils
Learning outcomes
Children will be able to: • state that soils have air within them • state why measurements need to be repeated • make comparisons between samples from a set of data
Task: Ask the children to investigate which soil they think will contain the most air and why?
2nd Lesson- Gases in our Environment
Learning objectives
Children should learn: • that there are a number of common gases that are useful to us in our everyday lives
Learning outcomes
Children will be able to: • name a number of common gases • state how a number of common gases are used
Task:The sheet provides a framework for children to research and collect information about carbon dioxide from secondary sources. Once the information has been recorded in note form, it could be displayed in a leaflet or poster.
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The purpose of this topic is to teach children to understand and say the days of the week. It is also to ensure that the children can respond to and ask the question ¿Qué día es hoy?
Learning outcomes
Children learn:
to understand and use the vocabulary for the
days of the week
to ask and respond to the question ¿Qué día es
hoy
Includes:
Lesson Plans and Activity Sheets
Lesson 1: This activity should be used to focus on considering and analysing evidence, rather than planning an investigation. However, it can also be used before the children carry out an investigation of their own to provide them with a good structure for setting up their own tests
Lesson 1: Learning objectives
Children should learn:
• that plants need water but not unlimited water, for
healthy growth
• to use results to draw conclusions
Lesson 1: Learning outcomes
Children will be able to:
• state that plants need water to grow but too much
or too little water may kill them
• describe differences in the way the plants grew
Lesson 2: This activity is intended to support children in their understanding of how simple investigations are planned. Begin the lesson by asking the children to recall any investigations that they have done and the stages of planning that they went through.
Lesson 2: Learning objectives
Children should learn:
• to suggest how a fair test could be carried out
• that in experiments with living things, using just
one plant in each set of conditions does not give
sufficient evidence
Lesson 2: Learning outcomes
Children will be able to:
• recognise the correct order in which to undertake
a simple investigation
• describe factors that contribute to the test
being fair
• suggest why one sample may not be adequate in
each set of conditions
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The purpose of this lesson is:to research and present information on the similarities and differences between Athens and Sparta.
Children should learn:
• what is meant by ‘democracy’ (government by
leaders elected by the people);
• some of the ideas of people living in Athens and
Sparta.
Class objective:
• to find out about the similarities and differences
between Athens and Sparta.
Learning objectives Learning outcomes
Children should be able to:
• know that Athens and Sparta were city states and
governed themselves;
• distinguish between the beliefs of the Athenians
and Spartans and know some reasons why they
held those beliefs
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Lesson 3 Invaders
Learning objectives
Children should learn:
• to consolidate and improve the quality of their
throwing and catching techniques and their
ability to link movements;
• to use these skills in game situations;
• to improve their ability to choose and use
simple tactics;
• to know and describe short term effects of
exercise on the body;
• to use what they have learned to improve their
work.
Lesson 35-40 minutes
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Learning objectives
Children should learn:
• to improve the way they coordinate and control
their bodies and a range of equipment;
• to remember, repeat and link combinations of
skills;
• to choose, use and vary simple tactics;
• to recognise and describe what their bodies feel
like during different types of activity;
• to recognise good quality in performance;
• to use information to improve their work.
35-40 minute lesson
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Full lesson to teach throwing
Lesson 1 Throwing
Learning objectives
Children should learn:
• to use their bodies and equipment with greater
control and coordination;
• to remember, repeat and link combinations of
actions;
• to choose skills and equipment to help them
meet the challenges they are set;
• to recognise and describe what their bodies feel
like during different types of activity;
• to watch, copy and describe what they and
others have done.
35-40 minutes
Lesson plan and resources included
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6 worksheets taken from our much love resource: Building Blocks- Themed Activities for the EYFS- Age 4 to 5 (48-60 months).
Activity 1: Spotty Blobster Poem
Activity 2: Draw the Spotty Blobster monster from the poem
Activity 3: How to make chocolate crispy cakes
Activity 4: Naming the foods I eat
Activity 5: What’s in the treasure box
Activity 6: Plan a surprise for someone you know
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5 sheets with Answers
Alphabet – to put words into alphabetical order.
Root Words – to extend my vocabulary using root words.
Homophones – to investigate homophones. .
Noun Phrases – to expand single nouns to noun phrases.
Adjectives – to identify adjectives not placed next to a noun.
Description – to use descriptive words to create a picture in the reader’s mind.
Prefixes – to build words by adding prefixes: tele, circum, bi, trans.
Verbs – to revise word classes – verbs.
Verbs Challenge – to change the tense of verbs.
Prefixes – to add prefixes to verbs: dis, de, over.
Suffix Challenge – to change verbs into nouns using suffixes: tion, sion.
Suffixes – to change nouns into verbs using suffixes: ate, ise, ify .
Prepositions – to identify and use prepositions.
Adverbs – to revise word classes – adverbs.
Word Class Challenge – to revise word classes – adjectives, adverbs and nouns in similes.
Taken from: Grammar and Creativity for Year 5
Good writing may start with an exciting idea, but it needs structure to make sense to a reader. Grammar provides a framework on which to display the imagination.
Writing brings together individual expression and an understanding of the rules that allow our language (any language) to make sense. This book has been written with the view that grammar and creativity go hand in hand to produce good writing. Developing children’s understanding of the basics of English will encourage their literary adventures. The range of activities here has been designed to excite interest as well as guide children and teachers through the rules.
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Links to the objective: Making decisions
• Choose and use appropriate operations (including multiplication and division) to solve word problems,and appropriate ways of calculating: mental,mental with jottings,pencil and paper.
The overall aim is to help pupils to apply in a variety of situations the mathematics they have already learnt.The programme seeks to achieve this by teaching the strategies that will enable pupils to approach a variety of problems in a more logical and systematic way. The more specific aims of the programme are to promote the following:
• willingness to attempt problems and to persevere;
• confidence in one’s ability to solve problems;
• awareness of problem-solving strategies;
• awareness of the value of approaching problems in a systematic manner;
• ability to select appropriate solution strategies;
• ability to apply solution strategies accurately;
• ability to monitor and evaluate one’s thinking whilst solving problems.
The problems titles:
1: On Target
2. Domino Spots
3. Dice Game
4. Netball Results
5. Target Golf
Taken from Problem Solving Years Year 3&4
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2 Full lessons includes lesson plans, worksheets and visual aids.
1st Lesson: Learning objectives
Children should learn: • that the Earth is approximately spherical • that it can be difficult to collect evidence to test ideas and that evidence may be indirect
Learning outcomes
Children will be able to: • recognise that the Earth is approximately spherical • describe some indirect evidence to support the idea that the Earth is spherical
The task: the children to use different coloured pens to outline/underline the various factors that are listed below (these will need to be written on a board). • Factual information • Evidence that supports the theory that the Earth is spherical • Opinion of the author
2nd Lesson: Learning objectives
Children should learn: • that the Moon takes approximately 28 days to orbit the Earth • that the different appearance of the Moon over 28 days provides evidence for a 28 day cycle
Learning outcomes
Children will be able to: • explain that the pattern and timescale of the changes in the Moon’s appearance over 28 days is evidence that the Moon orbits the Earth once every 28 days
The task: Ask the children to cut out and arrange the pictures and names of the phases of the Moon in the correct sequence around a representation of the Earth. This will show how the appearance of the Moon changes over the course of its orbit.
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2 full lessons with Flipbook, Worksheet and Resources
Learning objectives
Children should learn: • to recognise and identify a range of common materials • to consider why particular materials are used to make items
Learning outcomes
Children will be able to: • say whether some objects are made of plastic, wood, metal or rock • say why an item might be made with a particular material
Lesson centered around grouping objects of the same material
Learning objectives
Children should learn: • about some properties of common materials such as hardness and transparency
Learning outcomes
Children will be able to: • state one or two characteristics of a range of common materials
Prompts children to consider some properties of a set of objects and to read information from their tables.
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2 full lessons with resources, flipbook and worksheets
1st lesson:
Learning objectives
Children should learn: • that rocks and natural materials are chosen for particular purposes because of their characteristics
Learning outcomes
Children will be able to: • relate the use of some rocks and natural materials to their characteristics and say why they are used
Lesson focuses on describing the use of material in buildings.
Do you recognise this building? Try to describe it. • Describe the main building material(s) that was (were) used to make this building. • Are the materials natural or man-made? If the materials are man-made, what do you think the original material was? (e.g. glass is made from sandstone/silica) • Why do you think these materials have been chosen?
2nd lesson:
Learning objectives
Children should learn: • about planning a fair test and using results to draw conclusions
Learning outcomes
Children will be able to: • explain whether a simple test is fair and what the results indicate
Lesson focuses which rock is the most permeable?
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2 lessons with resources, lesson plan and worksheets.
1st Lesson:
Learning objectives
Children should learn: • how to test an idea about whether a material is suitable for a particular purpose • to take measurements and say what they found out
Learning Outcomes
Children will be able to: • make a suggestion about which material might be the most stretchy • test materials for stretchiness and collect measurements.
Lesson name: Giant’s Tights- Children test different materials for a purpose.
2nd Lesson- Learning objectives
Children should learn: • that materials are chosen for specific purposes on the basis of their properties • why different clothing materials are needed in different situations
Learning outcomes
Children will be able to: • identify reasons for using materials for particular purposes • identify a range of materials and correctly associate them with properties and uses
Lesson name: All the wrong clothes
Children decide the materials for clothes in different locations.
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2 lessons with plans and resources
Taken from our Year 5 and 6 Geography Flipbook
Lesson 1: Making Waste Work
Learning objectives Children should learn: • to investigate a local environmental issue • about issues associated with landfill sites
Learning outcomes Children will be able to: • understand how change affects the local area • communicate opinions on landfill sites
Activity: You are going to make a written proposal to ask the headteacher to give you permission to start a recycling scheme.
Lesson 2: Recycling
Learning objectives Children should learn: • about the types of rubbish we throw away • about the need for recycling in order to reduce rubbish
Learning outcomes Children will be able to: • understand the difference between re-use and recycling • discuss what needs to be considered when setting up a recycling scheme
Activity:Imagine that you are an education officer for Friends of the Earth. You are against the proposal for a new landfill site in the local area. • Design a T-shirt for children to wear in the campaign against a new landfill site.
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