I currently work at the top end of Primary school in Year 5/6. I create resources for a range of subjects and am always open to suggestions for resources people require.
I currently work at the top end of Primary school in Year 5/6. I create resources for a range of subjects and am always open to suggestions for resources people require.
A fun game that can be used to revise being able to read coordinates or even as an activity as part of learning to read coordinates.
Included is a coordinates grid for themselves and an enemy grid to colour against with both of these being all four quadrants. Also included are pairs of ships for both players, either using the thinner versions or thicker versions.
A range of differentiated resources available for children that require them to use the Singapore Bar method to help them solve problems. These include finding fractions of quantities and finding original numbers from fractions as well as then working through a range of tricky word problems.
The final resource provides real challenge for children in working with a range of fractions and steps.
A knowledge organiser for electricity. Included within this is are images that cover some key concepts as well as a key vocabulary section for some of the words children may come across during the topic.
These are useful for either sticking in books at the start of the topic to refer back to or to enlarge and have on display.
A lesson that gets children to work on being able to identify the key features of a diary. Included is the presentation and two different worksheets, with the HA worksheet then getting children to think about regional dialects and rhetorical questions.
A knowledge organiser for the Vikings. Included within this is a timeline for the period as well as a key vocabulary section for some of the words children may come across during the topic.
These are useful for either sticking in books at the start of the topic to refer back to or to enlarge and have on display.
A resource activity that tests children's ability to use search engines accurately with 25 questions across a range of topics. Quickly find out children's capabilities and the different ways in which they use Google before then being able to use this to inform a unit of work that looks at using search engines effectively.
A PSHE style lesson that focuses on the media, getting children to consider what the media is before considering why they focus on celebrities and the reality of images that are used in different aspects of media. This lesson also gets children to consider whether they can trust everything they read in magazines, newspapers or online and why this is the case.
Included are three differentiated activities, slightly between MA and HA, and the presentation for the lesson.
A comprehensive set of resources for anyone to be able to teach a block on writing discussion texts. Planned for Year 5 but very easily adaptable to Year 4 or Year 6.
Included are:
Full lesson plans for 15/16 lessons, with differentiated activities for children.
IWB slides for every lesson that go step by step through the lesson. (N.B. In the shared writing sessions, the example paragraphs just need playing around with to a new topic. Whilst I could have done these, it is more powerful to do them with the class at the time)
Resource sheets required for lessons.
Word banks for children to use.
A self-assessment/ teacher assessment marking sheet that helps children assess as they write and can then be used for a simple marking sheet to pick out positives and targets for children.
A six lesson sequence focussing on the history of Nottingham, particularly with focus to the castle, that has been written for KS2 children with the planning, resources and presentation all included. During the six lessons, children also briefly cover key historical events such as the Third Crusade, the English Civil War and elements of the Industrial Revolution.
As well as the lesson resources and planning, there is a Nottingham history knowledge organiser and a diamond 9 activity where children can decide what was most important and least important from events at the castle.
This resource contains the first of four packs designed to support the delivery of the White Rose Maths Scheme Year 5 – Decimals for the Summer Term.
The resource focuses on the following White Rose Maths ‘small steps’
Addition within 1
Subtraction within 1
Complements to 1
Adding - Crossing the whole
The resource contains worksheets / activities linked to the above small steps with an emphasis on the mastery approach to learning advocated by the White Rose scheme. The resource includes reasoning, problem solving and activities and varied fluency activities and tasks.
Complete set of planning, slides and worksheets to provide 14 lessons on the four operations, working between written methods, mental methods and also working on the order of operations. This has been written with Year 6 in mind but the resources are easily adaptable for other year groups.
The worksheets have written with mastery in mind and so follow the following structure:
Worksheet One - Works on practise and fluency
Worksheet Two - Practise, fluency and reasoning
Worksheet Three - Practise, fluency, reasoning and problem solving
Worksheet Four - Practise, fluency, reasoning and problem solving (This is a spare worksheet should children finish problem solving on worksheet three)
Differentiation is achieved through self-assessment of own abilities to choose which worksheet they do. The worksheets will be clear in which is LA, MA and HA.
Lesson 1 and 2 - Column addition and subtraction
Lesson 3 and 4 - Same as Lesson 1 and 2 but with decimal numbers
Lesson 5 and 6 - Adding and subtracting mentally
Lesson 7 and 8 - Written multiplication
Lesson 9 and 10 - Written division
Lesson 11 and 12 - Mental multiplication
Lesson 13 and 14 - Order of operations
These have had great success in previous lessons and challenge and stretch children of all abilities.
Learn all about 12 famous scientists using these fact files. Learn about their childhood, education and some of their key work in science. Perfect for displays or for reading to gain knowledge.
Included are:
Albert Einstein
Alexander Fleming
Charles Darwin
Dian Fossey
Galileo
Isaac Newton
Ivan Pavlov
Louis Pasteur
Nikola Tesla
Robert Oppenheimer
Sally Ride
Stephen Hawking
A fact file about the history of electricity that was written as part of the Year 6 Science curriculum for electricity with two different sets of questions and answers included.
Different resources that look at Bonfire Night. This includes:
A PowerPoint that focusses on the history of Bonfire Night and the failed plot to kill King James I
A PowerPoint that looks at how to stay safe on Bonfire Night
A poster challenge to create a safety poster for Bonfire Night, including key tips for creating an effective poster
A Guy Fawkes fact file to learn more about him
A reading comprehension about Guy Fawkes (differentiated three way with answers included)
A definition activity related to words seen in the PowerPoint about Bonfire Night/ words that relate to the plot to get children to work on using dictionaries effectively
A range of sheets with helpful descriptions for children when writing stories. These include describing different features of characters, settings and creating atmosphere through the weather and seasons. In addition to having a range of adjectives to use, these sheets also include example sentences with a range of adjectives and verbs to help give children creative ideas.
Three differentiated worksheets that work on algebraic equations for Year 6 children. Having used a similar format in my own lessons, these sheets often provide enough challenge for two days lessons, with children taking on the easier work then moving on to harder challenges within the other sheets.
These have all been made with mastery in mind and so follow this pattern.
Worksheet One - Works on practise and fluency
Worksheet Two - Practise, fluency and reasoning
Worksheet Three - Practise, fluency, reasoning and problem solving
Three differentiated worksheets that work on decimals and fractions for Year 5 children. Having used a similar format in my own lessons, these sheets often provide enough challenge for two days lessons, with children taking on the easier work then moving on to harder challenges within the other sheets.
These have all been made with mastery in mind and so follow this pattern.
Worksheet One - Works on practise and fluency
Worksheet Two - Practise, fluency and reasoning
Worksheet Three - Practise, fluency, reasoning and problem solving
A simple guided reading session that focuses on a book without reading the book.
Included is:
A simple activity to help develop children's understanding of reading comprehension, getting them to think about what different questions are looking for by matching the question up to what they would need to find.
An activity that gets children to think about what questions they can ask just by looking at the front cover before trying to answer some of these based on the clues available.
An activity with the blurb, deciding what extra information it offers and whether it has changed their thinking about what will happen in the story.