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 fully resourced 10 lesson unit on the Romans and their impact on Britain. The lessons are done as mini enquiry questions with 5 questions and a review lesson at the end of the unit. This has been created for mixed 3/4 classes but can easily be adapted to be used across Key Stage 2.
The questions are as follows with the approximate amount of lessons in brackets:
EQ1 - What was happening in Britain before the Romans arrived? (1 lesson)
EQ2 - Why did the Romans find Britain difficult to conquer? (2.5 - 3 lessons)
EQ3 - Did everyone give the Romans the same welcome? (2 lessons)
EQ4 - What impact did the Romans have on Britain? (2 lessons)
EQ5 - How did Roman rule end in Britain? (1 lesson)
Review lesson
Included is a booklet format that includes all the questions, all the supporting information required and the activities linked to this. These can easily be separated into mini booklets per question or the activities can be taken out to suit how you teach history in your school. As much as possible, images, models and diagrams have been used to make the information as accessible as possible to refer back to following discussions. Each question also has key vocabulary and recap questions as well (the first lesson links to our previous unit of Ancient Greece so can be easily adapted) and finishes with the enquiry question to support written outcomes in history.
Each enquiry question also has a PowerPoint that includes the information and diagrams from the booklet as well as any additional notes etc.
There is also a knowledge summary organiser - these can be sent home to show what they are learning about as well as being used in class as a succinct way of accessing the key information from the lesson.
All the resources have been uploaded as PowerPoints so that you can easily adapt them to suit your setting.
Attached are 5 lessons based on using map skills and linking them to the Industrial Revolution. These have been written with Year 5/6 in mind but are easily adaptable.
Included are the slides, resources and differentiated lesson plans.
Lesson 1 - Identifying UK cities on a map
Lesson 2 - Identifying rivers in the UK
Lesson 3 - Identifying how the UK changed during the Industrial Revolution
Lesson 4 - Identifying the Luddites area of operations
Lesson 5 - British Empire during the period and identifying countries around the world
N.B. You will need atlases for the general atlas activities.
A comprehensive pack that includes planning for 10/11 lessons working on the Maya. Planning includes cross-curricular links with writing, art and researching using I.C.T about Maya.
In addition to differentiated planning, attached are the resources required for this topic as well as all the IWB slides required for the topic. This should save any teacher planning to teach this topic a huge amount of time, whilst providing the opportunity to make slight adjustments where required/ add any extra information you may wish to.
Three differentiated resources that introduce children to the theme of beliefs, thinking about what the term means before considering non-religious examples and what these beliefs may mean.
Four lessons aimed at teaching prefixes in Lower KS2. Included are the lesson PowerPoints as well as any activity sheets required and a sheet with example prefixes.
Over the four lessons, children will deepen their understanding of what prefixes are and where they can find them, the different meanings of prefixes and how they change the meanings of words. This will include practising with different prefixes as well as a final lesson that involves more explanation of what each prefix is doing.
480 multiple choice question cards for place value that cover a range of topics that can be used for a variety of reasons.
The questions cover a wide range of place value topics including:
Identifying the value of digits in 3-digit numbers
Identifying the value of digits in 4-digit numbers
Identifying the value of digits in 5-digit numbers
Identifying the value of digits in decimal numbers
Rounding numbers to the nearest 10
Rounding numbers to the nearest 100
Rounding numbers to the nearest 1,000
Rounding numbers to the nearest 10,000
Rounding numbers to the nearest 100,000
Roman Numerals to 100
Roman Numerals to 1000
Roman Numerals above 1000
Using inequality symbols
Answers are included for all questions.
These cards can be used in a number of ways including:
Lesson activities
Retrieval style activity
End of unit check
Homework
Answers can easily be photocopied with the correct question sheet to form 2-sided flash cards so children can quiz each other with ease and provide instant and accurate feedback.
A weeks worth of activities, with some that can be done independently and others that are adult led for children working towards the PKS4 standards from KS1.
Included is a brief weekly overview with the activities for each day and where they need to be adult led.
Activities include:
Counting objects
Adding numbers together within 5
Colouring in the appropriate number
Number formation
Counting on a number line to 10 and 20
Filling in blanks on a number line
Names of shapes and counting involving shapes
1 more or 1 less than
A lesson that focuses on active and passive. Included is the PowerPoint with some key recap elements before working on active and passive. This will include identifying the difference, identifying subject, object and verb and changing sentences into active or passive. Also included are green challenge bubbles for children who finish the tasks whilst others are working on them. There is then an activity for children to work through and an exit question taken from a KS2 GPS test.
This resource includes 300 multiple choice questions for finding fractions of amounts that can be used as quiz/ flashcards with children in a number of different ways.
There are 75 pages with 4 question cards per page. These all include finding a fraction of an amount and deciding from 3 options which often include potential misconception answers. The questions also cover a wide range of maths topics including:
Times table facts
Dividing numbers by 10
Equivalent fractions
Finding the whole
These are supplemented by ‘standard’ fraction of amount questions including unit fraction amounts and non-unit fractions. Answers are included for all questions.
These cards can be used in a number of ways including:
Lesson activity when working on finding fractions of amounts
Retrieval style activity
End of unit check
Homework
Answers can easily be photocopied with the correct question sheet to form 2-sided flash cards so children can quiz each other with ease and provide instant and accurate feedback.
An activity that requires children to count the number of coloured ‘counters’ before recording their answer in the box provided. These include patterned examples as well as counters spread across the box.
The activity then finishes with an addition task where children need to count the number of different coloured counters before adding the two together to find the total.
Answers are included for the activities.
This can be used as a general age appropriate activity or for children who are struggling to work at an age related expectation and who need further support with counting/ an activity they can complete independently.
A second activity has now been included with four work sheets that require children to count numbers up to 9 in different ways, through frames, counters, lines and through counting the sides of shapes - answers are also included
A reading comprehension resource that focuses on Christmas, providing information about Christmas for Christians as well as activities linked to this to check understanding.
The fact file includes a brief introduction before focusing on what Christmas celebrates and how Christmas is celebrated before considering some non-religious elements to Christmas as well.
The resource includes:
A fact file about Christmas mentioned above (both in colour and black and white for ink saving purposes)
3 different comprehension activities of differing challenge - answers are included for these
A vocabulary activity that requires definitions to be found for each word provided.
A sample of a future product looking at creating a range of grammar starters for each day of the week. These could be used as children come in first thing in the morning/ after dinner or at the start of an English lesson.
Included is a week sample with 5 different tasks per day. These are a variety of task styles including find it, fix it, apply it and remember it.
The tasks have been written with Year 6 in mind but could be easily used in Year 5 as well. An answer sheet is also included.
A worksheet that recaps some of the key areas of learning in place value with a mix of Year 3 and 4 objectives. Perfect for a mixed age class but can also easily be used by a Year 4 class as well.
Included are 11 different questions that work on various areas of place value, presenting questions in varied ways to challenge understanding. Areas include:
Identifying digit values
Rounding to 10
Comparing numbers using inequality symbols
Marking numbers on a number line
Partitioning numbers
Rounding to 100
Ordering numbers from smallest to largest
100 more and 100 less
Calculating to get negative numbers
There are also four challenge questions included that work on reasoning/ problem solving style questions with a focus on either finding reasons why or looking at various possibilities that fit a given criteria. Answers are included for all questions.
Can be used in class or sent home as homework as a way of checking understanding at the end of a place value unit or even using it later in the year as a recap.
A worksheet that provides a variety of questions linked to being able to add and subtract 1s, 10s and 100s from different numbers using mental calculation.
Included as part of the worksheet are 9 different questions that provide variation to check understanding through the use of different models, representations and question styles. This includes trying to get pupils to identify links and patterns to support their answers. There are also 4 challenge questions provided for those that finish to then push their understanding through reasoning and problem solving.
Answers are also included for all questions.
Five weeks worth of writing skills to practise independently. These can be used as a starter activity when pupils come in at the start of the morning, at the start of an English lesson as a starter or at any other spare moment during the day or even as a short intervention with a child or particular group of children. The activities over the week work on different skills around writing. These are similar across the booklets so far and include:
Putting capital letters and full stops in the right place
Completing ideas so they become full sentences
Using because, but and so to complete sentences
Writing their own independent sentences
Using other conjunctions within a sentence
Creating sentences that use particular punctuation to mark the end
Editing and improving sentences
There is also a themed booklet included with all the writing tasks for the week linked to thunder storms. This has been used to support a writing unit for a setting description that involves a storm but can also be used as a general resource.
Over time, more booklets will continue to be added that work on different skills alongside the ones previously mentioned.
A worksheet that provides a variety of questions linked to being able to find fractions of amounts predominantly, with a question on finding the whole from fractions of amounts also included.
Included as part of the worksheet are 8 different questions that provide variation to check understanding through the use of different models, representations and question styles. This includes trying to get pupils to identify links and patterns to support their answers.
There are also 4 challenge questions provided for those that finish to then push their understanding through reasoning and problem solving.
Answers are also included for all questions.
Can easily be used as a worksheet when teaching the objective or used for recap/ revision or even to be sent home as homework.
A worksheet that provides a variety of questions linked to being able to subtract a 3-digit number from another 3-digit number where there is no exchange/ renaming required.
Included as part of the worksheet are 9 different questions that provide variation to check understanding through the use of different models, representations and question styles. This includes trying to get pupils to identify links and patterns to support their answers.
Answers are also included for all questions.
Can easily be used as a worksheet when teaching the objective or used for recap/ revision or even to be sent home as homework.
A worksheet that provides a variety of questions linked to being able to add and subtract fractions that involve denominators where one is linked to the other as a common multiple for the majority of the questions.
Included as part of the worksheet are 8 different questions that provide variation to check understanding through the use of different models, representations and question styles. This includes trying to get pupils to identify links and patterns to support their answers.
There are also 4 challenge questions provided for those that finish to then push their understanding through reasoning and problem solving.
Answers are also included for all questions.
All of the questions related to fractions from the two previous end of Key Stage Two tests under the new assessment framework and from the original sample test.
These questions have been split into arithmetic paper questions and reasoning papers and are also in a combined example. These can be used for a number of reasons including practise of fraction questions or pre and post teaching assessments for fractions