An assessment that can be used to check children's knowledge and understanding when it comes to converting measures. Written with Year 6 in mind but could be used in other year groups. It can be used as a pre and post teaching assessment or a post teaching assessment to check what children have retained. Answers are included.

Two simple sheets that can support children when trying to get them to use personification in their writing. One sheet has examples of simple sentences using personification as well as examples of actions they could use to personify. The second sheet includes the actions and examples of things they may wish to personify.

Two sets of lessons that try to inspire children to create independent writing. All credit due to Pobble with this then being taken and created as a lesson presentation and resources with ideas that children can then take and write about. Also included are some of my own word mats that children can use to support them with ideas. The prompts used for these are The Invisible Man which can be found on Pobble on the 13th May and Unwanted Visitors on 28th February.

A lesson/s that tries to inspire children to create independent writing. All credit due to Pobble with this then being taken and created as a lesson presentation and resources with ideas that children can then take and write about. Also included are some of my own word mats that children can use to support them with ideas. The prompt used for this lesson set is Unwanted Visitors which can be found on Pobble on the 28th February.

A lesson/s that tries to inspire children to create independent writing. All credit due to Pobble with this then being taken and created as a lesson presentation and resources with ideas that children can then take and write about. Also included are some of my own word mats that children can use to support them with ideas. The prompt used for this lesson set is The Invisible Man which can be found on Pobble on the 13th May.

A lesson that focuses on Advent and the significance of this period to Christians, comparing this to other people and how the countdown to Christmas is different. Included is the lesson presentation and differentiated worksheets.

A range of activities related to Christmas/ to help keep children focussed nearer the holidays. These include: An acrostic poem activity for the word Christmas Christmas Bingo Christmas Colouring Sheets Christmas Coordinates - Identify where the pictures are on the grid Define Christmas Words Adjective activities - Think of adjectives to describe the Christmas Tree, Santa or a Reindeer The Christmas Truce Poem with three differentiated sets of questions and answers included A definition activity for the poem Santa Dash - Plan the quickest way around the world for Santa Comma Claus - Identify where the commas should go Claus Clauses - Identify and add different clause structures to sentences to improve writing Three sets of storyboards - Can be used for a range of ideas but created with the Nativity story in mind - Find a great example through Lego here: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/nativity-story-3009639 Facts for Christmas around the world with three differentiated sets of questions and answers included

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 knowledge organiser for earth and space. 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 on synonyms and antonyms. Included is the lesson presentation that discusses antonyms and synonyms before finding examples and looking at how to use a thesaurus accurately. Also included are three differentiated worksheets that focus on being able to find antonyms and synonyms.

Included are a number of resources that can be used ahead of Armistice Day and Remembrance Sunday. Included are: A PowerPoint that looks at how Remembrance Day began and why we 'celebrate' it. It also looks at Remembrance Sunday and why we have the poppy as our symbol. A PowerPoint that introduces World War One, looking at why it started, who was involved and how many people died as a result A reading comprehension based on 'In Flanders Field' with three sets of differentiated questions and answers included A definition activity that gets children to practise using dictionaries whilst defining words from 'In Flanders Field' Instructions and templates for making a poppy A look at the controversy regarding England and Scotland being told by FIFA that they can't wear poppy armbands and three different activity ideas following an introduction to the story - Write a letter to FIFA, class debate or newspaper article regarding the story A sample of a reading comprehension that includes a fact file about Remembrance Day and questions related to this.

Three three-way differentiated resource that are reading comprehensions based on the opening extract and two other extracts from the first chapter of The Iron Man.

A three-way differentiated resource that is a reading comprehension based on an extract from the first chapter of The Iron Man.

A lesson/s that tries to inspire children to create independent writing. All credit due to Pobble with this then being taken and created as a lesson presentation and resources with ideas that children can then take and write about. Also included are some of my own word mats that children can use to support them with ideas. The prompt used for this lesson set is Dragonworld which can be found on Pobble on the 19th June.

An introductory lesson that considers what bullying is and thinks about the STOP message. This includes discussions for children to have before giving them a sorting activity. In groups, they need to decide which are examples of bullying and which aren’t, discussing these as a class afterwards.

The second lesson of a sequence for light in Year 6. Initially, children will spend time recapping what they can remember from the previous lesson, including an activity where they have to identify light sources, before then moving on to considering how light travels. Children will create a diagram of how light travels based on the model they have seen and videos before labelling an eye to describe how we are able to see from the travelling of light into the eye. The lesson the ends with a quick mini-quiz.

A lesson that focuses on what people can do if they feel like they are being bullied as well as looking at how anyone can be the victim of bullying through celebrity examples. Within the presentation there is also a focus on the STOP and THINK messages before children create their own anti-bullying posters.

Mini-assessment activities that check children's understanding of subordinating conjunctions. This is useful to check what children have remembered/ learnt or as a little recap activity to then go through with children afterwards. So far includes: Subordinating Conjunctions Relative Pronouns/ Clauses

A mini-assessment activity that checks children's understanding of subordinating conjunctions. This is useful to check what children have remembered/ learnt or as a little recap activity to then go through with children afterwards.

A word mat with examples of different determiners including articles, ordinal, numerical, possessive, quantifying and demonstrative determiners.