This interactive resource is designed to support KS1 teachers in facilitating discussions about the New Year 2025, through the use of 16 picture and phrase flashcards. The activity encourages creativity, critical thinking, and communication skills, linking with PSHE and Speaking & Listening objectives. An engaging way to kick off the New Year, fostering positive conversations and a growth mindset for the year ahead! Key Features: • Picture and Phrase Flashcards: Each set includes a picture card (e.g., a child reaching for stars) and a matching phrase card (e.g., “Reach for the stars this New Year!”). • Open-Ended Activity: o Display a picture card and invite pupils to interpret its meaning in the context of the New Year. o Encourage them to suggest phrases that could match the image. o Discuss why they made their match, emphasizing that there are no wrong answers. • Whole-Class Discussion: Share one card at a time with the whole class. Discuss ideas together, encouraging different perspectives to be shared. • Small Groups or Pairs: Give each group or pair one or more picture cards. Let them discuss, collaborate, and share their thoughts with the class afterward. Materials Needed: • Printed flashcards (no pencils or additional resources required). Cut and laminate for reuse and versatility.

Children can discover what’s in their kitchen cupboards! Use fun activity sheets to explore everyday items like vinegar, tomato sauce, olive oil, salt, and soy sauce. Match labels to bottles, colour and label containers, and think about the foods and liquids we use at home. Draw and label what is inside the containers, and answer quiz questions to show understanding and learning. A great way to connect learning to the Home and the foods we eat! Links with literacy, science, Homes and Ourselves.

Engage your KS1 and SEND learners with 20 themed topic sheets that support speaking, listening, reading, writing and matching. Each sheet includes central images or symbols with topic-related words around the edge. Most words have dotted lines for tracing. Where there are words in capital letters, children can start the activity here. Topics include Farm, Pirates, Weather, Going for Gold, Shopping, Feelings, Nature, Music, Seaside, Transport, Animals, Space, Shapes, Food, Buildings and School. These resources are designed to develop vocabulary, and foster communication skills while aligning with key curriculum areas. By integrating visual and written elements and symbols, they provide opportunities for differentiation and support diverse learning objectives, including improved comprehension, language development, and engagement in cross-curricular topics. Boardmaker licenced.

This activity consists of four worksheets designed to help children explore their interests, hobbies, and leisure activities. Each worksheet focuses on a specific theme and includes colourful illustrations with captions to guide discussions and writing. Overview of the worksheets: What Hobbies do the children enjoy? What Sports do the children like? My Leisure Time What Things do you like to do? Each worksheet combines discussion, sentence completion, and creative writing, fostering both communication and literacy skills. The resource connects themes about “Ourselves” to reading and writing practice!

This activity combines art, creativity, and learning through flower-themed tracing and colouring. There are 4 worksheets with 6 black and white flower pictures on each one. Perfect for KS1 and EYFS, it supports fine motor skill development while incorporating cross-curricular links to literacy, science, and math. For example, children can create “Story Flowers” by decorating and naming flowers to represent story characters, enhancing language skills. In maths, “Symmetry Flowers” allow exploration of patterns and symmetry as children complete or design symmetrical flower halves.

This colourful resource features a fun ladder filled with six kittens, designed to help children explore numbers, colours, and positions. The resource includes three colour pages, each showing the six kittens in different arrangements and colours, on the ladder. Each page is accompanied by ten questions, such as “What colour is the kitten sitting at the top of the ladder?”, “What colour is the kitten directly above the orange kitten?”, and “How many kittens are on the ladder altogether?”. Children are encouraged to both read and write answers to the questions, enhancing literacy and numeracy skills. A black-and-white sheet is also included, inviting children to colour the kittens themselves and answer additional questions. The final sheet provides a template for children to write their own questions, record answers, and colour the kittens. This resource supports learning about animals, pets, colours, numbers up to 6, and positional language, making it a useful tool for interactive and creative learning in the classroom or at home.

A black and white poster for children to colour in when celebrating the New Year.

This resource is a collection of 18 colour flashcards that can be cut out and laminated if desired. It can be used with practical resources such as blocks, bricks, gummed squares of paper. It includes: Flashcards (18): Brightly coloured images of ‘Stickle’ blocks / bricks. Practical Activity Sheets (2): Children use blocks, bricks, or square gummed paper to recreate the patterns shown on the sheets. They can also incorporate number by counting colours and how many blocks in each tower. Colouring Sheets (2): White brick templates where children can colour in the bricks to match the colour patterns shown. Brick Copying Pages (2): Colourful brick patterns for children to replicate by placing bricks or blocks directly on the template and / or colour in the template. This resource supports learning about colour, pattern, and shape. It’s ideal for Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS) and Key Stage 1 (KS1), helping develop fine motor skills, spatial awareness, and pattern recognition through hands-on and creative activities.

A lovely little writing frame for children to use when thinking or writing about Spring. There is a worked example on page 1. Page 2 shows a template with sentences to complete. Page 3 is a blank template for children to draw on, write in or paste pictures onto.

Here is a fun activity where children talk about the Spring things in the jar and then draw their own in the jar template provided. Next, they find 10 * Spring* Words in the word search jar. Answers are provided.

20 quiz questions on an Easter or Spring theme to ask your children. Children use the visual clues / pictures to answer the questions and say or write the numbers. The 20 pictures are displayed on one page so you could print it out or show on the Smart Board. There are larger pictures included which can be cut out and laminated - children could find the correct pictures from a group, to differentiate. Lots of opportunities for speaking and listening and group work.

Here is a colourful slide show to share with your children when learning about Nature, Plants or Spring. There are 5 Spring flowers showing pictures, words and photos. There are activities for children: Drawing, researching, writing about the flowers and finding out their Latin names.

Here is a fun doodle activity for your topic on Spring,Easter, the Seasons or Weather. Good speaking and listening activity for pairs or writing activity making lists. Show on the smart board and see how many words the children can say or list in a given time.

This is a fun speaking and listening game which involves naming, phonics and memory recall. Show these pictures on your smart board or print them out. The first sheet shows a grid with 24 colour pictures of things children might see in Spring. They need to look at them carefully as some will be removed and they will try to remember which ones they were. Children can name the pictures and say what the initial sounds are. Finally, give the children the blank grid for them to draw the pictures on that they remember or Spring pictures of their own.

3 activity sheets for your topic on Seasons, Spring or Weather. Children label the pictures of Spring. They then match the rest of the pictures to the words in the word bank, adding the matching numbers. Finally, they draw their own Spring picture. Children write a sentence or phrase about the four pictures in the writing frame. Children cut and match the 4 word cards to the word and picture cards of Spring.

A cheery activity to welcome in the Spring! There are 6 colour sheets each with a different Spring design. Each sheet contains the resources needed to make a Spring card. (Just add coloured card, scissors and glue). Sheets contain a patterned banner, the word ‘Spring’ and 2 Spring pictures. Children cut these out and use to make their own Spring cards.

These worksheets will inspire your children to write creatively about Spring. Each sheet has the same format but the 6 colour pictures are different on each page. The writing sections include: Who are the characters? The weather and setting Beginning, Middle and End Very useful for SEND children and those who may benefit from the support of a writing frame.

15 colour pictures of Spring / Summer clothing to cut out and match with: Black and white pictures of clothing Word cards Word and picture cards Links to Weather, Seasons, Reading and Clothing topics.

*Licenced to use, produce and sell resources using Boardmaker symbols. A resource designed with SEND pupils in mind that works well too, for KS1 children. Links to PSHE, Me, Ourselves, Emotions, Anti - Bullying week, Behaviour Management, Communication, as well as speaking and listening, reading and writing. Sheet 1 shows 24 colour pictures with emotion words written above. Sheet 2 shows 24 black and white pictures with words around it. Pupils can identify the facial expressions and find the correct matching words. There is more than one option for this e.g. glad and happy might apply equally well to the same picture. Sheets 3 -8, each show 4 black and white pictures and children can write a word, phrase or sentence to describe the feelings or emotions.