A power point presentation that you can share and discuss with your class at any time or at the start of a new term. Change the white writing to suit your curriculum and class. There are 16 slides to discuss and a template for you to add any more lessons that are not included. A good speaking and listening resource. You could also use the slides as posters customised to your displays or timetable board. Link to Ourselves and Maths (time).

A collection of writing frames that you can use with children of EYFS and KS1 linked to the topic Ourselves, Me or School. The first page is an example of how a child might use the frame. Then there are 10 different styles of writing frames each showing children doing different activities. The final page is a template that you can use or adapt /personalise for your children. The writing frame makes a lovely front cover for a book about Me / ourselves and here children could use the frame to write their names, ages, school / class. Add to your wall displays too.

Show this on the smart board for a lesson starter on animals or phonics. 8 animals with their initial sounds. A great speaking and listening activity for early learners. The pictures can be used as posters too.

A bright power point showing animals from A to Z. Each page encourages the children to say the sounds, recognise the lower and upper case letters and read the sentence about the animal. Use as part of your work on animals and phonics. The slides also make a lovely wall display or alphabet frieze. Extend by printing off the slides and cutting off the black letter and word sections. Laminate for reuse. Children can match the two parts together to complete the pictures.

10 lovely animals to learn to count with. Use on the Smart Board or as individual posters or visual aids.

10 lovely transport pictures to learn to count with. Use on the Smart Board or as individual posters or visual aids. Great as a lesson starter.

A maths story power point for young children with an animal theme. Skills include counting to 5, knowing and using ordinal number, ordering the days of the week, developing memory skills, sequencing and colour matching. On each day of the week from Monday to Friday, the narrator sees a different animal. So, on Monday, the animal is a slow snail, Tuesday, a slow snail and a happy hippo etc. Children can join in the reading of the story on the PPT using the picture cues to help them. Encourage the children, later, to recall the animals and days of the week without the picture cues. There are 3 sets of flashcards to cut out and laminate- animals, ordinal number and days of the week. Following the story, use the flashcards as an activity where children sequence, match and recall.

*Licenced to use, produce and sell resources using Boardmaker symbols. A set of time saving symbols for using with SEND pupils or KS1 as visual aids. The set includes 210 symbols on 14 boards. Use as boards or cut out for individual cards to laminate and velcro onto your own boards or pupils’s individual communication boards. There are colour and black and white versions of the symbols. Enlarge for flashcards or add to maths displays. The set includes numbers to 20, colours, shapes, size, order, time and capacity symbols. Useful for maths teachers and teaching assistants, parents and cover teachers.

A bumper selection of circular Christmas tags to cut out and make. Enlarge if you want them bigger. Duplicate the sheets, cut out the circles and laminate for lots of fun matching and sorting games too. Children could choose their favourites and use them to make Christmas cards.

A reading and spelling lesson with a Christmas theme. There are 20 slides showing colour Christmas related pictures. Children name the pictures and then say the initial sounds. More able children can spell the words. The slides are animated so that each letter appears with a click. The last slide can be printed off as a visual aid or activity sheet. Children can work alone or in pairs to find the pictures as they appear and mark off the words on the grid. Pictures are all of 3 or 4 letter words. Encourages speaking and listening and thinking e.g. the reindeer picture - the key word is nose and not reindeer.

Here is a new version of an old favourite: The Twelve Days of Christmas. You can use the music and rhythm from this to sing along with/ read this PPT. The Christmas tree builds up from having a red robin , 2 shiny stars, 3 naughty elves and up to 12 drums a drumming. Children can join in with the counting as your go along from slide 1 to 12. Slide 13 is the title slide showing the 12 days of Christmas pictures. Slide 14 is a worksheet where children can cut out and order the 12 days of Christmas.

An original fun story to tell your children at Christmas time. Farmer Christmas has a busy week giving all of his animals a treat, but he almost forgets the Christmas dinner! Farmer Christmas saves the best treat for his lovely wife Mrs Christmas. The story has 10 colour pages to share or print off and read to / with your children. All the flashcards to go with the story are included - Farmer images, 7 animals, 7 days of the week and the 7 treats for the animals. There is a background template for children to make their own scene using the flashcards. There are 2 worksheets -1) write what happens on each day of the week and 2) match the 7 treats to the 7 animals. Links to measures, time, matching and good for memory recall.

Here are 3 templates that counsellors working with children and young people could use as a more visual aid and way of communicating the counselling contract. There is a blank one where you could fill in your own information or questions. There is one with key questions included. The third has key questions but added pictures / symbols. There is a black and white version and colour version of each of the 3 templates. Play therapists may also adapt the templates for their work with children and young people.

This set of 10 colour worksheets is designed with KS1 children in mind, accompanied by detailed planning sheets, offering five ways to integrate reading, writing, alphabetical ordering, phonics, and speaking and listening into your classroom activities. Utilizing the majority of photographs, the resource invites children to match words to colour photographs, sequence words alphabetically, explore phonics through image association and describe pictures to peers. This resource enriches vocabulary and comprehension but also nurtures a connection between visual cues and language, providing a foundation for budding readers and writers.

This resource consists of six worksheets aimed at Key Stage 1 and SEND children, focusing on the initial sounds of the letters S, A, T, P, I, and N. Each sheet features a list of 20 words and corresponding symbols (licensed by Boardmaker), designed to help children associate sounds with images. The worksheets are available in both colour and black-and-white. Children are tasked with matching the words to the right symbols and can either tick off the words as they find them or write the word’s number next to the correct picture. This activity set supports learning in phonics and reading. To extend the use of the resource you may want to laminate the colour sheets and children can use dry markers with these in the writing corner.