This power point covers a series of lessons guiding the children through the stages i) Product evaluation ii) Generating ideas iii) Product design iv) Making v) Product evaluation, in order to design and make a light up picture using an electrical circuit and a switch. This is a useful project at the end of a block of work on electricity to reinforce and assess learning. I have used it successfully with Year 4 children.

The children learn about the history of tie dyeing and about some of the basic techniques.

A power point to inspire and enable children to produce personalised art in the style of Keith Haring. They will identify characteristics of his drawings, replicate his work and use these to develop their own work.

This is a fun game for two teams. It’s great for developing thinking skills and for encouraging co-operative team games.

Four quick daily maths questions based on Year 4 Maths objectives with answers. Ideal for early morning work to keep revisiting and revising maths objectives. Ten weeks worth of questions.

Each slide consists of 4 different pictures and the children need to reason and guess which is the odd one out. This resource could be used in so many different ways - as a game, or a 5 minute lesson starter, to develop group work or reasoning skills. Although ‘an answer’ for each slide is given the children could come up with alternative answers.

Three power points - a one-step and two two-step presentations - could be used at the beginning of a lesson as mental warm ups. As the inputs and outputs are gradually revealed the children should be guessing what the function (s) could be and adjusting their thoughts as further examples are revealed. All have been used successfully with classes of year 6 children.

A focused activity looking at pattern and shading. Using a circle as template, the children experiment with different pattern using black pen. A calming and mindfulness activity.

This is a game based on the TV game ‘Pointless’. It is great for general knowledge and for encouraging co-operative team work. Play as part of a PSHE program or as a fun game at the end of term.

This resource consists of a series of clues that require the children to apply their knowledge and understanding of known terms such as square numbers, prime numbers, factors, multiples, odd/even, triangular numbers and digit sum, to guess the number being described. I have used it as a mental warm up at the beginning of a maths lesson with the children (after each clue) recording their numbers on white boards. As a new clue is added, the children adjust their responses by deleting numbers that do not fulfill all of the clues. It is great for reinforcing but also assessing understanding.

A resource to encourage pupils to use inverse operations to work backwards to solve ‘I am thinking of a number’ problems. Great to use at the beginning of a maths lesson as a mental warm up or as a SATs revision activity.

This resources consists of three power points which introduces the use of letters to represent variables in mathematical situations that the children already understand. They would be ideal for quick mental starters at the beginning of maths lessons with the children recording their responses on white boards. The power points become progressively more complex.