• During my PGCE it was drilled into us- the importance of a strong start to a lesson. I found the majority of the starters I used had been student lead and in turn made for extremely high levels of engagement, as the children often had more subject knowledge than I would have known had I opened with teacher lead starters. • I typed out 12 of my favourite starter strategies and have to credit my lectures for some of the ideas but likewise, I got a few of them online too! • Children LOVE to learn through their peers and these starters really encourage this child lead approach which I value so highly!! • This pack comes with 12 cards prompts in PDF format! •

Fraction- Pre unit check Year 2

I have been putting together this times tables word problem resource recently. I grabbed word problems from all over the internet, for each times table (2-12). This is in an attempt to grow my student’s confidence when they cross numbers with words in assessments and to consolidate their tables. • My class are often more than able for the questions they are posed with but as soon as they see words they freak out. This is super common! • These word problems are all multiplication, so although they don’t need to consider the operation to choose they do have to filter through the words to gain an understanding of what figures to manage and manipulate. I colour coordinated each set for so I know exactly what’s what.

Student learning objectives & self-checkers: Great for PGCE placements/BED placements and school teachers! <3 Student learning objectives & self-checkers in 3 different able groupings.

Imagination Blooms Here Lettering

Creative Writing- 12 prompts

Basic reward chart

Easter Starter- to welcome kids back after the break :)

Classroom Voting Cards- For those lessons that you want to hear what the children would vote! Used on PGCE placement and worked very well <3

Fun lesson plan outline, designed for my NQT year <3

Collection of subject headers which can be used for work trays or folders! <3

Noise Levels Display- Let the children see what nosie is expected throughout the day <3

Teacher lesson feedback and relfection sheet! Handy for all teachers and studnet teachers <3

Worry cards for chidren to get feelings of worry off their chest! <3

Handy for daily folder organisation! Designed for some daily motivation for NQT teachers

SPaG finisher

Reading Mat- Y2 SAT

Handy labels for folders or trays made for my NQT year <3

In my opinion SPELLING TESTS are NOT an accurate measurement tool of every child’s progress. Although most schools have them as a policy I think it’s important to try and teach children that struggle with spellings (especially children with specific learning difficulties) that 10/10 in a spelling test does not make a student more worthy. • Often the traditional way of making children- rewrite spellings they got wrong underneath the test 5 times, is thought to be the correct way to ensure a child learns those spelling and although this might be true for some children, it is not helpful for children who present dyslexic traits. For these children, visual tasks and creativity work much better to highlight spelling patterns. • With these children in mind I created a “super spelling task resource” it has 12 unique ways to encourage children to pick one spelling they got wrong and do a very short task on it to allow them to master one of their words, instead of rewriting 5 words and not really learning any of them. Majority of the tasks I have made up myself but I found some online too!!

Pastel clock labels