Where will a child’s book take them??

• 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! •

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

A handy English resource inspired by @studyingwithmissh who got the idea from the amazing @miss.wiltshir3 and @missv_nqt accoutns so go check them out!!! Not my idea at all I just used the ladies work and changed the font and photos to fit my theme!! Loads of love xxx

“OUR WONDER WALL” I had this idea out running one day, I wanted a way to positively reinforce kindness, sharing and caring traits in my students and by allowing them to fill this wall up by writing on the limited brick outlines with whiteboard markers I hope to highlight the importance of being a good person. At the start of the year, the wall will be clean and empty, as the children show can kindness, caring and sharing traits I will allow them to write on one of the bricks for the class to see. One the class have filled up the wall I can only imagine that a reward would be well deserved. I made my wall quite big on purpose to let the children chip away at it each term. This wall will allow all students to strive in the project of showing kindness regardless of their academic, sporting or musical ability which in my opinion I find the three most commonly awarded traits in children in schools.

Reading Record & Comments for Teaching folder.

SPaG finisher

Mastery 2,5 & 10 timetables

Reading Mat- Y2 SAT

Brain Breaks- 25 YouTube links

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

Login File - Keep all logins in one place :)

Fraction- Pre unit check Year 2

Christmas student note/card :)

Basic reward chart

Starter- after break

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

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

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