A qualified Primary Teacher and drama and music specialist, I have worked both as a class teacher and in partnership with organisations including Young Enterprise, as well as several youth theatre groups and programmes. My shop provides a range of resources including original scripts, workshop plans, cross curricular topic planners with accompanying resources, planning and assessment pro formas and worksheets.
A qualified Primary Teacher and drama and music specialist, I have worked both as a class teacher and in partnership with organisations including Young Enterprise, as well as several youth theatre groups and programmes. My shop provides a range of resources including original scripts, workshop plans, cross curricular topic planners with accompanying resources, planning and assessment pro formas and worksheets.
This activity book has been designed for KS1/First level pupils to go alongside reading the abridged or child friendly version of the story. With my own class this was also used in conjunction with putting on a short play of the story.
For younger/less able pupils, the booklet can be worked through together as a class, with support given for follow up work or done independently with more able or older pupils, following each teaching and discussion or reading session.
Contents include:
Scrooge Character Description
Comparison of Present and Past
Design a Christmas Card from Scrooge
Write a new Christmas Carol/Song
and more
This resource has been produced for infants working at Early Level for Numeracy, Literacy and Health and Wellbeing. These will be easily adaptable for each level and stage of the primary school.
This booklet has reminders and revision for many of the basic concepts in Maths and Numeracy, such as Place Value, Addition/Subtraction, Multiplication/Division, Time, Fractions and Weights and Measures.
The purpose of the booklet is for extra reinforcement and information for those pupils who can struggle to retain the concepts and language of Maths.
The booklet can be used both in school and at home to enable the pupil to have a little more autonomy whilst engaged in independent work.
For example, when attempting correct layout of sums they can check the booklet to remind themselves of what to do without extra teacher input.
This has proven a helpful tool for many pupils who lack confidence in maths and numeracy.
This resource has been developed as part of a mini drama study based on Toys. This covers minimum two separate sessions with links to literacy, music as well as Health and Wellbeing. This is specifically directed at P1/2 stages.
Included in the resource are descriptors of a selection of warm up drama games and activities, an original rap song and lesson plan outlines.
All materials are subject to copyright and may only be used by the school/teacher purchasing. No time or number of use restrictions once purchased.
Comprehensive mind map style topic plan on Under the Sea for forward planning. This covers early level/EYFS outcomes and also includes an overview planner for Four Contexts for Learning. The bundle also includes a range of accompanying resources; Word bank, literacy and numeracy worksheets and a homework workbook with accompanying parental information letter.
This booklet is designed to be used during the busy December month, when often it is difficult to keep the pupils engaged and still learning!
Within this booklet are seven different challenges that will get the pupils thinking, designing, problem solving, working together and having some fun.
The booklet has the following worksheets and tasks:
Design a new toy
Design a new suit for Santa
Help the Elves task
Design a Sleigh
Christmas Alphabetical Ordering
Christmas Wordsearch and Cloze Passage
Christmas Party Budget: Money and Problem Solving activity
This is designed for KS2/Scottish Second Level pupils, although it could be adapted/differentiated for lower stages and levels.
This early level literacy activity bundle contains 18 different worksheet activities to cover phonics, blending/decoding and writing, including a set of story prompts using pictures to inspire some emergent imaginative writing. The bundle also includes 4 sets of bingo cards to cover the main phonic sets.
The activities cover other skills such as cutting and colouring to enhance fine motor skill development and are designed to be both enjoyable and challenging for the pupils. This will be a super time saver for busy teachers!
This resource would be ideal to extend and consolidate learning in these literacy areas and/or use for early finishers in class.
Contents:
Phonics cut and stick set 1
Phonics cut and stick set 1 and 2
Phonics cut and stick digraphs
Phonics missing sounds; single sounds
Phonics missing sounds; digraphs
Phonics bingo cards: Set 1 and 2
Phonics bingo cards: Set 3, 4 and 5
Phonics bingo cards: Set 6, 7 and 8
Write the word CVC
Write the word digraphs
Blending word/picture match 1
Blending word/picture match 2
Blending word/picture match 3
Sentence cut and stick
Blending; read, write and colour
Blending; read, write and colour
Picture the story 1
Picture the story 2
Picture the story 3
Picture the story 4
Picture the story 5
If you would like a copy of this on an editable Word document, please contact me via my shop.
Please note that this work is copyrighted to P.Marshall and Sounds Dramatic Ltd and may not be reproduced or altered without prior consent. Once purchased, uses are unlimited and files can be kept and reused with no limitation.
Comprehensive topic plan on the Solar System for forward planning. This covers first level outcomes and has information on assessment, experiences and outcomes as well as lesson outlines. The bundle also includes a range of accompanying resources; activities, powerpoint, assessment and miscellaneous information.
These four activity/worksheets are designed to go alongside the topic planner on Endangered species.
The letter template is in a word format to allow for changing from a Scottish Government contact to Westminster cabinet.
If you require any of the other documents in word, please contact me.
This booklet has a host of activities and worksheets for Easter and Spring.
Included in booklet are:
Talk About Cards
Spring Walk
Easter Egg Design
Easter Egg Package Design
Easter Hunt
Easter Maze
Spring Alphabetical Ordering
Easter Wordsearch
Easter Egg Symmetry
This is a great time saver for use in class as early finisher/extra activities on the run up to Easter/Spring holidays.
These three activities and worksheets are a great way to start back with your class in the new term. Suitable for KS2/Second Level, with some elements being suitable for younger pupils with support.
Activities:
New Year Story starter/assessment - this story starter covers elements of VCOP and imaginative writing, giving pupils a chance to write in a genre of their choice, based on New Year's Eve.
Highlights of 2016 - a worksheet set out like a poster of polaroid photos, pupils can draw four of their favourite moments of the past year and caption them. This has been created for A3 size.
New Year Learning and Personal Resolutions - pupils can set both learning and personal targets and resolutions for the coming year, with space for them to detail why they have chosen this resolution and how they intend to achieve it.
All worksheets are on PDF.
16 Language/Literacy and 6 Maths activity cards for either lesson starters or early finishers. The sheets can be printed and laminated so that pupil's can help themselves for independent continuation of work in class. These are also editable for making extra/different cards.
This fun and easy to use board game is designed for pre school and early Primary level children.
It aims to develop numeracy skills whilst allowing children the experience of playing a game independently.
The game is designed on A3, so make sure your photocopier settings are correct.
The game comes with instructions, playing pieces and differentiated task cards.
A great resource for early finishers in your class or as an extra reinforcement activity.
This resource is a super time saver for a busy teacher.
A way to instantly have a meaningful and challenging classroom activity set up for your class to do.
16 Literacy activity slides
12 Maths and Numeracy activity slides
12 Health and Wellbeing activity slides
8 topic based activity slides.
Many of these also have a range of activity ideas within each slide, meaning that you are getting upwards of 60 different lesson and activity ideas, covering a range of learning and teaching areas and skill sets.
The front page of the powerpoint is a contents page that has links to each individual activity page – and each activity page will take you back to the contents page.
Many of these activity ideas can be used more than once and with a variety of different topics.
This version is aimed at Second Level/KS2 pupils.
I am currently working on developing one for younger pupils as well.
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This resource has been developed as part of a mini drama study based on Friendship. This covers minimum two separate sessions with links to literacy, music as well as Health and Wellbeing.
Included in the resource are descriptors of a selection of warm up drama games and activities, an original rap song and lesson plan outlines.
All materials are subject to copyright and may only be used by the school/teacher purchasing. No time or number of uses restrictions once purchased.
This resource is a script with directions, an information letter for parents as well as a powerpoint for a class to put on a super assembly based on the common world religions festivals and celebrations. It covers Eid, Diwali, Hanukkah and Christmas. If you have a range of religions represented in your school, that is ideal, however, it would also be appropriate for smaller schools who perhaps have less diversity, as the script is easily adaptable.
This is well received by parents, pupils and the school community as it is a super way to celebrate several religious festivals at once.
This could be done at this time of year as a stand alone assembly, or can be undertaken at the end of the accompanying RME planner on World Religions which in turn goes with the Solar System topic planner.
I have also uploaded song words and backing tracks to support this assembly - all of these other resources will be available as a bundle.
These assessments have been designed to suit any infant stages at end of year. This provides good information for passing on to next teacher and transition between stages. Also, these can be used by the next stage teacher at the beginning of the year to gauge what the pupils have retained over the summer.
The Literacy assessment should be of use to anyone working with a phonics programme, especially with Jolly Phonics. There are also sections for assessing spelling, letter formation, sentence structure, blending and decoding and tricky word recognition. This is fully editable so that if you have taught some different tricky/high frequency words, these can be changed to suit the teaching.
The Maths and Numeracy assessment covers the following areas; Number recognition and formation to 20, addition within 20, subtraction within 10, coin recognition, 2D and 3D shape recognition, number words, O'clock times.
If you would like any further information please contact me via my shop, especially if you would like to see anything else added. I will be putting online further assessments for this stage that can be used throughout the year as the pupil learning progresses.
This resource has been developed as part of a mini drama study based on anger management. This covers minimum two separate sessions with links to literacy, music as well as Health and Wellbeing.
Included in the resource are descriptors of a selection of warm up drama games and activities, an original rap song and lesson plan outlines.
All materials are subject to copyright and may only be used by the school/teacher purchasing. No time or number of uses restrictions once purchased.