A budgeting problem involving completing a bank statement, calculating percentages, using a calculator and problem solving in real life contexts.

Challenging, real-life examples of calculating circumferences and perimeters of circles using Pi. Pupils also practise using a calculator to accurately calculate answers.

I used this as homework with my Primary 7 (Year 6) class. They had to prepare, or help preparing, a meal at home and note down they made it and what the nutritional values of the food were. Their family then wrote comments about the food. Some of the work I have got in from that has been amazing - scrapbooks, powerpoints and presentations about how to make the meal step by step.

Set of 6 editable Dictionary Definition Cards designed to expand children’s vocabulary. Use as a starter, of finishing, task where children work independently, or in pairs, to find the definitions of the words in a dictionary.

Two editable Dictionary Detectives sheets with a range of activities designed to teach children how to use a dictionary effectively.

Four Describe Me sheets with images for children to describe and space for them to write sentences about the images. Designed to encourage children to think of adjectives and be able to use them in a sentence.

A set of 12 high quality reading task cards to be used to support the development of reading skills. There are additional resources to support some of the tasks. The cards are designed to be printed out, cut up and used to give pupils choice of reading task.

A set of 16 reading cards to support children’s understanding of what they have read. Cards are designed to be printed, cut up and used for children to choose a task. Includes additional resources to support some of the activities.

A set of four editable worksheets with mixed up sentences for children to correct. There are misspelled common words, capital letters missing and in the wrong place and punctuaction missing. The sheets get progressively harder.

Basic Character and Setting sheets for primary school classes. Easy to use to support your children develop their character and setting ideas before writing a story. Can be turned into an inspirational class book.

A challenging book review template that makes a great recommended book display, or folder in class. It makes children really think about what they have read and why they enjoyed it, or not.

Worksheet to develop pupils confidence multiplying and dividing by 10, 100 and 1000. Can be used in class or as homework. Can be used to teach the concept or for consolidation/revision.

A maths quiz that tests multiple areas of the maths curriculum: Mental Maths Calculations involving decimals Money Shape Area and Perimeter BODMAS Measurements & Units Percentages Duration Speed Data Handling Circles

A set of 16 Anagram Challenge cards that can be used as starter, or finishing, tasks in primary school classrooms.

A well used activity where pupils have to find pupils in the class to answer questions as they move round the class. The first in a series of maths applications of this excellent activity.

A KS2 sheet for pupils to practice creating algebraic expressions and develop confidence manipulating algebra

Designed to challenge more able maths students at Primary 7 (Year 6), could be used in S1 as well. Pupils had to derive a formula to find the area of an ellipse given some background information - then they had to use their formula to calculate the area of some ellipses.

A project for groups to reinforce ideas about Money and Budgeting. Pupils have to make a series of real life decisions and stry within their budget.

An interactive WhoCan activity designed to test pupils knowledge of nouns and pronouns at KS2/2nd Level. Great way to get pupils to help each other and for the teacher to check of the understanding of pupils.

This lesson was done for a school open day and comprised 6 linked activities which were done by groups of pupils in rotation. Everything you need is here: Introduction PPT Pupils Activity Booklet Instructions for 6 activities Resources & extension tasks Video clips (these are from YouTube and are not my original materiel) Climate Change Critical Literacy PPT & worksheet If you don't have access to First News then any newspaper or magazine articles can be used - or you could use articles from the internet.