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I am a seasoned primary school teacher - Year 6 specialist to be exact. My focus is mainly on activities to boost achievement in Maths and Literacy. However, I also create inspirational posters to brighten up schools, classrooms, hallways - anywhere really.

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I am a seasoned primary school teacher - Year 6 specialist to be exact. My focus is mainly on activities to boost achievement in Maths and Literacy. However, I also create inspirational posters to brighten up schools, classrooms, hallways - anywhere really.
IPC Rainforests Knowledge Harvest and Entry Point
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IPC Rainforests Knowledge Harvest and Entry Point

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A set of IWB slides to match the entry point and knowledge harvest in the International Primary Curriculum unit 'Saving The World' (Rainforests). Text and images closely matched so learners new to English will be able to access the vocabulary more easily.
Traditional Stories - Thinking Skills
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Traditional Stories - Thinking Skills

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Using Remembering (factual answers, recall and recognition) and Understanding (translating, interpreting, showing understanding) to extend children during the unit on Traditional Stories. Questions could be adapted to suit other areas of Narrative Writing.
Comparing three digit numbers
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Comparing three digit numbers

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A set of slides that I have created to fit the Year 3 Hamilton Summer Week 1 - Day 3 plans. These slides follow the plan for whole class teaching. The resources for the individual activities are from Hamilton Summer Week 1 - Day 3. These resources can be accessed from the Hamilton site.
Double up
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Double up

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Quick fire questions on doubling and halving to use as an oral mental starter activity.
Traditional Stories - Thinking Skills 2
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Traditional Stories - Thinking Skills 2

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Extension activity for Narrative Writing unit. Includes the follwoing skills: Applying (Using information in different, familiar situations) and Analysing (Break into parts to examine more closely.) Could be used as an ongoing extension acitivity through the course of the unit or as an independent homelearning activity to encourage deeper thinking about stories in general.