I think this in the most useful resource I've made so far to help year 5 and 6 children with their writing. It has helped me get my books in order for writing moderation too! This word mat is to be photocopied double sided and laminated. It includes: All the year 5/6 curriculum spelling words Hyphenated Words Subordinating conjunctions Co-ordinating Conjunctions Modal Verbs Contractions (including spoken contractions) It is colourful, well set out and easy to use. I hope others find it as useful as our school does. It does help them when they are writing. https://www.tes.com/teaching-resources/shop/richbreeds

A worksheet with 3 different tasks to help with grammar. Goes over different sentence types- exclamation, command , statement and question with examples. Nice and visual and colourful. Can be adapted slightly in need be. My year 5/6s loved doing this!

a lesson looking at the artist Bridget Riley and her style of 'Op-art' Lesson includes powerpoint and worksheet. The learning objective is 'To reflect on an artists work'

During moderation, using HYPHENS was one area of writing most of my children always found hard to ‘tick off’. So to help them I compiled this hyphenated word bank. I left a space in each letter so they could add words of their own to it. But having them in front of them has definitely helped them to get hyphenated words in to their writing more. Some of them had to be explained to them for meaning, but now they love trying to fit some of the more unusual ones in to their writing. They also add words from their reading books to the list. I found this very useful as there isn’t much on hyphens out there to help us teachers! Enjoy! Check out my shop: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resources/shop/richbreeds New accounts and first-time buyers can get 90% OFF this resource by entering the code 90NOVEMBER at the checkout before November 30th!

I created a knowledge organiser to use with my Year 5 and 6s on out new topic of Ernest Shackleton We are using the amazing book- Shackleton’s Journey by William Grill

I used the write stuff style planning with my class for Viking Boy by Tony Bradman. We wrote narratives using 5 plot points each with 3 learning chunks. The planning is also included. Also, as my class loved the format, we used the same style for Non-Fiction, newspaper reports. I made an example of a newspaper too as my class also did this for their computing sessions (word processing). I have included this too. We got really good fiction and non-fiction writing from all of the children using these resources. Any questions, please ask.

I created a series of questions based on Charlie and the Chocolate factory. e follow VIPERS skills in our school so I linked them all to that. They were very successful in my year 4 and 5 classes. Any questions- please ask.

This is a complete lesson with notebook file and activities. The learning objective is- To explore and discuss religious art There is an activity sheet and resources including a notebook file that forms the whole lesson for you. This is a whole lesson. I used this with a mixed year 5/6 class for an observation by the head and a governor who said the lesson was 'outstanding' in old OFSTED terms! It worked well and the children enjoyed it.

I am sharing a unit of work I made based on 'You're a Bad Man Mr Gum' by Andy Stanton. My Year 3s loved this and said it was their favourite work they did all year. I have included loads of Notebook Files. 5 weeks worth of planning, pictures, activities, a who wants to be a millionaire game based on the book that I made and loads of self assessment checklists. Adapt as needed and enjoy!

Last year, we did the book 'Shackleton’s Journey and the children loved it! It is a power of reading book and also linked with our whole school topic of Ice. Here are my plans and lots of the notebook files I made- hopefully some people will find some of it useful.

I created a series of plot points and learning chunks in the style of The Write Stuff to get my children to write their own story. They loved it and had great stories from it. I have just put everything I made and used in this pack Any questions, please ask

This is a notebook file for a Creative Write/Big write lesson/task. The children have to write a story called 'The Secret Door'.

I made these grids similar to the moderation sheets we use as teachers, but child friendly with pictures and examples to help the children understand what to look for in their writing. My children use these effectively and it also helps my teacher assessment and their understanding. It may help new year 6 teachers too! Check out my other great resources: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resources/shop/richbreeds

In my role as DSL I recently created some safeguarding surveys for children , parents and staff to complete. I have also included the covering letter I sent to parents with their survey (obviously I have removed our details. I tried to make the children’s more visually using emojis. I used similar questions and changed them slightly for all 3 stakeholders. Please feel free to change my resources as you require- any questions please ask.

I used the write stuff approach whilst using The Happy Prince by Oscar Wilde with my mixed year3/4 class. The children loved the story and the results were amazing- fantastic writing! I made my own plot points and learning chunks. I included some of the grammar I had been doing in class too Any questions, please ask

L.O- To recognise and challenge stereotypes. A lesson I have just done on sytereotypes, prejudice and discrimination which went really well. Thought others might find it useful :-)

I made this for my classroom and it has been really successful. We have printed it on A3 paper and laminated it and it is displayed in the classroom. During the week, I choose 5 words that lots of the class are getting wrong. Under the tick I write the correct spelling and under the cross some of the incorrect spellings for that word children have used. I hope others find it as useful as my class have.

A maths investigation based on 3D shape.. I used this with years 5 and 6. It is good for SATS practice as it gets them to explain their answer.