This game allows children to practice rounding to 10/100/1000. Give each pair a sheet of cards, cut up. They should make two separate piles; one of the smaller cards and one of the larger cards. For each turn, the player turns over one small card and one large card, and completes the task, e.g. Small card = 637 Large card = Round to the nearest 10 Answer = 640. Replace the cards to the bottom of the piles and repeat with the other player.

This is a short task designed to test pupils' understanding of number facts, including: -odd and even numbers -square numbers -prime numbers -multiples -factors Instructions are on the sheet. This could be made simpler/harder by changing the task to 1- or 3-digit numbers. This activity could be a main activity or used as a quick revision/starter task.

This is a WAGOLL newspaper article, written using the beginning of the story of Kensuke's Kingdom (by Michael Murpurgo), but could be used as an example for any newspaper writing unit. Possible uses: - to annotate features of a newspaper - as a model for writing own newspaper articles - to critique - what is good and not-so-good about this article? P.s. The family is not called 'Finnegan' in Kensuke's Kingdom - we are not told their surname so I made one up!

'Writing like a writer' is a set of Powerpoint slides, each featuring a new word of the day. The purpose of this resource is to broaden the children's vocabulary and is aimed at KS2/lower KS3. The document displays the word, definition and example as well as a short writing task and there are 30 slides (enough for 6 weeks if used daily). The tasks are designed to be creative writing opportunities and so are very varied in theme! The word of the day does not necessarily 'fit' with the writing task, but as the children build up their vocabulary bank they should be able to use previous words to enhance their short piece of writing. This activity is designed to take about 10 minutes, and so can be used as a starter or daily activity during an allocated slot, e.g. register time. The way I have used this in the past is: - introduce the word, children repeat it aloud a few times - explain the definition and read through the example - children write down the word and the meaning in a vocabulary book - children complete the writing task, trying to use the new word or one of the previous words. PART 3

'Writing like a writer' is a set of Powerpoint slides, each featuring a new word of the day. The purpose of this resource is to broaden the children's vocabulary and is aimed at KS2/lower KS3. The document displays the word, definition and example as well as a short writing task and there are 30 slides (enough for 6 weeks if used daily). The tasks are designed to be creative writing opportunities and so are very varied in theme! The word of the day does not necessarily 'fit' with the writing task, but as the children build up their vocabulary bank they should be able to use previous words to enhance their short piece of writing. This activity is designed to take about 10 minutes, and so can be used as a starter or daily activity during an allocated slot, e.g. register time. The way I have used this in the past is: - introduce the word, children repeat it aloud a few times - explain the definition and read through the example - children write down the word and the meaning in a vocabulary book - children complete the writing task, trying to use the new word or one of the previous words. PART 2

'Writing like a writer' is a set of Powerpoint slides, each featuring a new word of the day. The purpose of this resource is to broaden the children's vocabulary and is aimed at KS2/lower KS3. The document displays the word, definition and example as well as a short writing task and there are 30 slides (enough for 6 weeks if used daily). The tasks are designed to be creative writing opportunities and so are very varied in theme! The word of the day does not necessarily 'fit' with the writing task, but as the children build up their vocabulary bank they should be able to use previous words to enhance their short piece of writing. This activity is designed to take about 10 minutes, and so can be used as a starter or daily activity during an allocated slot, e.g. register time. The way I have used this in the past is: - introduce the word, children repeat it aloud a few times - explain the definition and read through the example - children write down the word and the meaning in a vocabulary book - children complete the writing task, trying to use the new word or one of the previous words.

In my classroom I have 'Challenge Boxes&', small plastic boxes which I place on the tables during lessons with an extension or challenge task in them. I made these labels to decorate the boxes - colour co-ordinated to our table groups (blue/red/orange/green/purple)

A poster explaining when and where capital letters should be used. Made on A4 but with the intention of being blown up to A3.

A poster designed to help children to make sure they have included all of the punctuation necessary for speech. It has been made on an A4 sheet, but with the intention of being blown up to A3!

Simple planning sheet to help children to structure a story from another culture. Differentiated twice. http://teach-alessonlearnt.blogspot.co.uk

Selection of shapes divided into various fractions for children to shade, for example 'Shade a quarter of the rectangle&'. Could be laminated and used more than once. http://teach-alessonlearnt.blogspot.co.uk

Pizzas divided into fractions for the purpose of finding equivalent fractions. http://teach-alessonlearnt.blogspot.co.uk

A WAGOLL diary entry of a good day. The purpose of this was for the children to write their own diary entry, but of a bad day, using this example as a prompt. A differentiated planning sheet (HA/MA/LA) for planning a bad day diary entry based on style of the good day WAGOLL diary entry.

A generic book review template which can be used for any fiction book. Differentiated twice. Now including editable Word document

A simple reading record sheet to record daily readers.

Self-explanatory really - a daily to-do list for busy teachers! http://teach-alessonlearnt.blogspot.co.uk

When marking books, I note down all the children into the appropriate columns: Green: if they clearly understood the lesson content Amber: if they mostly understood the lesson, perhaps with a few errors Red: if they struggled with the content This allows for quick intervention the following day for any children who fall into the 'red&' category. http://teach-alessonlearnt.blogspot.co.uk

These ‘Library Challenge’ cards were made for my class library, but they could be used in a school library as well. The idea was just to get the children excited about reading and properly engaged with the books, and they’ve really enjoyed working through the activities – an added bonus being that I use this work to decorate the walls of our library. There’s a selection of 10 Library Challenge Cards, plus a ‘Library Challenge of the Week’ which just allows for changing things up a little without having to print and laminate more cards.