Children fill in destination, time of departure and fare

An editable resource to encourage using money and telling the time in a role-play travel agents. Children can also add their own destinations, prices and times of departure.

Printed images of British coins to use as a bank in a role-play area, coins are matched with the pictures and stored there, the banker is in charge of making sure the correct coins and amount of coins are there at the end of the day. Numicon type images are used to reinforce the value of the coins to support addition and giving change.

An interactive notebook file which explores famous landmarks of the United Kingdom, the four countries that make up the United Kingdom and their capital cities, ideal for Key Stage One geography.

Stickers to be used for role-play activities to encourage knowledge of both human and physical geographical features perfect for key stage one geography

To be used in a role-play area, children log who has bought a ticket, where they are going, what time are they departing and what is the fare. A good resource to practise cross curricular skills

A passport to be used by children in a role-lay area, children can collect stickers of different famous UK landmarks and stick them in their passport also included is a poster of UK destinations

Meet all the graphemes for KS1 that make the ‘igh’ sound. They’re the Green family and like to dress in green to reinforce their ‘ee’ sound. All the CEW for year 1 and year 2 with this phoneme in are included as well as spelling rules which apply from English appendix 1. The powerpoint is designed to be used across year groups depending on your phonics teaching. It contains at least a weeks worth of phonics teaching. Each character tells you about its grapheme and uses sounds spots to support reading and spelling. Once children are familiar with the family they can explore best bet rules and then apply their learning by using the dictated sentences also within the powerpoint. Two copies are included, one which uses my preferred font of Letterjoin and one with comic sans.

Meet all the graphemes for KS1 that make the ‘ee’ sound. They’re the Green family and like to dress in green to reinforce their ‘ai’ sound. All the CEW for year 1 and year 2 with this phoneme in are included as well as spelling rules which apply from English appendix 1. The powerpoint is designed to be used across year groups depending on your phonics teaching. Each character tells you about its grapheme and uses sounds spots to support reading and spelling. Once children are familiar with the family they can explore best bet rules and then apply their learning by using the dictated sentences also within the powerpoint. Two copies are included, one which uses my preferred font of Letterjoin and one with comic sans.

Meet all the graphemes for KS1 that make the ‘or’ sound. They’re the Orchid family and like to dress in orchid to reinforce their ‘or’ sound. All the CEW for year 1 and year 2 with this phoneme in are included as well as spelling rules which apply from English appendix 1. The powerpoint is designed to be used across year groups depending on your phonics teaching. Each character tells you about its grapheme and uses sounds spots to support reading and spelling. Once children are familiar with the family they can explore best bet rules and then apply their learning by using the dictated sentences also within the powerpoint. Two copies are included, one which uses my preferred font of Letterjoin and one with comic sans.

Meet all the graphemes for KS1 that make the ‘ar’ sound. They’re the Scarlet family and like to dress in scarlet to reinforce their ‘ar’ sound. All the CEW for year 1 and year 2 with this phoneme in are included as well as spelling rules which apply from English appendix 1. The powerpoint is designed to be used across year groups depending on your phonics teaching. Each character tells you about its grapheme and uses sounds spots to support reading and spelling. Once children are familiar with the family they can explore best bet rules and then apply their learning by using the dictated sentences also within the powerpoint. Two copies are included, one which uses my preferred font of Letterjoin and one with comic sans.

Meet all the graphemes for KS1 that make the ‘oy’ sound. They’re the Oyster family and like to dress in oyster to reinforce their ‘oy’ sound. All the CEW for year 1 and year 2 with this phoneme in are included as well as spelling rules which apply from English appendix 1. The powerpoint is designed to be used across year groups depending on your phonics teaching. Each character tells you about its grapheme and uses sounds spots to support reading and spelling. Once children are familiar with the family they can explore best bet rules and then apply their learning by using the dictated sentences also within the powerpoint. Two copies are included, one which uses my preferred font of Letterjoin and one with comic sans.

Meet all the graphemes for KS1 that make the ‘ow’ sound. They’re the Brown family and like to dress in brown to reinforce their ‘ow’ sound. All the CEW for year 1 and year 2 with this phoneme in are included as well as spelling rules which apply from English appendix 1. The powerpoint is designed to be used across year groups depending on your phonics teaching. Each character tells you about its grapheme and uses sounds spots to support reading and spelling. Once children are familiar with the family they can explore best bet rules and then apply their learning by using the dictated sentences also within the powerpoint. Two copies are included, one which uses my preferred font of Letterjoin and one with comic sans.

Meet all the graphemes for KS1 that make the unstressed schwa sound. They’re the Schwa family and they come from outer space. All the CEW for year 1 and year 2 with this phoneme in are included as well as spelling rules which apply from English appendix 1. The powerpoint is designed to be used across year groups depending on your phonics teaching. It contains at least a weeks worth of phonics teaching. Each character tells you about its grapheme and uses sounds spots to support reading and spelling. Once children are familiar with the family they can explore best bet rules and then apply their learning by using the dictated sentences also within the powerpoint. Two copies are included, one which uses my preferred font of Letterjoin and one with comic sans.

Meet all the graphemes for KS1 that make the stressed ‘er’ sound. They’re the Purple family and they like to wear purple to reinforce their ‘er’ sound. All the CEW for year 1 and year 2 with this phoneme in are included as well as spelling rules which apply from English appendix 1. The powerpoint is designed to be used across year groups depending on your phonics teaching. It contains at least a weeks worth of phonics teaching. Each character tells you about its grapheme and uses sounds spots to support reading and spelling. Once children are familiar with the family they can explore best bet rules and then apply their learning by using the dictated sentences also within the powerpoint. Two copies are included, one which uses my preferred font of Letterjoin and one with comic sans.

Meet all the graphemes for KS1 that make the ‘ear’ sound. They’re the Ear family and they have a musical ear to reinforce their ‘ear’ sound. All the CEW for year 1 and year 2 with this phoneme in are included as well as spelling rules which apply from English appendix 1. The powerpoint is designed to be used across year groups depending on your phonics teaching. It contains at least a weeks worth of phonics teaching. Each character tells you about its grapheme and uses sounds spots to support reading and spelling. Once children are familiar with the family they can explore best bet rules and then apply their learning by using the dictated sentences also within the powerpoint. Two copies are included, one which uses my preferred font of Letterjoin and one with comic sans.

Meet the Learning Friends, a group of characters that display the traits of characteristics of effective learning. They also link closely to a Growth Mindset philosophy. In this story children find out how Freddie the Frog became Focused Frog and learnt how motivation and focus helps him to succeed in his learning.

Meet all the graphemes for KS1 that make the ‘air’ sound. They’re the Air family and they live in a hot air balloon to reinforce their ‘air’ sound. All the CEW for year 1 and year 2 with this phoneme in are included as well as spelling rules which apply from English appendix 1. The powerpoint is designed to be used across year groups depending on your phonics teaching. It contains at least a weeks worth of phonics teaching. Each character tells you about its grapheme and uses sounds spots to support reading and spelling. Once children are familiar with the family they can explore best bet rules and then apply their learning by using the dictated sentences also within the powerpoint. Two copies are included, one which uses my preferred font of Letterjoin and one with comic sans.

Children have fun creating silly sentences with the help of the Word Wizards. Supports children’s understanding of the different word types and sentence structure.

Four games designed to support children in rehearsing their phonics skills prior to the phonic screening test. Children use their phonics skills to translate the alien language. In these games the children take on the role of aliens, they learn how to ask and answer questions like an alien. solve an alien treasure hunt and also create their own alien words. Most words have been used in past test papers. This activity is designed to be carried out over a number of days or as a carousel of activities throughout the day I have enclosed three copies of the slideshow. One in my preferred font, letterjoin but also one in comic sans and one in sassoon Inf . If you have any issues with the font please contact me. Thank you