I am a fully qualified primary teacher who has experience of teaching in both the private and state sectors in Scotland, London and Tokyo.
All of my resources have been tried and tested in classrooms, and I am passionate about making learning as enjoyable and engaging as possible for children.
I am a fully qualified primary teacher who has experience of teaching in both the private and state sectors in Scotland, London and Tokyo.
All of my resources have been tried and tested in classrooms, and I am passionate about making learning as enjoyable and engaging as possible for children.
A Powerpoint presentation with 20 sentences based on the Year 3 and 4 statutory spelling list. Ideal use for 7+ and 8+ exam preparation.
Each slide includes an audio file, where each sentence is spoken twice. After your child has written their sentence, they can reveal the correct answer on the slide.
A series of 5 Maths lesson, each focusing on a different skill:
Place value HTO
Doubles
Odd and even numbers
HTO column addition
Addition with carrying/word problems
These lesson can be taught online using Powerpoint, completed at home on the computer or can be printed off.
Each lesson has a teacher input section, interactive games and independent work.
A series of 5 writing and comprehension lessons that can either be printed or used online.
The lessons include:
“Say it, don’t show it” emotions
Cartoon strip story writing
Guess the story setting
Shades of meaning vocabulary
Adverb game
“Beat the teacher” story writing challenge
Character personality and appearance
These reading challenges can be printed and cut into flashcards. They focus on:
Comprehension
Writing
Grammar
Ideal for use after each chapter of a book!
A series of 5 lessons lasting approximately one hour each. Ideal for online learning or slides can be printed and used at home.
This pack includes activities on:
story writing
comprehension (fiction and non-fiction)
how to add a problem to your story
speech marks
setting descriptions
similes
Games included:
weather simile game
emoji emotion game
emotions 4 in a row
‘guess my monster’ adjective game
This pack also includes a story mountain visual aid and independent homework challenges.
A series of 7 English lessons ideal for children in KS1/2. These lessons can be used as a Powerpoint for online learning, or they can be printed and used for home schooling. Each lesson lasts for approximately 1 hour and this pack covers the following areas:
Reading comprehension
Story writing
Character description
Adjectives and adverbs
Connectives
Similes
‘wow’ words
How to stretch a sentence
Grammar - how to use commas
The pack includes a number of games:
Adjective ‘guess my monster’ game
Said synonym matching game
weather simile game
The pack also includes some printable visual aids to help with independent learning:
Story mountain
Emotions vocabulary poster
Stretch a sentence poster
5 complete, interactive lessons for Letters and sounds phase 3 set 6.
The animated Powerpoint includes lessons covering:
j , v, w, x and a revision of all phase 2 tricky words.
The lessons follow the Letters and sound structure:
Revisit and review
Segmenting and blending
Teach
Practise
Apply
A ‘grab and go’ resource, this resource covers all the sounds that children need to know in set 6. Perfect for EYFS stages and ideal for whole class use.
Five formative assessment ideas that can be implemented straight away in the classroom. Great for instant feedback and quick assessment!
This pack includes:
Formative assessment dice poster - children can take it in turns to roll the dice and answer the corresponding question.
Fist to 5 poster - allowing you to assess how challenging children found a lesson and who needs additional support
‘Thumbs up, thumbs down’ cut outs - these can be placed on children’s desks and used throughout lessons to check for understanding.
Mobile phone exit cards - laminate these and ask children to fill them out at the end of a lesson. A good way to see how children are feeling after a lesson.
Traffic light labels - attach these to 3 marking trays and the children can file their work according to how difficult they found the task in hand.
This phonics board game can be used alongside any set of words or images - included in this resource are a pack of images relating to phase 5.
How to play the game:
Players roll the dice and move along the board. If they land on an action counter, they must pick a card from the pile and complete the following:
Robot talk = spell out the word in a robot voice
Write it = write the word on a whiteboard
Whisper it = spell out the word by whispering it to a friend
Make it = use magnetic letters to make the word
Magic wand = use their ‘magic finger’ to air write the word
Ideal use for KS1 and group work.
To help children to solidify their number facts, this homework pack was sent home for children to work on, and when they felt confident enough they would come into school and try and earn one of their stars. The scheme worked like this:
Bronze star = “I can say the story of X”
Silver star = “I can say the story of X backwards”
Gold star = “I can answer questions on the story of X in any order”
Once all stars were earned, the children could then move on to the next number story!
A big old download full of resources for teaching reading comprehension! The resources follow the “reciprocal reading” method. Contents includes:
Question description cards:
Meet the comprehension super heroes who each tackle their own individual question type. Together they will help children to:
Predict
Clarify
Summarise
Visualize
Answer literal questions
Answer inferential questions
Question badges:
Use the badges for group work, where each child is in charge of writing or answering a specific question type. If anything, the badges are an excuse for a trip to Ryman (not so guilty pleasure) for lanyards, plastic covers and so on!
Comprehension template:
Allows children to record their predictions before reading, write their questions during reading and summarise the text after reading. The summary box is deliberately tiny to stop any budding authors from rewriting the entire text.
Sorting activity:
A selection of questions to be sorted according to their question type (literal or inferential). I used these the other day without laminating and when asked to ‘tidy up’ my lovely student proceeded to crumple the entire pack of questions into a ball. I was fine about it. Just half an ink cartridge, 20 minutes of cutting before the lesson and a completely ruined resource.
Totally. Fine.
Question spinner:
Heavily ‘Twister’ inspired, this wheel can be used during reading time to help children practice asking and answering different types of questions. Note – you will lose the pointer to the wheel. Like socks in a washing machine, it’s just life.
Maths vocabulary cards that can be separated into four categories: addition, subtraction, multiplication and division.
Ideal for children who are confident in simple ‘question and answer’ situations, but struggle with questions in a word problem format.
These flashcards allow for sorting activities to take place, offering a more hands on approach than a poster on the wall.
Once flashcards have been sorted into piles, children could create their own word problems.
These flashcards can also be used as a quick warm up activity, where children need to call out which operation each flashcard matches to.
The 7x table can be a real ‘tricky’ for children, so these rhyming flashcards were made to try and help the number facts to stick!
These cards can be used as a visual aid or they could be cut into flashcards to create an ordering activity.
Specifically designed to challenge more able children in the role play area, these shop resources are ideal for encouraging real, practical and purposeful maths skills during play.
The bundle includes:
10 price cards, challenging children to pay using only a specific number of coins
‘Special offer’ cards for each day of the week. A great way to introduce a fresh challenge each day.
A loyalty card that introduces the concept of division
Shopping list templates with ‘items’ and ‘price’ headings to encourage mark making and writing
editable bar codes
Colourful rhyming posters to help children to identify odd and even numbers.
Uses the characters Odd Todd and Even Steven and acts as a handy visual aid during lessons.
Ideal for use in KS1, this interactive Powerpoint helps children to count in 3s from 0 - 30.
Slides include:
Counting forwards and backwards from a given number
Finding the missing number in a sequence
Ordering numbers correctly
A simple fractions and decimals dominoes game, where children take it in turns to connect the equivalent cards.
Other ideas include cutting the sheet into individual cards, where children can play a matching game.
To challenge children, the flashcards could also be used to explain other possible equivalent fractions or decimals.
A simplified version of Pie Corbett’s story mountain, this poster focuses on three main paragraphs within a creative writing story:
Beginning
Problem
Ending
I have suggested to children that they should imagine their story taking place over the space of a day, the beginning of the story taking place in the morning, and the ending at night. Starting the story with the word “as” allows for an immediate simile and description and it seems to give children a starter for ten when faced with a blank sheet of paper.
The mountain also mentions including senses to describe the setting, speech between characters and description of characters feelings.
A ‘one stop shop’ resource to help your children add more detail to their writing.
This resource includes:
A poster outlining the 5 W’s that can be used to add detail - who, what, when, where, why
Flashcards showing the 5 W’s
A set of simple sentences that children need to stretch out using the 5 W’s. Can be cut into flashcards and made into a simple game ideal for group work
A writing frame to encourage children to use all 5 W’s to stretch a sentence.