I am a teaching Deputy Head in a primary school in Hampshire and TES recommended author. I've been teaching in primary since 2007 with experience in most year groups, although my heart lies in Year 1! I enjoy making helpful, time-saving and engaging educational resources for teachers and pupils - I hope you find them useful!
I am a teaching Deputy Head in a primary school in Hampshire and TES recommended author. I've been teaching in primary since 2007 with experience in most year groups, although my heart lies in Year 1! I enjoy making helpful, time-saving and engaging educational resources for teachers and pupils - I hope you find them useful!
A merry bundle of Christmas maths resources for you! Included in this bundle are:
Addition and subtraction reasoning challenge cards
Multiplication and division reasoning challenge cards
Present wrapping maths investigation
You may also be interested in these other seasonal resources:
Easter planning and activities
National Storytelling Week dynamic story generator powerpoint.
A place value worksheet where the children use given digits to create a 2-digit number that matches a target statement. There are two sheets, the second one provides more of a challenge.
A pictorial problem solving activity for year 1 children. Which combinations of animals will give you the number of feet required? How many different ways are there of making a given number? Picture cards provide visual support for the activity.
Outdoors phonics activity, useful for Phase 4 revision of sounds.
Print off the sound cards and hide around the playground. Children find the sound and the number then return to the supervising adult(s) who uses the checklist to ensure children have the sound correct and to record which sounds they have found.
Looking at the legacy of the Montreal Olympic Stadium, nicknamed 'The Big Mistake&' because of the amount of money poured into it.
Also asks the children to think about the impact on the environment and society.
Includes an activity at the end of creating a legacy for the London 2012 stadium and how to use it creatively and sustainably.
My kids got so involved in this, it really surprised me how motivated and inventive they were - they even carried on in their own spare time!
I put together these revision slides for my less able Year 4s. When it came to maths papers, they persistently forgot 'easy' maths that they could do in class, so we revised them to death with these slides for some easy points on the papers!
Four powerpoints covering the split digraphs o_e, i_e, e_e and u_e.
First slide - revise
Next - teach using 2 examples
Finally - practise using 2 examples
Up to you to decide on the apply stage!
Sorry there are no a_e slides, the children have not encountered ae as a grapheme so it doesn't apply to this strategy for teaching split digraphs!
A silly little story but my class loved it and it helped to highlight and address some misconceptions. Can be used as an intro or in a plenary to look at doubles and halves.
I put together a flyer with some Year 1 maths objectives that parents can help their children with at home. There are some maths game/activity ideas and also websites for some online maths games matched to the objectives given.
Use number stories to help children visualise or act out a word problem or calculation. These number stories are based around addition and subtraction. Children are first shown a number story and relates it to a calculation as a model. The process is then turned around and scaffolded as the children are given a calculation and supported in making a number story from the calculation given.
A set of differentiated number sentences is provided which the children can then use with practical equipment, drawings or writing to tell their own number stories.
The children in my year 1 class were hopeless at tidying up at the end of a lesson. I wrote this song to remind then of the tidying up roles and to focus them on the task. It has worked a treat!
(PS Sing to the tune of 'Pop Goes the Weasel&')
These pick and mix ideas for writing give meaningful contexts for children’s writing whilst learning at home. The ideas are open-ended enough that they will be suitable for most primary year groups.
I set this up as an independent colouring activity for the children which can be used for assessment. Children colour in and circle the light sources and then colour in 1-4 lightbulbs depending on how bright the light source is.
One week’s worth of maths mastery planning for Early Years based on number bonds to 5. The planning includes variation, overlearning for those who need it and opportunities to go deeper for more able children. My TA and I are enjoying teaching maths using this format and the class are enjoying the Numbertime activities. I hope your children enjoy them too!
This free resource includes a week’s worth of maths planning and a hidden number PowerPoint game. All of the printed resources that go with this planning are available as a download for just £3 which you can access here.
If you’re looking for more EYFS maths mastery planning try:
Pattern - Maths Mastery for Early Years (Unit 1)
I’d be grateful for any feedback on the maths mastery planning as I’m always keen to improve what I do.
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Happy teaching!
Katharine7
Save time, avoid mistakes and ensure a high-quality, consistent approach to organising your trip days. These templates can be re-used time and again, providing a quick and efficient system and supporting a happy, safe and educational school trip.
This resource includes:
group details sheets
helper introductory letter and timetable for the trip
class teacher summary sheet
Customise the highlighted text in each document for your own class(es) and trip. Fill in the details, print off everything and then make 5 more copies of the introductory letter and timetable. Staple together the letter and a group details sheet for each supporting adult and the teacher summary is for you.
Most of the hard work is done for you, just fill in the details, print, be safe and look good on trip day!
NB this pack does not include a risk assessment which must be completed in line with your school/LA’s policies. Information on medical conditions must be planned for but should not be listed on documents shared with non-school staff due to the GDPR.
Levelling sheet that can be use to gain a snapshot of pupils' sub-level within level 1.
The first two columns of the document contain assessment criteria linked to a simple task or question associated with the assessment focus. A third column is for assessor&'s notes and pupil&';s responses as evidence for levelling.
Have a bit of fun and keep the children busy with these classic logic puzzles. Children can practise their reading and reasoning in an engaging and different way!
Read the clues and eliminate possibilities to crack the puzzle. Children can draw pictures or use the grids provided to logically reason which pirate captains each ship.
There are 3 differentiated puzzles and answers are provided with this resource.
If you’ve enjoyed the pirates puzzle, why not try another logic puzzle:
Who’s Who