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Five prompts to get children thinking about their maths and to promote discussion in the classroom. These can be laminated and displayed on your maths display or near your manipulatives table.

A selection of coordinating, subordinating and adverbial conjunctions for laminating and displaying around the board to act as a reminder when the children are writing. They can then be moved onto the board if you want the children to include particular ones in their writing. They also act as a super reminder when the children are trying to identify subordinate clauses or fronted adverbials in example texts or guided writing.

Posters that explain factors, multiples, squares, cubes and primes with examples to act as a visual reminder. Display on your maths wall or use on the board to explain each concept. My children love being independent and use them as a reminder when working independently, especially when retrieving concepts previously covered.

A selection of KS2 reading skills that are explained and elaborated for the children: retrieving, retelling, summarising, language/vocabulary, predicting, inferring, justifying, themes, conventions, comparing/contrasting, and authorial intent. They can be laminated for display and act as a reminder for the children and adults.

Encourage your children to be more independent with a list of things to try before they seek help from an adult in the classroom. The poster can be laminated for display or placed inside the front cover of the children’s books.

Upper KS2 need to be able to report and present findings from enquiries including degrees of trust in their results when working scientifically. This poster details questions to ask in the areas of objectivity, accuracy, reproducibility, consensus and sample size. The children can then think about how high or low the degree of trust is in their results. The document can be laminated for display or made smaller to stick on the inside covers of the children’s science books.

This document lists the subheadings and explains the structure of each part of a written recording of a science investigation so even if the children are just recording part of the investigation, they can see how it fits into the complete write up. My children have a copy of this glued into the back cover of their science book as a reminder - by the time they get to Y6, most are very adept at writing up their investigations and are desperate to do the whole thing.

This document lists the subheadings and explains the structure of each part of a written recording of a science investigation so even if the children are just recording part of the investigation, they can see how it fits into the complete write up. My children have a copy of this glued into the back cover of their science book as a reminder - by the time they get to Y6, most are very adept at writing up their investigations and are desperate to do the whole thing.

These tasks are based on grammar and punctuation that a year group should know from the previous year (in an ideal world!). If you want the children to focus on a task after reading a book or while reading, these documents can be glued into a reading record and an appropriate task chosen, discussed with the child and recorded in the record after their new reading book has been written in. An ideal way to keep concepts fresh in the children's minds.

The inference questions in reading SATs papers regarding forming impressions of characters can be tricky for children. This group of resources allows you to display an explanation of this type of question and a selection of character traits with their definitions that might be suitable for use in answers (these are separated into positive and negative attributes). There is also all the information combined on one document that could be used as a handout to remind children. Four documents in total.

Worksheets broken down into sections so that children can be supported to write a book review, one for fiction and one for non-fiction.

A handy reminder about where subordinate clauses can be positioned in a sentence. Ready for laminating and using as a bookmark.