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Lots of ideas for inspiring your pupils to write about April themes - April Fool’s Day, Easter and the birth of Hans Christian Andersen.

KS2 Literacy activity for group work or starter to encourage pupils to write complete sentences. Pupils play in pairs to construct sentences using nouns, verbs, conjunctions, adverbs, prepositions and adjectives. Instructions and dice nets to print out and assemble. Possible challenges included and cross-curricular link to maths. Can be linked to longer writing, topic writing or writing in a specific style.

A simple game to encourage quick mental maths skills. Players cut out the number cards and take turns to place them on the board. The first player to get a row of three cards which add up to 15 win the point, and the player with the most points wins the game.

A short worksheet with 9 addition and subtraction word problems involving animals and numbers less than 20. Ideal for homework or a fast finisher exercise.

A simple, and fun, reinforcement activity, for students to complete a number square with the missing numbers, and then answer some simple questions about 10 more and 10 less than a given number. Perfect for homework, early finishers or a starter activity

A simple, but fun, worksheet for students to signal which numbers are greater and which are less than, as well as some questions related to the month with the least number of days, numbers which are less than or greater than the number of students in class and a friend’s name which has a greater number of letters than theirs.

A4 display poster listing Roman numerals and their equivalent from 1 (I) to 20 (XX). A useful sheet to help students convert between Roman numerals and Arabic numerals.

A simple matching activity using homophones, for students to match the similar sounding words in the grid and then explain their meanings in sentences. Great for revision, homework or starter/plenary.

Straightforward task for class to practice doubling and halving decimal numbers. Ideal for starter, revision, booster or homework. In two sections - 1st section is more friendly than the 2nd section, which might challenge some! All answers provided.

Activity to ignite children’s writing. Ideal for KS2 and LS KS3 children who find it hard to write interesting sentences. Start with a boring sentence and “trade” words for more interesting ones. Once all four words have been “traded”, the child is left with many more interesting words to use to write amazing sentences, which can be compared directly with the original. Could be used as a starter or booster activity.

Straightforward activity to work out the months of the year from the clues and add them to the ladder. Once they have been listed, write them out in the correct order (January to December). KS1, LKS2, SEN or EAL activity.

Straightforward KS1 or KS2 worksheet to sort adjectives into labelled “bags”. Starter, homework or booster activity. Suitable also for SEN or EAL pupils.

A range of short and longer writing ideas for pupils linked to Saint Patrick’s Day, Mother’s Day and general Spring. Grab their imagination and inspire them to write!

Lots of writing activities covering some of the main festivals or celebrations in May 2019. Ideal for homework, early morning work or fast finishers.

Straightforward activity to read through the introductions written by 4 different children around the world and extract information into a table. Follow up by asking children to write their own introduction following the same pattern.

Simple Halloween BINGO game with familiar characters and scenes associated with Halloween. Instructions, one call sheet and 12 different BINGO cards.

UKS2 or KS3 riddles to find the greatest common factor (GCF) of two/three numbers with challenge. Answer sheet including list of factors and the GCF for each riddle. Ideal as morning, starter, fast finisher, revision, booster or homework activity

Short workbook of a few activities to help children understand that zero is a very important number. This workbook is free but others are available at a small cost for other numbers to 9.

A whole class game to practice vocabulary and/or spelling. Aimed at KS2 but could also be used with lower ability KS3 or SEN pupils. Pupils are divided into 2 teams and have to take turns to write a word on the board following the alphabetical list from A to Z. The first team to complete the list wins the points. Words required can be random, related to a particular topic or a phonic pattern, for example.

Revision lesson on homophones with use of BBC Bitesize activities for pupils to use in lesson or independently afterwards. Lower KS2 level words used. Paired activity.