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Teaching and Learning Resources for Early Learners and KS1

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Looking for something fresh and original to ignite your classroom? Dive into a treasure trove of resources designed to captivate and inspire KS1 children. Plus, explore engaging materials for Key Stage 2 and tailored resources for SEND learners. From Phonics to Speaking & Listening, Reading & Writing activities, Maths, PSHE and a variety of exciting topic-based resources, you’ll find everything you need to create new lessons that stand out.

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Looking for something fresh and original to ignite your classroom? Dive into a treasure trove of resources designed to captivate and inspire KS1 children. Plus, explore engaging materials for Key Stage 2 and tailored resources for SEND learners. From Phonics to Speaking & Listening, Reading & Writing activities, Maths, PSHE and a variety of exciting topic-based resources, you’ll find everything you need to create new lessons that stand out.
Picture Puzzle Game 1 for Children
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This Picture Puzzle Game 1 is a versatile resource designed for EYFS and KS1. It encourages the development of thinking skills, vocabulary building, and matching through a creative and interactive activity. The game begins with a colourful discussion sheet featuring 21 pictures, prompting children to name and describe what they see. Pictures can use compound words or phrases, like combining “cat” and “fish” to form “catfish.” The second page challenges children to recall and imagine the missing images by writing or drawing their guesses. On the third page, children match written clues with pictures. They can write the numbers for each word, draw a picture or paste into. For a hands-on element, the fourth page includes pictures to cut-out which can then be sorted and pasted onto the number grid or matched to words. (Duplicate and laminate for reusable matching games). The final page serves as an answer sheet, listing all 21 picture-related words or phrases. This resource is ideal for class, group, pair, or individual activities, fostering collaboration, creativity, and critical thinking in a fun and educational way.
My First Letters and Sounds S A T P  I N
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My First Letters and Sounds S A T P I N

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This resource for EYFS and KS1 includes six worksheets, each focusing on one of the initial sounds: s, a, t, p, i, and n. Each worksheet features bold pictures to name and colour, helping children develop early phonics skills while reinforcing their understanding of the alphabet. Perfect for introducing and practicing key sounds in a fun, interactive way.
6 Homes Colour and Label Work Sheets KS1
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6 Homes Colour and Label Work Sheets KS1

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These six engaging worksheets for KS1 and EYFS focus on homes, phonics, and early literacy skills. Each worksheet features familiar household items (e.g., clock, iron, lamp, and toothbrush) with activities to match words to pictures, trace and overwrite words, and colour the images. Children practice phonics by identifying initial sounds and blending, while reinforcing reading, writing, speaking and listening and object recognition. Perfect for linking topics on homes with literacy.
10 Pencil Control Practice Sheets SEND/KS1
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10 Pencil Control Practice Sheets SEND/KS1

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This 10-sheet resource is for SEND and KS1 learners, designed to develop fine motor skills and improve pencil control. Each sheet features a variety of tracing activities, including: • Patterns such as hearts, circles, zig-zag lines, and swirls • Tracing letters of the alphabet • Tracing numbers • Fun designs like faces These sheets are ideal for building pre-writing skills, fostering focus, and boosting confidence in a fun and accessible way. Perfect for classrooms or individual practice!
Silhouette Steps: Building Language Skills
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Silhouette Steps: Building Language Skills

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Boost language development with this comprehensive 30-page resource! Designed for KS1 and EYFS, it includes 10 engaging sets to build vocabulary, recognition, and descriptive skills.Each of the sets contains a colour silhouette sheet , a black and white sheet and a related worksheet. What’s Inside: Colour Silhouette Sheets to aid visual recognition. Black-and-White Sheets for colouring, matching and labelling. Related Worksheets for practicing language and comprehension. A 6-Lesson Planning Sheet with activity ideas for structured learning. Perfect for interactive, hands-on lessons, this resource supports language development while fostering creativity and engagement. Ideal for individual, pair, or group activities!
Let's Find Rhyming Words SEND and KS1
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Let's Find Rhyming Words SEND and KS1

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Make rhyming fun and interactive with this 10-sheet resource! Each worksheet features symbols to help children identify and link rhyming CVC words, such as jet and net or paw and saw. What’s Included: • 10 Worksheets with 6 rhyming pairs to find per sheet. • A Blank Template for children or teachers to create custom rhyming activities. Activity Ideas: • Link Rhyming Words with a line or colour-coded markers. • Write Out Rhyming Pairs for spelling and phonics practice. • Colour the Sheets to reinforce engagement and links. • Collaborate with Friends to find and match pairs. This resource supports phonics, reading, and vocabulary development, with visual symbols to aid comprehension for SEND learners. Perfect for independent or group activities Boardmaker licenced.
Let's Make CVC Words for SEND and KS1
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Let's Make CVC Words for SEND and KS1

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Engage your learners with this 10-sheet phonics resource designed to support CVC word building using picture symbols. A blank template for extra practice or custom words is included. Perfect for SEND and KS1 students, this resource helps children sound out letters and form words like dog, bag, fan, bug, and bib. Each sheet includes: At Least 6 CVC Words to find and create. Some more challenging words are included e.g. egg and ape. Picture symbols to aid understanding and pronunciation. Activity Ideas: Colour in Words and Pictures for added creativity. Make Lists of CVC Words for sounding out and spelling practice. Collaborate with Friends to find and write as many words as possible. Laminate the sheets for endless reuse! This resource links with phonics, speaking and listening, reading, writing, and alphabet learning, making it a versatile addition to your classroom. Boardmaker licenced.
Let's Make Words  10 Phonics Cards KS1
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Let's Make Words 10 Phonics Cards KS1

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Engage KS1 children with this 10-page phonics and spelling resource! Each page features a unique set of letters linked to simple 2- or 3-letter words like to, tin, ham, jig, and pip. Children can: • Find and Link Words using pencils or markers. • Colour In Words Found or Make a Word List. • Compete in Pairs or Groups to find as many words as possible in e.g. 2 minutes (perfect with an egg timer!). Each sheet includes at least 6 words to discover. Laminate the pages for endless reuse! Bonus activity: ask children to locate specific letters, like all vowels or consonants. Perfect for fun, interactive learning sessions. A blank template is included so that children can make their own linking words or teachers can fill in the letters they are introducing or working on at a given time.
Christmas Writing and Drawing Frames
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Christmas Writing and Drawing Frames

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This Christmas-themed resource is designed for KS1 children to inspire festive writing and drawing activities. It includes 8 colourful themed border frames, each with lined versions for children to write about Christmas topics such as a present wish list, a letter to Santa, or even a message to use as an insert for a Christmas card. The same designs are also available without lines, allowing children to draw their festive scenes or decorate their cards. This versatile resource encourages creativity and writing during the Christmas season.
Friends and Feelings Stories for Children
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Friends and Feelings Stories for Children

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A collection of short stories about best friends Robby and Looty. Follow their adventures where the importance of friends is key and a range of feelings are explored such as honesty, kindness and pride. Each resource has an illustrated one page story and a comprehension sheet. Suitable for EYFS and KS1.
A story of Friends, Feelings and Honesty
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A story of Friends, Feelings and Honesty

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This 2 page resource is designed to support teaching key social-emotional topics such as friendship, feelings, and honesty for young learners. Using the short story of ‘Robby and Looty’, children can begin to understand the importance of making good choices, being honest, and considering how their actions affect others. Key Focus Areas: Friendship: Children learn how Robby and Looty are friends but must make better choices together. Discussions can centre around what makes a good friend and how friends help each other make the right decisions. Feelings: The story explores how Robby and Looty feel before and after taking the apples, helping children recognise feelings like guilt, regret, and relief. Teachers can use this to prompt discussions about how actions impact emotions. Honesty: By returning the stolen apples, Robby and Looty show the importance of being honest and making things right. This opens up conversations on why honesty matters and what children can do if they make a mistake. Worksheet: A simple worksheet with key questions is provided which helps children reflect on and write about the story. Role-Playing: Children can act out situations where honesty is important, learning how to apologise and make amends.
Creative Colour Letter Cards A to Z
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Creative Colour Letter Cards A to Z

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A set of alphabet colour cards for young children. The cards can be cut out, laminated and used for matching, sequencing and spelling activities. There is a template for children to make their own letter cards e.g.they could use the letters of their own name.
Marching Band Rhyme and Worksheet
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Marching Band Rhyme and Worksheet

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The activity introduces the rhyme: And the Band keeps marching on… Share the rhyme and children can begin to learn the chorus whilst interacting using musical instruments and body parts to create sounds. This worksheet encourages creativity and helps children learn about different instruments in a fun and interactive way. The structure guides them through adding their own verses while reinforcing the repeated chorus, making it a fun literacy and music activity. The rhyme sheet is in colour and duplicated in black and white. Children can colour in the band and write underneath the text.
Autumn Leaf Creations with  Lesson Plan
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Autumn Leaf Creations with Lesson Plan

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A fun activity for the introduction of Autumn for KS1. Children have the opportunity to create creatures from leaves and then invent adventure stories for them. The resources include a lesson plan: Creating leaf Creatures for Autumn, which lays out objectives, materials and step by step instructions. There are 2 stories with ready made examples of leaf creatures: Flappy the Flying Frog and Squiggle the Squirrel. Each story shows the character and has a comprehension sheet with 6 questions for children to answer. The resource links to reading, guided reading, writing, comprehension, animals and Autumn.
Back to School: Who's Who in the Classroom?
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Back to School: Who's Who in the Classroom?

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This “Who’s Who in the Classroom” resource is a colourful poster for KS1 children returning to school. It features 18 children, each ready for their new class and year, making it a fun way to explore new friendships and learn about one another. The resource includes five activities where children can read and answer questions about the characters, identify them from descriptions, and practice phonics by matching names. They’ll also get to write names in alphabetical order, describe the characters to a friend, and write their own short descriptions. This resource supports learning about feelings, Ourselves, School and phonics. To make the learning experience more personal and engaging, you can create a class resource using the children’s own photos or drawings. Start by asking each child to either bring in a photo of themselves or draw a picture of how they see themselves. Then, create a large poster or a digital display featuring all the children’s images. Alongside each photo or drawing, add a space for the child’s name, a fun fact about them, and their favourite things. You can also include activities similar to the ones in the “Who’s Who in the Classroom” resource, such as matching names, ordering them alphabetically, or describing a classmate’s picture. This personalized resource reinforces the skills practiced in the original poster and also helps children feel more connected to their classmates and comfortable in their new environment.
Sentence Writing with Tigers KS1
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Sentence Writing with Tigers KS1

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The “Sentence Writing with Tigers” resource for KS1 features seven pictures of tigers, both in colour and black and white, each showing a tiger engaged in an activity they enjoy, such as playing football, baseball, karate, or swimming. Beneath each picture are words that need to be rearranged to form sentences, like “My name is Sam and I am a tiger. I like to play darts.” The last page includes a blank template for children to draw their own tiger and write words in the boxes, which they can then rearrange to create their own sentences. The sheets can be used in guided reading activities and support grammar and punctuation work. This literacy resource helps young children practice sentence construction and boosts their creativity.
The School Bus Poem and Worksheets KS1
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The School Bus Poem and Worksheets KS1

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“The School Bus” resource consists of a poem and two engaging worksheets designed for Key Stage 1 children. The poem is divided into two parts: the first part features a black-and-white illustration of a sad bus, symbolizing the end of the school year and the loneliness of summer; the second part showcases a colourful, happy bus filled with children, representing the joy of returning to school. This resource links to a variety of themes such as poems, change, feelings, transportation and the school experience. The first worksheet encourages children to listen to the poem and fill in the missing words, reinforcing their listening and comprehension skills. The second worksheet involves listening to the poem and answering multiple-choice questions, further enhancing their understanding and critical thinking.
Let's Explore Letters of the Alphabet Bundle
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Let's Explore Letters of the Alphabet Bundle

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A bundle of literacy resources linked to letters of the alphabet: U, V, W, X, Y and Z. There are a collection of worksheets for each sound including: word search, handwriting, reading, matching and colouring.
Let's Explore the Letter 'U' Worksheets
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Let's Explore the Letter 'U' Worksheets

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4 Worksheets for EYFS and KS1 children based on the Letter ‘U’. Sheet 1- Children cut out and match the colour and black and white cards showing pictures of things beginning with the letter U such as unicorn, umbrella and upstairs. They can write and match the words. Sheet 2- A handwriting practice sheet for the letter ‘U’. Sheet 3 and 4 - Colouring sheets where children colour in the unicorn and umbrella and write the sentence. Boardmaker licenced.
Let's Explore the Letter X Worksheets
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Let's Explore the Letter X Worksheets

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5 Worksheets for children at EYFS and KS1 learning the alphabet and the letter X. Sheet 1: Children cut out the pictures and make pairs of words with X in them. They then write the words and match them. Sheet 2: Handwriting the letter X. Sheet 3: Word Search; Find 5 words with the letter X in them using the pictures as a guide. Sheets 4 and 5: Children colour the Ox and Fox and write the sentences. Boardmaker licenced.