I'm a former class teacher. My resources were originally made for use in my class, but sometimes I get asked to develop stuff for other people. I'm happy to make spreadsheets in particular!
I'm a former class teacher. My resources were originally made for use in my class, but sometimes I get asked to develop stuff for other people. I'm happy to make spreadsheets in particular!
June Composers | Daily Music Listening and Reading Comprehension Resource
Inspire daily curiosity and develop reading skills through music!
This beautifully designed June resource introduces your students to 30 composers across time periods, genres, and cultures.
Each day features:
A short biography (written with KS2 in mind but suitable for older learners)
A listening link to a featured piece via MusicOfTheDay.co.uk
Carefully crafted reading comprehension questions
Fully completed answer pages
Perfect for cover lessons, starter activities, music enrichment, or building listening skills through a cross-curricular lens.
What’s Included:
30 daily composer profiles for April
Listening links via QR codes and website access
30 sets of retrieval, vocabulary, inference, and explanation questions
30 matching answer sheets
Terms of Use and licensing details
Ideal For:
KS2–KS5 Music and Literacy
General classroom use
Form time / daily starter activity
Music cover lessons
GCSE Music listening variety
Substitute/supply teacher packs
Cultural appreciation and calendar-linked learning
File Type:
PDF (Print or Digital Use)
Listening links via QR and website
Use This Resource To:
Explore music history and culture daily
Enhance reading comprehension in context
Promote independent thinking through music
Spark classroom conversation about composers worldwide
May Composers | Daily Music Listening and Reading Comprehension Resource
Inspire daily curiosity and develop reading skills through music!
This beautifully designed May resource introduces your students to 31 composers across time periods, genres, and cultures.
Each day features:
A short biography (written with KS2 in mind but suitable for older learners)
A listening link to a featured piece via MusicOfTheDay.co.uk
Carefully crafted reading comprehension questions
Fully completed answer pages
Perfect for cover lessons, starter activities, music enrichment, or building listening skills through a cross-curricular lens.
What’s Included:
31 daily composer profiles for April
Listening links via QR codes and website access
31 sets of retrieval, vocabulary, inference, and explanation questions
31 matching answer sheets
Terms of Use and licensing details
Ideal For:
KS2–KS5 Music and Literacy
General classroom use
Form time / daily starter activity
Music cover lessons
GCSE Music listening variety
Substitute/supply teacher packs
Cultural appreciation and calendar-linked learning
File Type:
PDF (Print or Digital Use)
Listening links via QR and website
Use This Resource To:
Explore music history and culture daily
Enhance reading comprehension in context
Promote independent thinking through music
Spark classroom conversation about composers worldwide
April Composers | Daily Music Listening and Reading Comprehension Resource
Inspire daily curiosity and develop reading skills through music!
This beautifully designed April resource introduces your students to 30 composers across time periods, genres, and cultures.
Each day features:
A short biography (written with KS2 in mind but suitable for older learners)
A listening link to a featured piece via MusicOfTheDay.co.uk
Carefully crafted reading comprehension questions
Fully completed answer pages
Perfect for cover lessons, starter activities, music enrichment, or building listening skills through a cross-curricular lens.
What’s Included
30 daily composer profiles for April
Listening links via QR codes and website access
30 sets of retrieval, vocabulary, inference, and explanation questions
30 matching answer sheets
Terms of Use and licensing details
Ideal For:
KS2–KS4 Music and Literacy
General classroom use
Form time / daily starter activity
Music cover lessons
GCSE Music listening variety
Substitute/supply teacher packs
Cultural appreciation and calendar-linked learning
File Type:
PDF (Print or Digital Use)
Listening links via QR and website
Use This Resource To:
Explore music history and culture daily
Enhance reading comprehension in context
Promote independent thinking through music
Spark classroom conversation about composers worldwide
A number line from negative 100 to 100 in sections (4 numbers to a section) with addition negative and positive infinity symbols. Cream background with a dyslexia friendly font.
Also included is the alphabet in upper and lower case formations, with in-strokes.
A spreadsheet to analyse results from the 2017 Key Stage 2 English tests - Reading and GPS/SPaG.
This breaks down the results by strand, by question and, using the filters, by pupil. There are options to filter by pupil premium and SEND as well.
Latest revision: 20th February 2018
An Excel spreadsheet to analyse results from the Key Stage 1 English Grammar, Punctuation and Spelling sample tests published July 2015 and available from the gov.uk/sta website.
Please get in touch if you notice any problems.
Questions 16 and 18 are worth two marks each, but have been split into a and b parts for the analysis.
All of the Red, Green, Challenge and Power words used in all colour bands in the Read Write Inc. books on handy cards.
The green words are from the first green box in each book.
EDIT: There was a mistake in the red words for Blue book 8, Jellybean, this has now been corrected.
Buying these separately would cost £21.
All of the Red, Green, Challenge and Power words used in the Read Write Inc. Grey books on handy cards.
The green words are from the first green box in each book - some of the Grey books don't have this, just the syllable section, so don't have green word cards.
All of the Red, Green, Challenge and Power words used in the Read Write Inc. Blue books on handy cards.
The green words are from the first green box in each book.
EDIT: A mistake was spotted in the red words for book 8, Jellybean, but this has been corrected.
All of the Red, Green and Power words used in the Read Write Inc. Orange books on handy cards.
The green words are from the first green box in each book.
All of the Red, Green and Power words used in the Read Write Inc. Pink books on handy cards.
The green words are from the first green box in each book.