I provide a wide range of resources for use in the classroom and around school. My resources build on children's learning and consider the smaller steps children need to take to achieve the learning. My resources have a focus on 'mastery' style questions where possible, to develop children's critical thinking and reasoning skills. As a practicing primary teacher myself, I know how essential it is to have well organised lesson resources with engaging activities that focus on the learning.
I provide a wide range of resources for use in the classroom and around school. My resources build on children's learning and consider the smaller steps children need to take to achieve the learning. My resources have a focus on 'mastery' style questions where possible, to develop children's critical thinking and reasoning skills. As a practicing primary teacher myself, I know how essential it is to have well organised lesson resources with engaging activities that focus on the learning.
A series of 20 images to develop children's reading comprehension skills and discussion. Each image has two questions. These are particularly aimed at developing children's inference skills, justifying from using evidence in the pictures and broadening vocabulary. These will give any ability of child to develop their comprehension skills.
The pictures will link well with a Brazil/ South America theme and will also develop subject knowledge in this area.
Assessment targets to help you plan and assess computing in years 1,2,3 and 4.
Split into 4 easy to follow categories:
E-Safety
Digital Literacy
Information technology
Programming and Algorithms
Two end of unit tests, each with a mark scheme.
One is for the Y4 topic, States of Matter.
The other is for the Y4 topic, Living Thing and their Habitats.
A series of 20 images to develop children's reading comprehension skills. Each image has at least two questions, particularly aimed at developing children's inference skills, justifying from using evidence in the pictures and broadening vocabulary.
These images are great to use a a starter to activity and really improve the comprehension skills of readers of ALL abilities.
This pack is based around a topic for the Romans.
A series of 20 images to develop children's reading comprehension skills. Each image has at least two questions, particularly aimed at developing children's inference skills, justifying from using evidence in the pictures and broadening vocabulary.
These images are great to use a a starter to activity and really improve the comprehension skills of readers of ALL abilities.
This pack is based around a flight/aeroplane theme. Pictures include military and commercial aircraft.
Statements to help you with assessing children against the 2014 Computing Curriculum, or with setting targets.
There are separate documents for each year group (from y1-y6), which break down the learning and help to show progress between year groups.
Each document is split into 4 categories: e-safety; digital literacy; programming and algorithms and information technology.
As the assessment grids help identify learning for children in each year group, they can also be used to guide planning, again to ensure progress between year groups.
6 lesson plans for the Y4 science topic, living things and their habitats, including:
Grouping living things - plant and animal kingdoms.
Identifying and naming living things.
Vertebrates and invertebrates.
The 5 vertebrate groups.
Invertebrate groups.
Environmental changes.
Clear teaching points and questions to extend thinking.
3 differentiated tasks and ideas for activities.
7 lesson plans for the Y4 states of matter science topic, covering:
Comparing and classifying materials.
Properties of solids, liquids and gases.
Melting and freezing.
Changing states.
Reversible and irreversible materials.
Condensation and evaporation.
Water cycle.
Clear teaching points and questions for extension.
3 differentiated activity ideas and ideas for experiments.
Exemplar persuasive letter based on oil extraction in Brazil.
To be used as a good example of a persuasive letter for KS2.
Uses a wide range of vocabulary and sentence structures.
Fully interactive PowerPoint about Brazil (61 slides), to help you teach any topic on Brazil. The PowerPoint is programmed for you to use in full screen mode to navigate between sections. A range of mastery style questions included. Covers:
Rain forest
Rubber Trade
Tribes
Climate
Geography
Lifestyles
History
Art
Olympics (Rio/ Ancient Olympics).
6 week medium term plan for a topic on Brazil with key stage 2.
There are 29 clearly planned lessons, although you could probably get much more out of these and the topic could easily last longer!
This is a heavily geography focused topic. Other subjects include: art, design technology, history, computing, religious education, music and P.E.
Lessons are planned to be engaging, whilst developing children's skills.
Topics include: the rain forest; deforestation; map work; indigenous tribes; villages; cities; fair trade; carnivals; urban art; percussion instruments; the rubber trade; exploration of religion; and the Olympics.
The plan is clearly laid out with learning objectives, key teaching points and questions, activities, differentiation, learning outcomes and the resources you will require.
4 lesson PowerPoint. Lessons 1-3 have 3 differentiated work sheets each.
Lessons are generally 'sports' themed to engage and motivate boys, as well as girls.
The lessons develop and build upon children knowledge of using direct speech in their writing.
Each lesson initially recaps children's learning from the day before, prior to building upon it.
Lesson 1 - We are learning to identify and correct punctuation in direct speech. 3 differentiated follow up tasks included.
Lesson 2- We are learning to turn speech bubbles into direct speech. 3 differentiated follow up tasks included.
Lesson 3 - We are learning to choose verbs to describe how something is said. 3 differentiated follow up tasks included.
Lesson 4 - We are learning to use direct speech. Mixed ability, group task included, with 8 scenarios for children to turn into speech/ conversations after being read aloud by members of their group.
Peer assessment included as part of lesson 4.
If you only have a short period of time for SPaG, there is enough material to cover 8 sessions as each lesson PowerPoint has practise activities on it too. The tasks could be used on the following day.
Cross-curricular link - lessons also encourage children to be good team players/good sports.
16 worksheets for working on area and progressing against the year 4 and year 5 curriculum.
All work sheets have answer sheets
All work sheets have 'We are learning to' at the top, which can be edited to suit your school format.
1 - Counting squares to find the area of quadrilaterals, using the measures cm, and m (2 worksheets).
2 - Counting squares INCLUDING HALF SQUARES to find the area of quadrilaterals, using the measures cm and m (2 worksheets plus bonus challenge work sheet, including quarter squares).
3 - Counting squares to find the area of compound shapes, using the measures cm and m (2 worksheets).
4 - Estimating the area of right angled triangles by counting squares (1 worksheet).
5 - Calculating the area of quadrilaterals, using the measures mm, cm, m, km (2 worksheets, 1 with supporting grid lines, one without).
6 - Calculating the area of quadrilaterals INCLUDING HALF SQUARES, using the measures mm, cm, m, km (2 worksheets, 1 with grid lines, 1 without).
7 - Calculating the area of compound shapes, using the measures mm, cm, m, km (2 work sheets, one with prompt lines, one without).
8 - Measuring sides to the nearest mm to calculate area (2 worksheets, 1 quadrilaterals, 1 compound shapes).
2 work sheets for finding the area of quadrilaterals through calculation.
Uses the measures millimetres, centimetres, metres and kilometers.
One sheet has grid lines, the other does not for progression.
Answer sheets for both work sheets included.
2 work sheets for finding the area of quadrilaterals by counting squares to find the area.
Also consolidates shape knowledge by requiring the shapes to be names.
Answer sheets for both work sheets included.
End of unit science assessment for Y4 'Living things and their habitats' topic .
A range of questions from basic recall to data analysis and reasoning/explanations, to suit all abilities of learner.
22 questions over 4 pages. Total marks - 43
Mark scheme provided for answers.
Ideal for finishing off the series of 'Living things and their habitats' lessons.
Ideal practise for if children later do the KS2 science sampling SATs.
End of unit science assessment for Y4 'States of Matter' topic .
3 pages of a range of questions to suit different abilities.
Answer paper provided.
Ideal for finishing off the series of States of Matter lessons.
Lesson PowerPoint, planning and activity resources.
The third in a series of lessons to develop children's knowledge about 'States of Matter,' for the 2014 primary curriculum. Links to coverage of the curriculum are explicit in the planning (for both States of Matter and Working Scientifically)
We are learning to investigate freezing and melting.
We are learning to conduct a fair test.
An interesting mastery question for a starter - 'What weights more, a tonne of rocks or a tonne of feathers?'
Recaps children's prior knowledge from previous lessons.
Develop's children's scientific knowledge about what freezing and melting means.
Children explore the freezing and melting points of water.
Fun investigation to explore the melting point of water. Opportunity for everyone to be involved.
Encourages children to consider what a fair test is.
Step by step recording of the experiment modeled on the PowerPoint.
Further 'mastery' thinking required for deepening and mastering learning, through thought provoking questions etc.
3 differentiated activities (one is provided, one is supported by the PowerPoint, one is an independent task- tasks and is on the PowerPoint. Tasks can link with writing in literacy)
Lesson PowerPoint, easy to follow, explicit planning and activity resources.
The second in a series of lessons to develop children's knowledge about 'States of Matter,' for the 2014 primary curriculum.
We are learning to identify states of matter and their properties.
An interesting mastery question for a starter - 'If sand can be poured from one container to another, does this mean that it is a liquid?'
Recaps children's prior knowledge.
Develop's children's knowledge of the states of matter and their properties - specifically around particles.
Links to Ancient Greek topic as covers the Ancient Greek who first suggested particles.
Further 'mastery' thinking required for deepening and mastering learning, through thought provoking questions etc.
3 differentiated activities (2 of these are provided, one is an independent task and is on the PowerPoint. It has strong links to literacy)
