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, youâll find everything you need to create new lessons that stand out.
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, youâll find everything you need to create new lessons that stand out.
This symbol-supported resource is perfect for introducing learners and those with SEND to the topic of journeys through the theme of train travel.
The Train theme links well to cross-curricular topics such as transport, literacy, sequencing, and understanding the world.
Whatâs included:
Trace and Describe a Train Journey
What to Take on a Train Journey
Train Journey Sorting Activity
Sequence a Train Journey
Simple Train-Themed Word Search
Boardmaker Licenced
My Journey to the Park (EYFS, SEND and KS1)
This 5-page resource supports reading, writing, sorting, and sequencing skills through the theme of a journey to the park.
Children will trace and write about their journey, use picture prompts to describe or list what they saw, sequence 6 pictures showing stages of a park visit, and sort 8 images into man-made and natural objects (e.g., boat and butterfly).
The final page is a simple, picture-supported wordsearch themed around the park.
Curriculum Links:
⢠Journeys and local environments
⢠Understanding the world
⢠Reading, writing, and sequencing
⢠Ourselves / Me
⢠Toys
Extension Ideas:
⢠Design your dream park and label its features.
⢠Act out a park visit, role-playing activities like playing, picnicking, or feeding the ducks.
Boardmaker licenced.
My Journey to the Zoo is a 5-page EYFS, SEND and KS1 resource supporting reading, writing, sequencing, and sorting skills through the theme of a trip to the zoo.
Each page includes symbols to aid understanding.
Activities cover tracing and writing about the journey, choosing items to pack, sequencing 6 pictures from packing to arriving at the zoo, sorting 8 animals into land and water groups, and completing a simple picture-supported word search.
The resource links to curriculum areas including journeys, animals, early literacy, and speaking and listening.
Extension Activities include:
Create a Zoo Map
Make Animal Fact Cards
Role-Play the Journey
Pack a Real Bag
Write a Zoo Diary
Boardmaker licenced.
This five-worksheet pack is designed to help KS1 children explore the theme of journeys through accessible activities.
Each sheet uses visual symbols to support understanding and independence, especially for SEND learners.
The activities include drawing or tracing a route to school, sorting items to pack for a holiday, sequencing the steps of a journey, matching transport to land and air, and a journey-themed word search with symbols.
Tasks encourage speaking, listening, and fine motor skills, with opportunities for reading and writing.
Ideal for small groups, homework, or one-to-one support.
Boardmaker licenced.
This resource includes 5 themed sets of sports-based flashcards, each focused on a ball sport such as tennis, football, rugby and golf. Each set includes 6 colourful flashcards per page, showing a mix of equipment, characters in action, and related items (like a whistle for football or a tee for golf). All cards are also provided in black and white for colouring and cutting, allowing children to personalize and interact with the resource.
Children can cut out and match colour to black-and-white cards, sort into sets (e.g., âall games using batsâ or âfootball-related itemsâ), and discuss the purpose of each piece of equipment or characterâs role. Perfect for whole-class carpet time, small group activities, or independent learning stations.
This resource introduces children to different sports, the equipment they use, and encourages vocabulary building around health, teamwork, and physical activity.
It promotes language development, sorting and classifying skills, and physical literacy awareness.
Activities also create opportunities for speaking and listening during group discussions or role-play about team games.
By connecting familiar ball sports to equipment and action, children build understanding of sportsmanship, rules, and shared experiences in games and play.
Link to games lessons where children can learn a new sport and add to your resources around Sports Day.
A black and white and a colour version of a Fatherâs Day card for children.
Print onto thin card, children can then colour in / decorate and add their written messages.
This Key Stage 1 comprehension resource is based on the short story of Walter the White Chocolate Egg, a simple and heartwarming tale about feeling different and being accepted.
The 5 worksheets include fun activities like handwriting practice, multiple choice questions, fill-in-the-blanks, true or false, and a drawing and writing task to help children understand the story and express their ideas.
The story gently explores themes of inclusion and diversity, making it a great way to support reading skills while encouraging kindness and celebrating differences in a child-friendly way.
Perfect for Easter or PSHE-linked literacy work.
This resource features 5 Animal Art colouring pages, designed for Early Years and Key Stage 1 children.
Each page showcases an animal with two versions:
⢠A coloured-in example to guide and inspire children
⢠A black and white outline version for children to colour in themselves
These pages promote fine motor skills, colour recognition, and within-the-lines colouring.
Children can observe the colours, patterns and shapes in the model image and then recreate the design in their own version, encouraging attention to detail and artistic expression.
Ideal for individual work, art corners, early finishers, or calm-down time, this resource supports creative development and visual memory.
Bring real-life experiences into your classroom with this Shopping Role Play Resource Pack, specially designed for EYFS, SEND and KS1 children.
Packed with over 100 colourful cards, the set includes different shop cards (like bakery, supermarket, toy shop, pet shop), 24 shopping item cards, 12 character cards (cashier, shopper, shopkeeper), 6 pet shop animals, 6 types of transport, 12 food items, 6 tasty treats, 6 takeaway food shops, 6 household or toiletry items, books and stationery, and 12 engaging action prompt cards.
Use this resource in a variety of playful and educational ways:
⢠Set up a classroom âHigh Streetâ with stalls and signs using the shop and character cards.
⢠Encourage speaking and listening skills as children role play shopping scenarios using the action prompts.
⢠Build early literacy and reading by matching item cards with shop types.
⢠Develop maths skills by using real or pretend money to âbuyâ the items.
⢠Introduce sorting and categorizing games (e.g., group all food items, all transport types).
⢠Use the pet shop cards for mini animal care role plays and discussions.
⢠Encourage children to draw or write their own shopping lists using the cards as inspiration.
This pack promotes creativity, collaboration, vocabulary development, and confidence in social interaction â all through imaginative, real-world themed play.
Boardmaker licenced.
Bring holiday adventures to life in your classroom with this colourful Holiday Role Play Resource Pack for EYFS, SEND and KS1 children.
The pack includes 18 picture cards of things children might spot on holiday or at the beach (like shells, surfboards, and kites), 6 holiday character cards (lifeguard, surfer, swimmer), 6 places to go (such as the fair, the zoo, and theatre), 6 transport cards, 6 seaside animals, 6 places to stay, and 12 role play prompt cards like âFill your bucket with seashellsâ or âBlow up your beach ball and play with it.â
This resource is ideal for:
⢠Setting up a role play corner with props and scenery based on the cards
⢠Circle time games like âGuess the characterâ or âPack your beach bagâ
⢠Storytelling prompts using the character, transport, and setting cards
⢠Small group drama where children act out different holiday scenes
⢠Language development through speaking and listening tasks
⢠Matching and sorting games (e.g., duplicate and pair, transport vs. places to go)
Itâs a good way to encourage creativity, expand vocabulary, and explore real-world experiences through play-based learning.
The resource uses Boardmaker pictures and is Boardmaker licenced.
This 10-page animal matching resource is perfect for engaging young children in visual recognition and critical thinking activities. Each page features three black-and-white animals alongside their matching silhouettes, with all images outlined in dotted lines for easy cutting. Children can cut out the cards and play a simple matching game, pairing each animal to its silhouette to build their observation skills.
For a fun twist, hide the silhouette cards around the classroom or outdoor space for a âshadow huntâ game that encourages movement and engagement. Alternatively, use the cards for a memory-style flip game â turning the cards upside down and taking turns to find matching pairs, helping to boost memory and concentration.
The black and white cards can be coloured in as an extention activity.
This water-themed colouring resource is designed for EYFS and KS1 learners, offering three pages to support creativity, vocabulary development, and topic exploration.
âSplish, Splash, Sea Creaturesâ invites children to dive into an underwater world filled with friendly sea animals. As they colour each creature, they can explore names, habitats, and even count or group similar types.
âWater, Water Everywhereâ encourages children to think about all the different ways we use and see water in daily life â from showers to cups of tea to rainy days with umbrellas! Children can colour the items, talk about their uses, and create simple lists or sentences to build language skills.
âLetâs Sail Awayâ focuses on sea transport, from sailboats to a submarine. Children can colour each mode of transport and discuss where they might travel, helping develop imagination, speaking, and early writing.
This resource supports cross-curricular learning and is ideal for whole-class work, small group activities, or independent exploration.
This EYFS and KS1 resource features three hospital-themed colouring sheets designed to support learning across multiple curriculum areas.
Children will explore the topic of Occupations and People who help us, focusing on key hospital roles and medical equipment.
As they colour in the illustrations, pupils are introduced to relevant vocabulary linked to health and care, promoting language development and discussion.
The resource also encourages an understanding of Health and well-being, helping children to recognise how medical staff and hospital workers keep us safe and healthy.
Ideal for PSHE and topic work.
Extend the colouring activity by asking children to make lists of what they find and / or write short phrases, sentences or stories.
This 6-page early years resource links toys and transport and supports colour recognition, matching skills, and fine motor development.
Each page features three transport-themed pictures in colour with three identical black-and-white versions for children to match and colour in.
Examples of pictures include a car, train, aeroplane, boat, bike, truck, and scooter.
The colour images can be duplicated, cut out, laminated, and used as flashcards for matching games and discussions.
This interactive resource helps children develop visual discrimination and word association in a fun and engaging way, making it ideal for EYFS settings, home learning, and early years classrooms.
A set of black and white resources to support alphabet and phonics work for EYFS and KS1 children, in a fun way.
There is a character for each letter of the alphabet and each has a name. There are a collection of flashcards showing the characters and a grid with small copies of the characters.
The resources come with a planning sheet showing 6 activity ideas, objectives, step by step guidance and resources needed.
Activities include:
Recognizing and naming characters and initial sounds.
Arranging characters in alphabetical order.
Describing characters and expressions.
Designing own characters and writing sentences or short stories about them.
Building new words using letter character combinations.
Children have the opportunity to work collaboratively and contribute to a class display.
The resource links Literacy with topics on Ourselves and Feelings.
A Motherâs Day writing frames resource which includes 12 templates â 6 in colour and 6 in black and whiteâall starting with âDear Mum.â
These frames allow EYFS and KS1 children to choose their favourite design and write a heartfelt letter.
Ideas for What Children Can Include:
⢠A simple âI love youâ message
⢠Reasons why they love their mum (e.g., âYou give the best hugsâ)
⢠Something special their mum does for them
⢠A fun memory they share
⢠A promise to do something nice (e.g., âI will make my bedâ)
This resource is designed to support SEND learners in developing vocabulary, literacy, and communication skills through engaging farm-themed activities.
Whatâs Included?
⢠40 full-colour flashcards featuring farm-related Boardmaker symbols (Boardmaker Licenced), and words.
⢠A black-and-white grid with 40 farm-related symbols and words for children to colour, match, and engage with.
How to Use:
⢠Encourage children to colour in and match the symbols and words on the grid.
⢠Use the colour flashcards to support recognition, understanding, and recall.
⢠Promote speaking and listening by using flashcards in group discussions and games.
⢠Incorporate flashcards into displays and onto classroom walls to reinforce learning.
⢠Support language development by discussing farm-related vocabulary and linking to literacy activities.
⢠Duplicate and laminate flashcards for matching games.
This resource is ideal for linking farm topics with animals, literacy and communication skills.
Perfect for individual, small group, or whole-class activities, SEND, EYFS and KS1 children!
This 5-page Dinosaur Easter Egg Colouring Resource is designed for EYFS & KS1 children, featuring 10 dinosaur eggs (two per page) with different patterns / designs for children to colour.
It supports fine motor skills and creativity, while also encouraging imaginative play.
The resource links to Art & Design (colouring and patterns), Literacy (storytelling prompts), Maths (counting and sorting), Science (learning about dinosaurs and eggs) and R.E (celebrating Easter).
Teachers can use the resource in multiple ways, such as a colour and cut activity, a Dinosaur Easter Egg Hunt, a matching game (duplicate eggs), or a storytelling prompt where children imagine what might hatch from their eggs.
Additionally, the eggs can be displayed in a classroom âDinosaur Nestâ.
This engaging Easter-themed activity helps to celebrates the season with a dinosaur twist.
A resource linked to your topic on Animals, work on Sounds and Literacy.
Objectives:
To learn about different animals and their sounds.
To develop speaking and listening skills.
To improve early reading and word matching.
Included:
40 colour animal flashcards spread across 10 pages (4 per page).
Each card shows an animal and the sound it makes e.g., A Sheep â Baa and a Horse â Neigh
A final page includes a grid with all 40 animals in colour and their names.
Uses:
⢠Flashcard Games â Show the cards and ask children to name the animals, read and make the sounds.
⢠Matching Activities â Match animals to their sounds and names using the grid.
⢠Picture Matchâ Duplicate the flashcards for matching games. Match pictures on the flashcards with those on the grid.
⢠Early Reading Skills â Use phonics knowledge to locate names of animals, read words and make animal sounds.
The flashcards make useful visual aids and can be used for display purposes.