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.
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.
10 worksheets with links to Feelings, Ourselves and Emotional Regulation.
Each sheet shows 3 faces for children to match with a line or by using colours.
12 black and white picture cards for children to talk about and cut and match to the coloured in versions.
Or duplicate the black and white pictures for children to match.
Links to Ourselves and Feelings topics.
There is a template included for children to draw their own faces onto.
Let’s celebrate friends and friendship with these 5 activities including writing an acrostic poem and listing 5 things that make a good friend.
There is an example of an acrostic poem included, with writing frames for each activity.
A fun way to begin to wind down and think about the year and the year ahead.
Children can put their thoughts in the form of a poster which they can decorate, customise and make their own.
Sheet 1 shows a template for a poster that children can use or use to give them some inspiration and ideas for making their own posters.
Sheet 2 is a filled in poster designed on the computer, but could equally be made with art and craft materials, pictures or photos.
The completed posters make a fabulous display for Open Days or front covers for End of Year scrapbooks.
This heartwarming story is designed for young learners to develop early literacy, comprehension, and creative expression.
The story, Pat and Her Best Friend Tom, follows Pat on her sixth birthday as she receives a cuddly toy with big ears and a round face. When her friends ask if Tom is a bear or a rabbit, Pat realises she doesn’t need to know—she loves him just the way he is. This gentle story promotes themes of acceptance, love, and valuing things for who (or what) they are.
What’s Included?
Front Cover: In black and white for colouring and in colour for display.
Story: “Pat and Her Best Friend Tom” – A simple story encouraging kindness and appreciation.
Comprehension Worksheet – Five multiple-choice and short-answer questions to check understanding and recall.
Draw & Write Activity – Children draw their favourite toy and write a simple sentence about why they love it, fostering creativity and writing confidence.
This resource is ideal for EYFS and KS1 classrooms, supporting early reading, comprehension, and personal, social, and emotional development. It encourages children to appreciate differences and embrace love and kindness.
The resource links Literacy with the themes of Toys and Diversity.
This KS1 resource focuses on the theme of kindness, encouraging young learners to explore positive behaviors through poetry.
Children will read two acrostic poems titled “Be Kind”, which showcase simple examples of how to be kind in everyday life. After discussing the poems, children will be provided with an easy-to-use template to create their own kindness-themed acrostic poems. This activity promotes creativity, literacy skills, and social-emotional learning by helping children reflect on how to show kindness to others. The template guides them to think of words or phrases for each letter of “KINDNESS,” making the task fun and manageable. The final poems can be decorated and shared to celebrate kindness in the classroom.
A collection of activities related to health and well being.
Make a list of what is kept in a Doctor’s Bag.
Name, colour and label the pictures related to hospitals and doctors.
Label the colour pictures.
Make a Get Well card using this template or use as an idea for children to make their own.
3 worksheets to use with children preparing them for change and helping them to think about the experiences they have had this year and consider things to look forward to when moving on.
Questions for children to think about include:
What I am most proud of this year
The subject I have enjoyed the most
What things will stay the same next year
Something I am looking forward to
As an extension, make a class display by cutting out the boxes, once the children have filled them in, and making a large poster. Children could add their own illustrations.
3 black and white worksheets where children label the tools for each occupation:
Gardener, Artist and General Odd Job person.
Links to writing, Occupations, People who help us and World of Work.
12 sets of cards showing different occupations / jobs.
There are 2 matching cards to a page.
Useful as visual aids, display cards, as well as speaking and listening activities.
Cut and laminate for matching card games.
Make your class smile with these activities based on Smile Day.
Activities include making smiley faces to give away, observing and drawing smiley faces and writing or drawing about what makes you smile.
Worksheets / Templates are included.
5 colour sheets with 8 wellbeing cards on each to cut out.
Each card shows an activity to discuss with children when thinking about their wellbeing and what they can do to support their wellbeing.
Cut and laminate the cards and they can then be a lasting reusable resource or added to a wellbeing display.
Children could work in pairs or with an adult to consider which of the cards would suit them and which they would not be interested in. They can make 2 piles.
If there are other activities children come up with, then they could make some more cards of their own.
Links to behaviour regulation.
May be valuable too, for SEND children.
5 worksheets based on the Senses - look, listen, touch, taste, smell.
Each sheet has a different sense as it’s theme.
Children can colour these in and discuss them.
They can then create a doodle sheet of their own for one or more of the senses.
3 worksheets to support children with recognising and communicating their feelings.
Sheet 1 - Children circle the happy face in each row. They draw a happy face and then complete the sentence - I feel happy when…
Sheet 2 - The same as sheet 1 but children circle the sad faces
Sheet 3 - Children circle the angry faces
The faces are all drawn on different types of balls that children can name.
Extend by asking children to draw faces on balloons with marker pens showing different expressions.
Links to World of Work, Occupations, Jobs and People who help us.
There are 3 doodle sheets with a focus on tools that are used for different trades or purposes.
Sheet 1 is more general, sheet 2 relates to painting and decorating and sheet 3 is to do with car mechanics.
Opportunities for speaking and listening, learning new vocabulary and thinking about the jobs people do and the tools they may need.
This resource is a set of 32 colour cards for Communication or Behaviour Management. Each card shows a bear indicating what they want.
Cut out the cards and laminate them.
Add a key ring with the child’s name on to personalise it.
Punch a hole through the red dots for your key ring to go through.
Choose the cards that are relevant to the child and those activities that you can offer if they request them at the time e.g if food not available to them don’t include the food and drink cards - or have these on a seperate key ring for snack / meal times.
There is a blank template of cards for you to make your own relevant to your child’s needs.
This is a speaking and listening activity and works well in pairs or small groups.
There are 24 colour cards to cut out. Children discuss the cards and decide if the statements are positive or negative.
They can then sort them into 2 sets.
Can they change the negative statements into positive ones?
The final sheet is a writing frame where children can make 2 lists - positive and negative statements. The first one is written for them.
Links to About You and Healthy Lifestyles.
Children will enjoy filling in one of these writing (or drawing) frames all about themselves. They can share these with their new friends or teacher when moving into a new class.
The first page shows a worked example.
Page 2 is a colour outline with suggested words added.
The following 4 pages are writing frames using different colours.
The final page is the writing frames in black and white.
2 colour and 2 black and white versions are included in this resource.
There are 10 pictures where children can discuss what is happening at the hospital and then match the pictures to the sentences.
Children can trace over the sentences or write underneath.
This resource has 36 cards to cut out and discuss with children.
The theme starts with ways in which we take care of ourselves and stretches outwards to cover ways in which we can take care of our world.
The cards can be used to make posters too, and there is a poster design idea on the first page of the resource to stimulate children.
Cards can be sorted into ME and My World too.