Ensure your children are confident with all the key aspects of grammar for Years 3-6 with these progress checks. The pack includes six checks for each year group; that’s one per half term. Every check contains 20 questions. The questions cover the range of grammar required in the UK National Curriculum for Years 3-6. The pack also includes handy class trackers, which break down the children’s results into each area of grammar so you can view their progress at a glance. Answers are included. The progress checks are also available to purchase by individual year group. *Please note, you will need to extract/unzip the files after downloading to ensure they all open correctly.

Play your favourite card games with your pupils and improve their note recognition skills. The standard card values (ace, two, king etc) have been replaced by musical notes. Treble clef = Middle C to A above the stave. Bass clef = Middle C to E below the stave. Pupils must recognise the notes to play the card games. This resource includes 52 treble clef playing cards and 52 bass clef playing cards in separate packs. The packs can be used separately or combined. Try the cards with: - Solitaire - Rummy - Go Fish - Snap - Cheat - And all your other favourite card games! Download and print.

Race to fill Santa's sleigh in this fast-paced musical notation game. Santa has received a lot of questions in the children's Christmas letters this year. If you can help him answer them, he'll be able to collect enough presents to fill his sleigh! Each player draws seven value cards (quavers/eighth notes, crotchets/quarter notes, dotted crotchets/dotted quarter notes, minims/half notes, dotted minims/dotted half notes and semibreves/whole notes) as well as the equivalent rests. The first player to answer Santa's question correctly, using their cards, wins a present. Santa's questions feature filling a bar in 2/4, 3/4 and 4/4 time, finding note and rest equivalents, addition and subtraction with musical notes, and balancing a seesaw with equivalent note lengths. Presents are drawn at random - your younger pupils will love seeing what they get. The winner is either the first person to win x number of presents or the person with the most presents after x minutes have elapsed. Sleigh Dash will give your students the practice they need to know their note values inside out.

This December, hit the ground running with our Christmas packs. There are enough Christmas themed activities to keep you going for the whole month. They are not only fun and festive but also aligned with the National Curriculum. Includes: -19 English morning starters on PowerPoint. Answers on the next slide for pupils to self-mark. Closely aligned with the National Curriculum. -19 maths morning starters on PowerPoint. Answers on the next slide for pupils to self-mark. Closely aligned with the National Curriculum. -5 reading comprehension texts (3 fiction and 2 non-fiction) with grammar and vocabulary tasks, textual analysis and comprehension questions -Christmas Spelling Snakes and Ladders -2 parts of speech triangle puzzles -2 crosswords -4 parts of speech word searches (2 easy and 2 hard) -2 general word searches

This set has cards for every single possible scale combination for the ABRSM clarinet exams grades 1 to 8. Simply print out the page(s) for your student's grade and give them the sheets. They can then cut out the cards and place them in a pot/jar/bag. When they practise, they can pick them out at random to ensure they are practising all of their scales. For grades with more scales, they can sort them into different pots as they play through them - confident, needs some more practice, needs a lot more practice. They should then pick from the "needs a lot more practice" pot most frequently, until eventually all of the scales are in the "confident" pot. Each card tells the student which scale to play, whether it should be tongued or slurred (or, for higher grades, legato-tongued, staccato or slurred) and how many octaves should be played. It is just like having the teacher or examiner giving instructions, and it will ensure students are accustomed to playing each scale on demand. This resource can be used with every single one of your clarinet students as they progress through the grades. NB: I'm not affiliated with ABRSM in any way.

Challenge your pupils to complete these domino style puzzles using their knowledge of note values. Contains: Note symbol to numerical value Note symbol to note name (UK and US versions) Easier note symbol to note symbol Harder to note symbol to note symbol Note symbol addition and subtraction Note symbol multiplication and division Each puzzle contains eight domino style puzzle cards, which must be placed in the correct order from start to finish. They are suitable for use during lessons or as homework. The cards are printed out-of-order so that pupils can cut them out themselves if required. Answer sheets are included.

Match the musical notes on the piano to their letter names in this game of snap, aimed at young beginners. This game works best with two players. One take the letters and the other takes the piano images. Players must read the letter card and look at the piano image, using the pattern of the black notes to identify which note is highlighted. If the players’ cards match when placed, they can race to snap them! The download includes two versions; a single-sided set that you can print on thin card and a double-sided set that you can print on paper, then fold and laminate.

This set of 30 cards will give your students the ideas and inspiration they need to start composing their own pieces of music. Each card features an interesting photo and ideas about which sounds might be heard within the music. The cards also contain a selection of challenges; students can choose one (or more!) to incorporate into their piece. These include rhythms, melodies, key signatures, time signatures, intervals and more. Download the free sample card here: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/sample-composition-inspiration-card-11901946

Parts of speech word searches for: Spring Summer Autumn/Fall (separate versions) Winter Easter Halloween Thanksgiving Christmas Each theme contains two word searches. Word search 1 (easier) asks the children to find nouns. Word search 2 (harder) asks them to find nouns, verbs, adjectives and adverbs, and to categorise them correctly. Each word search comes with an answer key showing the correct words and their locations in the grid. This is a fun way for children to revise their parts of speech.

Send your pupils on a book journey using this author themed tube map and booklet of activities. Download and print. Suitable for Year 6+.

Synonym Happy Families encourages children to up-level the words they use in their writing by thinking of better alternatives. This game, which focuses on emotions, includes an easier version and the standard game that has been designed to increase pupils’ vocabulary. The aim of the game is to collect sets of emotion families. For example, the Happy family. In order to do so pupils must firstly identify the family and then collect the relevant cards from their opponents. Answer cards are included so the children can check their own sets during the game.

Keep your eyes on the cards with this fast paced synonyms themed game of snap. Includes easy and standard versions.

Match the prefix and root word cards. Includes an accompanying prefixes poster. Suitable for KS2.

Challenge pupils to create a sentence containing the adverb on their card. Includes an accompanying adverbs poster.

Master the dictionary, collect the most books and race to victory in this 2-6 player board game. Dictionary Conqueror has been designed to students the practice needed to be competent dictionary users. In this game, they are challenged to locate words, give dictionary definitions and use the words correctly in sentences. Special race cards give students the chance to be the first to find a word, earning them extra points. Words have been chosen to expand their vocabularies as well as improving their dictionary skills. For an added level of difficulty, Dictionary Conqueror can be played against the clock. Level 1 – Players are given two words and they must say which would come first in the dictionary (frog/egg, hat/hello) Level 2 – Players find simple words in the dictionary (apple, happy, bird) Level 3 – Players find more difficult words in the dictionary (carpet, tulip, sword) Level 4 – Players find tricky words in the dictionary and put them into sentences to expand their vocabularies (haggard, proprietor, cower) Contains 44 pages.

A fast-paced and fun game suitable for a variety of lessons. Teach children sentence structure, the importance of subjects and verbs, discuss parts of speech, or just compete against others to create the most ridiculous headlines.

Beat your opponent using this traditional pen and paper game. Use the words from the National Spelling Appendix to create your ships, and keep your fingers crossed that you can guess all of your opponent’s words and positions before they do. Word sets included with this download: Years 1 and 2 (8 sets) Years 3 and 4 (8 sets) Years 5 and 6 (9 sets)

These flashcards will help your students to memorise their musical note and rest lengths. Each card has the note/rest image and name (UK and US) on one side and the number of crotchet beats it represents on the other side. Simply cut out the cards, leaving the matching pairs attached, fold in half and laminate or stick the two sides together. Note/rest lengths included: Semiquaver/sixteenth note Quaver/eighth note Dotted quaver/eighth note Crotchet/quarter note Dotted crotchet/quarter note Minim/half note Dotted minim/dotted half note Semibreve/whole note

Help your instrumental students to set out their goals for the new school year with these free goals sheets. Features: My goals Goal ideas Achievement log Weekly practice log

A great resource for encouraging children to use a range of thinking skills. These cards can be used with or without real hats and can be applied to any text. They are particularly useful for KS2.