Produced to meet the "complete, read and interpret information in tables, including timetables" Year 5 curriculum objective without boring the children to death. The questions are differentiated ("A" being easiest, "C" being hardest). They can easily be adapted. No familiarity with Pokémon whatsoever is required on the part of the teacher or the children. Enjoy!

Produced to meet the Y5 NC objective "multiply proper fractions and mixed numbers by whole numbers, supported by materials and diagrams". There is only one level of challenge included, and the questions are quite tricky, so this is probably one for the highers. Many thanks to TES user alutwyche for the idea - I have simply taken and modified his original (free) resource to include questions for this objective. Included are the answers to the joke ("Why does Mr Mushroom have so many friends? Because he's a fungi to know") as well as a 'marking station' sheet so children can check their own work as they go along, or answers can be shown at the end of the lesson for self-marking. Hope this is helpful to anybody else who has struggled to find resources to meet this particular objective.

Another codebreaker (adapted once again from TES user alutwyche’s incredible codebreaker template). This one is for multiplying and dividing decimals by 10, 100 and 1000. I couldn’t find a lot of resources out there for this learning objective, so I hope it’s helpful to others who are struggling to look. Suitable as a main task, an extension task or homework.

This is a sheet with 16 different "missing number pyramid" problems, each on its own sticker/label. Students have to use the inverse to work their way down the pyramid and fill in the blanks. I have also included a second sheet with the missing numbers filled in to make marking easier. Can be used as a 'feed forward' activity, as an 'exit card' before pupils can leave, or even as a main lesson activity (if each child is given a full sheet). They are arranged so that they can be printed on generic printer labels, but they can also just be printed onto plain A4 and they'll look like a regular worksheet (without question numbers). Please leave a rating or review if this resource has been helpful to you.

This free sheet is designed to be a foolproof way of teaching Y5/Y6 children to use ‘bubbles’ to find percentages. I’ve included a worksheet with questions (and a separate answers page), an editable word document, and a sheet with 6 of the bubble templates. Designed to be used with LA pupils, but could be used as a whole-class introduction to finding percentages of amounts. Please leave feedback to let me know how you used this resource :)

Year 5 objective: "recognise the per cent symbol (%) and understand that per cent relates to ‘number of parts per 100’, and write percentages as a fraction with denominator 100, and as a decimal fraction" This modelling assumes pupils have a very basic understanding of what percentages are (as long as they have been taught that '% means out of 100', they should be fine). There is an initial AFL task using a Minecraft enemy's face and then they are shown how to find 30% of 70 using images from the game. Your mileage may vary, but this was successful in engaging a class who have a habit of switching off whenever the word 'percentage' is mentioned!

Is your school looking for a resource to send home telling children which words should be learned in each week of the No Nonsense Spelling programme? This may be of interest! It can be used as a simple curriculum planner, as a list to be stuck into pupils’ spelling journals, as an assessment tool… the possibilities are endless.

A set of 8 posters you can display to promote reading particular authors. I’ve aimed to largely choose authors that aren’t already ubiquitous in primary schools (so no JK Rowling, David Walliams or Michael Morpurgo). The only difference between the attached documents is that one set says ‘week’ at the top, and the other says ‘month’. They’re editable, so you can make your own.

This lesson was designed to help Year Five students generate 'for and against' reasons to help them independently write a balanced argument the next day. The students are given cards detailing their role as part of a small village community. They have a chance to introduce "themselves" to the other residents of the village before they are told that an urban development company plans to transform their village into a city. The lesson culminates in a town hall-style debate, during which one student acts as a scribe to take down reasons for and against the development. There aren't many written outcomes from this lesson, but it could easily be adapted to have more of a writing focus.

I created this wheel to help reduce the fuss when deciding who does different jobs around the classroom. It is designed to be printed onto A3. There are instructions on how to edit the wheel saved along with the download. Please note that the TES preview images are slightly glitched! The names should fit on the wheel without any problems. Comments and reviews are always appreciated. Enjoy!

Sequencing cards for the book “After the Fall (How Humpty Dumpty Got Back Up Again)” by Dan Santat. Children cut out the cards and place them in the correct order (“put it together again,” if you will.)

A knowledge organiser about Antarctica, focusing on Ernest Shackleton and key people in his journey.

A knowledge organiser for schools studying Greece. Focuses on the country today rather than its ancient history.

This is an activity that uses nursery rhymes to teach children how to write a text in paragraphs. The children stick a vertical strip of paper into their exercise books and write the corresponding paragraph alongside the box with each line from the nursery rhyme. I used this in conjunction with the “TiPToP” mnemonic for knowing when to start a new paragraph: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9hsPNjEMOJ0

This is the format I use for my weekly lesson timetables as a primary school teacher. It is divided into 5 minute intervals and runs from 08:35 - 15:15, but you can easily change these times if your school day is timed differently. Use the ‘Merge cells’ feature under the ‘Table layout’ ribbon in Word to create blocks of time. I’ve included my weekly timetable as an example.