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I am an ex-primary head teacher and English, Maths and History specialist. I've mostly worked in KS2, often in Year 6. Although for the last two years, I've been working in Year 1, which has been delightful! All the resources have been used successfully with children in a range of schools all over the country. I am constantly reviewing and updating my resources. Please follow me to ensure that you have the most up to date versions of the resources you buy.

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I am an ex-primary head teacher and English, Maths and History specialist. I've mostly worked in KS2, often in Year 6. Although for the last two years, I've been working in Year 1, which has been delightful! All the resources have been used successfully with children in a range of schools all over the country. I am constantly reviewing and updating my resources. Please follow me to ensure that you have the most up to date versions of the resources you buy.
How different was Anglo Saxon Britain from Roman Britain - a comparison of two peoples.
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How different was Anglo Saxon Britain from Roman Britain - a comparison of two peoples.

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Who’s who? Do you know your Romano Britons from your Anglo Saxon? LO: To understand historical concepts such as continuity and change, cause and consequence, similarity, difference and significance, and use them to make connections and draw contrasts (KS2) LO: To apply the above to the study of an aspect or theme in British history that consolidates and extends pupils’ chronological knowledge from before 1066 (KS3) A complete activity to help children understand the similarities and differences between the Anglo Saxon and Romano British societies in Britain during the first millennium. The activity consists of: Teaching Input: 1. A PowerPoint identifying the key similarities and differences between the Romano Britons and Anglo Saxons including information about their: - Origins - settlements - everyday lives - lives of women and children - laws and punishments - beliefs - stories and legends - legacy. This can either be run as an introduction, or shared with children in groups or pairs. Independent Task: 2. A sorting activity consisting of a series of statements which apply to Romano Britons, Anglo Saxons, both, or neither. (This includes a fact sheet for teacher use, providing the correct answers and a series of websites which provide additional source information) 3. A set of different templates to allow you to choose how this information is then represented. Challenge / Extension / AG&T Using websites listed, children could try to find additional information about both peoples. Plenary Mark with the children, getting them to identify which description applies to which people. Pose and discuss the statement The Anglo Saxons period is often called the Dark Ages because it is said that they destroyed Roman civilisation. In what ways were the Anglo Saxons more civilised than the Romans?
Michael Morpurgo - the Last Wolf - a complete half term's guided reading.
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Michael Morpurgo - the Last Wolf - a complete half term's guided reading.

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A series of questions, answers and reading journal activity based around all areas of reading. Great alternative to SATs tests or written comprehensions. LOs To use recall, inference and deduction to find out about two characters. To be able to empathise with characters from the past To use inference and deduction to understand a character’s actions To understand how authors use chance encounters to shape their stories. To understand how an author can choose archaic words and expressions when writing a story set in the past. To understand how historical research is used to write a historical novel.
Upper Key Stage 2 (Year 5 & Year 6) Negative numbers in context of temperature: bar and line graphs
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Upper Key Stage 2 (Year 5 & Year 6) Negative numbers in context of temperature: bar and line graphs

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This lesson consists of: A starter / connect PowerPoint where children sequence and order negative and positive numbers. An Interactive Whiteboard teaching introduction for both Notebook and ActivInspire, showing how empty number lines to find the difference between negative and positive numbers when applied to temperature. (differentiated 3 ways for ability). A 4 way differentiated series of independent tasks (including a Mastery Level Challenge Activity) where children to interpret a range of charts, bar and line graphs showing positive and negative temperatures. An AFL / Next Steps task taken from 2017 Maths SATs paper. LOs: Starter: - to count forwards and backwards with positive and negative whole numbers (Year 5) - to use negative numbers, and calculate intervals across 0 (Year 6) - to order positive and negative integers (KS3) Main Lesson: - to interpret negative numbers in context, count forwards and backwards with positive and negative whole numbers, including through 0 (Year 5) - use negative numbers in context, and calculate intervals across 0 (Year 6) - apply this knowledge to bar and line graphs. (KS3)
Michael Morpurgo - Why the Whales Came -  6 sessions Guided Reading/Whole class activities
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Michael Morpurgo - Why the Whales Came - 6 sessions Guided Reading/Whole class activities

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A series of questions, answers and reading journal activity based around all areas of reading. Great alternative to SATs tests or written comprehensions. LOs To evaluate the opening of a story. To understand how an author develops the relationship between his main characters To understand how an author reflects on larger events beyond the story through the eyes of his characters To draw comparisons between the behaviour of two main characters in a story To make predictions based on what you know of the characters in the story. To reflect on a completed text.
UKS2 (Year 5 and Year 6) + KS3 -Autumn 1 complete Maths scheme of Work.
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UKS2 (Year 5 and Year 6) + KS3 -Autumn 1 complete Maths scheme of Work.

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35 sets of complete lessons (7 x 5 days) covering current National Curriculum expectations for teaching Place Value, Addition and Subtraction, formal short and long multiplication and formal short and long division, division leaving remainders and fractions, multiples, common multiples, prime factors, common prime factors, BODMAS, multiplication and division by powers of 10, metric measures, conversions between metric and imperial measures, and multi-step Word Problems. Each week ends with either an investigation of Word Problems linked to the topic studied. Every lesson includes: - a Starter based on Arithmetic and / or previous learning and a Connect Activity designed to activate the children's interest in the topic being covered that day. - two interactive teaching presentations designed to run on either Smartboard's Interactive Whiteboard or Promethean ActivInspire software. - a detailed 4 way differentiated lesson plan including all relevant learning objectives and AfL / next step opportunities. - a 4 way differentiated worksheet designed to cater for the learning of virtually all children in Year 5 or Year 6 regardless of ability (and MA / LA Y7 - Y9)
Michael Morpurgo - War Horse - 7 sessions of Guided Reading / Whole class activities
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Michael Morpurgo - War Horse - 7 sessions of Guided Reading / Whole class activities

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A series of questions, answers and reading journal activity based around all areas of reading. Great alternative to SATs tests or written comprehensions. LOs To be able to scan and skim pages to find evidence from a text. To be able to understand the relationship between characters To infer and interpret information from a text. To understand how the author shows the similarities between the German and English soldiers. To understand how and why an author links characters’ fates together. To respond to a completed text.
Jacqueline Wilson - Cliff Hanger - 5 weeks' Guided reading
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Jacqueline Wilson - Cliff Hanger - 5 weeks' Guided reading

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A series of questions, answers and reading journal activity based around all areas of reading. Great alternative to SATs tests or written comprehensions. LOs: To be able to emphasize with the central character of a novel. To be able to emphasize with two different family members. To recognise the turning point of a story. To relate to the feelings the main character in a book when his luck changes.
Roald Dahl - the Twits - half term's guided reading
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Roald Dahl - the Twits - half term's guided reading

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A series of questions, answers and reading journal activity based around all areas of reading. Great alternative to SATs tests or written comprehensions. LOs To read a book for simple information, events and ideas To understand how an author uses different fonts and styles to help readers To understand how the author implies things by his use of language. To understand the moral of Roald’s story. To decide whether or not Roald Dahl’s punishment fits the crime.
Anne Fine - Flour Babies - 7 sessions of Guided Reading / Whole class activities
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Anne Fine - Flour Babies - 7 sessions of Guided Reading / Whole class activities

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A series of questions, answers and reading journal activity based around all areas of reading. Great alternative to SATs tests or written comprehensions. LOs To make predictions based on the blurb and cover of a book. To reflect on the opening of a story To emphasise with the main character. To understand how Simon’s character changes in the story. To consider the main purpose of the text To reflect on a completed text
UKS2 (Year 5 and Year 6) & KS3 Place Value - 5 lesson set
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UKS2 (Year 5 and Year 6) & KS3 Place Value - 5 lesson set

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A set of 5 lessons covering all aspects of Place Value to allow you to meet expectations of current (2014 onwards) National Curriculum for Mathematics. The lessons meet the following learning objectives: Year 5 - read, write, order and compare numbers to at least 1,000,000 and determine the value of each digit - round any number up to 1,000,000 to the nearest 10, 100, 1,000, 10,000 and 100,000 - solve number problems and practical problems that involve all of the above Year 6 - read, write, order and compare numbers up to 10,000,000 and determine the value of each digit - round any whole number to a required degree of accuracy - solve number and practical problems that involve all of the above KS3 - understand and use place value for decimals, measures and integers of any size - round numbers and measures to an appropriate degree of accuracy [for example, to a number of decimal places or significant figures] - develop their mathematical knowledge, in part through solving problems and evaluating the outcomes, including multi-step problems
UKS2 (Year 5 and Year 6) Addition and Subtraction of large numbers and decimals
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UKS2 (Year 5 and Year 6) Addition and Subtraction of large numbers and decimals

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LOs: Starter: To add and subtract numbers Main Lesson: to add and subtract whole numbers with more than 4 digits (Year 5) to solve problems involving addition and subtraction (Year 6) This lesson consists of: A connect PowerPoint to establish children’s understanding of addition and subtraction methods. An Interactive Whiteboard teaching introduction for both Notebook and ActivInspire, to model various methods that can be used to solve addition and subtraction and demonstrating why, for larger numbers, formal methods are best. A 4 way differentiated series of independent tasks (including a Challenge Activity) where children are expected to solve a series of addition and subtraction problems including one Word Problem for each ability group. . An AFL / Next Steps task challenging children to identify common calculation errors that are often made with addition and subtraction.
Year 1 Term 1 Week 5 Day 1 subtraction by crossing off.
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Year 1 Term 1 Week 5 Day 1 subtraction by crossing off.

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A differentiated starter, introduction for both ActivInspire and Smartboard, and 3 way differentiated activity and AFL / Next Steps plenary class activity. Also included is a youtube video and resources for distance learning. Learning Objectives: : To use Part, Part Whole to add numbers. (starter), To solve simple one-step problems that involve addition and subtraction, using concrete objects and pictorial representations, and missing number problems, such as 7 = □ – 9 (main lesson). This lesson consists of: A starter revising the use of Part / Part / Whole diagrams. An Interactive Whiteboard teaching introduction for both Notebook and ActivInspire flipchart teaching how to use crossing off objects in order to solve visual subtraction problems. A youtube video link for distance learning introducing the starter, main part of the lesson and the AFL / Next Steps plenary. A 3-way differentiated set of independent tasks where children use crossing off objects in order to solve visual subtraction problems. A Next steps / AFL Challenge plenary to allow you to assess learning through the lesson by challenging children to create a subtraction calculation and visual representation based on a word problem.
Michael Morpurgo - Billy the Kid - 6 sessions of Guided Reading / Whole class activities
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Michael Morpurgo - Billy the Kid - 6 sessions of Guided Reading / Whole class activities

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A series of questions, answers and reading journal activity based around all areas of reading. Great alternative to SATs tests or written comprehensions. LOs To be able to recognise and discuss an author’s style and content. To recall facts to answer questions about a text. To skim and scan to find facts about a character To create a biographical time-line. To emphasise with the main character as he escapes the Germans. To understand how a single event changes the narrative of a story. To reflect upon a completed story.
UKS2 (Year 5 and Year 6) Addition and Subtraction multi-step Word Problems
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UKS2 (Year 5 and Year 6) Addition and Subtraction multi-step Word Problems

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LOs: Starter: To add and subtract large numbers Main Lesson: To solve addition and subtraction multi-step problems in contexts (Year 5 and Year 6) To develop their mathematical knowledge, in part through solving problems and evaluating the outcomes, including multi-step problems (KS3) This lesson consists of: A starter recapping on subtraction and addition of large numbers and 2 connect activities recapping on the different ways that addition and subtraction can be written, plus a set of differentiated word problems to allow children to work in pairs to decode, allowing you to establish children’s understanding of Word problems. An Interactive Whiteboard teaching introduction for both Notebook and ActivInspire, to establish an effective way to lay-out calculations and to test the children’s ability to apply column subtraction and addition to work problems. A 4 way differentiated series of Word problems (including a Challenge Activity) where children are expected to solve a series of multi-step (developing single step) addition and subtraction problems. An AFL / Next Steps task based on a 2014 SATs question, which requires simple division in addition to subtraction.
UKS2 (Year 5 and Year 6) converting between units of measure - metric (and imperial - challenge)
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UKS2 (Year 5 and Year 6) converting between units of measure - metric (and imperial - challenge)

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Learning Objectives Starter: - To order multistep calculations. - To use, read, write and convert between standard units. Main Lesson: - To convert between different units of metric measure (Year 5) - To convert measurements of length, mass, volume and time from a smaller unit of measure to a larger unit, and vice versa, using decimal notation to up to 3 decimal places (Year 6) -To change freely between related standard units [for example length, capacity and mass] (KS3) This lesson consists of: A Starter consisting of a series of progressively harder, multi-step calculations and revision of properties of numbers. A connect activity getting children to start to think about the different units used to measure length, capacity and mass. An Interactive Whiteboard teaching introduction for both Notebook and ActivInspire flipchart, to teach the conversions between different metric units including mm, cm, metres, kilometres, litres and millilitres, grams and kilograms. A 4-way differentiated series of tasks requiring children to convert between the various metric units of measure. A challenge activity where children complete between miles and kilometres and metres. A Place Value grid is provided as additional support for those struggling. Answer sheet provided to support marking. A final AFL / Next Steps task, asking children to apply their knowledge to a conversion graph, which will be focus of the following days lesson.
UKS2 (Year 5 and Year 6) comparing and ordering fractions using denominators and equivalence
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UKS2 (Year 5 and Year 6) comparing and ordering fractions using denominators and equivalence

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Learning Objectives Starter: - To find equivalent fractions Main Lesson: To compare and order fractions whose denominators are all multiples of the same number (Year 5) To compare and order fractions, including fractions >1 (Year 6) To order fractions and use the symbols =, ≠, , ≤, ≥ (KS3) This lesson consists of: A Starter consisting of a series of progressively harder fractions which recap use of equivalent fractions. A connect activity challenging children to identify and discuss methods that they might use to identify the larger of two fractions – allowing you assess prior learning. An Interactive Whiteboard teaching introduction for both Notebook and ActivInspire flipchart, to teach children both visually, by using denominators and changing fractions to have the same denominator in order to compare and order fractions. A 4-way differentiated series of tasks requiring children to compare and order fractions with the challenge activity introducing ≠, ≤ and ≥ signs. A final AFL / Next Steps task, asking children to apply their knowledge to an old SATs question, where they can demonstrate their understanding of strategies to compare two fractions. fractions, visual, representation, equivalence, equivalent, equivalent, equivalent fractions, fractions, fractions, AfL, multiples, conversion, ordering, sequencing, comparing, ordering, sequencing, comparing, ordering, comparing, ordering, comparing
Roald Dahl the Witches sample Guided Reading
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Roald Dahl the Witches sample Guided Reading

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A series of questions, answers and reading journal activity based around all areas of reading. Great alternative to SATs tests or written comprehensions. LOs: To make deductions and predictions based on the first chapter of a novel. To be able explain how layout contributes to the information being provided in a text.
Roald Dahl Boy Sample Guided Reading
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Roald Dahl Boy Sample Guided Reading

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A series of questions questions, answers and reading journal activity based around all areas of reading. Great alternative to SATs tests. LOs: To relate Roald Dahl’s childhood to their own, To understand the nature of autobiographical writing.