Created by a year six teacher (100% maths, 100% reading and 93% English at and above expected pass rate last SATs year), maths coordinator and deputy head. I am also a published author under the name Andrew Thomas. I have had my resources recommended by TES 3 times.
I've been teaching for years and love my job. My school is in Lewisham (London). My kids are engaged when the resources are good.
Created by a year six teacher (100% maths, 100% reading and 93% English at and above expected pass rate last SATs year), maths coordinator and deputy head. I am also a published author under the name Andrew Thomas. I have had my resources recommended by TES 3 times.
I've been teaching for years and love my job. My school is in Lewisham (London). My kids are engaged when the resources are good.
This is a PowerPoint (that can be converted to a flip chart) that takes pupils through what is required to write a short story at the expected level and is a step by step guide. It is aimed at the criteria and framework and has produced some wonderful writing from my year 6 class. It shows the children where to include the punctuation, grammar and structure throughout a short story. There are 29 slides in total, each with a different focus which enables the children to include all of the skills they have learnt throughout the year. It is based on Eye of the Storm from the Literacy Shed (link included in the PPT).
This is the opening of the story, written by a lower ability child (typed out with no corrections):
As he stared into the sky, not worrying about his destruction from the mesmerising, raging storm, he gazed at the green lightening. His white, dragon like scarf waved in the sky. The black, silver lined coat shone in the sun’s omega light. The empty shell of a man thought that he could survive the storm. He kept his face hidden because he didn’t want to remember who he was. He turned his head slightly; he knew what he had to do.
The ship he was travelling on had a unique energy that was pure electricity. It looked like a war ship, ready for battle. A war to save a dragon, a war to save the world, a war to save everyone.
Terrifying memories of murder in his head. He had never found Martha…
Designed and used by a year 6 teacher with a 93% maths SATs score in 2017.
This is a 4 week maths cycle that covers all the areas needed for the SATs arithmetic test in easy 10 minute starters.
This works perfectly to remind and embed all the concepts needed to do well in the arithmetic paper.
Please check out my other resources by clicking my name at the top of the page.
SATs reading comprehension games
Reasoning Paper revision
Loads of English SATs based writing
This flipchart can be used as a whole class activity, printed out for small groups or used as a range of worksheets.
It helps children’s understanding of what algebra is and directly links the main concepts of letters as numbers and how to develop an understanding of formulae.
Created by a tear 6 teacher with 100% pass rate (in an inner city school) in SATs maths last year and 55% greater depth.
Please click on my name above to see my other resources. Everything from Guided Reading games to step by step writing at the expected level flipcharts.
A daily arithmetic workout to improve and consolidate all the skills needed for the SATs maths test 1.
Used and tested by a year 6 teacher with a 100% pass rate at the expected level in the 2019 SATs and 55% GD
Designed to be visually appealing.
Covers:
All four operations
Fractions
Percentages
Square and cubed numbers
Decimals
Known facts
Can be used as a starter, plenary, for those 10 minute gaps between lessons or at the end of the day.
These are a pack of worksheets that cover areas of the ship and are designed to keep pupils busy during a self-directed visit.
They are designed to be simple so you do not need a great deal of teacher input. It contains a treasure hunt to be completed as you explore the ship and specific worksheets for the following areas:
Sick Bay
NAAFI Canteen
Arctic Messdecks
The Main Mast
A-Turret
Operations Room
Ship’s Company Galley
It also suggest a couple of photo ideas and pages for notes and sketches.
Again, they are simple sheets to focus the children and get them looking instead of running through the ship and are designed to be child friendly.
Designed and used by a year 6 teacher with a 93% maths SATs score in 2017.
This is a 2 week maths cycle that covers concepts for the SATs reasoning test in easy 10 minute starters.
This works perfectly to remind and embed all the concepts needed to do well in the reasoning paper.
Please check out my other resources by clicking my name at the top of the page.
SATs reading comprehension games
Reasoning Paper revision
Loads of English SATs based writing
The idea is to try and make all the numbers from 0 to 20 by using BIDMAS.
The only number you are allowed to use is 4.
You MUST use four lots of 4 in each equation (number sentence).
You may not use any other numbers.
If you want to find 0 you can use the following sum:
(4 + 4) – (4 + 4) = 0
To find 3 you can use:
(4 + 4 + 4) ÷ 4 = 3
This is a ready to go lesson that will take an hour+ depending on ability level. It also has a simple extension task.
This ActivInspire flip chart is a fresh approach to teaching both percentages of amounts and finding the whole amount from a percentage.
Easy to understand and instant AFL.
Created by a maths lead and year 6 teacher whose class scored 100% in maths with 55% greater depth.
This is a PowerPoint aimed at writing an obituary for the character Macbeth. It includes an example, success criteria and some extra information about the character.
Includes a comic strip summary of the story and a video link to an age appropriate cartoon version.
Children explore what the BFG can hear from chapter 7 (The Marvelous Ears) and come up with ideas of their own. They turn their ideas into a poem and publish it.
Please click on my name above to see other BFG resources.
This PowerPoint covers all of the areas needed to evidence a piece of writing at and above the expected level.
This will take 3 weeks to complete and will show the children (with examples, word banks and sentence starters) how to write a narrative story based on a picture book.
Designed and used by a year 6 teacher with a 100% maths SATs score in the last tests.
Show, then have a go style.
A PowerPoint aimed at the fraction questions in the 2018 arithmetic test. It can be used as a teaching tool or a revision lesson just before they start the test. It also includes a rhyme to help the children to remember the basics.
Teaches pupils to:
Multiply fractions by fractions
Divide fractions by fractions
Multiply fractions by whole numbers
Divide fractions by whole numbers
Change mixed numbers to improper fractions to multiply and divide by fractions and whole numbers.
Tested in a year 6 class and worked very well.
Includes opportunities for pupils to apply what they have learnt and teacher to assess understanding.
Make a bookmark RE activity
Have you ever seen a mustard seed? The mustard seed was, at the time, believed to be the smallest of all seeds. It is so small that if you were holding one in your hand and you dropped it you would have a very hard time finding it because it is so hard to see.
Even though the mustard seed is so small when it is planted in the ground, it grows into a tree large enough for birds to stand on its branches and to make their nests in it.
When you look at this little mustard seed before
planting it in the ground, you might think it would
be impossible for a seed so tiny to grow into a tree.
But God turns that tiny seed into a wonderful place
for birds to come and rest and sing.
When Jesus told this parable He compared it to loving God. When children, like you, or adults begin to love Jesus, their love is like a tiny mustard seed before it is planted in the ground. It starts out very small at first. Then when you keep on listening to what Jesus says and obeying Him, then the love grows bigger and bigger. Soon it will grow like the big mustard tree.
You can also find this parable in Mark 4:30-32; and Luke 13:18-19.
A lesson based around air pollution and most polluted cities by particulate matter concentration. The lesson needs access to the internet and an atlas.
The aim is to research which cities are the most polluted, find them using the atlas index and then transfer that information to a map.
Created by an experienced year 6 teacher and applicable to KS2.
Please click on my name above for other resources and a wide range of SATs revision resources.
This uses an ActivInspire (Promethean) flip chart.
An ActivInspire (Promethean) flip chart, plan and resources to create a non-chronological report based on animals and their habitats.
Good science cross-curricular links.