20 minute assembly for use in Primary Schools to introduce World Art Day. Includes an engaging story, interactive activity in pairs as well as the importance of World Art Day and what it means for children.

Primary Resource Pack for a successful Earth Day 2024. Resource pack includes: Earth Day Assembly Plan (primary) Lesson plan for any age KS2 children focusing on the following objectives: • Define what Earth Day is and understand its significance • Identify ways in which children can contribute to environmental sustainability • Reflect on their own actions and choices in relation to caring for the planet Including resources for lesson, including a scavenger hunt and case studies of children who have made a difference to our planet, differentiation, vocabulary, starter, plenary, assessment opportunities and video links. 10 x Further activity ideas you can do on Earth Day 2024 2 x reading comprehension with questions and answers provided based on Earth Day 2024. One is aimed at Year 3 or Year 4. The other is aimed at Year 5 and Year 6. Questions cover 9 main areas of reading in the national curriculum. Beautiful Earth Day Mindfulness Colouring Page

Presentation Slides about World Art Day. Includes what it is, The Power of Art, Types of Art including Painting, Sculpture, Music and Dance. Art Around the World (including an activity) with some thoughtful questions at the end for students to consider.

9 or 10 activity ideas for every year group from EYFS through to Year6. Using a mixture of Art and Design, Music and Technology to give teachers many ideas as to how to celebrate this fantastic day in the school calendar!

This 6 page resource includes question sheets and answers. Is made in black and white to support the printer costs. This resource is aimed at children who are becoming secure with their bonds to 10, or are secure with bonds to 10 and need to link this knowledge to bonds to 20 and 100. This can be used as a morning task, part of a maths lesson, or as I have used them, as daily quizzes to build up their speed. Check out my other resources that I have developed as part of my roles of lead practitioner, head of teaching and learning and deputy head teacher.

This resource is perfect for parents of children ranging in ages from Year 6 to GCSE, and for the students to have as a resource to support their independence of using these written methods. The methods are specific to the Year 6 arithmetic paper, but these methods are also used all the way upto GCSE as well. The resource includes explanations of how to use the method, including an image of a flipchart outlining a visual representation for extra support. The methods that it explains are: Column Multiplication Bus Stop Division (short) Long Division (using a proven method I have used for many years for all ages) Adding fractions with the same and different denominators Multiplying fractions Dividing fractions by a whole number Fractions of a number Precentages of a number

The journey our school took to No More Marking. This resource includes the following: Flowchart as to the process of effective feedback. What do after the lesson, how to fill the feedback form in, what to before the next lesson and adaptive feedback. Links to the websites I used as part of my journey to introduce no more marking in our large primary school. Proforma for a Maths Feedback Form with guidance as to how to use this. I introduced this to 2 schools with outstanding results. Results: Student progress increased, and teachers had a greater understanding of what their students needs were. Maths lessons improved as a result of this introduction.

This is such a fun activity to do with your class! The slides contain 20 pages, each one with a high frequency word embedded into the picture somehow. I have included a couple of these so you can see what they look like in the preview. Not only can the children try and find them, which supports their spelling and recognition of the word. They can try and put it in a sentence that matches the picture. If this is popular, I am happy to make more for the rest of the high frequency words.

There are 5 wordsearches, each containing groups of 20 of the 1st 100 High Frequency Words. The wordsearches are shaped as fun patterns such as smiley faces, boats and hearts, and answers are only left to right, and top to bottom. Great morning activity, holding activity or fun way to practice the spelling and reading of HFWs.

There are 3 crosswords that have been made to support Year 5 and 6 (UKS2) children practice their knowledge and spelling of the Common Exception Words (CEW) Great for a morning or holding activity or homework.

Introduction slides to Mental Health Awareness Week. Aimed at UKS2 and KS3/4 Slides include: What is Mental Health? Why is Mental Health Important? Ways to Support our own Mental Health? How to help other people.

Attached is a transcript of the video “The Great Fire of London” by Twinkl. It introduces the children to this History Topic by giving them lots of information at a KS1 appropriate level. I have also attached a spreadsheet which can be uploaded to Kahoot for 8 questions that can be asked of the class after watching the video.

A presentation which outlines the tricky concept of ‘Passive Voice’ for children. Slides include: What is Passive Voice? Using Passive Voice in writing. Active V Passive Voice Examples of Passive Voice

This is a 6 lesson scheme of work that follows the National Curriculum. It includes a medium term plan and 6 detailed lesson plans. (both fully editable so you can adapt and put on your school logo etc…) Each Lesson plan includes: Objective, Prior Learning, Vocabulary and Definition, Starter Activity, Input, Activity (including challenge for more able and support for less able) Plenary and Assessment Opportunities identified throughout the lesson. The unit would work well alongside the book “Moth: An Evolution Story” by Isabel Thomas and Daniel Egnéus. This is just a great book to have for this unit of work as it explains the concept of Evolution so well!

Times Table Tests from 2-12 and User Guide. This approach supports the less confident mathematicians as well as stretching the more able. It provides a scaffolded approach to taking these tests and supports a growth mindset approach. The User Guide outlines: Aim of this approach An explanation about each of the 4 rounds Tips on delivery and recording of the tests Guidance and advice on what to teach alongside this approach I have used many times table tests over the years with 6-11 year old children, and this approach is the one that not only had the most impact, supported children who used to be anxious about times tables.

This is a 6 page resource that includes all 100 Year 3 and 4 (LKS2) Common Exception Words in Anagram form. This is great activity to support children with the spelling of these words, that is fun, but also requires to look at the list of words multiple times to spot patterns in spelling. I have used this before and has a huge impact on their knowlede of these words and also takes quite a bit of time to do! Great to do in pairs and small groups!

Cruel Summer Song Lyrics, Questions and Answers all included! This guided reading resource covers Inference, Summarising, Retrieval, Predicting, Explaining, Word Meaning and Comparison areas of the reading curriculum and is aimed at Year 5 and Year 6. There are 2 questions for each of the 7 areas, and each containing detailed answers.

The attached document provides you with 9 A4 pages already created with half an animal face. The children/students can practice their observational drawing by completing the other half. This makes for a beautiful display. Great ‘start of the school year’ activity.

Attached is a document (editable) I have used for many years as Lead Practitioner. Document has previous areas of development at the top as a reference point, in addition to notes made during the lesson. Although I write these on paper during the lesson, these are transferred to the template sent to the teacher to demonstrate transparency and feedback has been that these notes have been useful to read. Strengths and Areas to Develop at the bottom, as well as notes on learning behaviour and whether children were making progress in the lesson. All the key aspects of a good lesson observation form.

This document gives you lots of AfL strategies to use directly in the classroom.