These working wall headings ensure that learners can access the help they need. Working walls are meant to be made in action and that means they are not always polished-perfect - And that is okay! But we need to ensure learners can access what they need to help them. These headings add a little order to the disorder and mean that when learners are stuck, they know where to look and any barriers to them finding what they need independently are removed. These can be printed on a4, laminated or use card for a more stable background (and more eco-friendly). Trim them up and stick them on! Voila…

This is a complete lesson focusing on recall of the 9 times table. There are lots of lessons involving reasoning and problem solving but often, not quality, resources focused on the speed, fluency and accuracy of recall. The apps that often bridge the gap between home and school are excellent but do not come with the quality teaching content that shows children strategies for recalling their facts with increasing speed. This lesson, as with all the lessons in this series, includes counting activities (add multi-sensory opportunities with body percussion for an added pizazz), bar models, odd one out, sentence stems, arrays, quick fire games, mini quiz, which is all built upon buy guided practice following the graduated release model, consolidated with independent learning using the worksheet provided. I love to get children moving around and counting in pairs or threes, using clapping with their chants and where concrete apparatus are necessary, that too! These lessons are perfect prep for MTC. If you find it useful or have any feedback on how you used it, please comment, leave a review or show me on my instagram page @misshb_teacher

I think it is of great importance to discuss these values with learners so they know what they look like, you can address misconceptions and really set the tone for the classroom atmosphere. These slides have lots of discussion prompts with follow up exercises of drawing and writing sentences about these school values as well as a game at the end for pupils to demonstrate what these expectations look like in action. 8 slides, approx 45 minutes of activity. You can adapt as you need.

I use this very simple template with 30 marbles to collect for my classes to earn a half-termly treat. I’ve always found other templates have way too many marbles to earn or too few. 30 is perfect for a half-term as there are rougly this many school days. I give class marbles for whole class working - everyone on task, working as a team, when adults compliment our classroom or transitions - assemblies etc Hope it is helpful.

I use this to gather a song from every class member and then pull one out of a basket if they have extra time because everyone has been getting on or everyone is working beautifully during an afternoon art lesson. I also may single out a student working really hard and listening well to get their song played.

This week-long unit is fully resourced. It is winter-themed and although some poems are about Christmas, others are on the topic of winter itself to cater for everyone in your classroom. Lesson 1 - introduction to poetry, ‘taste’ two poems and record their response. Lesson 2 - Introduction to figurative language, ‘taste’ two poems and record techniques found. Lesson 3 - Discuss their favourites and why. Recommend the poems to people in their lives they think would most enjoy them. Lesson 4 - Focus on rhyming couplets and rewriting/mimicking one of the peoples by rewriting every other line. Lesson 5 - Polish and Publish using the theme. The slides cover everything. The worksheets come too. All you need to do is print. The slides are dyslexia-friendly, concise and free of cognitive overload. They are designed for UKS2 but can be easily adapted to suit your class or another year group. The poems have a range of techniques so cover a lot of ground. Perfect to recap techniques gathered throughout their school career or assess where a newer class are at so you know how to approach your next poetry topic. This is a tried and tested resources. Year on year, children love it and it brings joy to the classroom and an appreciation of poetry. Please feedback how you have used this resource to help a small business promote and extend their catalogue and customer - thank you!

This lesson takes learners through a series of assessments to ensure they have met all their place value objectives. It has a series of tasks and discussions about the meaning of place value, reading and writing numbers and it follows a graduated release with I do, We do, You do format. The independent task is linked with Year 5, Year 4 and Year 3 place value skills so it can be differentiated for the learner, depending on their gaps and where they are in the phases. The sheets can be adapted easily to change numbers or volumes of digits. I am using this resource to consolidate after picking up a new class. I want to ensure they have met their objectives but I have also used it at the beginning of the year as an assessment to create flexible groups for my first place value lesson and adapt my unit of teaching to emphasis key gaps for the class, groups and individuals. Enjoy!

This is a series of 11 lessons that take you on a journey to planning a detailed diary entry. It could be adapted to a first person narrative too. This unit uses a video stimuli which explores Athens from the perspective of a warrior adventurer. The journey includes relative clauses as well as all the features of a diary entry. All example texts are written by myself and designed to draw out UKS2 grammar and writing objectives. All lessons are fully resources, with planning and scaffolding. This entire unit is dyslexia friendly. This is an extremely high quality unit that is ready to teach to outstanding quality. This has taken many hours to create and I have used it many times and polished and perfected it. It is great for cohorts needing improved vocabulary choices, those that struggle with writing stamina and is packed with inclusive strategies for all disadvantaged groups to thrive.

This is a set of 4 lessons based on the poem “I Don’t Like Poetry” By Joshua Seigal. It is really good fun to read and mimic. This week long block includes fluency and performing the poem, it them analysing the structure and compares it to another one of Joshua Seigal’s poems, there is a comprehension day working on a mix of skills from retrieval to author’s intent and the opportunity to add a paragraph about hyperboles to extend their figurative language knowledge. Aimed at UKS2 but easily adapted for LKS2.

This is 3 reading lessons based around the text Cosmic by Frank Cottrell-Boyce. These lessons are aimed at Year 5 and take into consideration the recommendations made in the most recent DfE subject report. It includes the prologue and chapter 1 activities, including fluency and opportunities for reading aloud as well as a mixed skill comprehension questions including inference and sentence stems provided for inclusivity.

This is a weeks worth of Guided Reading based on the text Cosmic by Frank Cottrell-Boyce. This covers Chapter 2 and and up to page 33 due to running alongside The Write Stuff unit, we needed to get to the Car Showroom to start our writing. One lesson is mostly reading and there is one lesson which focuses on a particular type of inference question from reading papers (3 mark questions). This also features a drama lesson where children act out a scene from the car showroom.