This lesson teaches children about persuasive writing and different persuasive strategies they can use. It then gives different targets (success criteria) that learners need to achieve in order to successfully produce a good persuasive letter. It also includes two different example texts (one good and one that requires improvement)

This resources looks at converting grams and kilograms. It starts off by giving visual representation of what a gram and kilogram is to help learners. It then explains the process of converting grams and kilograms by multiplying or dividing by 1000. Then it gives different conversion explains using decimal notation. The resource uses a place value grid to model this clearly for learners. The resource then finishes with 10 example questions to assess learner understanding.

Discursive Writing - Should Animals be Kept in Zoos. This resource explains discursive writing, models a table for learners to complete, provides a short planning format example, includes a modelled paragraph and contains a word bank for learners.

This resource introduces learners to basic equations. It then progresses to solving equations which involve mulitplication of a variable e.g. 2x = 20 so x = 10. It then progresses to solving two step equations by using the balancing strategy. For each topic covered the Powerpoint has a few quick questions and links to games that can be played on an IWB with learners.

This yearbook is a great end of year activity for school leavers. It contains multiple pages where pupils can add information about themselves, class mates, teachers and memories. This is in a PPT format so can be easily edited to suit the school and printed.

Rounding Money lesson in PDF

This is fun resource to help learners frame an imaginative spooky story. Learners roll a dice to help them choose -who? -where? -when? -what happens?

Pastel Fractions, Decimal and Percentages Display

This scheme of work provides lesson for the full novel of Mr Nobody’s Eyes by Michael Morpurgo. It covers a range of reading skills throughout e.g. prediction comprehension main ideas summarising metalinguistics Character visualisation key themes evaluations

This lesson teaches and visually demonstrates different ways of modelling decimal thousandths. It also shows how to expand decimals in a written form. This resource works well with an interactive whiteboard as there are lots of opportunities for learners to write on the resource. There is also a Guessimal game which learners love. A learner must choose one of the decimal numbers and the other learners have 7 chances to try guess the chosen decimal. They must ask questions like: Is there a 5 in the tenths column? Is there an even number in the units? Does your decimal have any hundredths?

Short lesson on using adverbs. Lesson encourages learners to use adverbs at different parts of the sentence e.g. beginning, middle and end.

This resource revises the place value of a number up to decimal thousandths. It then briefly covers partitioning/expanding of decimal numbers and ordering decimal numbers. It contains links to two games that can be played on an interactive whiteboard with learners.

This is a fun activity that can help learners develop their miming skills. Learners can play as a whole class or compete in teams. This resources is available in both PDF and powerpoint.

This resources contains 7 short quizzes which can be used as short starters or completed as a large quiz. The different quizzes it contains are: Christmas Film Characters (contains characters from modern and older films) Christmas anagrams Christmas Surveys (Similar to family fueds - pupils have to pick what they think the most popular answer is) Christmas song lyrics - pupils have to name the song the lyrics come from. Christmas Around the World - a challenging trivia quiz about Christmas traditions around the world. This could be simplified by giving pupils multiple choice. Merry Christmas in Different languages - pupils have to match the greeting to the language it is written in. Christmas True or False - a short T or F quiz I have also included an answer sheet if this required. It is marked out of 88 and allows pupils to keep track of their scores as they go and they can add totals up at the end.

10 x Christmas literacy starters covering spelling, grammar, writing and talking & listening (KS2 or 2nd Level)

Daily morning Starters to engage learning first thing in the morning. The starters rotate on a weekly basis. They cover a range of topics from: Numeracy Spelling Grammar Writing Problem solving Geography General Knowledge Inferencing Skills

This mini topic resource explores social media and its pros and cons. It covers: The history of social media and how its developed. The pros and cons staying safe on social media social media & self esteem

This resource covers one step and two step equations (with balancing). It includes lots of examples for learners to try before progressing on. It also has 3 differentiated worksheets which provide consolidation and challenge for all learners.