Inspired by NCETM Maths Mastery documents - Zippy Onion sparks discussion on rounding, students are encouraged to record their reasoning on facts known, also includes a self-assessment grid. Year 4 objective - To reason on rounding facts known. I have included four per sheet for ease of photocopying.

I collected these prompts as a way to promote class discussion around e-safety. After discussion students debated the safest thing to do in each situation, and recorded their ideas, which then went into an interactive display. SMSC Learning Objectives Yr 3. Can identify and explain how to manage the risks in different familiar situations. Can identify how to ask for help. Can explain how my actions have consequences for myself and others. Can describe the nature and consequences of bullying and express some ways of responding to it. Yr 4. Can take responsibility for my own behaviour and safety and realise that actions have consequences. Can have some strategies to cope with peer influence and peer pressure. Can identify some factors that affect emotional health and wellbeing e.g. relationships with family and friends, stress levels, physical activity, diet, self-image, media. ICT Learning Objectives KS1 use technology safely and respectfully, keeping personal information private; identify where to go for help and support when they have concerns about content or contact on the internet or other online technologies. KS2 use technology safely, respectfully and responsibly; recognise acceptable/unacceptable behaviour; identify a range of ways to report concerns about content and contact

A weeks worth of reciprocal / guided reading activities to accompany an extract from the book `The Iron Man`by Ted Hughes. Plus word of the day activities, with spelling from the latest Year 3 & 4 spelling list. Planning and text is attached, plus Blooms questioning grid to model higher level thinking question stems. Each activity has instructions attached. Preview Files included (7)

A printable template to encourage children to see calculations as arrays, on a number-line , as repeated addition and pictorially. Shrink them down and use them for starter activities too. I used it this week with my Year 3 class and they loved it.

A week of reciprocal / guided reading planning and activities to accompany an extract from the book `The Terrible Tiger - An Indian Folk Tale`. Plus Word of the Day PowerPoint with spelling from the 2014 Year 3 & 4 spelling list, and spelling homework.

A weeks worth of reciprocal / guided reading planning and activities to accompany an extract from the book `Beaky`by Jez Alborough. Plus Word of the Day PowerPoint with spelling from the latest Year 3 & 4 spelling list.

A thinking skills activity to encourage students to consider why the Romans were such successful invaders. All discussion points are true, students need to order them in a diamond ranking, there are no wrong answers so all students can safely enjoy discussing their ideas, without fear of failure. As a further challenge I asked students to design one more battle tactic to add to the Roman arsenal. Learning Objective is from the new 2014 Curriculum.

Make basic addition and subtraction more engaging with these triominoes. Students simply cut out the individual triangles on each sheet, and then reassemble into a larger triangle with each calculation matching its correct answer. Four differentiated sheets: Higher ability (addition and subtraction with numbers into millions) Middle ability (addition and subtraction with numbers to 1 million) Lower ability (addition and subtraction with numbers into thousands) SEN (addition with numbers to 25) In two different formats - pdf and powerpoint (editable)

Inspired by the Year 5 mastery document, Zippy Onion and his Spanish moustache return to help students solve reasoning place value problems. I have presented to identical sets on the same sheet for ease of photocopying. Learning objective – to determine the value of each digit in numbers up to 1 million

My mixed Year 3/4 loved these activities. A week of reciprocal / guided reading activities to accompany an extract from the book The Scarecrow and his Servantby Philip Pullman. Planning and text attached .

A week of planning, spelling and resources for guided reading/reciprocal reading to accompany an extract from the book Clockworkby Philip Pullman. All learning objectives taken from the Year 3 / 4, National Curriculum guidance (2015).

A weeks worth of reciprocal / guided reading activities to accompany an extract from the book The Twitsby Roald Dahl. Planning and text is attached, each activity has instructions attached. Learning objectives from 2014 English National Curriculum covered include: Understand how writers use figurative and expressive language to create images and atmosphere. Be able to locate key information for a purpose Identify the main ideas from more than one paragraph Make predictions based on what is stated and implied Ask questions to improve understanding Begin to understand what the writer is implying in a text

This was so useful in showing the class a range of different graphs for the same data, and in improving their reasoning ability on what each graph shows. Correct reasoning is modelled in the task and the students then went on create their own, using mastery level reasoning skills. Superb for sparking discussion. In both powerpoint (editable) and pdf format

A weeks worth of reciprocal / guided reading activities to accompany an extract from the book `The Firework Makers Daughter`by Philip Pullman. Plus word of the day activities, with spelling from the latest Year 3 & 4 spelling list. Planning and text is attached, plus Blooms questioning grid to model higher level thinking question stems. Each activity has instructions attached.

This activity combined our History topic of Romans, with our Maths focus of measurement, plus a little bit of shapes and fractions thrown as an assessment of the previous units taught. Students receive a letter from Emperor Hadrian, with the command to rebuild sections of Hadrian`s Wall. They then worked in differientiated groups for calculate the correct measurements for the wall. Once the correct measurements had been calculated they then used their knowledge of 3-D shapes to build the wall. I have included the activity and instructions in pdf and word format for editing. My class loved it, but I have to be honest - it took them all morning! Learning Objectives covered: Geometry: Property of Shapes: • Draw 2-D shapes and make 3-D shapes using modelling materials. Measurement: • Measure, compare, and add lengths (m/cm/mm) • Continue to measure using the appropriate tools and units, progressing to using a wider range of measures, including comparing and using mixed units and simple equivalents of mixed units (for example, 5m = 500cm). Fractions: • Recognise, find and write fractions of a discrete set of objects. • Recognise that tenths arise from dividing an object into 10 equal parts and in dividing one-digit numbers or quantities by 10

A weeks worth of reciprocal / guided reading activities to accompany an extract from the book `The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane`by Kate DiCamillo. Plus word of the day activities, with spelling from the latest Year 3 & 4 spelling list. A week of planning, the text extract and all resources are attached.

Four reciprocal / guided reading activities to accompany the book `The Owl Babies`by Martin Waddell. The text is also attached. Each activity has instructions attached.

I have broken the GPS (SPaG) progression documents into objectives per strand, to make it easier to track progress, or isolate gaps in student knowledge. Really useful if you have a mixed year group class or a class with a wide range of abilities.

Two activities for students to practice representations of tenths as fractions, pictures, decimals and in words. Covers LO: LO: Recognise that tenths arise from dividing an object into 10 equal parts

A week of Guided Reading & Spelling planning and resources based on an extract from The Magic Fingerby Roald Dahl.