Use skateboarding as a novel way to teach acute, obtuse, reflex, right and straight angles. These are eye catching posters that can be printed at size, or enlarged, and are suitable for a classroom working wall. They support a skater-themed learning journey. These posters were developed to support resources: Skateboard Angles, and Skater Turns.

This is a slides how focusing specifically on degrees in turns. It uses the theme of skating to show that there are 360 degrees in a turn and encourages children to spot that each quarter turn is a multiple of 90 - it invites children to calculate the degrees needed for a turn and a half, and two turns. The guided activity asks children to stand and turn as per instruction e.g. 90 degrees right, (on imaginary skateboards). This activity would be ideal for a lesson starter, and outside of the maths lesson to keep up interest. It also works well inking to clips of snowboarders and BMXers doing spins - sometimes children can listen in the commentary for how big the turn was, and sometimes you can pause and count the turns as they take place.

Real-life examples of acute, obtuse, reflex, right and straight angles drawn from skating. Each angle type is clearly introduced Followed by an example of how this relates to skating Interactive task/printable. This resource works well with Skater Angles, which focuses an input on degrees in turns. These lessons complement a learning journey based on skating; further resources are available at: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/narrative-writing-bubble-wrap-boy-11868862 If you like this resource, I would be grateful if you could leave a review.

This is a lesson (teaching presentation and activity) for teaching coordinates in all four quadrants. A knowledge of coordinates in the first quadrant is assumed alongside a basic knowledge of the principles of negative numbers. The resource is survival themed (as it was delivered as part of a survival learning journey) but it could be used in any maths lesson to teach coordinates in all 4 quadrants - the theme just makes it a little more engaging. It is equally easily adaptable as a pirate treasure map activity. Children imagine themselves on a desert island. They want to create a map for their fellow castaways (or pirates) indicating where the fresh water is, the firewood etc. they must create their own desert islands, plot co-ordinates for all the key features and then state what the coordinates are in a key. Children will love the creative element of this - the maps could be decorated and improved further in pm sessions - this is the type of challenge/activity that they do again at home for the fun of it. It has been deliberately left for the children to decide what their island looks like, and what is important to plot, so that they have full ownership of the ideas. There are teaching slides on how to read and plot co-ordinates in the 4 quadrants and the activity instructions are carefully scaffolded (Children will make mistakes if asked to draw their own axes in their maths books without a clear explanation about how to do so - we discovered the hard way!) There is also a printable grid for LA pupils, who will still be able to create their own island, and plot their own features. Tip: print a few extras, so if anyone does struggle to draw the axis in their books, and needs to re-start, this could be glued in over the top. I created this resource to be used as a survival themed project over a week in maths, at the end of term - there is an accompanying resource set on reading shipping maps and timetables, and creating a look-out rota/timetable. I hope you enjoy delivering this lesson. I would be grateful if you could leave a review with a comment, once you have used it in class.

Powerpoint presentations with printables for the first 5 days of this teaching unit.

This introduces vocabulary for common household pets. This bumper powerpoint includes: French voice recordings for each animal. Guess the missing picture game (Que manque-t-il?) Guess the animal by the sound it makes (C’est quel animal?) Watch carefully to count the number of animals Animated noughts and crosses (Morpion) Printable word search. This resource is suitable for a variety of ages - photographs have been carefully selected to look modern and appealing; the activities are best used over several short sessions - introduce vocabulary and then come back to some of the other activities at other times.

An introduction to imperial measurements This resource gives a comprehensive overview of what imperial measurements are This is ideal to precede written work on converting between measures Includes printables for practical activities Children familarise themselves with concrete examples of imperial to metric conversions. The practical activities could be run as one lesson as a brief carousel, a whole afternoon set of activities, or a series of lessons in a unit on measure, focusing each day on a different measure (Length, weight/mass, volume). For the practical activity, teachers will need access to standard measuring equipment, however, this resource could be used for input alone - children would gain a secure understanding of what imperial means in relation to metric. Slides can also be printed directly from the ppt (full page slides) as posters for your working wall - there is a useful one on how prefixes can help you identify one metric measure in relation to another - milli- centi- deci- etc. If you like this resource, you may also like https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/metric-conversion-problems-weight-11881646 Metric conversions I would be grateful if you could leave a review for this resource, after you have used it in class.

Come on England! We are behind you. Triangular-shaped bunting on a power point to print out for children to colour in. Red coloured pencils at the ready! Hastily put together in time for tomorrow’s game! The alternative activity is to complete the second half of the flag, symmetrically. Would make a lovely classroom/window display if we do manage to get through to the finals! I hope you enjoy using this resource. :-)

This is a power point that walks children through how to solve missing number pyramids in very simple steps, but has calculations that are a little more difficult than the most basic. (It goes beyond facts within 20, for example, but keeps within 100.) The pyramids themselves are set out at an angle because I created them in Excel - a tip I picked up from another TES user - teaching the children to be familiar with them in this layout, means it can take you seconds to create your own alternative pyramids! I’ve uploaded the spreadsheet so you can do that, if you need more, follow the instructions below: Simply highlight and copy the selection (number) of pyramids you want, then paste them into a new sheet - it will randomly create more with different numbers. I then paste into a document (such as ppt or word) and quickly delete some of the numbers to create missing number pyramids (remembering of course to keep the original for the answers!) You can also change the parameters to make them harder or easier. Anyway, I hope this resource is of some use to you. Happy teaching. I would appreciate you leaving a review. :-)

This is a slide show that contains 22 slides of puzzles and riddles. They are easy enough to guess the answers but hard enough to present a fun challenge for primary school-aged children. I used these riddles as part of an English lesson in Year 5 and they were very well received. It also includes a worksheet where the riddles have been differentiated to solve in groups as an alternative to a whole-class activity. This is a light hearted end-of-term fun activity for the children who are tired, and in need of something a bit lighter, but it will nonetheless develop their critical thinking skills, and hopefully foster a love of these word-play type problems. The presentation includes slides explaining what riddles are and how they work, and giving several guided examples before launching into the whole class slides. Each separate riddle is presented on one slide, which is then animated to reveal the answer, alongside an explanation of any that may need further clarification. Having carried out this lesson previously where children simply read the printed riddles from a worksheet, I am really pleased with the slide show, as the pictures add another element of deception - you are further able to mislead their thinking with subtle/subconscious red-herrings! I hope you have fun using this resource. I would be grateful if you could leave a review.

A moving up day presentation with activity. Children play ‘two truths and a lie’ and then create their own passports to enable them to move up to the next year group. The presentation is a simple powerpoint that you can edit to include the names of the adults in the classroom and create your own “two truths and a lie” facts. I would also add slides about the topics that are covered in the year - it contains screen shots of the activity in order to model to the children what to do. The activity has been been based on a version of a TES recommended resource by tafkam which is excellent, so I can take no credit for the original idea. I have created my own version more suitable for lower Key Stage 2 and hopefully easy to edit to include school logos etc. It should be printed or photocopied double sided. When I have done this activity in the past, I have held onto the children’s passports and returned them to them in the summer, prior to their new moving up day. It’s a nice way to get them to reflect on the year that was, too. (Please note: the photograph on the example is an example of one I created with my son, for fun, not of any pupil I teach! I’ve also blanked out his school logos and school name.) I hope this resource helps you to get to know your new class better!

This is a whole lesson encouraging children to think critically and evaluate whether the information they see on the internet is real or fake. This resource includes: lesson (or session) plan and an activity. The plan details how to encourage children to think about what we use the internet for, and through the use of classroom clips introduces the idea of fake news. Children are given tips about how to evaluate whether a story etc might be fake or genuine. The activity is to look at a screen shot of a news story/twitter feed/web page/email/viral photo and decide whether it is is real or fake. Children click the answer each time (real or fake) -most are fake - and then there is extra information about how they might have reasoned this, what clues or warnings there were etc. These are mostly real-life examples. Although the activity has been entitled ‘Fake News Spotter’, the scope of the lesson is actually much broader than ‘Fake News’ as it also touches upon scams, trusted sources of information and using the internet for research. Tip: The activity is designed to be completed by the children individually/in pairs in ppt, but if that is not possible, it can be delivered as a whole class activity, or the slides can be printed and children can examine them in groups or pairs and sort them into a pile of ‘real’ or ‘fake’ before the answers are talked through as a whole class. This makes a nice reading-based activity in mixed ability pairs - perfect if there are carousels of activities taking places as part of a whole school approach to Safer Internet Day. I’m really pleased with this lesson which I have used with Year 4. I did notice that, when using the ppt, they all were very keen simply to see if they were correct or incorrect and whizzed through the slides without really reading the important information, so I would advise that you put in place some incentives to ensure that they actually read the slides - perhaps partner has to ask a question based on the content, or each taking it in turns to read the slide aloud before moving on - I had to make at least one quarter of the class go back over it again when finished. I hope you enjoy using this resource - there is so much misinformation out there, even for us adults - anything that helps our young people think more carefully about what they see or share, or how they select what sites they visit, is, in my view, a good thing!

This assembly looks at the issue of single use plastic. Children are asked initially to use words to describe an idyllic scene, which they later find out is cropped, and the image reveals a litter-strewn beach. The slides talk through the origins of plastic and explore some of the benefits of plastic, so children can understand how we have arrived at this situation. The assembly goes on to look at the drawbacks -in simple terms, not too hard-hitting or upsetting. The final part of this assembly encourages children to think about what they can do to address the situation. There are slides encouraging recycling, not using in the first place, and participation in litter picks. The assembly ends with a prayer, but a good alternative would also be a silent promise - one thing the children will do in the next week to help the situation. There are also external links to two clips that could be used in the assembly - one a classroom clip about different types of plastic and another You Tube clip that’s quite a nice opportunity to ask children what unsustainable choices the man is making, and what the drawbacks for him of each of his choices are. I hope you enjoy using this resource. It is such an important issue and I’m very pleased it is becoming increasingly topical. I would be grateful if you would leave a review, once you have used the assembly.

Whole lesson (plan and resources) on using algebra to solve a given number problem. This resource has been developed to encourage children to think mathematically about a given problem, use existing number sense and understand how a formula can express a general rule. The learning is tied to a story the children are told about the mathematician Carl Friedrich Gauss, and how he ‘got the better of’ his teacher at the age of ten, having been set the task of adding up all the numbers from 1-100 so the teacher could have a rest. The children are taught how to solve the query by pattern-spotting, making generalisations and finally algebraic expression and then asked to investigate further. Everything is extremely structured/scaffolded. Although it has been labelled as suitable for ‘Upper Primary’ (Years 5 and 6), it is suitable to extend the mathematical thinking of younger children. It is especially ideal for an adult to deliver with a small group of higher-achievers, when something is being done in the classroom they do not need to go over at all. This resource would work best with a whole class if there are other adults available to scaffold the learning as described in the lesson plan. I would be very grateful if you would take the time to feed back, after you have used this resource. Tip: For work in books, print slide 27 at the end of the slideshow in ‘2 slides per page’ mode, and ask children to glue in books, next to their workings out. (Trim into strips to show differentiated tasks.)

Resource developed for teaching children to convert between g and kg in context based problems. This resource includes a teaching presentation with guided examples and differentiated activities with answers - the activities can be used with different ability groups or over the course of several lessons for progression. There are four sets of ‘what weighs more …’ comparison questions allowing for two days of activities moving to the next level up over the course of both days or for four-way differentiation. The tasks are presented as word problems. The answers are included as slides on the presentation so children can mark their own work. The presentation allows for: Re-visiting the metric units of measurement for weight (mass) grams and kilograms (and milligrams/tons in relation to these) Encouraging children to use knowledge of halves/doubles and patterns etc. to convert mentally between grams and kilograms using knowledge the 1000g = 1kg. Explaining how to use place value (grids) for more complex calculations by going forwards or backwards three places to convert between g and kg or kg and g. The problems are designed to include more complex use of number, as well as conversions as the level of challenge increases. Includes a print-friendly Word version of all activities. For neatness of presentation, ask children to cut and stick each box as they go, showing their workings out beneath. Ideal for use in Year 5 or year 6. I would be grateful if you could leave a review once you have used this resource in class. If you like this, you may also like: imperial to metric conversions https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/imperial-measurements-11869571 Updated: Nov 2019

A whole English lesson on formal and informal language. I have used versions of this in year 5 and in year 6. There is a very clear explanation of formal and informal language as well as standard and non-standard English. Children are guided through several SATs style questions and then introduced to a written task. They are to re-write a couples draft wedding vows in a more formal style as befits the situation! Fun. A model answer is given. There are usually several questions that require the children to select the most formal sentence in the spelling and grammar SpAG SATs test, and this lesson helps, particularly where practice papers have identified this as an area for improvement. I tend to theme my lessons based on the learning journey or something topical, and this lesson has nods toward the topic of skating and also the Harry Meghan Royal Wedding where I have adapted it for use in both. If there is another big forthcoming celebrity wedding that the children are aware of, it would be worth replacing the names and the photos, once downloaded, to keep in relevant and up to date for the children, but I’m afraid my knowledge of the latest celebrity couple is rather wanting! The resource includes a written plan and LO printout. I hope you enjoy this lesson. It is a bit tongue-in-cheek, but surely that’s the best way to deliver a grammar lesson? Please also note that a percentage of author proceeds from the sale of this product will be given to our partner school in Sierra Leone. To date (Feb 2020) have donated £250 from the proceeds of author sales

This assembly explores the Christian value of humility using Palm Sunday and the symbolism of Jesus’ arrival in Jerusalem on a donkey. It is ideal to use during the week preceding Easter (Holy Week) or in the lead up to Palm Sunday. Start by asking children what words they would use to describe the white horse. There is a word art image with likely answers. This assembly encourages children to think of ways they can practise the Christian value of humility, and ends with a prayer. It could also be used as part of a lesson input in a church school where children then create their own palm frond crosses, from paper or real palm leaves. I would be grateful if you could leave a review, once you have used this resource.

This is a whole lesson (ppt, plan and printouts) on creating cinquain poetry. It is scaffolded for children whose own vocabulary might need developing - rather than having to think of words themselves from a limited pool, they read and highlight a piece of descriptive text to pull out powerful vocabulary from this and create their own word bank to use. Works for higher ability, too as they can add their own ideas to the same word bank. I recommend that an adult work with the lower ability readers to understand the text extract when creating the word bank. It would be good as a precursor to creating their own cinquains from scratch on something topical or relevant to a book you are reading in a subsequent lesson. I have chosen one extract from a book about skating, Bubble Wrap Boy, by Phil Earle, and the other has been drafted by me in a similar style. The examples in the slide show and handouts are based on skating - as I had a group of boys quite obsessed with it - who I wanted to make sure enjoyed the poetry. They did. Cinquains are always fun - all the better if they get to copy them up with illustrations, or do them on PCs to get the centering/format correct. I hope you enjoy using this resource.

This practice test paper has been designed specifically for progression. It is written with deliberately more challenging vocabulary and sentence structures, to extend the learning of those children now familiar with practice test paper and content. It tests the grammar element of the SpaG test. I would be grateful if you could leave a review after purchase and implementation.

I put this together having searched the net and drawn a blank. There are lots and lots of good spy packs for a spy theme on the net. I am theming one of the school’s lock down weeks on the subject of spies, and there is heaps to keep us going (code making, invisible ink writing, time capsule, wax resist painting, to name a few) This worksheet is to print to allow children to create their own spy cover stories, or aliases - I will then ask them to write a diary entry in role to get into character - in the pm we will create the time capsules to preserve our real identities and bury, and at the end of this day, will play the Yes/No game in role as our aliases! Hopefully a lot of fun to be had in tough times. Anyway, in the hope that this saves a few other people time … could easily be used in any literacy lesson when developing a character outside of a spy context. (Just remove the top secret stamp)