A wide range of fun, practical and engaging resources tried and tested in the classroom with real children!!!! These resources have been amassed over a 19 year teaching career which has included managing EYFS and KS1, working as an Early Years Consultant, Maths Subject Lead and a School based tutor for SCITT.
A wide range of fun, practical and engaging resources tried and tested in the classroom with real children!!!! These resources have been amassed over a 19 year teaching career which has included managing EYFS and KS1, working as an Early Years Consultant, Maths Subject Lead and a School based tutor for SCITT.
Can you make a verb alaphabet? Editable activity sheet which could be used for any word groups.
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How many times game - turnover two cards and multiply the numbers then write the answer in the correct square on the board or use the ready mades numbers, turnovera card & place it on the board.
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Work out the missing number problems to get the 6 digit code to open the safe! Great activity for greater depth.
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An fun and easily adapted maths challenge - can you work out which is the most expensive suffix word?
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Maths challenges for the whole class and blank copies for children to invent their own maths puzzler!
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Habitat FOR SALE - Powerpoint with examples of particulars to inspire children’s own writing and printable sheets of property details. Also included: PowerPoint linked to Zootropolis movie showing journey through different habitats and a blank map for children to design their own Zootopia habitat maps including the different animals who would live there. ‘Create an animal’ zoologist challenge, Gimme 5 animal characteristics and making human bodies activity ideas as well as ‘Shoebox Habitats’ DT project ideas PowerPoint. Images are included to show the work completed by pupils using these resources.
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Do you know about the great fire of Newcastle/Gateshead? An information PowerPoint and activities linked to the fire and the regeneration of the banks of The River Tyne.
This pack contains a PowerPoint used in a network training session with loads of ideas for activities linked to Understanding the World. There is wealth of pictures, resource ideas, links to useful websites and some activity sheets.
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This fun and humorous class assembly, used with a Year 2 class, is linked to popular TV shows and the Great Fire of London. There are appearances from Thomas Farriner on The Great British Bakeoff, Samuel Pepys and King Charles II are interviewed on BBC News and The Strictly Come Dancing professionals perform a fire dance. The script also includes parts for the children to take on the role of their teachers with a Beat the Teacher quiz at the end! A PowerPoint is included to use as a backdrop if an IWB is available.
PowerPoint with a collection of self portraits by famous artists and activity ideas for children's own self portraits. An additional PowerPoint with the work of Sandra Silberzweig a great stimulus for the children's own unique self portraits.
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A fun activity that can be carried out indoors or outdoors depending on the weather! All you need to do is print out the clues all linked to well-known story books (laminate) and lay out the trail. Children can work in pairs/teams to answer the questions and decipher the secret message! Answer sheets and certificates included. This activity is editable and would be a great introduction to a reading challenge or a ‘My favourite book day.’
A PowerPoint used during an English lesson on writing instructions using George’s Marvellous Medicine as a stimulus. This resource includes ‘boxing up’ templates, a reading task and a ‘bottle’ template for the children to illustrate their own ‘marvellous medicine’ concoctions (works well enlarged to A3).
A fun Christmas activity for KS1. Children use the top secret code to find the punchlines to a selection of Christmas cracker jokes! There are 24 jokes included in this pack. Ideal as a stimulus for your own class Christmas joke competition too!
This resource can be used to support writing fairytale news. This pack includes 2 PowerPoints which explore headlines and fairytale crimes to discuss and use as a stimulus for children’s own writing along with blank newspaper templates and crime scene images. There are five sample copies of news reports which can be used as WAGOLLs (linked to Little Red Riding Hood, The Gingerbread Man, Goldilocks and the Three Bears, Jack and the Beanstalk and The Three Little Pigs) & used to identify the features of news reports (I used post-it notes with my class for them to label the parts) and a planning template for children’s own reports. A useful wanted poster template is also included which could be used as an extension activity to help capture the fairytale villains whilst promoting the use of expanded noun phrases. N.b. Publisher & PDF copies included.
A PowerPoint comparing firefighters in the past/ present and three activity sheets.
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