The five main styles of shading are clearly explained and examples included. A very handy sheet - all the information on one page. Clear, colourful and easy to use. Fellow teachers have created whole displays from this resource. A great resource for an art lesson, or a fun way to brighten up the classroom. Students can create their own examples of the different shading techniques or use the sheet to help them incorporate them into their own artwork.

Great practical activity that can be adapted easily for use in any playground. Metre sticks or trundle wheels needed. Or any measuring tool such as lengths of string. Students work in groups to measure selected sections of their playground. Can also then identify their own lengths to measure. Groups will also need to convert between units of measurement. Other extensions can be included such as working out the total lengths measured and finding the differences between lengths measured. Can also make links to area/perimeter, angles, scale drawing etc.

An activity with some helpful links to a great poem and features of narrative texts. Good visuals and ICT curriculum links.

Great practical activity involving measuring and calculating the area and perimeter of shapes and compound shapes.

Fun, practical activity creating potions. Various capacity containers needed, as well as some drops of food colouring. Students will need to following instructions and measure accurately. They'll also need to work in groups, assign roles and think creatively. A great lesson that can be extended to take up an entire morning if needed. Amounts can be edited or deleted to differentiate, although mixed ability groups works best. You could also carry out an addition/subtraction task to discover which potion contains the most/least liquid etc.

The Snowman - a festive and fun activity which gets the pupils enthused and helps them to think creatively. Practical drama activity can be carried out from this prior to the written task. differentiated three ways. Post it notes and sugar paper useful for this.

Kandinsky activity. Great activity to get pupils drawing and measuring angles. Rulers, protractors and compasses all suitable for for this task. Some great visual displays can be created as a result.

A whole-class investigation. Flipping coins. You will be flipping 10 coins to obtain random results.

Very simple task to help with the understanding of a tricky concept.

An adaptable template to structure the teaching of the 5 Ks in Sikhism. Use alongside any relevant power point. Pupils can illustrate or describe each of the 5 Ks. I would deal with one K at a time. The final section could be based around The Guru Granth Sahib or Guru Gobind Singh.

Feedback welcome. Its my first ever stab at year 2...

Great activities to get the kids enthused about a great story.

Use the smartboard to rub out/highlight the key info for each question.

Lesson plan and activities for pupils to create their own choral performance. Search for 'this is the night mail' on YouTube to access the video.

Incorporating a twinkle PowerPoint, a decent activity to structure the lesson for demonstrating how fossils are formed. Use sand and soil to pour over a toy animal and create a visual of how layers of land build up over time. Very simple but effective.

Need access to mymaths. Follow the link to play the guess my shape game.

Nice investigation splitting a tower of 10 cubes and looking at the different outcomes. Also has a little x table code to crack for an extension.