A few resources to set up a hospital or doctor’s role play area. Includes room signs, ID badges, prescription pads, patient examination pads, appointment sheets.

A phonic activity based on 'buying' pictures or whole cvc words with alphabet coins. Coins, two pictures for each initial sound, and a 'shop' game board template are included. Could be use as a group game or an independent activity to reinforce phonic knowledge.

A 4-minute whiteboard timer. Can the children tidy up / finish the work before the Christmas tree is decorated and the snow falls? Please note that you may need to download the sound file from Microsoft clipart if it’s not already on your computer (it’s the ‘Oh Christmas Tree’ song - sound clip MSj04379000000) or add your own preferred sound to show that time is up.

A Power Point timer: a jar fills with marbles as two minutes tick away. Useful for encouraging pupils to complete work, tidy up, etc. in a limited time scale.

A powerpoint based timer to encourage tidying up or finishing an activity within a two minute (approx!) time. Can the children tidy up / finish before the 20 butterflies fly in and land on the flowers?

A set of cards having the major phonemes on arrow shapes that fit together to make cvc words. Useful for synthetic phonics. Black & white to save colour ink(!) but could easily be coloured in if required.

A set of name labels for the animals and fruits in the story Handa’s Suprise plus sentences re-telling the main story and matching single words for matching / sentence reconstruction. Everyone’s entitled to an opinion, but please note that there ARE sentences - perhaps the reviewer forgot to download the second document :-)

Six sets of boards and matching cards with pictures and rhyming words (e.g. board=cat, matching card = hat).

Resources to make an interactive display / resource for this counting rhyme. Includes a copy of the rhyme, a flying saucer and two lots of five ‘aliens’ - so that they can be glued back to back enclosing a lollystick to to make puppets if required. (alternatively add velcro strips to the aliens and saucer).

Sheets of small workcards having simple additions or subtractions differentiated for numbers up 10, 15, 20 on each sheet. Useful to cut out and laminate as independent activities for fast finishers.

A set of simple pictures of the characters in Goldilocks and the Three Bears. Each character’s picture has a reverse image, so that the pictures can be glued back-to-back to make puppets.

Bingo game using multiplication tables to either print out and use on paper, or laminate and use/re-use with whiteboard pens. 30 Bingo cards to allow whole class play, but arranged so that smaller groups can easily separated out. In Sassoon font, so you may have to adjust font size if your computer does not support Sassoon.

Animated powerpoint of the Ten Green Bottles song. The bottles teeter and fall as you left click or press the enter key. This allows time for singing the song or for reinforcing maths ideas between bottles.

An animation of the counting song 'Five Little Caterpillars&'. As you click through the powerpoint the caterpillars turn into butterflies which fly upwards but don&';t go away. This allows lots of mathematical talk - how many butterflies / caterpillars now? etc.

Sets of cards having multiplication questions on one card and a matching answer on its pair. The cards can be used for snap or a pairs memory game. When printing them out for myself, I have printed the cards onto paper which I have previously printed a pattern on the reverse side to make them more colourful.

The original NLS 45 reception high frequency words on apples - two choices, comic sans or sassoon infant, but because they are in word you can alter the font, size, colour, words, etc. easily.

Expanded version of the Stick Puppet file already added to the Bank - I have added bowls, chairs and beds, as requested!

A table top resource based on Bev Evans’ idea (Thanks Bev!) of a Maths Bus / Maths house adapted for a pupil who loves fishing. A simple aid to counting to 10 / addition and subtraction to ten.

Resources to make an interactive display / resource for the counting rhyme Ten Fat Sausages. Includes a copy of the rhyme, a ‘pan’ and ten numbered sausages. I have included reverse images of the sausages so that they can be stuck back to back. You could either use the sausages as puppets, or use velcro strips to attach them to the pan.

Two Walt and Wilf pages, with an owl learner (Walt) and owl teacher (Wilf) and blank tablet to add learning objectives / points to remember. Could be printed off and laminated, or (perhaps more usefully) put up on the Smart board to reinforce objectives.

A simple resource for displaying the birthdays for the current week. Includes a chart for the days fo the week and a sheet for making name labels which can be stuck on to the appropriate day with tacky or velcro as required. Also included is a birthday cake picture, with an adjustable number of candles. (In Word, so candles can be taken away by simply deleting them, or added by cutting and pasting - different sized candles are included).