Primary national tests: student support
With the phonics screening check, KS1 tests and KS2 Sats in touching distance, it’s time to get your learners ready. From literacy and maths support to engaging ways of preparing them for the tests, we’ve hand-picked some great resources to add to your toolkit.
Preparing for tests
SATS DISPLAY 2016
A simple display with tips and tricks to aid in test taking skills. Includes dates for 2016 that can be edited in following years.
SATS Preparation 2020
Y6 SATS 2020 - Including practice questions and a 2020 presentation for parents, this bundle contains three useful resources to help you prepare your pupils for the Y6 SATS/end of KS2 assessments, 1: Reading Question Generator: a highly-rated revision resource providing 100 practice questions for ...
GROWTH MINDSET POSTERS DISPLAY -BRAIN THINKING skills positivity motivation self esteem
Resources included are as follows: PDF files for you to print. Set of 25 A4 colourful posters for display each with a fixed mindset and growth mindset sentence and pictures to match. Several colourful borders to edge wall display each decorated with little brains. Back...
Mindfulness Colouring Book for Children - Calm, Refocus and Motivate your Class
\*Digital Education Version of the Global Bestselling Original: Mindfulness Colouring Book for Children\* 40 pages of mindful colouring activities for your class. Works well with SEN children or simply as a calming behaviour management activity or incentive to motivate your class. Focusing...
Test Taking Strategies Escape Room - No Prep!
The Test-Taking Strategies Escape Room will take students on a secret mission around the classroom! This escape room has students decode universal testing tips for any subject. Some of the strategies include: get a good night s sleep, underline or circle keywords, use process of elimination, show ...
Helping Children's Visual Skills and Memory
Professor Amanda Kirby describes how to improve children's visual skills.
Literacy support
Year 5 and 6 Writing Support Pack - 18 A4 Learning Mats
The booklet covers the following areas: Sentence Types (single and multi-clause), Conjunctions, Sentence Openers, Relative Clauses, Cohesive Phrases, Parenthesis, Expanded Noun Phrases, Dialogue, Commas, Semi-colons and Colons, Passive Voice, Modal Verbs, Paragraphs, Shifts in Formality, Verb Forms,...
Essential Grammar (KS1/KS2)
This 23 page resource includes- -Indefinite Articles (adding a or an) These worksheets are differentiated -Superlatives and Comparatives (three different pages of tasks) -Noun Classification (countable and uncountable nouns) -Question Word Writing Activities (Who? What? Where? When? Why...
KS2 SATs GPS / SPAG Revision Placemat (Free Version)
A grammar, punctuation and spelling placemat that covers all GPS terminology outlined in the new curriculum and the 2016 GPS test framework. Everything you will ever need in one place, making it the perfect SATs revision tool. Clear and concise glossary of terms with examples Technically ac...
Year 6 spag revision activities
A collection of 10 worksheets, 10 activities and 10 starters (in the form of a PowerPoint) to use with your year 6 class in the run-up to SATs. The ten topics covered are those that my class were finding difficult, so I decided they needed a bit of extra revision! The worksheets use questions that...
Writing Help Mat
These writing help mats have been made for Year 6 in mind but can easily be used with other children. Simply print out the two pages and laminate them back to back to give children a work mat to help their writing and ensure they are addressing a number of the statements required for end of Key...
Phonics Revision Workbook
Perfect resource to help with revising a range of Phase 3 / 5 sounds (including alien words). Each page has instructions at the top that should be self-explanatory for the children. Used with my own Year 1 class and majority could complete independently. Great for getting them to practice thei...
Maths support
KS1 Numeracy Support Mat
A handy two-sided support map for younger children which could act as a handy classroom prompt. The mat shows key concepts such as left and right, coins to 1, times tables 2 - 7, compass points (N,S, E, W), a 100 square and number line to 20, common 2D and 3D shapes, doubling and halving, and nu...
Numeracy Support Chart KS2, KS3, KS4
A very useful resource for numeracy support. Reminders for pupils on place value, 100 square, multiplication grid, add, subtract, multiply, divide, mental strategies, metric conversions, finding percentages, negative numbers, finding fractions, adding and subtracting fractions. It can be photocopied...
White Rose Maths - KS2 - Problems of the Day 2018
It s back! White Rose Maths Problem of the Day. Along with the usual PDFs we have added a powerpoint that will be updated each day. The calendar is hyperlinked to take you straight to the new problems and answers are provided. Full worked solutions will be provided at the end of the month. For t...
Maths Mats Morning Work - Support
These activities are intended to be used as morning work. This pack is aimed at the children working towards the expected standard, questions are the same but using numbers to 30. They require the children to use the basic skills covered in the Place Value and Addition and Subtraction Units of ...
Maths Revision KS2 Song
Product Description Find out some of time-tested tips and tricks to improve your results on your next math test or PARCC assessment. You ll quickly realize there is no reason to have text anxiety when you are mentally prepared for what is to come! This song and music video is unbelievably c...
Using Bar Modelling for SATs Questions (Problem Solving and Reasoning)
Following on from the excellent work of Nick Hart I have been using this resource/method to help children to break SATs problems down into steps. Please read Nick's blog post 'Throwing Out That Old RUCSAC' in conjunction with this resource:https://thisismyclassroom.wordpress.com/2014/03/31/thro...
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KS1 and KS2 revision resources for the primary national tests
KS1 tests
Reading, Spag and maths revision resources for Year 2 pupils
KS2 Sats
Revision activities and practice questions for the KS2 Sats