Looking for an activity for the first week of school? This is a lesson PPT, Lesson plan and resources I used for a PSHE lesson I did for an interview (I got the job!) The lesson was on the book The Bad Seed and focuses on reputation. I use this for transition day for any children who may have been label as ‘the bad kid’ in their current year group to let them know that their year with me is an opportunity for a fresh start. In this download, you will find the lesson PowerPoint I used as well as the resources I created to accompany it. As the children worked on a resource I amended from a product purchased from Teachers Pay Teachers, that resources has been linked on the first page of the RESOURCES file as well as links to the book or an read aloud on Youtube. This resources was used with a Year 3 class but it easily adaptable for any year group.

Hand Signals > Hands up! In my class, I taught the children to use hand signals to communicate various needs including needing the toilet to needing help. This has cut down on shouting out, interruptions and has even supported the children’s communication and independence! If you want to know more about how (and why) I use hand signals, feel free to read my blog post! Note: These hand signals were made using a paid resource from Lidia Barbossa Clip Art so I haven’t included all the available hand signs!

In my classroom, I plan to have a learning focus wall with key vocabulary, exemplar work and… the national curriculum objective. I feel it’s important know that we’re sitting for 20 minutes a day practicing how to join the letters ay because we have to. With the curriculum objective on the wall for them to see, the children know what we’re working towards and are able to assess their progress. These curriculum objectives are: split into the different ‘topics’ stated in the national curriculum and colour coded rewritten in kid speak where needed but otherwise use the wording from the curriculum Landscape A4 to allow you to easily display them on your wall. This download includes the English, Maths and Science Curriculum Aims for Year 1 in a PDF and just need printing and laminating ready to display! Please note, I am working on a low colour and black and white version as well as editable versions to change the wording to suit you.

You asked? I answered! These Visual Timetable cards can be used in any classroom from EYFS to Year Six; all with a friendly font and image to match. Include in this download are lessons such as: Art Science Guided Reading Maths Geography STEM As well as Special Events such as Picture Days Trip Out Jigsaw Time Play Practice Celebration Assembly Currently, there are 32 Timetable Cards include in the download available as a PDF file. Just print on card and laminate and they’ll be ready to use in your class to display tour daily or weekly timetable for your class! Have some specific subjects? Look out in my store for my Editable Timetable Cards!!

There’s a lot of debate around using PowerPoint in lessons, it’s a bit like marmite but for me, having slide provide a sense of routine and structure both for me and the children. I find that having the same thing on the board helps to set the day and start transition between lessons. Here are the Daily Slide I use every single day with my class! This PPT Set include: Morning Work Slides Morning Meeting Slides Break Time Slides Lunch Time Slides Hometime Slides Blank Slide for editing! The fonts used in these slide are KG Blank Space (available free on 1001Fonts) and LetterJoin (KG First time in Forever is a free alternative with a similar look)

For use in both EYFS and Key Stages 1 and 2, here are the transition day activities I showed on my Instagram. These activities are what I plan to use on my transition day next week and I wanted to share them with you all! In this download there are three activities: All About Me Poster Find Someone Who Letter Template Activities 1 and 2 can be used together which I am planning to do using a gallery walk for children to go and find someone who but you can always do them independantly. This download includes a PDF version of all three sheets for printing out but there will be an PPT (PowerPoint) version coming soon!

Here are my job application forms to match my classroom jobs! These application forms include the skills required, the salary in Dojo Points and space for children to write why they think they’re good for the job but are editable for you to add your own description of the job. Jobs included in this resource: Water Bottle News Reporter Register Monitor Lunch Counter Class Librarian Chair Stacker Morning Greeter Mail Person Eco Team Teaching Assistant Photographer Messenger Line Leader Tech Team Class Leader I am using these in my classroom to emphasise the importance of the jobs and their role in the classroom as well as get the children excited about the chance to be a part of the class! To use this resource, simply click in the black box and start typing! I recommend saving the finished document as a PDF file and then printing them all 2 to a page. Keep these as originals and then you can photocopy as many as you need. I’m also introducing the jobs to my class first and making these forms available for the children to fill in and hand in whenever they want!

Anyone else as excited to get into their classroom as me!? Being an NQT, I’m terrified of forgetting something crucial or being unprepared in my NQT year so I’ve put together a Classroom set up checklist and once I started, I couldn’t stop there!! In this download, you get: one ‘general’ classroom set up checklist filled with all the things I’m doing, in the order I’m doing it three blank checklists for you to fill in (classroom set up, first week of school prep, weekly lesson plan prep) I hope these help you with classroom set up and help your NQT week to smoothly!!

Debit Cards to use with Class Dojo Encourage responsibility by encouraging your class to keep track of their dojo points. Fab to use if you use dojo points as currency and your class can use them to buy rewards and prizes. Two versions - rounded rectangle and rectangle to save your wrists when cutting! I recommend printing on card and laminating for long term use each year!

These Letter Formation Sheets were designed to support phonics lesson I am teaching next week. They can be used as printed on card, colored paper and laminated for continuous provision or as part of a main lesson in EYFS or even as an early intervention in Year 1. They can be independent work, group work or completed with adult support. There is a sheet for each letter and each one has six different ways for children to form the letter Trace it Make it Scribble it Draw it Colour it Dot it and focuses on getting children comfortable and familiar with the shapes of each letter.

Here’s the Year 3 Maths Curriculum Objectives, typed up and ready for displays

Here are the Year 6 National Curriculum Objectives. These can be used to help children see what they are working towards.

Here’s a template in made to help me label and organise all my evidence for the teachind standards. A simple templete to use for printing on Post It Notes that can then be attached to evidence and ready to file! This download includes 1 blank template for placing Post Its, 2 sheets with the Standards and lines for making notes and guidelines for using the templates.

Here’s a worksheet for EYFS to help children practice forming numbers in numeral and written form. This sheet asks children to read a numeral form, trace and write the written form and finally represent the number either in a drawing or on a ten frame. The sheet uses a box font to encourage children to think about tall, small and hanging letters. There are two different forms of differentiation: The Draw It! worksheet for LA students who can draw their representation The Ten Frame It! worksheet for MA and HA students who can represent numbers on a ten frame This worksheet can be used with manipulatives to increase support given. Dice It!, Domino It! and Numicon It! to be added at a later date.

Here’s my Writing the Alphabet worksheet for EYFS and the very first product I created! This sheet focuses on letter formation and asks children trace the letter 5 times then to represent the letters of the alphabet in 9 different ways: Write It! - Simply write the letter Trace It! Dot It! - to write the letters in dots Colour It! - use colouring pens/ pencils to write the letter Cross It! - to write the letter in small crosses Stamp It! - to stamp the letter in the space Stick It! - to stick in the letter (foam letters, cut out letters) Make It! - to make the letter out of string, wool, match sticks Reveal It! - to write the letter in white crayon then reveal it in pen This is useful as it allows children to become familiar with the formation of the letter through repetition. Different means of support can be added to differentiate the activities such as allowing HA students to search for the correcrt letter stamp whilst LA students have the stamp provided.

Here’s my Fill the Gap worksheet This is a very simple worksheet that focuses on number sequencing and encouraging children to think about one more and one less. This sheet asks children to fill in the missing numbers and has a number line at the bottom that can be removed or hidden for High Attaining Students. There are three different worksheets that work as levels of differentiation: A 1 to 10 worksheet for LA Students A 5 to 15 worksheet for MA Students A 10 - 20 Worksheet for HA Students This worksheet can be used with manipulatives to increase support given. Numbers 20 - 50 to be added in the future.

Here’s my Exploring Numbers Around Us worksheet. This is a simple counting activity that encouraged children to think about numbers in real world context such as counting up children in the class of the numbers that are important to them. There are two worksheets included: Numbers in ME! which encourages children to think about the numbers that are special to them such as their age or their birthday Numbers in my Classroom! which encourages children to think about the numbers in their classroom such as the number of children with brown hair. This product was one of my first and I’m super happy with how it turned out. I hope to update it to include other representations of numbers as ten frames aren’t often used in the UK.

Here’s my Making Patterns worksheet This is a very simple worksheet that focuses on identifying, completing and making patterns. This sheet asks children to observe the patterns on the worksheet, complete it and them create their own. These sheets come with two different levels of differentiation: A sheet with missing elements at the end A sheet with missing elements throughout the worksheet This worksheet can be used with manipulatives to increase support given and gives children a chance to practice shape vocabulary.

Here’s my Shape Spotting worksheet for EYFS. This download includes 4 worksheets that ask children to either color in specific shapes or count how many shapes that can see. The objectives of this sheet is to encourage children to recognise shapes by their characteristics rather than what they know. i.e. this shape has no corners so it’s a circle. It’s useful as the shapes are in different rotations, translations and sizes so encourages children to really think about characteristics. Differentiation is in the form of the two different sheets: LA can be encouraged to focus on improving their knowledge of shapes characteristics with the coloring sheet whereas MA and HA can incorporate number skills with the counting sheet. Furthermore, one set of sheets use ‘basic’ shapes such as square, rectangle, cirlce and the other has diamonds, hexagons etc. Links to: Shape, Space and Measure Counting Numbers

Here’s my Number Trains worksheet This is a simple worksheet that focuses on Number Bonds from 4 to 8. This sheet asks children to investigate and records the numbers bonds for these numbers and can be used with manipulatives, specifically colored cubes. The downloads includes 8 different worksheets (one for each one number 4 - 8), a thank you notes and a sample worksheet.