A set of 10 literacy and maths activities to help children keep their basic skills active during the school Christmas holidays. Designed to take only fifteen minutes a day, this pack of activities covers reading, vocabulary development, word puzzles, calculation, times-tables and word problems complete with answer sheets and a self assessment tracking grid. All the activities are written by an experienced primary school teacher.

A set of 6 target sheets designed to provide coverage of the maths curriculum for Year 4 in the UK but which can be adapted to suit other curricula. Can be used at home or at school to provide a step by step approach to covering the different year group objectives. There are two complete sets provided; one has the year group printed on the top and the second set are simply numbered 1 – 6. Some educators prefer to clearly state which year group the targets are aimed at but other educators prefer to use them as a more individualised resource so that they children work at their own level and at their own pace. Structure and Organisation The targets are split into six sets for the year - one sheet per half term. This means that the average child would aim to complete one target sheet per half term which is approximately one target per week. These can be used as homework tasks or in school tasks or as a weekly challenge for home schoolers. Each child is given the first target sheet at the beginning of the year - or the target sheet most appropriate to their attainment level - and should work through the targets one by one. These targets were not designed as an assessment tool but they can be used to track progress if so desired. Assessment and Monitoring. There are four boxes provided at the end of each target. The first is to be completed by a friend in school, the second by a parent and the third by an adult in school. Schools may choose to use all or just some of these boxes. The aim is to reduce the work load for teachers and to empower parents to know what to work on with their child next. If used in connection with websites such as www.mathszone.co.uk or www.mathisfun.com, parents can select activities to work on with their children. If groups of children are working on the same target, they can be tested together or testing can be done on a half termly basis or an individual basis.

A set of 10, maths and literacy activities to support and maintain children’s maths and literacy skills during the school holidays. These 10 , festive themed activities are designed to take 15 minutes per day and cover areas such as: reading comprehension and cloze procedure, basic calculation and timestables, vocabulary development and word puzzles, and worded maths problems and investigations. A full set of answers is provided and each activity is designed to be completed independently to reduce the amount of adult intervention needed. The author, Jan Mace, is an experienced primary school teacher and has over 30 years experience as a teacher, school leader, local authority advisor and initial teacher trainer.

This is a full lesson plan aimed at Years 5 and 6 to develop skills in finding the nth term. I used it in an Ofsted inspection and it was well reviewed. Our theme that half term was The Tempest - hence the links to Caliban! - but it stands as a discrete maths lesson. It contains learning objectives, success criteria, learning activities and key learning points to be established. Hope you find it useful.

This is a set of maths targets for use with Year 5 children in the first half term of the academic year. Suitable for teachers, teaching assistants, parents, home schoolers and trainee teachers. Can be used at home or at school to monitor progress, for homework or as a group activity. The full set of Maths Targets for Y5 and for Years 1 - 6 is available from Teaching Rainbows on TES Resources.

5 x 15 minute literacy and maths activities for Year 3. Are you… Struggling to get your children to practice their basic literacy and maths skills during the half term holiday? Looking for some short, age appropriate resources to send home with the children to complete each day? Searching for something with answers included? I’ve been a class teacher just like you, and spent hours designing suitable resources to encourage my pupils to keep working on their maths and literacy skills through the holidays. That’s why I created these resources to support you. Attached, you will find extracts from some of the activities included in the pack. Each pack contains 5, 15 minute activities for your pupils to do at home - one for each day of the half term holiday - including number and word activities, reading comprehensions and maths puzzles - all with answer sheets included.

5 x 15 minute literacy and maths activities for Year 3 to do at home. Are you… Struggling to get your children to practice their basic literacy and maths skills during the half term holiday? Looking for some short, age appropriate resources to send home with the children to complete each day? Searching for something with answers included? I’ve been a class teacher just like you, and spent hours designing suitable resources to encourage my pupils to keep working on their maths and literacy skills through the holidays. That’s why I created these resources to support you. Each pack contains 5, 15 minute activities for your pupils to do at home - one for each day of the half term holiday - including number and word activities, reading comprehension and maths puzzles - all with answer sheets included.

5 x 15 minute literacy and maths activities for Year 4. Are you… Struggling to get your children to practice their basic literacy and maths skills during the half term holiday? Looking for some short, age appropriate resources to send home with the children to complete each day? Searching for something with answers included? I’ve been a class teacher just like you, and spent hours designing suitable resources to encourage my pupils to keep working on their maths and literacy skills through the holidays. That’s why I created these resources to support you. Attached, you will find extracts from some of the activities included in the pack. Each pack contains 5, 15 minute activities for your pupils to do at home - one for each day of the half term holiday - including number and word activities, reading comprehensions and maths puzzles - all with answer sheets included.

This practical resource takes the three main strands of mathematical thinking - application, communication and reasoning - and develops them in a step by step approach. It is useful for any teacher at any stage of their career who is looking to introduce, develop and promote a thinking and reasoning approach to mathematics in the classroom. It can be used with any activity and with any age of children.

This resource contains a series of activities using a simple number line starting point. These can be introduced by the teacher and used as investigations with the class or the diagram could be used to generate lines of enquiry by the pupils. It can be used with children from Year 2 upwards and extended to include negative numbers if desired.

This resource aimed at 7 - 11 year olds, provides 8 starting points to investigate next door neighbour numbers or consecutive numbers on a number line. Each one can be used as a separate lesson idea or the different starting points could be given to different groups of children in the same lesson. Answers included!

Developing Mathematical Thinking is the key to effective teaching in mathematics. This resource takes a simple number line and shows you how to develop the key skills in mathematical thinking using 8 simple activities. It includes Starting Points, Key Questions, Teaching Points and Assessment Guidelines to help you introduce, develop and assess the children’s progress through the teaching activities. This resource also contains advice about how to structure your teaching to build the children’s confidence and how to gradually reduce the support as their confidence increases. Effective and practical advice to support you in the classroom and to raise standards in mathematical thinking.

A set of 6 target sheets designed to provide coverage of the maths curriculum for Year 2 in the UK but which can be adapted to suit other curricula. Can be used at home or at school to provide a step by step approach to covering the different year group objectives. There are two complete sets provided; one has the year group printed on the top and the second set are simply numbered 1 – 6. Some educators prefer to clearly state which year group the targets are aimed at but other educators prefer to use them as a more individualised resource so that they children work at their own level and at their own pace. Structure and Organisation The targets are split into six sets for the year - one sheet per half term. This means that the average child would aim to complete one target sheet per half term which is approximately one target per week. These can be used as homework tasks or in school tasks or as a weekly challenge for home schoolers. Each child is given the first target sheet at the beginning of the year - or the one most appropriate for their level of attainment - and should work through the targets one by one. These targets were not designed as an assessment tool but they can be used to track progress if so desired. Assessment and Monitoring. There are four boxes provided at the end of each target. The first is to be completed by a friend in school, the second by a parent and the third by an adult in school. Schools may choose to use all or just some of these boxes. The aim is to reduce the work load for teachers and to empower parents to know what to work on with their child next. If used in connection with websites such as www.mathszone.co.uk or www.mathisfun.com, parents can select activities to work on with their children. If groups of children are working on the same target, they can be tested together or testing can be done on a half termly basis or an individual basis.

A set of 6 target sheets designed to provide coverage of the maths curriculum for Year 3 in the UK but which can be adapted to suit other curricula. Can be used at home or at school to provide a step by step approach to covering the different year group objectives. There are two complete sets provided; one has the year group printed on the top and the second set are simply numbered 1 – 6. Some educators prefer to clearly state which year group the targets are aimed at but other educators prefer to use them as a more individualised resource so that they children work at their own level and at their own pace. Structure and Organisation The targets are split into six sets for the year - one sheet per half term. This means that the average child would aim to complete one target sheet per half term which is approximately one target per week. These can be used as homework tasks or in school tasks or as a weekly challenge for home schoolers. Each child is given the first target sheet at the beginning of the year and should work through the targets one by one. These targets were not designed as an assessment tool but they can be used to track progress if so desired. Assessment and Monitoring. There are four boxes provided at the end of each target. The first is to be completed by a friend in school, the second by a parent and the third by an adult in school. Schools may choose to use all or just some of these boxes. The aim is to reduce the work load for teachers and to empower parents to know what to work on with their child next. If used in connection with websites such as www.mathszone.co.uk or www.mathisfun.com, parents can select activities to work on with their children. If groups of children are working on the same target, they can be tested together or testing can be done on a half termly basis or an individual basis.

A set of 6 target sheets designed to provide coverage of the maths curriculum for Year 6 in the UK but which can be adapted to suit other curricula. Can be used at home or at school to provide a step by step approach to covering the different year group objectives. There are two complete sets provided; one has the year group printed on the top and the second set are simply numbered 1 – 6. Some educators prefer to clearly state which year group the targets are aimed at but other educators prefer to use them as a more individualised resource so that they children work at their own level and at their own pace. Structure and Organisation The targets are split into six sets for the year - one sheet per half term. This means that the average child would aim to complete one target sheet per half term which is approximately one target per week. These can be used as homework tasks or in school tasks or as a weekly challenge for home schoolers. Each child is given the first target sheet at the beginning of the year - or the target sheet that is most appropriate to their level of attainment - and should work through the targets one by one. These targets were not designed as an assessment tool but they can be used to track progress if so desired. Assessment and Monitoring. There are four boxes provided at the end of each target. The first is to be completed by a friend in school, the second by a parent and the third by an adult in school. Schools may choose to use all or just some of these boxes. The aim is to reduce the work load for teachers and to empower parents to know what to work on with their child next. If used in connection with websites such as www.mathszone.co.uk or www.mathisfun.com, parents can select activities to work on with their children. If groups of children are working on the same target, they can be tested together or testing can be done on a half termly basis or an individual basis.

A set of 6 target sheets designed to provide coverage of the maths curriculum for Year 5 in the UK but which can be adapted to suit other curricula. Can be used at home or at school to provide a step by step approach to covering the different year group objectives. There are two complete sets provided; one has the year group printed on the top and the second set are simply numbered 1 – 6. Some educators prefer to clearly state which year group the targets are aimed at but other educators prefer to use them as a more individualised resource so that they children work at their own level and at their own pace. Structure and Organisation The targets are split into six sets for the year - one sheet per half term. This means that the average child would aim to complete one target sheet per half term which is approximately one target per week. These can be used as homework tasks or in school tasks or as a weekly challenge for home schoolers. Each child is given the first target sheet at the beginning of the year - or the sheet most appropriate to their level of attainment - and should work through the targets one by one. These targets were not designed as an assessment tool but they can be used to track progress if so desired. Assessment and Monitoring. There are four boxes provided at the end of each target. The first is to be completed by a friend in school, the second by a parent and the third by an adult in school. Schools may choose to use all or just some of these boxes. The aim is to reduce the work load for teachers and to empower parents to know what to work on with their child next. If used in connection with websites such as www.mathszone.co.uk or www.mathisfun.com, parents can select activities to work on with their children. If groups of children are working on the same target, they can be tested together or testing can be done on a half termly basis or an individual basis.

A set of 6 target sheets designed to provide coverage of the maths curriculum for Year 1 in the UK but which can be adapted to suit other curricula. Can be used at home or at school to provide a step by step approach to covering the different year group objectives. There are two complete sets provided; one has the year group printed on the top and the second set are simply numbered 1 – 6. Some educators prefer to clearly state which year group the targets are aimed at but other educators prefer to use them as a more individualised resource so that they children work at their own level and at their own pace. Structure and Organisation The targets are split into six sets for the year - one sheet per half term. This means that the average child would aim to complete one target sheet per half term which is approximately one target per week. These can be used as homework tasks or in school tasks or as a weekly challenge for home schoolers. Each child is given the first target sheet at the beginning of the year and should work through the targets one by one. These targets were not designed as an assessment tool but they can be used to track progress if so desired. Assessment and Monitoring. There are four boxes provided at the end of each target. The first is to be completed by a friend in school, the second by a parent and the third by an adult in school. Schools may choose to use all or just some of these boxes. The aim is to reduce the work load for teachers and to empower parents to know what to work on with their child next. If used in connection with websites such as www.mathszone.co.uk or www.mathisfun.com, parents can select activities to work on with their children. If groups of children are working on the same target, they can be tested together or testing can be done on a half termly basis or an individual basis.

These 36 target sheets are designed to provide coverage of the maths curriculum for Key Stages 1 and 2 in the UK but can be adapted to suit other curricula. They can be used at home or at school to provide a step by step approach to covering the different year group objectives, year by year. There are two complete sets provided; one has the year group printed on the top and the second set are simply numbered 1 – 36 with colours relating to the year group from which the targets are taken. Some educators prefer to clearly state which year group the targets are aimed at but other educators prefer to use them as a more individualised resource so that they children work at their own level and at their own pace. Some schools have found it a useful way of communicating the children’s attainment level in relation to national expectations to parents but other’s feel that this is detrimental to the child’s confidence. Structure and Organisation The targets are split into six year-groups with six sheets per year - one sheet per half term. This means that the average child would aim to complete one target sheet per half term throughout their school career; this is approximately one target per week. These can be used as homework tasks or in school tasks or as a weekly challenge for home schoolers. The colours relate to the year group from which the targets are taken • Red Year 1 • Yellow Year 2 • Blue Year 3 • Green Year 4 • Purple Year 5 • Turquoise Year 6 Each child is given the first target sheet at the beginning or year 1 and works through the targets one by one. For older children, select the target sheet with the most appropriate set of targets, and start from there. These targets were not designed as an assessment tool but they can be used to track progress if so desired. Assessment and Monitoring. There are four boxes provided at the end of each target. The first is to be completed by a friend in school, the second by a parent and the third by an adult in school. Schools may choose to use all or just some of these boxes. The aim is to reduce the work load for teachers and to empower parents to know what to work on with their child next. If used in connection with websites such as www.mathszone.co.uk or www.mathisfun.com parents can select activities to work on with their children or – for the more complex targets- they provide a good source of explanation about the mathematics involved. If groups of children are working on the same target, they can be tested together or testing can be done on a half termly basis or an individual basis.

These 20 games using the numbers and letters on car number plates are suitable for use with children from age 4 – 13, are simple and easy to play and will improve those all-important basic literacy and maths skills. Each game is unique so select the ones you think will appeal or which meet the learning needs of your child. Some require a little recording, but many do not. Some are quite challenging so you may need to have the calculator handy on your phone! The activities are graded from * to ****.

This is a set of maths targets for use with Year 1 children in the first half term of the academic year. Suitable for teachers, teaching assistants, parents, home schoolers and trainee teachers. Can be used at home or at school to monitor progress, for homework or as a group activity. The full set of Maths Targets for Y1 and for Years 1 - 6 is available from Teaching Rainbows on TES Resources.