I made this powerpoint for those few minutes that appear every now and again during the school day, just before dinner or breaktime or if the children just really need a quick break. I have used it countless times since I started teaching and it has always been popular with the kids, I used to leave them with a riddle 'cliffhanger&' - Sending them out to break without revealing the answer, they&';d spend all breaktime discussing what the answer could possibly be!

I wanted an activity that my Y1 children could access independently whilst sitting on the carpet before the register first thing in the morning. I put together a selection of 'spot the difference' activities, to encourage quiet teamwork, counting and observation skills, and to allow me time to talk to parents etc if I need to.

A simple and child friendly assessment to allow you to quickly see where your children are within the Year 2 English curriculum and highlight any individual or class gaps in learning. Can be used each term to show progress.

A look at the different teeth and skulls of herbivores, carnivores and omnivores. The skulls on the sheet are (from top to bottom): Horse (Herbivore - Flat molars for grinding plants) Rabbit (Herbivore - Sharp canines for nibbling) Wolf (Carnivore - Pointed canines and incisors) Sealion (Omnivore - Eats fish and plants - Flat molars and pointed canines). The children wrote information about each picture in the speech bubbles: 'I have flat molars for grinding plants', etc.

A quick and simple science investigation to show how plants use water. Just cut the end off a piece of celery and pop it in some red or blue food colouring - Eventually, the celery will have a red or blue tint as it absorbs the colouring, particularly on the end. We left it over the weekend to ensure nice bright results, but overnight would probably work too.

I made this Powerpoint to encourage children to focus on punctuation and capital letters.

This powerpoint spans history, PHSE and P4C. The children answered all the questions on the slides about Henry's wives (once the slideshow is running, you can circle the right answer on each slide by right clicking -> pointer options -> selecting a pen). Then a selection of children came up to the front of the class, whilst the others 'directed' them as to how the freezeframe should look. Once the freezeframe was perfected, other children came out and held laminated speech bubbles and thought bubbles around the characters. Finally we took a photo.

I made this powerpoint to help my Year 4's learn about Henry VIII's six wives. It's a little jokey but gets the main points across!

I made this PowerPoint to teach the Year 3 Light and Shadows unit. It contains enough learning objectives for a full half term and activities for each lesson.

Differentiated division activities, enough for two sessions. The first activity introduces division, the second activity includes division with remainders. Both intended as adult led activities, but could be practise once children have been taught the skills.

A sheet that encourages children to imagine what thet could see, smell, hear and feel in a setting.

I made these blank booklets for my Year 2 class when we were doing information texts in literacy. The booklets are differentiated for higher, middle and lower ability. Hope they save somebody some time!

A quick activity to help children become familiar with the German vocabulary for starter, main course and dessert. It also has space for them to write down their favourite choices of food and drink in German.

The children studied a country in pairs, using books and the Internet, and then wrote an imaginative diary entry as if they were a child living in that country.

I made a PowerPoint and activity sheets to help my Year 3 pupils become familiar with solving number riddles such as 'I choose a mystery number, double it and add 2, I end up with 12. What was my mystery number?'

Some hands on Christmas problem solving activities I made for the last week in school before the Christmas break. My year threes loved these and worked on them for ages (much longer than I expected) in little groups. It was good to see children who usually struggle in maths shining during this session, as they were great at visual problems and could see things the other children couldn't! I used the little coloured match sticks for the children to arrange and rearrange on their tables.

Simple bunting for each child to fill out with their name, age and a drawing of themselves. To be hung up in the classroom during the first week back!

An introduction to the world map and the map of the British Isles, and a simple activity to go with it.

Activities based on the Alfie and Annie Rose stories by Shirley Hughes. The first activity is for the children to describe both characters, and the second is for the children to retell the story of Mr McNally's hat in a story-map style.

Colourful pictures of different fruits and vegetables made to look like animals.