A writing prompt with planning template and example story (WAGOLL - What a good one looks like)

Get your class up and moving for a math starter around the room. Find friends who will answer the math problems and use the correct math terminology. Using fractions, time, money, addition, subtraction. These versions of KS1 but can be edited for any age group EDITABLE VERSION INCLUDED

Acrostic and Cinquain Templates for Earth Day

Free sight word game for ks1 (grade 1, 2 and 3) that can be played in a group or whole class. 32 cards in total. Great sight word practice for reading groups and a game to entertain the whole class if there is a spare moment!

Right or Wrong? Your class can work out the answers and check whether the person was right or wrong with their answer.

This PowerPoint has been used for home learning and in schools for year 5 and 6 to support their understanding of the Black Lives Matter movement which has recently seen an increase in activity due to the death of George Floyd, a black man murdered by white police in Minneapolis, USA. In the notes section of the powerpoint, there are plenty of links to articles and videos suitable for children to help them understand systemic racism and how they can help by learning and growing to become allies to people of colour.

This homework grid is suitable for additional home learning activities for year 2 and year 3. It includes activities for writing, art, design, science and research on the topic of Titanic.

Dinosaur themed homework grid for additional home learning ideas. A mix of creative activities, writing, researching and designing. Ideal for a Year 2 or Year 3 class interested in dinosaurs or doing a dinosaur class topic.

6 lessons of invasion game activities including warm up games and ideas for plenary discussions (tactics, team work etc). It could work for Year 2 / 3 groups. These games are great to start with simple rules. Let them play a round or two first because discussing ways to be more successful at catching or not being caught etc. Then introduce the idea of working in teams for planning tactics and communicating.

6 Weeks of gymnastic lessons for Year 2 including a variety of warm up games and a sequence of lessons building up their skills.

2 weeks of planning and activities for writing a letter based on the book, ‘The Day the Crayons Quit’. This planning includes an ActivInspire Flipchart and a less interactive PowerPoint version of the resource. It includes two SPAG lessons on sentence types and contractions, modelled examples and checklist for pupils to self-assess against. Inspired by the book, pupils will write as an object from the classroom (gluestick, ruler, pencil sharpener etc.) and explain the problems they have and asking if the class can help fix those problems! Includes a day for cold write and a day for ‘celebration writing’ or final edit written up neatly.

Morning activities or SPAG starter activities. This worksheet has 5 activities that can be printed and stuck into workbooks.

Over a weeks worth of lesson material from a flipchart including links to audio inspiration and a documentary on the Amazon River. ActivInspire flipchart with modelled examples and activities. This journal has a sensory and descriptive focus with more typical chronological journal features including opinions, time adverbials and structure. Now includes a Powerpoint Version

Suitable for Year 2+ The activity is one sheet per child and has their own grid and their partner’s. They must fill out their own grid first with a few battleships. Then take turns with a partner to guess each other’s coordinates. When guessing their partner’s, they can put a circle in the coordinate that is a miss and a cross in the coordinate that is a hit.

ActivInspire Flipchart for a year 3/4 class inspired by the River Poem by Valerie Bloom. Includes features of poetry, personification, rhyme and rhythm. There are also website links to support sensory activities - finding powerful verbs and adjectives to inspire their own stanzas. The flipchart contains examples of my classes final pieces of poetry for inspiration.

This ActivInspire flipchart and Antonym worksheet is suitable for Year 5/6. It includes some of Hilaire Belloc’s cautionary tales and looks at their features and how to create one of their own. Enough work for a few lessons if time is spent performing poetry, working in groups to distinguish similar features of the different poems and writing their own poem either using ideas identified in this flipchart or with their own ideas.

Worksheet for writing and finding coordinates. Also Compass directions may be used to navigate between two points on the map.

This ActivInspire Flipchart contains features of poetry, website links, video links and modelled examples for your class to create their own verse (or verses) inspired by the poem, In Flanders Field. Suitable for Year 3 - 4 pupils. Explains onomatepoeia, syllabic structure and is an interactive flipchart with lots of hidden (click here!) bits of information and guidance to support their learning.

A fun multiplication grid game/ starter activity testing your pupils speed and fluency in times tables. Can they beat you to complete the grid first? Can they beat a special guest to your class? Editable resource so you can change the numbers, why not use fractions or decimals? Please rate this resource and let me know of any improvements I should make!

Great for Year 5/6 - Explains Roman Numerals up to 1000s, gives examples and chances for partner discussions or independent work. Also includes addition and subjection using Roman Numerals and missing number sequences.