This fun and humorous class assembly, used with a Year 2 class, is linked to popular TV shows and the Great Fire of London. There are appearances from Thomas Farriner on The Great British Bakeoff, Samuel Pepys and King Charles II are interviewed on BBC News and The Strictly Come Dancing professionals perform a fire dance. The script also includes parts for the children to take on the role of their teachers with a Beat the Teacher quiz at the end! A PowerPoint is included to use as a backdrop if an IWB is available.

A fun Christmas Quiz for KS1 which has 5 rounds including Powerpoint, handouts, quiz answers and certificates for the winners. Round 1 is guess who, round 2 guess the object, round 3 is Christmas movies, round 4 is gifts related to the 12 days of Christmas and the bonus round is naming characters from Frozen, Snow White's dwarves and Santa's reindeers. Happy Quizmas!

A very 'eggsciting' STEM challnege - introduction PowerPoint & ideas, challenge brief, design sheet and record sheet. Everything you need (except the eggs!) to carry out this engaging STEM challenge. More resources @ https://www.tes.com/teaching-resources/shop/Whitley01

An end of term 'pub style' fun quiz for kids with six different handout rounds including: guess who, where, when, what and a very popular sweetie round!!! Children can compete in teams to find out who are the class 'Smartypants' champions. This pack includes handouts, a PowerPoint with all the images and winner certificates. I used this with a mixed Year 1/2 class and it was a huge hit! Ideal for the last week of term. Buy as part of an end of term bundle here: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/end-of-year-fun-pack-11664948

Habitat FOR SALE - Powerpoint with examples of particulars to inspire children's own writing and printable sheets of property details. Also included: PowerPoint containing a link to Zootropolis movie showing journey through different habitats and a blank map for children to design their own Zootopia habitat maps including the different animals who would live there. 'Create an animal' zoologist challenge, Gimme 5 animal characteristics and making human bodies activity ideas as well as 'Shoebox Habitats' DT project ideas PowerPoint. Images are included to show the work completed by pupils using these resources. More resources @ https://www.tes.com/teaching-resources/shop/Whitley01

A PowerPoint comparing firefighters in the past/ present and three activity sheets. More resources @ https://www.tes.com/teaching-resources/shop/Whitley01

A PowerPoint used during an English lesson on writing instructions using George’s Marvellous Medicine as a stimulus. This resource includes ‘boxing up’ templates, a reading task and a ‘bottle’ template for the children to illustrate their own ‘marvellous medicine’ concoctions (works well enlarged to A3).

Following the success of 'BARvember' these Christmas themed problems will be used throughout 'DecemBAR' (sign included) with my class to continue to promote problem-solving. In this pack there are 10 editable problems aimed at Year 2. I have been incentivising my class with all correct answers going into a prize draw to win a 'bar' of choccie at the end of the week!

PowerPoint containing information and images to launch an art activity based on amate bark paintings. For more practical activities and resorces visit: www.tes.com/teaching-resources/shop/Whitley01

This is a collection of 12 resources to use when teaching sentence types. This pack includes a great range of fun, interactive games and activities which I have used with a Year2 class. Play 'Guess the sentence type' the children can then make their own sentence type comic strips by drawing or using their own digital images or how about 'Spin a sentence.' Sentence Scoot and Four Corners are fab lesson starters and all resources are included in pack e.g. 32 sentence cards, sentence type signs and record sheets or perhaps you might want to go on a sentence hunt. Several of these resources would also be suitable as homework tasks. Buy this resource as a bumper package here: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/spag-pack-for-year-2-11633421

A wide selection of tried and tested contextual problemsolving activities covering all aspects of the KS1 maths curriculum including number, money, fractions, time and measures that can be completed individually or great as collaborative activities. Ideal for Floorbook lessons (see images included) and for evidencing learning at 'greater depth.' All activities are very easily adapted to suit the needs of your class. More resources @ https://www.tes.com/teaching-resources/shop/Whitley01

Activity ideas for What the Ladybird Heard by Julia Donaldson to use to enhance learning across all areas of learning. More resources @ https://www.tes.com/teaching-resources/shop/Whitley01

This resource includes a PowerPoint all about the life of St Bede, pictures to sort into a timeline, a PowerPoint with examples of illuminated letters, templates for children to design their own illuminated letters and a blank stained glass window template.

Roll and write suffixes game. Please leave a review. For more practical activities visit: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resources/shop/Whitley01

This is a collection of resources to use for reporting on Fairytale news. This pack includes a PowerPoint of Fairytale crimes to discuss and use as a stimulus for children's own writing along with blank newspaper templates and crime scene images. Also included is a PowerPoint focussing on headlines and images for children to use when writing their own headlines. There are five sample copies of news reports (linked to Little Red Riding Hood, The Gingerbread Man, Goldilocks and the Three Bears, Jack and the Beanstalk and The Three Little Pigs) which can be used to identify the features of news reports (I used post-it notes with my class for them to label the parts) and a planning template to 'box up' ideas for their own reports. A useful wanted poster template is also included to help capture the Fairytale villains whilst promoting the use of expanded noun phrases!

A PowerPoint used during a creative writing lesson to stimulate narrative writing with an example story and planning templates for children.

Do you know about the great fire of Newcastle/Gateshead? An information PowerPoint and activities linked to the fire and the regeneration of the banks of The River Tyne.

Two PowerPoints (KS1 and KS2) containing a wide selection of images to stimulate mathematical conversation and reinforce the use of mathematical language whilst strengthening problemsolving and reasoning skills too! Ideal for Maths Meetings which can be used to consolidate key learning for 10-15 minutes every day outside of the maths lesson. More resources @ https://www.tes.com/teaching-resources/shop/Whitley01