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.

This resource includes a PowerPoint showing Christmas customs and traditions in 10 countries around the world (UK, France, Spain, Germany, Finland, Brazil, USA, Madagascar, Japan and Australia). There is a group challenge to make a Christmas Tree and add baubles with flags on and pictures depicting Christmas in each of the different countries (bauble template included).

A great 'mastery' challenge activity investigating supermarket deals. Powerpoint for whole class introduction and resources for children to use to sort into deal or no deal explaining their reasoning. More maths resources @ https://www.tes.com/teaching-resources/shop/Whitley01

PowerPoint with a collection of self portraits by famous artists and activity ideas for children's own self portraits. An additional PowerPoint with the work of Sandra Silberzweig a great stimulus for the children's own unique self portraits. 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.

A guess who Dear Zoo Powerpoint with animal noises, an enhanced provision planner for all areas of learning and a sample activity plan for Phase 1 Letters and Sounds. For more practical resources visit: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resources/shop/Whitley01 Please leave a review.

This is a collection of resources to use for reporting on Fairy Tale 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!

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

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

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 fun and engaging way to teach measures. A PowerPoint introducing 5 events in the Mini Measures Olympics with record sheets and medals. Ideal for summer term! More resources @ https://www.tes.com/teaching-resources/shop/Whitley01

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

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).

A PowerPoint comparing firefighters in the past/ present and three activity sheets. 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

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

And the winner is . . . . . . Let your class nominate their peers (nomination form included) for each of the categories and hold your own awards show! I have used this activity for the last three years and it is always a huge hit with the kids. This pack includes 16 editable certificates including: Biggest Smile, Awesome Author, Maths Magician, Shooting Star (Drama), Keeps us laughing award, ICT Whizz and a blank template so your class could even invent some of the awards themselves! Buy as part of an end of term bundle here: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/end-of-year-fun-pack-11664948

This resource includes a PowerPoint with activities and Top Tips for spelling words ending in le. Also included: mystery words, crossword puzzle, word hunt task, spelling detective activity and Spelling Bump game.

Reinforce addition and subtraction with fun race games. More practical maths activities @ https://www.tes.com/teaching-resources/shop/Whitley01