Created by a year six teacher (100% maths, 100% reading and 93% English at and above expected pass rate last SATs year), maths coordinator and deputy head. I am also a published author under the name Andrew Thomas. I have had my resources recommended by TES 3 times.
I've been teaching for years and love my job. My school is in Lewisham (London). My kids are engaged when the resources are good.
Created by a year six teacher (100% maths, 100% reading and 93% English at and above expected pass rate last SATs year), maths coordinator and deputy head. I am also a published author under the name Andrew Thomas. I have had my resources recommended by TES 3 times.
I've been teaching for years and love my job. My school is in Lewisham (London). My kids are engaged when the resources are good.
UPDATED FOR 2023
A great writing project to allow children to learn GPS while writing a wonderful story. Great for catch up and will last weeks. You don’t need the book as the PPT has it all.
38 slides (to accompany the book Journey). Each slide has a different focus.
A step by step approach that introduces all aspects of the writing assessment criteria including:
• creating atmosphere, and integrating dialogue to convey character and advance the action
• using a range of cohesive devices, including adverbials, within and across sentences and paragraphs sentences and paragraphs
• using passive and modal verbs mostly appropriately
• using a wide range of clause structures, sometimes varying their position within the sentence
• using adverbs, preposition phrases and expanded noun phrases effectively to add detail, qualification and precision
• using mostly correctly:
inverted commas
commas for clarity
punctuation for parenthesis
• making some correct use of:
semi-colons
dashes
colons
hyphens
• semi-colons to mark the boundary between independent clauses
• colons to mark the boundary between independent clauses
This was a real labour of love. Enjoy.
A set of three SATS style question Games based on Arithmetic, Roman numerals and problem solving questions found in the SATs papers - INCLUDES ANSWERS. Can be done as a independent revision activity or used in boosters.
Created by a year six teacher (97% maths at and above expected pass rate last year), maths coordinator and deputy head. Used on the afternoon before the 2018 maths SATS tests and updated in 2019.
The games allow the teacher to check the mathematics concept with a SATS style questions.
This is designed specifically for revision purposes as I have found my class sometimes fail to retain certain mathematical methods or struggle to use what they know to figure out what they don’t.
Requires dice and counters.
Please click on my name above for loads of maths, reading and writing resources that are aimed at getting the best out of your year 6 class.
This is a booklet aimed at keeping the children academically active over the holidays. Created by a year six teacher (100% maths, 100% reading and 100% SPaG at and above expected pass rate last year), maths coordinator and Deputy Head. I am also a published author under the name Andrew Thomas. I have had my resources featured on TES for their quality and innovative nature; please check out my shop by clicking on my name above.
It includes five days worth of activities (and extension activities added in April 2019) that cover:
Maths
Spelling, Punctuation and Grammar
Reading Comprehension
It is designed with SATs in mind and give the children 30 minutes of learning to do each day.
Each day has a range of activities which are linked to the new curriculum.
This booklet took many hours to put together and has been proof read.
These games are designed to make reading comprehension exciting and enjoyable.
2 more board games that make reading comprehension fun! The text is in the middle of the game board and the questions test a range of areas that will appear on the upcoming SATS. My year 6 class had a blast.
All you need is a die and some counters!
This is the second lot of games I have made.
click here for the original set:
Year 6 teacher? Please check out my other tried and tested resources.
These games are designed to make reading comprehension exciting and enjoyable.
2 more board games that make reading comprehension fun! The text is in the middle of the game board and the questions test a range of areas that will appear on the upcoming SATS. My year 6 class had a blast.
All you need is a die and some counters!
Year 6 teacher? Please check out my other tried and tested resources.
Children explore what the BFG can hear from chapter 7 (The Marvelous Ears) and come up with ideas of their own. They turn their ideas into a poem and publish it.
Please click on my name above to see other BFG resources.
25 questions on a colourful PowerPoint to test the general knowledge of your class. It includes questions on art, literacy, maths, history, science geography and more. The download includes an easy to mark answer sheet and answers at the end end of the PowerPoint. Enjoy.
These games are designed to making reading comprehension exciting and enjoyable.
2 more board games that make reading comprehension fun! The text is in the middle of the game board and the questions test a range of areas that will appear on the upcoming SATS. My year 6 class had a blast.
All you need is a die and some counters!
The lost world game is complete, it’s just a glitch on the picture.
Year 6 teacher? Please check out my other tried and tested resources.
A two week poetry plan and flip charts (plus resources) based on the book Love That Dog. The children will plan, create and complete a range of poems and create images to support their writing.
Follow Jack on his journey into poetry and write alongside him as you progress through his story.
Includes a range of poetry and lots of ideas to inspire and foster a love of poems old and new.
KS2 appropriate.
Some fun tasks based on the Dr Seuss book Oh the Places You’ll Go. A good time filler for the last week of term. Also included, a PPT for writing your own kids book based on The Day the Crayons Quit.
A great writing activitiy that teaches children to write in the first person as an animal. Originally made to work with the book War Horse, it can be adapted to be a stand alone set of lessons or to work with other books.
This is a PowerPoint (that can be converted to a flip chart) that takes pupils through what is required to write a short story at the expected level and is a step by step guide. It is aimed at the criteria and framework and has produced some wonderful writing from my year 6 class. It shows the children where to include the punctuation, grammar and structure throughout a short story. There are 29 slides in total, each with a different focus which enables the children to include all of the skills they have learnt throughout the year. It is based on Eye of the Storm from the Literacy Shed (link included in the PPT).
This is the opening of the story, written by a lower ability child (typed out with no corrections):
As he stared into the sky, not worrying about his destruction from the mesmerising, raging storm, he gazed at the green lightening. His white, dragon like scarf waved in the sky. The black, silver lined coat shone in the sun’s omega light. The empty shell of a man thought that he could survive the storm. He kept his face hidden because he didn’t want to remember who he was. He turned his head slightly; he knew what he had to do.
The ship he was travelling on had a unique energy that was pure electricity. It looked like a war ship, ready for battle. A war to save a dragon, a war to save the world, a war to save everyone.
Terrifying memories of murder in his head. He had never found Martha…
This unit of 3 - 4 lessons teaches children to stay safe online and informs them that they leave a digital footprint and the consequences of this.
Lessons teach children:
To explore how much time I spend online
To understand how to stay safe online
To understand that once information is shared online it is very difficult to remove
A weeks worth of revision sheets. Created by a year 6 teacher who got 93% maths pass rate in last years SATs and progress that was in the top 10% in the country.
This helps revise a range of skills in a fun way and covers:
Money conversion
Journey time tables
Money word problems
All 4 operations
If you like this, please click my name at the top to visit my shop. It has everything from reading comprehension games to stand alone cover lessons.
These are a pack of worksheets that cover areas of the ship and are designed to keep pupils busy during a self-directed visit.
They are designed to be simple so you do not need a great deal of teacher input. It contains a treasure hunt to be completed as you explore the ship and specific worksheets for the following areas:
Sick Bay
NAAFI Canteen
Arctic Messdecks
The Main Mast
A-Turret
Operations Room
Ship’s Company Galley
It also suggest a couple of photo ideas and pages for notes and sketches.
Again, they are simple sheets to focus the children and get them looking instead of running through the ship and are designed to be child friendly.
This PowerPoint covers all of the areas needed to evidence a piece of writing at and above the expected level.
This will take 3 weeks to complete and will show the children (with examples, word banks and sentence starters) how to write a narrative story based on a picture book.
Designed and used by a year 6 teacher with a 93% maths SATs score in 2017.
This is a 4 week maths cycle that covers all the areas needed for the SATs arithmetic test in easy 10 minute starters.
This works perfectly to remind and embed all the concepts needed to do well in the arithmetic paper.
Please check out my other resources by clicking my name at the top of the page.
SATs reading comprehension games
Reasoning Paper revision
Loads of English SATs based writing
I put this together to help my class understand reflection questions. Would be good to start off a revision session. Please check out my other SATs revision bits by clicking my name above and visiting my shop.
Here is a series of creative writing sessions aimed at writing a story. The link below is the video we will use to inspire amazing writing and to push our skills on to the next level.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H1mX8ptsmBM
If you want to see the flipchart, please use the link below. You can download it or view it online.
https://www.scribd.com/document/452876153/KS2-Writing-Mr-Chown
Link to the youtube channel for further videos:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC2BM-sIch9fIsSuM66d8vIw?view_as=subscriber
If you think you have some great ideas, please leave them in the comments below.