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Hello fellow teachers! I have been teaching in the UK in primary schools (7-11 year olds) for over 20 years. I am sharing some of my resources on this platform in the hopes that they will be of support to you and your students in your teaching and their learning. My other wish is that they save you some time – we all know how hard teachers work and if these resource help you get some ‘you time’ back, then they have done their job. I hope they are useful to you.

Hello fellow teachers! I have been teaching in the UK in primary schools (7-11 year olds) for over 20 years. I am sharing some of my resources on this platform in the hopes that they will be of support to you and your students in your teaching and their learning. My other wish is that they save you some time – we all know how hard teachers work and if these resource help you get some ‘you time’ back, then they have done their job. I hope they are useful to you.
Year 4 Multiplication Tables Check practises
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Year 4 Multiplication Tables Check practises

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A perfect resource for the Year 4 timestable check. These activities run themselves and can be done daily or a few times a week in the lead up to the timestable check. This resources includes 8 PowerPoints all of which have 25 questions. All timestables are covered and all answers are included. The PowerPoints move to the next question after 6 seconds and clicks as it does so to signal to children that a new question has appeared. A printable score card is also included so children can see how they progress with each practise they complete. I hope that this resources helps and encourages your children and saves you some time.
Number Bond to 10 Flash Cards
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Number Bond to 10 Flash Cards

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Number bonds to 10 activity / task cards to be used with small groups of children or one to one. There are over 100 task cards in this set which show different representations of number bonds to 10 including bar models, arrays and calculations. There are also Active Maths cards to get children up and moving while learning. Cards can be printed of and kept and used in sets or, when the children are more confident with the different representations, they can be mixed and used as a whole set. A great resource for you or your TA to have as a go to resource to keep these skills and facts current and practised.
Multiplication activity cards - perfect for Year 4 revision
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Multiplication activity cards - perfect for Year 4 revision

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Multiplication activity cards that are perfect for Year 4 revision for the multiplication test. These cards are designed for children to practise their tables independently. The last sheet is a page of ‘Answer Slips’. The idea being that the children can cover up the answers, answer the questions, slide the sheet over and mark their work. All the cards have 3 activities for each of the timestables on – questions in order, questions out of order and their inverse. These cards are colour coded from easier to harder: Yellow 1, 2, 10, 11 Orange 5, 9 Green 3,4 Blue 6, 7, 8, 12 They could be used as starters, challenges, revision work, extension activities. They could be photocopied and sent home. However you choose to use them, I hope that they are useful to your children and save you some time.
Comprehension Question Bookmark
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Comprehension Question Bookmark

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A great resource for you to use to help parents support their child with their reading comprehension skills. Print the books marks off double backed and laminate ready to be sent home. This resource includes one bookmark in 5 different colours. There is a mini guide at the top of the bookmark for parents to explain that talking, discussing and questioning children about what they are reading is just as important as reading with them. There is also a suggestion to help to engage their child further with their reading comprehension by switching the person who chooses the questions about what has been read – how well was the adult listening to them? Can they answer the questions their child asks? The book mark then includes examples of questions or question stems covering each of the following areas: Vocabulary Predictions Retrieval Inference Summarise Language and effect Themes and comparisons I hope that this resource helps you, your children and your parents to support the comprehension skills in your class. Download as a PDF
Display lettering - zig zag background - easy cut
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Display lettering - zig zag background - easy cut

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Dipslay lettering. Zig Zag theme. Easy cut. Displays can need to be constantly updated. This lettering is perfect if that is the expectation. Cutting round all the letters is really time consuming. All these letters have their own background so you just need to cut round the rectangle. There are 4 colours in this set so you can use one colour for your display or mix and match the colours. What is included: 109 sheets Capital and lower case letters 4 different patterns and designs All the same theme so could be mixed and matched Easy to cut so saves time Just print the pages that you need for all you display titles. I hope this saves you time and makes your displays look lovely
Fraction, Decimal and Percentage Posters
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Fraction, Decimal and Percentage Posters

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These posters offer an excellent, clear visual display of the relationship between decimals, fractions and percentages. Each of the values are represented in a number of different ways for children to see and understand. A huge part of Maths Mastery is to be able to represent concepts in different ways and making links between different areas of Maths to show deeper understanding and these posters are a perfect example of that. I have these posters displayed year-round above my Maths board for children to refer to both when we are learning about decimals, fractions and percentages, but also as an example of showing the same concept in different ways to support them becoming Maths Masters! There are some options when printing – some poster are identical other than the wording of ‘fourth ‘ and ‘quarter’ so you can choose which you’d like depending on where you are in the World.
KS2 SATS Maths Revision Sheet - Calendars
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KS2 SATS Maths Revision Sheet - Calendars

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SATS revision. Calendars including timelines. Identify gaps. Assess. Practise. Revise. SATS is a stressful time for all involved and this resource is designed to make it a tad easier for you. There are 5 questions from past SATS papers in this resource that are all themed around the skills of understanding and reading from calendars. There are 2 sheets – one with the questions, the other with the answers. This resource is best printed on A3 paper and can be used more than once on the lead up to SATS. You can use this activity sheet to: • Assess where the children are and identify gaps • For the children to practise their knowledge and skills • To use as part of a revision session I hope this saves you time and helps you and your children
KS2 SATS Maths revision sheet - Roman Numerals
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KS2 SATS Maths revision sheet - Roman Numerals

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SATS revision. Roman Numerals. Read, write, interpret. Identify gaps. Assess. Practise. Revise. SATS is a stressful time for all involved and this resource is designed to make it a tad easier for you. There are 8 questions from past SATS papers in this resource that are all themed around the skills of reading, writing and interpreting Roman Numerals. There are 2 sheets – one with the questions, the other with the answers. This resource is best printed on A3 paper and can be used more than once on the lead up to SATS. You can use this activity sheet to: • Assess where the children are and identify gaps • For the children to practise their knowledge and skills • To use as part of a revision session I hope this saves you time and helps you and your children.
FREE Display lettering - Zig Zag background - easy cut
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FREE Display lettering - Zig Zag background - easy cut

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FREE Display lettering. Zig Zag theme. Easy cut. Displays can need to be constantly updated. This lettering is perfect if that is the expectation. Cutting round all the letters is really time consuming. All these letters have their own background so you just need to cut round the rectangle. What is included: 28 sheets Capital and lower case letters Easy to cut so saves time Just print the pages that you need for all you display titles. I hope this saves you time and makes your displays look lovely.
KS2 SATS Maths Revision - Sequences
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KS2 SATS Maths Revision - Sequences

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SATS revision. This sheet has sequence themed questions taken from past SATS papers. Perfect to use for revision or assessment on the run up to SATS. I have used these types of sheets in the past in multiple different ways including as paired work; as a gap analysis task or as revision. There are a range of questions here so all children should be able to access something here which is so important for confidence on the run up to the assessment. Answers are included.
KS2 SATS Maths Revision - Temperature
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KS2 SATS Maths Revision - Temperature

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SATS revision. Temperature including negative numbers. Identify gaps. Assess. Practise. Revise. SATS is a stressful time for all involved and this resource is designed to make it a tad easier for you. There are 7 questions from past SATS papers in this resource that are all themed around the skills of understanding temperature, reading from scales and understanding negative numbers. There are 2 sheets – one with the questions, the other with the answers. This resource is best printed on A3 paper and can be used more than once on the lead up to SATS. You can use this activity sheet to: • Assess where the children are and identify gaps • For the children to practise their knowledge and skills • To use as part of a revision session I hope this saves you time and helps you and your children
Blank Column Method Templates
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Blank Column Method Templates

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Fourteen blank templates to support children in laying out column addition and subtraction. There are templates for both the** expanded method and the short method**. Templates for the expanded method are colour coded to help children with where each of the totals need to be placed when they add the hundreds, tens and ones. Of course, these can be printed in black and white if you don’t need this for your teaching. There are a variety of sheets depending on how many digits you are adding or subtracting and how many digits will appear in the answer. In my classroom, I have a little stash of these that we use when we are doing addition and subtraction. It has always been helpful for younger children or those who find the lay out tricky to do independently. I hope these are useful and save you time!
Balancing equations - primary lesson
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Balancing equations - primary lesson

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Balancing equations. Visualisation. Quick lesson. Balancing equations comes up in most maths assessments. It can be an area that children fall down on but these are such easy marks to pick up! This is a mini lesson. It could be used as a teaching tool, revision or a starter to another lesson. It goes through what these calculations look like. We visualise each side of the equation on a scale and discuss how the scale needs to be balanced. There are a couple of independent activities which don’t require printing – this can all be done form the screen. The lesson ends with a challenge question. Mini assessments are done throughout with the answers being shown and children marking their work as they go. I hope that it is helpful to you and your children and saves you time.
Display lettering - Polka Dot Background
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Display lettering - Polka Dot Background

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Display lettering with a polka dot backgound theme. This lettering looks great and is super quick to cut out so a great time saver! What is included: 135 sheets Capital and lower case letters 5 different colors All the same theme so perfect for mixing and matching This resource will make you displays look great, is quick and easy to cut so will save you time compared to cutting out individual letters.
Fraction Worded Problems Lesson - Year 4 - Maths Mastery
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Fraction Worded Problems Lesson - Year 4 - Maths Mastery

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Year 4 expected worded fraction lesson. Maths mastery through visualisation, bar modelling and variation. ** SATS revision lesson** - Although a ‘Year 4 expected lesson’ the targetted questions have been taken from past SATS papers. This lesson leads to answering 3 questions taken from Year 4 expected examples from Testbase. For example: ‘My Granny lives 120km away from us. We are driving to see her and are 5/6 of the way there. How far have we driven so far?’ The lesson uses Bar Modelling and Variation (both from Shanghai / Singapore Maths as a part of Maths Mastery) to build children’s skills so they have the tools they need to answer these types of questions independently. CAN BE USED AS SATS REVISION It is presented as one lesson but depending on how long your lesson is, how quickly your children understand the learning and compete the work it may need 2 sessions. It looks at worded problems as short stories and models clearly how to draw bar models from the questions to support answering questions. I have uploaded the lessons and sheets as powerpoints which are easy to adapt if you would like to. There is one powerpoint with the lesson on. The other powerpoint is printables of the bar models for the practise section, the independent activity both as worded questions and as worded questions with bar models to be annotated. There is also challenge activity. I hope this lesson is useful, helps your children learn and saves you some time. This is the first lesson I have uploaded so any feedback would be helpful to me moving forwards. Thank you!
Maths Mastery - Worded Addition Problems - Bar Modelling Task Cards
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Maths Mastery - Worded Addition Problems - Bar Modelling Task Cards

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This resource includes 60 task cards that are clearly differentiated: adding 2,3 and 4 digit numbers. One set does not require exchanging, the other set does. The task cards are clearly numbered and labelled so that you can easily organise which child should use which cards. Each card has a part, part, whole bar model which the children can use to visualise the question. All the questions are a similar format to support fluency in addition worded problems. They work briliantly with Year 3 -4 children. This resource also includes ‘Become a Maths Master by:’ cards which could be copied onto the back of each of the task cards to extend the children’s learning further. All answers are included. The front sheet gives teachers a ‘How to use’ idea.
KS2 SATS Maths Revision Sheets - Addition and Subtraction
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KS2 SATS Maths Revision Sheets - Addition and Subtraction

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KS2 Maths SATS revision. Addition and subtraction. Identify gaps. Assess. Practise. Revise. SATS is a stressful time for all involved and this resource is designed to make it a tad easier for you. What’s included? There are over 70 questions from past SATS papers in this resource that are all themed around the skill of addition and subtraction. There are 9 activity sheets. Answers are included in 2 formats - there is a ‘quick answer sheet’ that is great for helicoptering around the classroom with. There is also a copy of the answer scheme from the SATS papers. These activity sheets can be used more than once on the lead up to SATS. You can use these activity sheets to: • Assess where the children are and identify gaps • For the children to practise their knowledge and skills • To use as part of a revision session Best printed on A3 paper. I hope this saves you time and helps you and your children.
Display lettering - Polka dot themes
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Display lettering - Polka dot themes

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Polka dot themed display lettering appropriate for any displays. What is included: 115 sheets Capital and lower case letters 5 different colours All the letters have the same polka dot pattern which is perfect for mixing and matching Just print the pages that you need for all you display titles. Once cut, they can be laminated to use year after year. I hope this saves you time and makes your displays look lovely!
Display lettering - quick cut - polka dot theme
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Display lettering - quick cut - polka dot theme

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Display lettering with a watercoloured polka dot theme. All letters are in a cicular shape making it quick and easy to cut whilst still making your displays look high quality. What’s included: The alphabet in capitals The alphabet in lower case Digits 0-9 Numbers from 11-20 All the above in 4 different colours to mix and match in your classroom This resource should save you time when cutting your display titles. Enjoy!
Fraction Problem Solving - Year 6  SATS revision lesson - Maths Mastery
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Fraction Problem Solving - Year 6 SATS revision lesson - Maths Mastery

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Problem solving with fractions. Visualisation. Variation. Bar modelling. SATS revision Year 6 ‘Expected Level’ question taken from Testbase: ‘4/5 of the runners in a race have finished the race so far. 92 people have finished. How many runners were in the race altogether?’ The lesson leads children through how to model questions using the known facts and the calculations they need to use to find the unknown values and the answer. There are examples to show the class, practise questions the class can all do together which leads into a differentiated independent task and then a challenge. The lesson uses Bar Modelling and Variation (both from Shanghai / Singapore Maths as a part of Maths Mastery) to build children’s skills so they have the tools they need to answer these types of questions independently. I have found this style of lesson really useful in the past as it hones in on one question style giving the children the chance to master their skills so they have a greater depth of knowledge. Once children have mastered this and built confidence they can they apply it to other areas of problem solving. I have uploaded the lessons and sheets as powerpoints which are easy to adapt if you would like to. There is one powerpoint with the lesson on. The other powerpoint is printables of the bar models for the practise section, the independent activity both as worded questions and as worded questions with bar models to be annotated. The challenge activity can be printed so children can stick in their book and answer. I hope this lesson is useful, helps your children learn and saves you some time. This is one of the first lesson I have uploaded so any feedback would be helpful to me moving forwards. I want my resource to help you and make you life easier!