Can be either used as an eye witness account in Newspaper topic (or) a simple character description.

From a few years ago with links for Art. Hope this helps someone out.

A nice activity for children to think about designing their own robot.

NB: This resource is now 1/4 of the price it originally started at and still has some outstanding unique content included. A very high quality resource. This is a 32 slide Powerpoint, including videos and high quality unique animations around the subject of Growth-Mindset designed for presentation to staff and parents alike. Many parts are also suitable for children themselves especially the videos. Uniquely designed and produced my myself and an extremely reputable colleague for use at inset in school, who has now gone on to advise in this area. As we designed this resource collaboratively I am lucky enough to be able to post these particular elements here. I have also included slide handouts and and a Mac / Keynote / iPad version of the resource, which also has embedded video files. Note the keynote version of the resource has additional special effects for Mac / OS/ iPad users. Perfect for the introduction or refresh of ‘Growth-Mindset’ in schools and won’t have been seen anywhere! I have included some of the research videos we used as part of our project.

Massive update to my highly popular resource… Found these really hard to find so made my own resources up. I am unsure why they are so scarce as they often come up in SAT tests etc. As I like to call them 'missing box sums’ I have included differentiated worksheets and a smart notebook file to accompany the lesson worksheets. Great for years 3/4 possibly lower ability year 5. UPDATE: Feb 2018: due to the popularity of the previous version of this resource I have added a additional content similar in nature, for example, 'the role of the equals sign.' At this age it is important that children understand (leading onto later years and algebra etc) that ‘Equals’ doesn’t mean ‘the answer’ but is a BALANCE of two equations. There is a lesson plan included here as well I used for an observation during a Numeracy lesson on the topic.

Weekly lesson Plan / medium term plan Year 3/4 Characteristics of materials.

An ‘outstanding’ observation lesson plan with resources, Powerpoint, worksheets etc There is also a lot of additional worksheets / Powerpoints included here too that would be useful for additional lessons and / homework.

Resources for children to explore different connective types. I have also included worksheets and a smart notebook to assist. Suitable for years 3-5.

Moving and Growing Year 4 weekly plan.

What is ‘Black Friday’ (shopping event.) How did it originate? Includes a text in Newspaper style about the event and comprehension questions based on this, ideal for a talking point and could lead into some excellent discussions in year 5/6 regarding marketing / advertising etc. I used this last year very successfully and it generated a great deal of valuable discussion.

Great for an introduction back to school or just as a little fun! This quiz was used during a ‘lockdown quiz’ and was designed from scratch. You may want to adapt bits for your class or use it as it is! All questions are either taken from the KS1 / KS2 curriculum or primary school textbooks just like the show. It contains multimedia clips as well! There are 50 questions in total including a picture round! Suitable for children and adults! A couple of example questions… -In ancient Egyptian times, canopic jars were used to store the organs of a mummy’s body, how many jars were used: 3, 4 or 5? -What acronym is used to describe the computer code used to create web pages?

A 45 question 'pub ’ style quiz, ready to print and pitched at just the right level, the questions selection is done for you, because each quiz starts easy and gets more difficult towards the end, pitched at the average quizzer, retaining an element of fun.  This quiz contains: 12 question picture round (Name the Christmas movie, unscramble the anagrams and name the singer from the photo.) 33 Christmas themed questions and answers A set fo questions without the answers (in case the Quizmaster wants to take part in the quiz.) A blank numbered sheet for players to write their answers on. Great for a staff party or older pupils. To play online quizzes check out: www.youtube.com/c/quizinators

This pack includes a 50 question general knowledge quiz Mixed Picture Round with 12 questions: Name the minimalist movie character from colours and quotes, name the dingbat and name the famous UK TV advert from the still. 38 carefully researched general knowledge questions and answers A version of the questions without the answers (in case the quizmaster wishes to take part.) Blank 50 question template to print out and write on (if required.) The questions selection is done for you, because each quiz starts easy and gets more difficult towards the end, pitched at the average quizzer, retaining an element of fun. Perfect for a standard, or online quiz. Questions 13 - 20: Easier questions designed to give your teams some confidence and even raise some laughs. Questions 21 - 30: Medium difficulty questions, some of these may include a multiple choice element. Questions 31-35: Identify whether the brand contains an apostrophe or not Questions 36-40: If historical figures had Twitter: Can you name the well known people from history from their fictional ‘Twitter posts.’ Questions 41 - 45: Harder questions which teams will find much more challenging. Questions 45 - 50: ‘The Wipeout Round’ or ‘Double or Quits’. It is suggested that in this section, you inform teams that each question is worth 2 points, however if one question is answered incorrectly the team ‘wipes-out’ and scores no points for the round, questions can however be missed out with no penalty (just receiving no points for that particular question.) One example of a question in this resource is… According to the NHS website, what are the approximate chances of a birth in the UK resulting in twins, triplets or more: 1 in 65 or 1 in 165? (Wipeout question.) If you would like to access more resources like this please see: www.quizinators.com

Lots of comprehension based materials on Back to the Future Some based on ‘Newspaper Articles’ written. I’ve added lots of additional materials to match. In the UK this is in my top 5 resources, highly rated! Enjoy!

Powerpoint used to illustrate what powerful verbs and adverbs are. Extremely effective for years 3-5. Due to the popularity of this resource I have included a word bank I have made of adverbs that are very effective in writing.

2018 Update. These resources were originally based on a specific lesson observation, I have since included a massive amount of extras. I have included a presentation file in BOTH Mac (Keynote) and Windows (Powerpoints) formats, this particular lesson was used in an observation highly sucessfully (outstanding) during my performance management 2 years ago. UPDATE: I have re-uploaded the ‘mummification pictures’ in pdf format as well as the original microsoft word format due to review comments, photos are now viewable in several formats.

A set of worksheets I designed to help children practice using a dictionary. The first few letters are correct and children have to find the words in the dictionary, listing the page number at which they find them and correcting their spelling. (Tip, make sure you have a set of the same dictionary types for this!) Also… -KS2 Scheme. -A list of the ‘100 most common mis-spelt words’ that I found and edited from the internet. UPDATE: Lots of other worksheets to use for example using a thesaurus and homophones

I have bullet pointed a few ideas I had to use iMovie in the classroom. Although these were written with a mac in use, many of the ideas could be used with iMovie on the iPad or a similar video editing program. Please leave a comment if you find this useful.

Resources to support the teaching of commas. Notebook, Powerpoint and a couple of worksheets I made.