For year 5 or 6, this is a build your own city incorporates art, design, maths and literacy. Excellent for summer term for SATs finishers or for topic-related kick starts.
Targeted and specific activity designed to help children understand a range of past tense verbs when writing. I've used it in writing recounts and narratives. Very useful!
A full day’s resources for the first day back, including informal assessment opportunities for writing, maths, speaking and reading:
Morning starter (while children are registered): grammar, using an image to write sentences and identify word classes;
Golden rules children decide as a class the rules for the year;
Recount of holiday: writing assessment task;
Maths treasure hunt which requires a little prep to hide all the tasks about the classroom/playground!
Selfie biography task children get the chance to set goals and write about themselves.
Reading task perhaps to precede a quiet reading time at the end of the day.
Part of Healthy eating week, this activity gets the children to focus on balance and a more holistic version of health. Tried it out today and it was good!
Using context and prefix/suffix clues, this worksheet will help children to read around words and use word chunks to enhance their understanding of texts.
Using elements of spaced learning to help the children study, this is a comprehensive but concise series of lessons which culminates in test-style SATs questions on the focus area.
Using elements of spaced learning to help the children study, this is a comprehensive but concise series of lessons which culminates in test-style SATs questions on the focus area.
Focusing on areas of weakness in my year group, I made a series of these presentations for the kids to prepare them for the reasoning papers.
The independent work was a few problems from previous SATs papers.
Hope they help!
With less questions than the usual SATs test, this resource was used in my class this week in an hour session, allowing enough time to discuss the vocabulary and practice answering questions worded in a similar way to the tests from the last two years.
The theme is ‘Mummies’, which the boys enjoyed.
This is a non-fiction paper, but with longer texts and no subheadings.
A quick resource, about 30 mins, to help the children understand how to use the text when answering questions in a reading test. Texts are linked in the presentation. I use this each week, changing the text and the questions. Please leave feedback and I will respond!
A series of activities and comprehension questions based on Macbeth, using snippets of the original text and an abridged version to read as a class. The text is not my own, it is typed from Usborne Illustrated stories from Shakespeare.
Introductory games, worksheet and golden rules presentation included, which should take a teacher and his/her new class all the way up to breaktime :-)
Contents:
speaking activity
game
morning starter
printable/editable resource for the children
editable powerpoint slides for the teachers, with notes attached
The ‘passport’ sets up targets for the child for the year and provides a nice way to reflect throughout. Designed to facilitate a smooth start to the year.
I also used the time we had to design a logo for the front of the passports- r you could just stick your school’s logo on the front.