This is an assembly I used with Year 1 children. We share information we have found out about different minibeasts then act out the story 'The very greedy bee.' Songs are from cbeebies or out of the ark -minibeasts CD

Maths and Literacy ideas as well as ideas for the others areas of the classroom for child initiated play.

Literacy and Numeracy ideas which I used with Nursery. Also some topic plan ideas and plans for the other areas of the classroom.

A literacy/phonics lesson for Reception children which I used in autumn term on the story Room on the Broom. I used this for a lesson observation which was graded outstanding.

Literacy planning for Year 1 linked to the story 'The Very Greedy Bee.' Includes story writing, labelling, letters and invitations. Also an outdoor lesson.

Literacy and Numeracy planning linked to the text A Fish who could Wish for Early Years

This 2 weeks planning is linked to the Gruffalo. There is Lit/Num plans - 2 lessons for each week and skills planning for the other areas of the classroom. There is also a couple of worksheets.

This is an outdoor lesson plan I recently used with Nursery children and was graded as outstanding. It involves retelling the story, counting and building animal homes using natural materials. Also included is some photographs for ideas for the animal homes and some photos of the homes we made.

This is a class assembly I used with year 1 children. It has information about castles and then the children act out their own fairy tales.

Activites and planning ideas I used with the text Aliens Love Underpants. Includes making aliens out of 2D shape and colouring pants and socks in repeating patterns

Planning for Year 1 linked to the text Little Red Riding Hood.

Planning ideas for early years on the topic space. Includes ideas for Whatever Next and Aliens Loves Underpants

A selection of worksheets to use in Early years or KS1 linked to the topic minibeasts. Included are counting worksheets, doubling, missing numbers, repeating patterns, phonics, matching to habitats, minibeast hunt, sorting minibeasts, symmetrical butterflies, what am I cards and a research map.

Planning for Nursery children using the text The Little Red Hen. Includes literacy and numeracy activities, other area planning and ideas for child initiated play.

Flipcharts including 5 pictures to match each sound. Each picture has a phoneme box underneath. I use these during phonics teaching- I show the pictures related to the sounds we are learning then everyone writes matching word on their own whiteboard or on the flipchart.

2 weeks of planning linked to 'The Very Hungry Caterpillar.' Includes Literacy and Numeracy activities for Early years and plans for the other areas of the classroom. There is also some worksheets and some are included in the free resources section e.g pictures to match retelling the story and counting worksheets.

Some ideas for maths and literacy activities for early years using the text 'mad about minibeasts.'

Some activities we used in Early Years linked to the story 'The Papaya that Spoke' using talk for writing. Children used actions to retell the story, made story maps then innvoated the story to create a new story 'the strawberry that spoke.'

Some literacy and maths ideas and activities for the other areas of the classroom during child initiated play.

A selection of activities used in early years linked to the book Dear Zoo. Maths activities include weighing the animals using numicon and literacy activities include using talk for writing actions, drawing story maps and innovating the story.