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Tried and tested resources for Junior and lower secondary students, made by a Y5/6 teacher.
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Maths Puzzles: Tarsia
10 Tarsia Puzzles covering a range of Upper KS2 and lower KS3 subject areas.
(As a current upper KS2 teacher myself, I use Tarsia regularly as my pupils really enjoy these puzzles - great for Deepening / Mastery)
Includes:
-Dividing Fractions (Standard)
-Dividing Fractions (Tricky)
-Equivalent Fractions
-Finding Fractions of Numbers (Standard)
-Finding Fractions of Numbers (Tricky)
-Fraction Conversions
-Multiplying Fractions (Standard)
-Multiplying Fractions (Tricky)
-Roman Numerals (Standard)
-Roman Numerals (Tricky)
-Multiply and divide by 10 100 1000 (Standard)
-Multiply and divide by 10 100 1000 (Tricky)
What is a Tarsia?
Tarsias are puzzles (a bit like dominoes or triominoes) where each piece contains a mix of questions and answers. Questions and answers have to be matched up, creating a finished puzzle.
What file-types are included?
TES doesn’t support Tarsia files, so these can’t be uploaded directly. Instead, you’ll be accessing PNG files (images) of the original puzzles. These are fully printable and playable.
What software is required if I want to make my own Tarsia?
Tarsias are created in a piece of free software by Hermitech Labs (no affiliation.) I’ve been making Tarsia for years - it’s a genuinely fantastic free resource, which you should consider downloading for yourself. It allows you to choose a blank puzzle-type, then input your own questions and answers. It then turns those into a puzzle for you.
(To find the page with the download on, Google ‘Hermitch Labs Tarsia’)
Y6 SATs homework - Six weeks, 24 documents ' Prep and Practise'
24 documents created from actual Y6 SAT questions, to aid preparation for KS2 SATs.
Ideal for:
-homework (answers provided at bottom of 2nd page, however answers can be removed from document)
-booster groups
-after-school revision clubs
Tried and tested in my own classroom - 2 pages is just right for sending home as homework, or for TA interventions
RICS Set B (Reading Comprehension)
-27 slides for the whole-class teaching of reading and comprehension
-every slide contains an extract / image / poem etc
-every slide contains a Retrieval, Interpret and Author’s Choice question
-every slide contains a mastery option for quick finishers
-these slides were made to link with the style of teaching shared by the Mrs P Blog
Reading / Observation materials including:
-poetry
-story extracts
-infographics
-fact text extracts
-photographs
-book covers
4 Operations Instruction Booklet
Do your pupils forget their written methods almost as soon as you’ve taught them?
I created this booklet to overcome this yearly obstacle - one booklet with all written methods explained in step-by-step instructions. Each pupil in my class keeps a copy in their maths books (like a bookmark) and refers back to it if they forget their methods.
For each step, there is a short, clear explanation of what to do (and why.)
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Great for:**
+revision
+daily use
+learning aid for LAPs / forgetful pupils
+teaching aid when first teaching a method
15 Poster Set: Great British STEM Innovators
What’s included on each poster?
-Birth / death
-Occupation
-List of works
-Short biography
-Quote
Who’s included?
-Alan Turing
-Alexander Fleming
-Ashok Venkitaraman
-Brian Cox
-Charles Darwin
-Charlotte Armah
-Florence Nightingale
-Helen Sharman
-Isambard Kingdom-Brunel
-Joseph Lister
-Maggie Aderin-Pocock
-Saiful Islam
-Sir Isaac Newton
-Sir Stephen Hawking
-Tim Berners-Lee
Also available
-Great British Children’s Authors
200 Words or Fewer: Story Coordinates
A fantastic resource that specifically develops:
-creativity
-writing speed
-enjoying writing
-enjoying stories
-just writing, rather than overthinking / worrying about grammar, vocab choice etc
Recommended for:
-reluctant writers (My Y5/Y6 boys love doing 200 Words each week)
-slow writers
-‘can’t get started’ writers
-children who don’t read very much at home / have limited experience of stories
How does it work?
There are 4 Story Coordinate cards in each set: Character, Situation, Object and Place. Pupils randomly choose a coordinate from each card, giving you four very random story elements (E.g. a mysterious shadow, a hilarious accident, a tiny sword, behind a waterfall.)
Set a time limit (my Y5/6 like to be given 10 minutes for this.) Within that time limit, pupils write a short story (or a part of a story) which includes as many of the 4 items as possible.
It is important to stress to your pupils that, unlike writing lessons, this task is not about using amazing vocabulary/ broad range of punctuation / your neatest handwriting; it is about being creative, letting go and having fun.
What’s incuded?
-Notebook document (with an example-page to get you started)
-4 x Character cards
-4 x Situation cards
-4 x Object cards
-4 x Place cards
Bundle
Reading Comprehension:Great Brits (all 3 sets)
What’s included?
30 complete comprehension resources themed on great Britons, both modern and historical (including a good spread of men, women and Great Brits from the BAME community.)
Each resource includes a short biography, a series of questions and a mark scheme.
Great for:
-Year groups 4-8
-homework
-revision
-home-learning
-links with PSCHE and British Values
-Booster groups
Who’s included?
-Beatrix Potter (Peter Rabbit creator)
-Bushra Nasir (UK’s first Muslim Head Teacher)
-Charles Dickens (author)
-Florence Nightingale (Revolutionised nursing)
-Freddie Mercury (of Queen fame)
-Helen Sharman (UKs first astronaut)
-Jane Goodall (conservationist)
-Paul Stephenson (Racial Equality activist)
-Sadiq Khan (politician)
-William Shakespeare (poet, playwright)
-Ashok Venkitaraman (cancer researcher)
-Charles Darwin (evolutionary biologist)
-Claudia Jones (racial equality activitist, founder of Nottinghill Carnival)
-Helen Bamber (founder of Amnesty International)
-John Lennon (The Beatles)
-Kelly Holmes (athlete)
-Queen Victoria
-Sir Isaac Newton (discoverer of gravity)
-Sir Stephen Hawking (scientist)
-Sir Winston Churchill (WW2 Prime Minister)
-C.S Lewis (author)
-Doreen Lawrence (modern-day racial equality activist)
-Emmeline Pankhurst (historical gender equality activist)
-Isambard Kingdom-Brunel (historical engineer)
-J.K Rowling (author)
-J.R.R Tolkien (author)
-Princess Diana (philanthropist and ex-Royal)
-Roald Dahl (author)
-Shami Chakrabarti (politician, political activist)
-Tim Berners-Lee (inventor of the World Wide Web)
An Introduction to Mindfulness
Extensive Notebook document, introducing the subject of ‘mindfulness’ (aimed at Y5/6/7)
-22 slides
-hyperlinks to two YouTube videos
-highly successful and enjoyable (from personal experience)
-NOT saved as ‘read-only’, to allow you to make changes as necessary. As a TES author and teacher, I have used this lesson as a precursor to making Mindfulness Jars (see photograph) but the outcome can be adapted to suit your children’s needs.
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(Mindfulness Jars not included)*
Y5 and 6 Maths: Complete Fractions Unit (all resources and plans) (National Curriculum)
Complete unit for Upper Key Stage 2 Maths lessons
Includes:
-Equivalent fractions
-COnverting between mixed numbers and improper fractions
-Ordering fractions
-Finding fractions of numbers
-Adding fractions
-Subtracting fractions
-Multiplying fractions
-Dividing fractions
-Additional activity for extending the more able / quick-working children
Includes:
-Lesson input (introduction / starter / teaching input)
-Non-contextual task (‘Practise’)
-Contextual / word-problem task (‘Apply’)
-Deepening / broadening task (‘Deepen’)
-Full planning for all activities
*-many tasks differentiated 2 or 3 ways
*-tried and tested resources (I have taught fractions using these resources for a number of years)
*-answer sheets provided where appropriate (to encourage self-marking)
*-most tasks in an adaptable format (I.e. you can make changes to most of the documents to, for example, change names in word problems to those of children in your class)
Y5 and 6 Maths: Complete Ratio, Proportion, % Unit (all resources and plans) (National Curriculum)
Complete unit for Upper Key Stage 2 Maths lessons
Includes:
-Ratio
-Proportion
-Ratio and Proportion investigation
-Scaling up / down (shapes)
-Scaling up / down (number)
-Percentages
Includes:
-Lesson input (introduction / starter / teaching input)
-Non-contextual task (‘Practise’)
-Contextual / word-problem task (‘Apply’)
-Deepening / broadening task (‘Deepen’)
-Full planning for all activities
*-many tasks differentiated 2 or 3 ways
*-tried and tested resources (that I’ve personally used to teach Y5/6 for a number of years)
*-answer sheets provided where appropriate (to encourage self-marking)
*-most tasks in an adaptable format (I.e. you can make changes to most of the documents)
*-Practise / Apply / Deepen can be changed - each full learning outcome could be taught across one, two or three lessons, depending on how you use / adapt the resources.
RICS Set C (Reading Comprehension)
-27 slides for the whole-class teaching of reading and comprehension
-every slide contains an extract / image / poem etc
-every slide contains a Retrieval, Interpret and Author’s Choice question
-every slide contains a mastery option for quick finishers
-these slides were made to link with the style of teaching shared by the Mrs P Blog
Reading / Observation materials including:
-poetry
-story extracts
-infographics
-fact text extracts
-photographs
-book covers
-book illustrations
-comic book front covers
Maths Learning Aid Collection
-A collection of highly useful learning aids, prompts and supports for the teaching and learning of maths
-All items regularly used by creator (particularly for struggling Y4, Y5 and Y6 pupils)
Included:
-‘Four Operations Vocabulary’ card
-Number lines (3 different scales)
-Filled-in times table grid
-Blank times table grid
-Digit cards (units, tens, hundreds, thousands)
-Place Value Grid A
-Place Value Grid B
-Traffic lights (used for quiet / reluctant learners who don’t like to raise their hand for help)
-Times Table Rainbow (full set included, x2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12)
KS2/KS3 Writing Resource : Genre Towers
-8 ‘Genre Towers’ (Word banks to be printed and turned into a stand-up ‘tower’)
-A4 size
-Ideal for supporting KS2 and KS3 pupils in genre-specific writing
Included:
-1 x play script
-1 x newspaper article
-1 x narrative
-1 x instructions
-1 x formal letter
-1 x discussions / debate
-1 x diary entry
-1 x biography and autobiography
Poke-Maths (Maths resource for Pokeman fans)
Set of images linked to Pokemon, which I’ve used in various years to support the teaching of Maths.
This resource has proved particularly useful with:
-reluctant Year 3/4 boys
-children with learning difficulties (in particular, a group of Y5 boys with Autism used this resource for all manner of work, particularly Number. It engaged them on an unexpectedly high level in comparison to their previous engagement with Maths)
(Photo shows how this resource has been prepared and organised in my own classroom)
Reading Comprehension Prompt Set
’Question Clues’ Set
What’s included?
-Microsoft Word Document (All clues on one card)
-PDF File (All clues on one card)
-Microsoft Word Document (Clues on individual flash cards)
-Notebook Document (All clues on one slide, for displaying on an interactive board)
Particularly useful for:
-KS1 (early comprehension skills)
-KS2 (children with difficulties around reading and comprehension)
-TA use, supporting children with additional needs
6 x graph types plus questions
Bundle of 6 documents:
-Pictograms
-Bar graphs
-Bar-line graphs
-Line graphs
-Pie charts (using fractions)
-Pie charts (using percentages)
Each card has a graph to read, and a series of questions answerable using the graph’s data.
As you can see from the photo, I use these resources every year with my Y5/6 children (which explains why they are covered in whiteboard pen!)
SAT Revision Mini-Test Booklets: Reasoning Set (Number)
’SAT Skill Booster’ Mini-Tests
Details:
-27 booklets (each document fits onto a double-sided A4 sheet, folded)
-Answers provided at the end of each booklet
-All questions are past-paper KS2 SATs questions
Perfect for:
-SATs revision
-Booster groups
-Extension Activity
-Homework
Includes:
-Word Problems 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6
-Money Word Problems 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5
-Number Sequences
-Rounding
-Negatives 1 and 2
-Place Values 1 and 2
-Blank Boxes, Towers and Puzzles 1, 2 and 3
-Factors, Multiples, Primes and Powers 1, 2 and 3
-Order of Operations BODMAS
-Algebra 1, 2 and 3
Also available: Arithmetic 4 Operations, Arithmetic Fractions, Reasoning Measure, Reasoning Fractions Decimals and %ages. (Please visit My Shop for details)
RICS Set D (Reading Comprehension)
-27 slides for the whole-class teaching of reading and comprehension
-every slide contains an extract / image / poem etc
-every slide contains a Retrieval, Interpret and Author’s Choice question
-every slide contains a mastery option for quick finishers
-these slides were made to link with the style of teaching shared by the Mrs P Blog
Reading / Observation materials including:
-poetry
-story extracts
-infographics
-fact text extracts
-photographs
-book covers
-book illustrations
-comic book front covers
SAT Revision Mini-Test Booklets: Arithmetic Set (Number)
’SAT Skill Booster’ Mini-Tests
Details:
-23 booklets (each document fits onto a double-sided A4 sheet, folded)
-Answers included
-All questions are past-paper KS2 SATs questions
Perfect for:
-SATs revision
-Booster groups
-Extension Activity
-Homework
Includes:
-Addition 1 and 2
-Addition-Missing Values 1 and 2
-Subtraction 1 and 2
-Subtraction-Missing Values 1 and 2
-Multiplication 1, 2 and 3
-Multiplication-Missing Values
-Short Division 1 and 2
-Long Division 1, 2 and 3
-Division-Missing Values
-Multiplication by 10 100 1000
-Decimals, MIxed 1 and 2
-Roots and Powers 1 and 2
Also Available: Arithmetic Fractions, Reasoning Measure, Reasoning Number, Reasoning Fractions Decimals %ages
SAT Revision Mini-Test Booklets: Reasoning Set (Measure)
’SAT Skill Booster’ Mini-Tests
Details:
-14 booklets (each document fits onto a double-sided A4 sheet, folded)
-Answers included
-All questions are past-paper KS2 SATs questions
Perfect for:
-SATs revision
-Booster groups
-Extension Activity
-Homework
Includes:
-Perimeter 1 and 2
-Area 1 and 2
-Length 1 and 2
-Volume 1 and 2
-Capacity 1 and 2
-Weight 1 and 2
-Time and Timetables 1 and 2
Also Available: Arithmetic Number, Arithmetic Fractions, Reasoning Number, Reasoning Fractions Decimals %ages