I used this frame to discuss the themes of Romeo and Juliet with an individual student I tutor. It helped her organise her thoughts, ideas and quotations.

Based on the traditional Snakes and Ladders game, this resource uses a variety of strategies to help a student to learn any spelling list. As a tutor I have used it with students of all abilities. Give the children cards with the words you wish them to focus on.

An activity that I created for a reluctant writer as part of their World War Two Evacuees learning. It can be used with confident writers too. The task is to choose 12 items to pack in their suitcase and to explain their choices.

I created this resource for one of my individual students who was studying The Titanic as a class project and wanted to know more. He used two copies of the titanic template to create a ‘lift the flap’ information board based on his independent research. He used the writing prompt ‘Survivor’ to write a personal account of the sinking of the Titanic. The writing prompt also includes a useful strategy to encourage students to independently edit and develop their writing.

I created this resource to support a student in recognising common language features in texts. It has helped the student gain confidence in writing about texts.

I created this resource for a student who was not confident in solving equations. The resource could also be used with confident KS2 mathematicians.

An explanation of haiku and an example given. The students then write their own haiku. Students who are confident readers will be able to complete the whole activity independently. In my experience, once students have grasped the concept, they love to write these three line, 17 syllable poems.

A writing prompt with success criteria to support students who are not confident writers.

I have memories of completing this activity at school - we would use a template or draw our own axis to draw straight lines to matching the numbers. (In the example, I used 1 to 1 but the blank template can be adapted to use any times table eg; 1 to 4, 2 to 8). The third activity is based around a circle template and initially the students draw a line to every fifth number before being encouraged to experiment with other numbers to make a variety of impressive shapes. As a child we used to do this activity using card and embroidery thread and create pictures using 'curved stitching'. The activity is also useful for developing fine motor skills.

This is a resource I designed for a year 8 student who is not a confident writer. The activities focused on the skills of recognising the criteria for different genre and using descriptive writing. This resource can be used with all students studying the play.

A resource to give students a quick practice at rounding decimals. I have used it when I have followed up on previous learning to check that the students has understood how to round decimals.

This resource was created to support a student in finding percentage increase and decrease as well as the original price of an item. It includes: an explanation and example for finding both percentage change and calculating the original value; questions for the student to complete and detailed answers.

This resource was created to support a student in recognising language features e.g similes, alliteration. the resource includes a writing frame to help the student organise their writing and to gain confidence to write about texts purposefully.

These multi -step word problems are designed to support students in gaining confidence in their abilities to solve problems using all four operations. The word problems also involve money and finding 10%.

This resources encourages independent writers to research a monster and to chose one of two activities to complete (or both).

Match the words of Shakespeare to their modern meanings or play the memory game. Complete the challenge of writing sentences using the words of Shakespeare.

For this activity the student is required to complete the sentences using words in the text box. i created for an individual student but he activity could be used as a guided reading activity.

This resource is a great way to give students practice at the multiplication tables. The activity uses the square numbers and the trickier tables such as seven times. After breaking the code the students are also challenged to create their own codes and puzzles to crack.

This activity was created to support a student with the spellings using both the hard and soft g.

This resource was created to support a student who is not a confident reader. It aimed to give them experience and confidence in answering word problems. One question looks specifically at converting pounds to pence and vice versa as the student asked for support with that. The questions cover addition, subtraction, multiplication and division. The resource could be used for independent group or as an assessment of learning.