A great first day back activity or a fab introduction to coordinates! Pupil hides 10 facts about themselves as pictures in the grid and on writes the matching statement on the otherside. For example, at A1 you will find my favourite food and on that point would be a picture of a pizza!

This is a powerpoint to be used as an introduction or revision of 3D Shapes such as cubes, cuboids, spheres, cylinders etc. It can be used on the interactive whiteboard to lead the lesson and is set up so children can perform practical activities in between slides. It includes learning intentions. It also introduces the idea of describing shapes with words such as faces and edges.

This is a powerpoint about Moon Buggies to accompany a space topic. It discusses the surface of the moon and how to describe it then the children must decide what kind of vehicle would be suitable for travel on the moon. There are picture examples of moon buggies and then the children must complete a task to make a moon buggy. We made buggies from K'nex and tested it on a playdough moon surface!

Simple character wheel for younger children.

Powerpoint on different shark types and facts. Sharks, ocean, underwater, sea and seashore.

Response worksheet to Monet’s Springtime artwork looking at colours, content, interpretation for further discussion as a class.

Instructions for a storybook activity to recap on french family unit. Pupils must create characters and plot for a book in french. Group work.

Powerpoint on whale facts and types of whales. Sea and seashore, ocean, creatures, underwater.

After reading the story of the first Christmas, I got the children to recount the story in comic strip form to assess their understanding. Can be used with younger children as a story and sentence activity or in greater depth higher up the school.

A scary story planning frame to help children work on characters and setting. Also to help structure a story with a beginning, middle, build up and change in atmosphere and conclusion.

This is a report frame for a Chocolate science experiment. The children test three types of chocolate - milk, white and dark and each of these has a piece at room temp, fridge temp and freezer temp. The children time how long it takes each to melt in their hands or their mouths!

This is a science report frame for the three little pigs experiment. Basically groups have a time limit to build a house from straw (either real (messy!) or art straws), wood (lollipop stigs or twigs) and brick (lego ones!). You can then test each house to see which material is the strongest. We have tested with a hairdryer and a fan before!

This is a planning sheet I created to help children to consider their ideas for a comic strip. It looks at characters and events.

Some labels for maths jotters, language jotters etc.

Getting to know you activity! Guess who by reading the clues in turn! Cut the slits on the first sheet, then stick the 2 together so you can fold the clues over to reveal them!

Four activities which can be used and adapted for any stage to enhance newspaper writing skills. I used these in carousel format with my class but could be used as individual teaching activities for a lesson. The four activities are: Questioning Headlines Note-taking Fact versus Opinion (Cards to accompany from Twinkl or own can be made up)

24 Hour time question and answer cards. Green for mild, amber for hot and red for spicy questions!

Note taking worksheet for class to listen to Vivaldi’s spring and identify features including instruments, rhythm and dynamics for further discussion and comparison.

3 eggs to fill and colour using the dice. Each egg has 6 parts so roll the dice, look at which colour that number is and choose a part of your egg to colour! (The background counts as 1 part in eggs 1 and 3!)

Create a dragon themed marble run instructional slide. Includes instructions and extension challenges. (Suggested materials - paper, card and tape)