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I am a Primary School teacher, currently working in Year 3 and about to complete my NQT year (which has flown by and been absolutely brilliant!) following completion of my PGCE at the University of Cambridge. As this is my first year of teaching, the majority of my resources are aimed at Year 3 students though I have a number of children with SEN so activities are differentiated many ways. Usually they follow a 'mild, medium, spicy' format with further differentiation for additional needs.

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I am a Primary School teacher, currently working in Year 3 and about to complete my NQT year (which has flown by and been absolutely brilliant!) following completion of my PGCE at the University of Cambridge. As this is my first year of teaching, the majority of my resources are aimed at Year 3 students though I have a number of children with SEN so activities are differentiated many ways. Usually they follow a 'mild, medium, spicy' format with further differentiation for additional needs.
Introduction to Skeletons (humans and animals)
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Introduction to Skeletons (humans and animals)

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Lesson plan with supporting resources for a Year 3 lesson for skeletons covering labelling bones. Also included is a picture of the skeleton my class labelled that was then printed and stuck in their books as evidence.
Ordering Ancient Egypt key events on a timeline.
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Ordering Ancient Egypt key events on a timeline.

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Supports children exploring an Ancient Egypt topic. Notebook looks at understanding the numbers get bigger the further away from 0 (Jesus' Birth) because they were longer ago. Worksheet is differentiated 3 ways with an extension activity.
Forces experiment Year 3
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Forces experiment Year 3

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Resources (including Scaffolded experiment write-up sheet) for experiment lesson looking at objects moving over different surfaces. Lesson plan and notebook included plus a link to a useful video.
Fossilisation process
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Fossilisation process

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A practical lesson for exploring the different stages of fossilisation which the children play a part in. An excellent practical and visual representation
Measuring and converting mm to cm and vice versa Y3
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Measuring and converting mm to cm and vice versa Y3

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3 worksheets to practice measuring in cm and mm. Helps children see that cm are bigger than mm. Also is a good activity to gauge how children will cope with full conversions - it flagged up lots of misconceptions! 3 Worksheets to consolidate measurement conversions. Differentiated 3 ways (Mild, Medium, Spicy). True or false 'prove it' challenge cards as an extension using greater than and less than symbols. Initially designed for Year 3
Written multiplication Year 3
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Written multiplication Year 3

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Notebook progression of skills of written multiplication revisiting partitioning skills then using grid method and long multiplication. The notebook includes a dice game which can be presented either in their books or on a sheet of blank grids (also provided). For grid method, we did lots of practical examples using dienes and whiteboards and then moved on to pre-drawn grids which they drew the dienes in the right boxes. There are two maths investigations included for extending and deepening understanding.
Introduction to arrays for multiplication
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Introduction to arrays for multiplication

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A notebook with clear progression from multiplication as repeated addition to arrays with an activity at the end (poster making) which the children completed in pairs and stuck up around the classroom. A document full of pictoral arrays - I printed loads of these out, spread them on the tables and children picked one up, stuck it in and wrote the array that matched.
Adding the suffix '-ly' to make adverbs
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Adding the suffix '-ly' to make adverbs

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Notebook of progression of spelling rules. Lesson starter sorting words in to root word + ly and just words that end in ly. Worksheets are differentiated 3 ways: mild, medium and spicy.
Light module aimed at Year 3
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Light module aimed at Year 3

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Lessons plans and resources for: what is light? reflections, shadows and sunlight. Differentiated three ways: mild, medium and spicy. Includes experiment write up sheets as this was a very practical topic!
Adding and subtracting 100s Year 3
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Adding and subtracting 100s Year 3

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Notebook for lesson and worksheets for adding 100s and embedding number facts. Mild worksheet plus spicy and medium resources to be photocopied several times, cut out and students pick one up, stick it in and complete it, then repeat.
Past and Present simple tense
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Past and Present simple tense

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A notebook with explanations of past and present tense including a short activity quickly writing verbs in the past/present tense. Sentences for pupils to sort in to two piles (past and present) followed by mild and medium differentiated activities (mild = ticking past or present and identifying the verb. medium = re-writing the sentence in the other tense). The spicy alternative was to write any sentence and then write it in the other tense.
times and divide by 4 and 8
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times and divide by 4 and 8

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Resources to support learning 4s and 8s times tables using doubling/halving flowcharts and techniques. A notebook to model the flow chart and support progression.
Column Subtraction
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Column Subtraction

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Sea-side themed (fish bubbles, turtle snap, harbour wall bar models) activities and work sheets to support developing of column subtraction starting with subtracting using a place value grid to spotting which number sentences can/can't be done. Activities follow a mild, medium, spicy structure of difficulty displayed by chilli pepper clipart. Also included: a notebook for the progression of skills.
Duration Lesson 1 Year 3
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Duration Lesson 1 Year 3

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Lesson starter > matching the activity to the length of time A practical experiment using stopwatches to measure and record a series of events. Plenary > putting lengths of times in the right order (could be used as a starter for second lesson)
Sentence types
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Sentence types

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Looking at questions, commands, exclamations and statements - notebook of progression and activity.
3D shapes and their properties Year
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3D shapes and their properties Year

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Display information/prompt cards for table. A 'find me' game looking at the properties of 3D shapes. The multilink models were used in a lesson to generate discussion about looking at 3D shapes from different orientations.
PE Dance - The Wild Rumpus
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PE Dance - The Wild Rumpus

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A short but very fun 3-week dance project based around the Wild Rumpus from Where the Wild Things Are. Plans include: warm up, skill development and application, curriculum links and learning intentions. Plans are to be used a skeleton for the basic progression but inspiration and specific dance ideas will be led by the pupils.
Dienes Place Value treasure hunt with Stone Age theme
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Dienes Place Value treasure hunt with Stone Age theme

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Cut up the squares with the dienes pictures and letters in. Place these around the classroom. Give each child a recording grid. When they find a card, they must count the dienes and write the number in the box with the same letter on their grid. Answers included to help self-marking!