An A3 poster listing the main things children need to remember to pack up at the end of the day.

As part of my school’s work on meta-cognition, we’ve been display large images of equipment children will need to use in lessons. This helps children in lessons and make transitions easier. Images include: title pencil whiteboard and pen gluestick purple pen black pen ruler scissors colouring pencils

An A4 support sheet for children in maths and English. Maths side - sentence stems to use for explanation tasks, multiplication square and 100 square. English side - punctuation, capital letters, conjunctions, spellings, ‘bed’ support, alphabet Both sides have some marking feedback tailored to my school’s marking policy. This can be adapted to suit the needs of your class/school. if you want the same fonts, I’ve used century gothic for the body of text and goldie rainbow for the titles.

In my class, I give each child a length of wood. This is then cut to their height and decorated as a snowman (see photo example) which they get to take home and keep. Alongside this, we also attach a tag with a little slogan :)

Small Labels for your coloured book boxes. Following colours included: cream pink yellow red blue green orange turquoise purple gold silver/grey emerald/lime sapphire/dark blue ruby/brown black/free reader

A PowerPoint illustrating different colours and shades of them/ Images from nature have been added to the slides linking to each colour - I’ve used this lots for work on similes.

Children need to crack the emoji questions. Can easily be adapted for different questions/year groups.

Tokens to encourage your class to read more! When children have finished their card, they can trade it in for a treat (for you to decide).

An A4 activity sheet for maths. You choose a number for the week and children have to fill in the relevant information such as: The number written in words The number of ones/tens/hundreds/thousands the ‘number of the week’ has The number written in expanded form 10/100 more and less than the ‘number of the week’ Placing the number on a number line Representing the number in different ways (this sheet has a bar model and place value counters but this can be changed to dienes, abacus etc.) Writing a word problem with the ‘number of the week’ as the answer This document can be edited to suit the needs of your class. I use mine as an early morning task for children to complete as they come into class and settle themselves for the day.

A wheel showing the 12 animals linked to Chinese New Year. Children need to identify each animal and write the initial sound for each one.

A short story on PowerPoint explaining how ‘Roger Rock’ becomes ‘Simon Soil’. There is also a storyboard on a word document which explain the process of how soil is made - children just need to draw their own pictures. I used this in a Year 3 science lesson and the children loved making their own storyboards!

A worksheet where - after learning about the life cycle of a plant - children have to draw their own images linked with each stage and add the following key words to the sentences: germination germinated bigger flowers pollination pollen anther stigma insect fertilisation style ovary ovule disperse

Does anyone else get asked (especially at the start of the year) for lots of help from their pupils? I use this poster to “train” my class to use different things in the classroom before coming to myself/my TA for support. I put large copies up on display and smaller copies on tables. Both writing and pictures makes the poster accessible for all abilities! Enjoy!

Want to track the progress of pupils reading in your class? My editable book band tracker allows you to do this! From cream to black book bands (you can edit the order if needed), you can use this to quickly and easily identify which book bands pupils are on and identify potential groups for guided reading, those needing interventions, pupils needing to be benchmarked etc. I use the left hand column to add children’s names and then tick/date each book band as children achieve them. Hope you find it useful! :)

An A4 worksheet where children are given a word and they have to provide information about it including: word class definition what it rhymes with pictoword synonyms antonyms using the word in a sentence

A PowerPoint explaining how to make a Gingerbread house inspired Christmas card!

A PowerPoint explaining how to make a penguin inspired Christmas card. PowerPoint includes step-by-step instructions as well as the resources needed on the last 3 slides :)

Comprehension Board Game for ‘The Day the Crayons Quit’. I’ve designed mine for a Y3 class.

Comprehension Board Game based on ‘The Very Hungry Caterpillar’. I used mine with a mixed Y1/2 class.

A short unit of work I did with a mixed y1/2 class which involved evaluating, designing and making their own ice lollies!