Hi, I've been teaching throughout KS2 since 1997 and have always received outstanding feedback from Heads and SLTs, inspectors, colleagues and parents. Please have a look at my varied resources, and if you like them, please take a moment to leave me a good review. Thank you!
Hi, I've been teaching throughout KS2 since 1997 and have always received outstanding feedback from Heads and SLTs, inspectors, colleagues and parents. Please have a look at my varied resources, and if you like them, please take a moment to leave me a good review. Thank you!
Suitable for Y5/6, these three differentiated worksheets (complete with answers) give children opportunity to practise solving division word problems in real-life contexts where they then have to think about how to deal with the remainder - i.e. does it need rounding up? Rounding down? Can we have 2/3 of a child or 1/2 a tent? Etc. Great for getting children to remember that maths isn't just about sums and numbers.
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A set of worksheets (differentiated) involving a range of different types of patterns - number, geometric etc. - about which children are asked to find and continue patterns as well as explaining their reasoning. Answers given.
Set of easy-to-use sheets for teaching kids the basics of musical notation. Simple grid formats as well as conventional staff. Colour coded to help kids with rhythm (i.e. red = one beat, yel-low = 2 beats). Blank versions ready for composition, all can be edited. Different parts can be played separately or easily layered on top of one another for simple (e.g. clapping) but very effective performance. Couldn't be easier!
Class assembly in play script format looking at different forms of bullying in a school environment and the resulting emotions for the victims as well as possible reasons and emotions causing the bullies to behave this way. Good scope for some drama. Written for Y5/6 but could be adapted.
A range of written problems involving ratio for Y5/6 differentiated for 3 levels and including answers.
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7 How To Play... sheets with simple instructions for playing fun Maths games that kids will really love! Can be used as a starter or main activity. Include Killer, 3D Shape, First to Fifteen, Magic Squares, Place Value games, 4 in a Line and Keeper of the Function. Simple to set up with very few resources needed. Can be differentiated easily e.g. by size of numbers. Guaranteed to keep their interest!
A bundle of resources for teaching a short unit on poetry using similes and metaphors. There is a one-week plan although to be honest you could easily stretch it to two weeks as the children always produce good work with these poems. Pack includes 1 week lesson plan, PPT presentation on similes, various classic and modern poems that include similes and/or metaphors and a few format sheets for scaffolding children's poems. Also includes RIC reading questions linked to another metaphor poem for whole-class reading session.
Collection of 17 documents containing many ideas for mental maths investigations which may look simple at first glance but which will actually involve some deep thinking from even the brightest sparks in KS2! Great for lesson starters, homework challenges or extension tasks; also excellent for modelling strategies e.g. logical thinking and systematic recording approaches. Can easily be further adapted or extended i.e. ask children to devise similar styles of question!
This is a powerpoint version of our school calculation policy for Maths. It goes through addition, subtraction, multiplication and division giving an overview of the development of recording methods from Y1 upto Y6 for each one, with examples shown. Includes mark making, number lines, multiplication grids and formal methods. This was used for a presentation to parents in a calculations workshop and was very well received. Obviously it would need tweaking to reflect your specific calculations policy but it might save a lot of time compared to starting from scratch.
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One sheet for children to write on with a pictorial list of all the Halloween items they are looking for - witch, cat, skeleton, etc. They need to find the pictures (which you'll have hidden around the hall or outside area, etc.) and write down the number (shown in red on the hidden picture) next to the item on their list. The second document contains all the pictures themselves (with the red numbers on), A4 size for sticking up somewhere (hard or easy-to-find places) and the third gives all of the answers for checking they've found them all.
A long list of various ideas for mental and oral maths sessions aimed at providing easily differentiated levels of challenge. Little or no preparation or resources required.
This is a fantastic collection of 50 Maths activities that can be used as lesson starters, plenaries or fun one-off activities. Many could be extended as the basis for a full lesson, and most could be revisited as they are or adapted with very little effort to provide new challenges. This means a huge number of your Maths starters throughout the year are already taken care of!
I have been a maths coordinator for several years and have a passion for finding/collecting/inventing easily implemented maths activities that really extend children's understanding.
Challenges include number, length, weight, time, shape and many problem-solving tasks.
Each slide includes notes for the teacher; these may explain the task, provide an answer to more challenging problems, or suggest easy ways to reduce or extend the level of challenge to suit more/less able mathematicians.
With the slides you are good to go; although many of them could be further developed by using resources such as coins, dice etc., they are ready to use as they are with only whiteboards or jotters being needed for the children to write down answers on.
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A collection of 8 RIC reading activities designed for use with the whole class, but could be used with a group. Each slide uses a different stimulus, including photograph, illustration, poster, song, video, and includes questions for each of the elements of RIC; retrieve/interpret/choice. Intended to be thought-provoking and to stimulate discussion, facilitated by the teacher. For KS2 but could also be used with lower KS3.
Includes questions based around two Pixar short films, a page from the Mysteries of Harris Burdick (Chris van Allsburg), a poster on Internet safety, a photograph on flooding in San Jose, Something Inside So Strong by Labi Siffre, Please Mrs Butler poem by Allan Ahlberg, and a thought-provoking Facebook illustration by Pawel Kuczynski.
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This is a brief summary of key points in the life of Queen Elizabeth II (upto 2018) written as a 2-sided text and as a simplified one-sided text for less able pupils to read, accompanied by 3 sets of questions based around one of the two texts for use with different ability groups. Aimed at Y4/5/6 but could be used or easily adapted for older or younger children.
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A collection of 15 inspiring and unusual photographs from around the web to stimulate writing (and talk for writing). (One slide contains a moving image.) Slides also contain possible sentences to start or further stimulate stories.
For KS2 creative writing lessons.
