I specialise in English and my experience includes literacy consultancy, management, a role as an English lead teacher and teaching at both primary and secondary. Take a look at my resources for English and other useful bits and bobs. magicinkstand@hotmail.com
I specialise in English and my experience includes literacy consultancy, management, a role as an English lead teacher and teaching at both primary and secondary. Take a look at my resources for English and other useful bits and bobs. magicinkstand@hotmail.com
I have been involved in many interviews for the role of lunchtime supervisor. This is a thorough list of questions which are organised into the following categories: behaviour and safety, equal opportunities, personal qualities and other. Please leave a review if you find this resource helpful and good luck with your interview!
I have been involved in many interviews for several different local authorities. Included in this resource are 100 questions for the role of Deputy Head and are organised into the following categories: teaching and learning, behaviour and safety, equal opportunities and personal qualities. Please leave a review if you find this resource helpful. Thank you!
I have led English successfully in several schools. This document is an example of an action plan for leading English in primary, which would be useful for English subject leaders. Included are ten objectives for improving both progress and attitudes to reading and writing and 100 strategies for achieving these objectives.
The Autumn Equinox takes place in September each year. This resource consists of a visual, 30 page PowerPoint presentation and quiz worksheet which includes:
• Important vocabulary
• Key information about the autumn equinox
• The history of the autumn equinox
• autumn equinox celebrations around the world
• autumn equinox traditions
• Interactive picture activity
• Interactive matching activity
• Identifying activity
• Quiz
• Useful diagrams and images
• Links to videos
and more!
Please note that the quiz questions on the worksheet are the same as those on the presentation and that the answers to the quiz are at the end of the presentation.This resource is fully editable and could be used for an interactive assembly or a lesson. All images are copyright free. Please leave a review if you find this useful. Thank you!
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A staff meeting regarding enjoyable activities to teach spelling, punctuation and grammar.
This pack provides all resources needed for an hour-long staff meeting about activities to use in class for teaching spelling, punctuation and grammar. Your staff team will look at examples of SPaG questions from SATs, reflect about the SPaG requirements for their year group and how they have been covered, complete a grammar terminology activity, take part in whole group grammar activities and then try out several fun grammar activities on their tables. I delivered this meeting to a large staff team and received a round of applause!
Included:
- requirement activity
- terminology activity
- spelling strategies
- grammar activities to demonstrate to team (x7)
- grammar activities for staff to participate in on tables (x5)
- 10 files to download
This resource is fully editable, up to date for 2017-2018 and all images are copyright free. Please leave a review if you find this useful. Thank you!
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WRITING AND READING Staff Meeting: Activities for Teaching Reading and Writing (SPAG, English, INSET, Training)
A staff meeting in which staff will learn about and participate in five strategies for improving English skills.
PHONICS Staff Meeting: Subject Knowledge and Teaching Strategies
A staff meeting for teachers or support staff regarding phonics theory and how to teach phonics.
READING Staff Meeting: Pedagogy / Strategies for Reading
A staff meeting regarding the teaching and learning of reading.
WRITING Staff Meeting: Punctuation (English, INSET, Training)
A staff meeting regarding subject knowledge of punctuation and ideas for teaching activities.
This resource consists of a presentation for a staff meeting/ training session regarding Child Protection/ Safeguarding and the Prevent Duty.
Includes:
- Key principles of child protection
- Serious case review
- Signs of neglect
- Vulnerable groups
- Reporting concerns
- Child protection updates
- FGM
- The Prevent Duty
- Signs of Radicalisation
- Statutory Guidance
- Issues to discuss
- Interactive activities
This presentation is fully editable and copyright free.
Please note that this presentation refers to the Counter-Terrorism and Security Act of 2015. You may need to check for further revisions and updates with regard to the Prevent Duty and Child Protection before sharing this resource.
Please leave a review if you find this helpful. Thank you.
This document is an example of an action plan for leading Maths in a primary school. Some of the ideas could also be used in secondary. Included are objectives for improving teaching and learning in maths and 100 strategies for achieving these objectives. Please leave a review if you find this resource useful. Thank you !
This resource consists of a bumper pack of book related quizzes with two levels of difficulty for primary aged children. Included are eight quizzes:
Book Quiz - difficulty 1
Character Quiz - difficulty 1
Setting Quiz - difficulty 1
Title Quiz - difficulty 1
Book Quiz - difficulty 2
Character Quiz - difficulty 2
Setting Quiz - difficulty 2
Title Quiz - difficulty 2
This quiz is fully editable and also includes answers. Please leave a review if you find this resource useful. Thank you !
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This resource consists of spelling lists for reception to year 6. The lists are also presented in a precision teaching grid format. To make this resource, I referred to the common exception word lists in the National Curriculum which consist of combined word lists for years 3 and 4 and for years 5 and 6. I separated these by difficulty to create lists for each year group. The words for reception to year 2 are from the National Literacy Strategy. Please leave a review if you find this resource helpful.
This document is an example of an action plan for leading Art in a primary school. Many of the ideas could also be used in secondary. Included are ten objectives for improving both progress and attitudes with regard to art and also 100 strategies for achieving these objectives.
This is a two-page resource which includes a text about Easter traditions and ten inference/ language/ retrieval questions. It is suitable for year 2 pupils but could also be used for some groups in year 3 or 4. Please see my other Easter resources and leave a review if you find this useful. Thank you!
13 page presentation with general knowledge questions about Easter and answers at the end. The presentation includes Easter photographs and could be used with children from year 2 upwards. Please see my other Easter resources and leave a review if you find this useful. Thank you!
This document consists of a series of ten questions to quiz pupils on their general knowledge of Easter. Children from year 2 upwards could access this activity. Please see my other Easter resources and leave a review if you find this useful. Thank you!
This document contains over 150 questions stems which reflect every question used in the new SATs reading papers. The stems have been cross referenced with the 2016 sample reading papers for KS1 and KS2, the 2016 reading papers for KS1 and KS2 and the 2017 reading papers for KS1 and KS2. The question stems are sorted into tables for content domains 1A-1E for KS1 and 2A-2H for KS2 and next to each question stem is the original question from the SATs paper so that you can see an example of how to use it. Also included is a list of all the question types which have ever been used e.g. ‘ordering question’, ‘tick a drawing question’. This document can be used to create your own reading comprehension which reflects the new content and will prepare pupils for the reading SATs.
Please visit my shop for other useful resources for English leaders/ coordinators.
Tags: question stems, reading comprehension question stems, reading papers, KS1 reading paper, Year 2 reading paper, KS2 reading paper, Year 2 reading paper, Year 6 reading paper, SATs preparation
A staff meeting regarding subject knowledge of punctuation and ideas for teaching activities. The pack includes all resources needed for an hour-long, interactive staff meeting or INSET session.
Includes:
- Requirement sorting activity
- Question marks: subject knowledge and activities
- Exclamation marks: subject knowledge and activities
- Sentence types subject knowledge
- Interactive advert activity for staff
- Apostrophes subject knowledge
- ‘Greengrocer Apostrophe Game’ for staff
- Commas and inverted commas subject knowledge
- Parenthesis subject knowledge
- Hyphens subject knowledge
- Colons and semi-colons subject knowledge
- Interactive colon activity for staff
This staff meeting has been tried and tested with a large staff team and well received. This resource is fully editable and all images are copyright free. Please leave a review if you find this useful. Thank you!
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WRITING Staff Meeting: SPAG Activities (Grammar, Spelling, English, INSET, Training)
A staff meeting regarding enjoyable activities for teaching spelling, punctuation and grammar.
**WRITING AND READING Staff Meeting: Activities for Teaching Reading and Writing (SPAG, English, INSET, Training)
**A staff meeting in which staff will learn about and participate in five strategies for improving English skills.
PHONICS Staff Meeting: Subject Knowledge and Teaching Strategies
A staff meeting for teachers or support staff regarding phonics theory and how to teach phonics.
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READING Staff Meeting: Pedagogy / Strategies for Reading]( https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/reading-staff-meeting-pedagogy-strategies-for-reading-english-inset-training-11540049)**
A staff meeting regarding the teaching and learning of reading.
This resource includes all you need for a five lesson letter writing unit. Pupils will write a formal letter to the education secretary regarding whether SATs should be banned or kept.
Includes:
- News articles discussion
- Discussion opinions of professionals based on extracts
- Annotating features of formal letters
- Adverb activity
- Debate activity
- Modal verb activity
- Formal / informal language activity
- Letter drafting
- Letter writing
This presentation is fully editable and copyright free. Please leave a review if you find this helpful. Thank you.
The Day of the Dead festivities begin on October 31st. This resource consists of a visual, 30-page PowerPoint presentation which includes:
• Important vocabulary
• Key information about The Day of the Dead
• The history of The Day of the Dead
• The Day of the Dead festivities
• The Day of the Dead traditions
• Special foods
• La Catrina
• The significance of marigolds, butterflies and sugar skulls
• Parades
• Interactive film activity
• Interactive Spanish word activity
• Quiz
• Photograph spotting activity
• Useful maps and images
• Links to videos
and more!
This pack includes Day of the Dead colouring sheets, a crossword and a quiz worksheet to accompany the quiz on the presentation. This resource is fully editable and could be used for an interactive assembly or a lesson. All images are copyright free. Please leave a review if you find this useful. Thank you!
Tags: Tags: Day of the Dead Assembly, Day of the Dead Quiz, Day of the Dead Worksheet, Day of the Dead Activity, Day of the Dead Activities, History of Day of the Dead, Day of the Dead Presentation, Day of the Dead Lesson, Dia de los Muertos Assembly, Dia de los Muertos Quiz, Dia de los Muertos Worksheet, Dia de los Muertos Activity, Dia de los Muertos Activities, History of Dia de los Muertos, Dia de los Muertos Presentation
50+ page PowerPoint presentation with 50 multiple choice and true/false quiz questions based on the world of pop music in 2023. This is a visual presentation with a range of pictures, which are all copyright free. Two versions are included - one with the answers on each slide and one with the answers at the end of the presentation. Also included is a worksheet on which to write the answers and an answer sheet. Please leave a review if you find this resource useful. Thank you!
Comprises: Paparazzi Round, Lyrics Round, Collaboration Round, Pop News Round, Album Round, plus 4x ‘just for fun’ bonus activities.
Sample Questions:
What is the name of this artist? A,B,C or D?
Kanye West joined Drake on the song Meltdown. True or False?
Which of these is the name of an Ed Sheeran album? A,B,C or D?
What comes next in George Ezra’s Green Green Grass? A,B,C or D?
Which Scottish singer lost his voice on stage at Glastonbury Festival?
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Bastille Day, or La Fete Nationale, is on 14th July 2019. This resource consists of a quiz worksheet and 30+ page PowerPoint presentation which includes:
- important vocabulary
- what is Bastille day?
- history of Bastille Day
- the storming of the Bastille
- how is Bastille Day celebrated?
- French facts
- the French National anthem
- the French flag
- Bastille Day quiz
- matching activity
- ordering activity
- French foods activity
- useful maps and diagrams
- links to videos
Please note that the quiz questions on the worksheet are the same as those on the presentation and that the answers to the quiz are at the end of the presentation. This resource is fully editable and could be used for an interactive assembly or a lesson. All images are copyright free. Please leave a review if you find this useful. Thank you!
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Bastille Day Pack, Independence Day Pack , St Swithin’s Day Pack, Tour de France Presentation , Tour de France Activity Pack
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This resource is a pack of three reading comprehensions on the subject of ancient Rome. The topics are as follows: Entertainment in Ancient Rome, The Roman Army and The Roman Baths. They are designed for KS2 and the questions reflect content domains 2a- 2d: explaining the meaning of words in context, retrieval, summarising and inference using evidence. Question formats include multiple choice, true/false, ordering and find and copy. Answers are included. Please see my other Roman resources including an assembly script, a Roman day resource and a Roman activity pack. Please leave a review if you find this resource useful.