Solving problems with addition to show application of skills. This is a differentiated resources to for children practice adding in different order. They will understand how to apply the skills they have learnt e.g. adding in any order and addition is commutative. Adding three numbers using bonds. Finding different possible answers. Thinking of own problems for a friend. They learn how to be resilient with maths, work in pairs or teams and think about problems and solutions. They understand that there is more than one possible answer and begin taking risks. A great application resources for maths to develop understanding of number. Suitable for the new Maths curriculum 2018.

English A4 Display Bunting in capital case and lower case. Black backing and white lettering displayed on bunting that can be photocopied onto card or laminated for longer lasting. Reads as follow; ENGLISH English To help reduce distraction for pupils, it is important to have simplicity in displays. Research suggests pupils that are over stimulated can under perform compared to their peers with focused, minimal and succinct information on display. This resource can be purchased as part of a set with all the lettering as displayed in the front cover. See the tes shop for Bunting Pack. Please follow the author for more updates on instagram. @thisisrehanafazil

Maths A4 Display Bunting in capital case and lower case. Black backing and white lettering displayed on bunting that can be photocopied onto card or laminated for longer lasting. Reads as follow; MATHS Maths To help reduce distraction for pupils, it is important to have simplicity in displays. Research suggests pupils that are over stimulated can under perform compared to their peers with focused, minimal and succinct information on display. This resource can be purchased as part of a set with all the lettering as displayed in the front cover. See the tes shop for Bunting Pack. Please follow the author for more updates on instagram. @thisisrehanafazil

Science, Topic, Science and RE A4 Display Bunting Lettering ONLY in capital case and lower case. Black backing and white lettering displayed on bunting that can be photocopied onto card or laminated for longer lasting. Reads as follow; SCIENCE, Science, TOPIC, Topic, R.E Suitable for KS1 and KS2 PRimary School. To help reduce distraction for pupils, it is important to have simplicity in displays. Research suggests pupils that are over stimulated can under perform compared to their peers with focused, minimal and succinct information on display. This resource can be purchased as part of a set with all the lettering as displayed in the front cover (including English and Maths). See the tes shop for Bunting Pack. Please follow the author for more updates on instagram. @thisisrehanafazil

Year 2 Plants- Planning and resources Significant scientist study - how did he/she make a contribution to life today? In this lesson children research about the famous scientist Darwin and follow in his footsteps to go on a plant hunt. They match plants to the key from their immediate environment, playground, nature area or the local park. They make notes and annotate their work like Darwin identifying the species of flowers, their shapes, and color, and name. Challenge children to find different types of plants if they are available e.g. herbs, weed evergreen trees climbing bramble nettle flowering edible plant indoor plants Talk about how Darwin traveled the world to find exotic plants in the rainforest’s of the world. We now have some of these plants in UK. See complete unit of work in the shop or link below; https://www.tes.com/resources/search/?authorId=868530&q=plants&shop=rehanafazil

English, Maths,Science, Topic, R.E A4 Display Bunting in capital case and lower case. All bunting is in black background and white lettering displayed on top, The bunting can be photocopied onto card or laminated for longer lasting. Reads as follow; ENGLISH , English MATHS, Maths SCIENCE, Science TOPIC, Topic R.E To help reduce distraction for pupils, it is important to have simplicity in displays. Research suggests pupils that are over stimulated can under perform compared to their peers with focused, minimal and succinct information on display. This resource is the complete set with all the lettering as displayed in the front cover. It includes one editble version for you to change your colour of bunting if you wish. Please follow the author for more updates on instagram. @thisisrehanafazil

Display Bunting suitable for KS1 and KS2 Primary classrooms. Reading Display Bunting in capital case and lower case is available. All bunting is in black background and white lettering displayed on top. The bunting can be photocopied onto card or laminated for longer lasting. Reads as follow; READING Reading Each letter is on an A4 page. To help reduce distraction for pupils, it is important to have simplicity in displays. Research suggests pupils that are over stimulated can under perform compared to their peers with focused, minimal and succinct information on display. Hope you have a nice year with your new class. Follow the author for new updates on instagram @thisisrehanafazil

Non-fiction labels and captions or narrative text - familiar settings.Retell and sequence. Describe the main character Sam or Jeremy. Write a list of rules for the bully Jeremy to follow. Write a letter to Sam advising him how to behave if someone is mis treating you or bullying you inside school, in the playground, or out of school. Link the story to Anti bullying week. Make a rosette from Jeremy to Sam as a good will gesture. The main characters (jeremy, sam, old lady, park keeper) can be made into stick puppets to role play the story successfully.

Maths in KS1 This is an excellent resource to secure to addition to 20. The task is designed to encourage speaking in full sentences using sentence stems e.g. There are 2 red cars and 3 blues cars. There are 5 cars altogether. The children can be challenged to show understanding of addition as being commutative - (can be done in any order) - this can also be done by using visuals to represent number sentences where the equals sign is at the front e.g. 5= 3+ 2. Teachers can develop vocabulary by encouraging the use of star words in a full sentence. This is a good resources to use when moving from practical resources to pictorial representations. Excellent and most suitable for EAL and SEN learners. Suitable for Reception EYFS and year 1 working towards.

Year 2 Guided Reading This is a complete 5 week unit of work around the text Dinosaurs and all that Rubbish. It is suited to guided reading taught in a Reciprocal Reading approach. It is also useful to use to practice SATS style questions for Year 2 working at greater depth and within. Also adaptable for year 3. The story is linked to materials, science and rockets, and sustainable environmental issues. It is very suitable for boys because of the dinosaur theme. It is also a good book to use if you are doing a fossils unit or learning about climate change. The questions are written like the Paper SATs method, where there is a short text and then questions to answer below. The other included resources for each week, support additional activities that you may consider doing as a carousel during your guided reading independent work. A character description in week 5 is included to support creative writing opportunities. Definitely a good book to move on reluctant or EAL readers . This is a Tes recommended 5 star resource. Thanks for choosing it.

Year 2 Writing Narrative Where the Wild Things Are Film and Book Exemplar text to introduce children to narrative writing - called Voyage and Return. Both the film and book are used simultaneously to learn about the main character and write a narrative. An excellent powerpoint with more than 15 slides demonstrates how to write descriptive scenes from the story, a narrative, character traits, and a success ladder. The exemplar text meets the requirements of English New Curriculum objectives. Explicit reference has been made to grammatical features including varying sentence types, conjunctions, words with suffixes, and the use of common exception words. Teachers may use the text in the imitation stage, innovate to where the main character meets a new wild thing, and then invent their own voyage and return narrative. An excellent film and text to use to promote boys writing.

This is an outstanding resource for you and your staff that includes suggestions for: Pedagogy and national data Reading for meaning Reading and understanding high order vocabulary Whole class Inset and 21 pages of relevant ideas to teach vocabulary through games picture word association, creative and inspirational visuals, pictures that lend themselves to inference, root words and morphology, idioms and riddles, homophones and homonyms, antonyms and synonyms verbs, nouns and past tense All the games showcased provide excellent opportunities for children to build an intensive repetoire of language and therefore be able to read and comprehend successfully. It is suitable as Inset for subject leaders or classroom use. Excellent to develop subject specific CPD and train staff in this new area of development. Written by SLE in English.

Science Year 2 National Curriculum A good array of differentiated resources to support teaching and learning of the materials topic. Children look at each material and consider its uses and properties. They think about ‘What if…’ questions like - what if a door handle was made out of chocolate? would a snowman melt if it was covered with wooly clothes? This is the perfect resource to support- generating questions, recording in tables practical investigating Suitable for the national curriculum and Scientific Enquiry for year 2 science curriculum.

Into the Forest by Anthony Browne Year 2 Guided Reading This is a guided reading three week unit for children who are working at the expected level. This book is a great visual story to compliment any English journey linked to traditional stories or forest themes. There are clear planned questions that include literal, inference and evaluative questioning. There are also accompanying grammar and response activities included for all weeks to support a carousel activity format of teaching guided reading in class. This resources supports the new national curriculum for English and Reading in Year 2.

Year 2 Maths - Symmetry This is a fabulous bundle of resources to teach symmetry in Year 2, using 2d regular and irregular shapes. Children first investigate how many lines of symmetry each shape has. They sort them in order one line of symmetry, 2 lines of symmetry or 3 or more lines of symmetry etc. They then move onto reasoning with symmetry in 2d shapes and prove true or false statements such as - do all 4 sided shapes have four lines of symmetry. They show their understanding using APE it- Answer it, prove it and explain it. Following that, children sort shapes into a carrol diagram with given criteria to show a secure understanding of symmetry. The powerpoint have several examples to embed learning with shapes and how to find line of symmetry. Children working below the expected level can find and sort into symmetrical and asymmetrical objects. 3 days of detailed planning and visual materials- support EAL and SEn learners. Work is differentiated to make all learners progress. Enjoy these fun lessons. You will be needing a mirror and plenty of 2d shapes.

Punctuation signs with corresponding bands for each band. Includes supporting vocabulary e.g when each punctuation should be used e.g commas in a list or apostrophe for possession or apostrophe for words with contracted form. This is an excellent visual and reminder for students and will support children to work at the expected band and at greater depth in KS1 and above. Excellent way of children self assessing and or editing. Can be easily adapted to suit all key stages. Very bright and engaging resource. Useful to be laminated and arranged to look like a pyramid. Band 2 Working below: full stop at the top of pyramid. Band 2 Working At: full stop, question mark, exclamation mark and apostrophe for contraction. Band 2 Greater Depth: as above including apostrophe for possession and commas in a list.

This resources is an excellent, differentiated, vibrant information booklet about jungle animals. The children can read the information text to find new and interesting facts about elephants, crocodiles, snakes, parrots and hippos. They can then make their own flap or pop up booklet with headings, captions and interesting facts about jungle animals and then read them to an audience. The text supports learning features of non-fiction text and demonstrates how to engage the reader with questions and interesting facts. This resources is differentiated for early readers working towards band 2 and fluent readers working at greater depth. The reading also supports writing non-fiction and using ambitious and technical vocabulary as well as grammar features (in particular questions). Writers working at greater depth can add their own exclamatory sentences about each animal. The text is presented interestingly and has clear text and visuals.

Information Text for Year 2 Pupils - ‘All ABout Puffer Fish’ A three week unit to support non fiction writing. The focus is on sentence building and the following Year 2 TAF grammar features are included in the exemplar text provided. Using subordinating conjunctions Using suffixes- ly Varied sentences Expanded nouns Organization of text including subheadings 3 weeks of planning is included You will also find a medium term overview is included, and an exemplar text that is differentiated. Key vocabulary with visuals are also included. Pupils will learn information about Puffer Fish and then use this as a model to write their own non-fiction text e.g an example of turtles is given although application of skills can be on any topic that is relevant to your school. Suitable for year 2 and matching the national curriculum standards and TAFs. A very engaging unit for boys in particular. Planning makes reference to other resources such as the literacy shed to engage and enthuse pupils through short films. Follow the author for more updates on instagram. @thisisrehanafazil

Knowing your times tables is essential for securing maths at the expected standard, in the new maths curriculum. This resources will help you to rote learn the 2,3,4,5,6 and 10 times tables with your class. There are differentiated resources to print so that children can practise every day or weekly. The times tables are visually displayed in columns, grid method and for children to fill in empty boxes. This resource is practical and visual for EAL learners to establish good basics maths to lay the foundation of mental maths in year 2 and 3. Most children will be familiar with the 2, 5, 10 times tables, so they can be challenged to use the grids to find the answers to missing numbers e.g 5 x … = 35. They can also move on to the 3, 4, 6, times tables. Daily practice, chanting and oral rehearsing is advocated for all children to be able to count forwards, backwards, in and out of order. Using inverse is also recommended to find the missing blanks on the grid. Suitable for the new maths curriculum.

A set of handwriting and presentation rules in different styles. There are a set of rules outlined for children to support them with developing neat presentation and move on gradually to cursive handwriting. This is suitable from EYFS to end of KS1 and possibly even year 3 to ensure consistency and progression. There is a selection of handwriting fonts used, depending on if you use a precursive style or not, there should be something in here to suit the requirements of your school. The rules should be introduced early so that all the expectations are made clear. A reminder of application of these skills in English writing books is also useful on an ongoing basis to get well presented work. Must be displayed clearly around the classroom and ideally the rules should be written and practiced into books. This has been a very useful tool in a year 2 classroom to get children to use cursive writing most of the time and consistently.