I created this resource after the craze of dabbing. My class loved identifying, estimating and measuring the angles of the different dabs of well known celebrities, characters and sports people. Challenge question: Which person has the biggest total dab?

Years 5 and 6 spellings split up in to weeks for the full year. Spelling practice sheets attached for pupils to use look, say, cover, write, check for each day of the week when handed out on a Monday and tested on a Friday. Spelling practice sheet also includes the opportunity for pupils to practice writing two of their spellings each week in a sentence that makes sense. The sheets could be printed out and made in to an A3 or A5 booklet for each child for the whole year, or printed out and handed out individually each week. Created to fit with the school holiday dates for Lancashire but will be easy to adapt for your area. Blank spelling practice sheet included.

Pupils are to use A.P.E. (Answer, prove, explain) to show whether the shops have calculated the sale prices of the items correctly. Pupils are required to work out percentages of the original amount then subtract it to find the sale price. Percentages include 50%, 25%, 20%, 10%, 30%, 60%, 40%. 4 pages full of child friendly items that are in the sale.

Amazon Rainforest Theme KWFL grid

Links to cross curricular theme - Amazon rainforest. This is a challenging maths activity where pupils have to calculate how long the journey takes from Manchester airport to Manaus airport in the Amazon rainforest. Pupils will have to calculate up to 3 different flights per journey and include any layover or connection times in their final total journey time answer. On the activity worksheet, there are six different journeys all with the same destination. Pupils could be further challenged by calculating which journey is the quickest/slowest and order them. The flight times have been taken from the internet and were accurate on 22nd April 2017. We have been reading Journey to the River Sea in class and Maia (main character) in the book travels from England to Manaus, so this activity is a great link.

6 week unit of work linked to curriculum theme - Amazon Rainforest. Throughout this theme, children will explore the work of artists such as Henri Rousseau and contemporary artist Ruth Daniels, to further their understanding in geography and the rainforest regions of South America. These artists give excellent opportunities to discuss composition; where the whole picture is filled with foliage, to compare the observational skills of the artists; to express preferences and extend the use of artistic language and vocabulary.

Children will investigate, read and plot coordinates on two quadrant grids. This activity links closely to the cross curricular theme - Amazon Rainforest.

Children will investigate data and statistics. The data shows the rainfall and temperature in Manaus (central Amazon) compared to London. Pupils could use the data to draw a line graph/bar chart etc. There are also questions that pupils must answer linked to the data. This activity links closely to the cross curricular theme - Amazon Rainforest.

Long multiplication lesson suitable for years 4,5 and 6. The flipchart slides include a maths starter, teaching slides, main activity, challenge and plenary. The main activity is to work out the total running time for different running paces between 14 to 3 mins per mile. This includes multiplying decimals by up to two digits. Challenge: 3km is a good distance to run. This is the same as 1.9 miles. Calculate the total time for each of the paces.

6 week unit of work linked to curriculum theme - Amazon Rainforest. National Curriculum 2014 links By the end of the unit, pupils should be able to describe the differences in the life cycles of a mammal, an amphibian, an insect and a bird and to describe the life process of reproduction in some plants and animals. The flipchart includes links to all videos by clicking on the images. The worksheets and activities are stored in the flipchart so clicking on the images will open the files. I have also added them as files in the download. Learning Intentions: To know about animal life cycles To research Amazon wildlife life cycles To be able to plan a fair germination investigation To know that flowering plants reproduce To be able to design a very dangerous plant To know about naturalists and behaviourists - David Attenborough and Jane Goodall

Intended outcome for the 6 week unit of work: Pupils will design and make a toy using mechanical cams. They will investigate existing simple automata toys and other mechanical toys. They will evaluate them and look at how they work. Using this knowledge, they will design their own prototype – edit and improve it, then present it to the class. They will consider buyer and use of the product in their design. They will then make their final mechanical product. 6 week plan is included and all of the flipchart slides for the 6 lessons.

This resource is a fantastic way to help children write a variety of sentence starters. It encourages children to avoid the 'and then' scenario throughout their writing. If you have any suggestions on how it could be improved, please let me know on the feedback section and I will endeavour to edit it.

Read with RIC starter activity Guided reading activity to help pupils develop their comprehension and understanding skills. Can be either a short 10 minute activity or longer if you discuss ideas with the pupils. Mark the answers together as a class using discussion, whilst pupils up level their answers if they hear a better answer than the one they had written. Guided reading RIC starter activity with a link to e-safety. R - retrieve - something that all children can access and answer I - interpret - requires children to use clues from actions or events C - Choice - should encourage children to think about why the creator made that choice so they can transfer this skill to thinking about the author's choice in books

Read with RIC starter activity Guided reading activity to help pupils develop their comprehension and understanding skills. Can be either a short 10 minute activity or longer if you discuss ideas with the pupils. Mark the answers together as a class using discussion, whilst pupils up level their answers if they hear a better answer than the one they had written. Guided reading RIC starter activity - front cover of a children's magazine R - retrieve - something that all children can access and answer I - interpret - requires children to use clues from actions or events C - Choice - should encourage children to think about why the creator made that choice so they can transfer this skill to thinking about the author's choice in books

Read with RIC starter activity Guided reading activity to help pupils develop their comprehension and understanding skills. Can be either a short 10 minute activity or longer if you discuss ideas with the pupils. Mark the answers together as a class using discussion, whilst pupils up level their answers if they hear a better answer than the one they had written. Guided reading RIC starter activity - extract from a non-fiction nature magazine for children R - retrieve - something that all children can access and answer I - interpret - requires children to use clues from actions or events C - Choice - should encourage children to think about why the creator made that choice so they can transfer this skill to thinking about the author's choice in books

Read with RIC starter activity Guided reading activity to help pupils develop their comprehension and understanding skills. Can be either a short 10 minute activity or longer if you discuss ideas with the pupils. Mark the answers together as a class using discussion, whilst pupils up level their answers if they hear a better answer than the one they had written. Guided reading RIC starter activity - extract from a non-fiction nature magazine for children R - retrieve - something that all children can access and answer I - interpret - requires children to use clues from actions or events C - Choice - should encourage children to think about why the creator made that choice so they can transfer this skill to thinking about the author's choice in books

Read with RIC starter activity Guided reading activity to help pupils develop their comprehension and understanding skills. Can be either a short 10 minute activity or longer if you discuss ideas with the pupils. Mark the answers together as a class using discussion, whilst pupils up level their answers if they hear a better answer than the one they had written. Guided reading RIC starter activity - extract from a non-fiction nature magazine for children R - retrieve - something that all children can access and answer I - interpret - requires children to use clues from actions or events C - Choice - should encourage children to think about why the creator made that choice so they can transfer this skill to thinking about the author's choice in books

Read with RIC starter activity Guided reading activity to help pupils develop their comprehension and understanding skills. Can be either a short 10 minute activity or longer if you discuss ideas with the pupils. Mark the answers together as a class using discussion, whilst pupils up level their answers if they hear a better answer than the one they had written. Guided reading RIC starter activity - extract from a non-fiction nature magazine for children R - retrieve - something that all children can access and answer I - interpret - requires children to use clues from actions or events C - Choice - should encourage children to think about why the creator made that choice so they can transfer this skill to thinking about the author's choice in books

Storyboard template that has space for writing and a picture. A particularly useful resource in the English phase of teaching when beginning to plan a story or piece of writing.

I have created two Making Connections Posters; one with key questions and the other with sentence starters for pupils use for making connections between the text they are reading and themselves, another text and the world. This activity helps pupils to deeper their understanding of a text through making links for themselves. Use the think-aloud strategy to model how to make each type of connection, using your list of personal connections to the particular text. This activity is brilliant when pupils extracting specific information from the text that they then make links to.

Relative clauses sentence poster with relative pronouns and when to use them.