Perfect for the lead up to SATs - a resource for practising arithmetic daily. These questions help with Year 6 SATs / KS2 Exams. They cover all arithmetic areas including adding, subtracting, multiplying, dividing, fractions, percentages, decimals, BIDMAS (BODMAS) and more. There are 10 questions per day (Monday - Friday), and there are three weeks worth of questions (there are 150 questions in total in this resource). Each day of the week has the same structure e.g. question number 3 on Monday’s resources is always a BIDMAS question; question number 5 on a Tuesday is always a multiplying by powers of ten question, and so on. This repetition is extremely effective, and children are able to look at their completed questions from the previous week to aid them. The questions have been structured to look like the same format as the actual SATs papers. I have found that there is some psychological advantage to this, as the children get used to not thinking of this as being a scary test, but rather something they are used to seeing on a daily basis. All answers are provided, so this resource can be used independently by children who then check their own answers. This resource would also be useful as homework in the lead up to SATs. The answers are provided within the same file.

PERFECT FOR SATs / KS2 TESTS ALL ANSWERS INCLUDED BASED ON REASONING PAPER 3 92 QUESTIONS REPEAT QUESTION STYLE (4 OF EACH) TO PRACTISE METHOD IDEAL FOR TARGET GROUPS AND HOMEWORK This resource contains 92 individual questions in the SATs style. All answers are included for these questions, and where I see appropriate the method too. Questions come in groups of 4, so children can practise repeating the same or similar methods. Perfect for the lead up to SATs. These questions are based on the 2023 Reasoning paper 3. I have taken each question from the KS2 exam (paper 3 - 2023) and created 4 extra, similar questions for each. I have always found that children benefit hugely from seeing the questions in the SATs style (and I have created these to look like the real thing), and repeating the same question style multiple times. These questions could be used as part of universal provision for a class, or given to target children based on gaps analysis to use independently (checking the answer from the sheet). This resource would also be perfect for homework, as children could be sent home with the answers to self-mark!

PERFECT FOR SATs / KS2 TESTS ALL ANSWERS INCLUDED BASED ON REASONING PAPER 2 104 QUESTIONS REPEAT QUESTION STYLE (4 OF EACH) TO PRACTISE METHOD IDEAL FOR TARGET GROUPS AND HOMEWORK This resource contains 104 individual questions in the SATs style. All answers are included for these questions, and where I see appropriate the method too. Questions come in groups of 4, so children can practise repeating the same or similar methods. Perfect for the lead up to SATs. These questions are based on the 2023 Reasoning paper 2. I have taken each question from the KS2 exam (paper 2 - 2023) and created 4 extra, similar questions for each. I have always found that children benefit hugely from seeing the questions in the SATs style (and I have created these to look like the real thing), and repeating the same question style multiple times. These questions could be used as part of universal provision for a class, or given to target children based on gaps analysis to use independently (checking the answer from the sheet). This resource would also be perfect for homework, as children could be sent home with the answers to self-mark!

This resource contains daily arithmetic and reasoning questions for every day in a 6 week half-term. There are 330 individual questions in total. There are 10 arithmetic questions per day (other than Fridays which have 5 questions…I gave my class a little break on Fridays!), and 2 reasoning questions. The questions have been structured to look like the same format as the actual SATs papers. I have found that there is some psychological advantage to this, as the children get used to not thinking of this as being a scary test, but rather something they are used to seeing on a daily basis. Over the course of a week, children will encounter virtually all arithmetic question types (I based the questions on the KS2 papers from 2017, 2018 and 2019). They will also focus on 2 areas of reasoning. The format of the arithmetic questions stays the same for each day of the week: Week 1; Day 1 questions will be the same structure and Week 2; Day 1 questions, and so on. Children can therefore use their previous learning from this resource to aid them. For example, once they know that Question 4 on a ‘Day 1’ is a multiplying fractions question, they can look back at their previous Daily 10s to help them. The reasoning questions follow the same type for the duration of the week, and I have found that this really helps children to answer these difficult questions. For example, in the first week, the first reasoning question will always involve data in a table, and the second reasoning question will be about reflection. This resource does take some time to set up to begin with, but I definitely found it worth while! I set up separate maths books that I called ‘Additional Maths Learning’. Though I have them a little longer to begin with, eventually I gave children 15 minutes to complete their 12 questions: 10 minutes for the arithmetic and 5 for the reasoning. I then spent another 15 minutes going through the questions thoroughly, with children marking and correcting their own work. Although allocating 30 minutes daily sounds a lot, I found this to be more valuable in the lead up to SATs than the actual maths lessons! Children definitely enjoyed these questions in the end, as they became proud of competing with themselves and seeing their score go up. THIS RESOURCE CONTAINS THREE ATTACHMENTS: THE DAILY ARITHMETIC QUESTIONS; THE DAILY REASONING QUESTIONS; AND AN EXAMPLE OF A CHILD’S WORK FROM MY CLASS.

This resource has 60 SPaG questions and is designed so that in the weeks preceeding Year 6 SATs, children can practise 2 questions per day. All SPaG content is covered, and the answers are provided. The questions are written in the style on the SATs papers in order that children develop confidence in seeing them.

Practising 3-mark questions using the PEE (Point, Evidence, Explain) method can be challenging. I found that the most challenging aspect of this is that children have to read great quantities of text before practising. They often have to read the 2 or 3 pages of a past paper. I have written very short text extracts specifically to practise answering three mark questions in the varying ways they can be given in exams. I do not claim to be an excellent writer, but I have tried to include parts in the texts that allow children to grasp making points, finding the evidence and explaining their understanding (PEE). I found that the reduced cognitive load allowed children to hone their ability to answer these question types. There are 8 sheets (8 short extracts with a 3-mark question attached), and I found that doing one a week for a half-term period really helped my Year 6 class. I hope they help yours too!

This resource contains 6 ‘slow writes’. As the name suggests, children slow their writing down, and are tasked with including specific skills within each sentence. Obviously this is not how we would want our children to think about writing in terms of extended pieces of writing (it is by its nature completely prescriptive), but it is a useful way of getting children to think carefully about their understanding of specific skills. This can be used to aid writing (I have found it useful for SEND children when beginning their writing), but primarily it can be used to practise SPaG (GAPs) understanding. There are 6 slow writes included, enough for one a week fr a half-term (which is how I use this resource). The slow writes give children a genre and setting to write about, and then the list of instructions for writing. There is a full example of using each skill using the same genre but with a different setting, so children are aided in their writing.