Help your students get started with making text-to-self connections for fiction texts with these sentence starter prompts. Includes a definition, WALT, success criteria, key words and space to record three text-to-self connections. Each A4 page includes two copies so you can save on your printing budget! Happy teaching & learning! Be purposeful teachers Who are in control Feel inspired And knows they’ve done enough. ☆ If you found this product helpful, please leave a review below! @attheminute.teaching

Oh the dreaded start of term goal setting! Forget the fancy wall displays that go untouched for the rest of the year! Keep this goal setting chart in an easy-to-access place and get your students to track each time they take an action towards achieving their goals by colouring in a square of the border! Happy teaching & learning! Be purposeful teachers Who are in control Feel inspired And knows they’ve done enough. ☆ If you found this product helpful, please leave a review below! @attheminute.teaching

Get your students thinking abstractly - what makes them special? A cup of love, a splash of the giggles, a can of worms and a tinkle of trouble? Flour, eggs and milk are fine too. Looking for other start of term activities? Check out this new Back to School Activity Booklet! Happy teaching & learning! Be purposeful teachers Who are in control Feel inspired And knows they’ve done enough. ☆ If you found this product helpful, please leave a review below! @attheminute.teaching

Create a colourful classroom display with buckets of possibilities! Use this as a one-off activity or make a weekly time to show gratitude and get students to write a post-it message for a peer to stick on their poster and ‘fill their bucket’. Happy teaching & learning! Be purposeful teachers Who are in control Feel inspired And knows they’ve done enough. ☆ If you found this product helpful, please leave a review below! @attheminute.teaching

Can’t get outside for PE because the heavens opened up moments before your lesson was due to start? How about some cross-curricular work instead? Get your students to create their own game - complete with a comprehensive equipment list! Happy teaching & learning! Be purposeful teachers Who are in control Feel inspired And knows they’ve done enough. ☆ If you found this product helpful, please leave a review below! @attheminute.teaching

In this worksheet, students will calculate fractions of an amount using division. All of the questions are with unit fractions e.g. 1/4 of 12 with denominators of 2, 3, 4, 5, 10 and 12. A WALT and success criteria/key mathematical knowledge are included at the top of the worksheet. There are 12 practise questions and 4 word problems which students need to write out a matching equation for before solving. Answers are included as well as grayscale versions of the question and answer sheets. Ready for the next step? Move onto finding non-unit fractions of an amount with this activity! Happy teaching & learning! Be purposeful teachers Who are in control Feel inspired And know they’ve done enough. ☆ If you found this product helpful, please leave a review below! @attheminute.teaching

Want to test out your students’ basic facts knowledge or looking for a practice task for homework? You can’t go wrong with a basic facts worksheet! This download includes the following worksheets: x2 Basic Facts Addition to 10 (50 questions) x2 Basic Facts Addition to 20 (50 questions) x2 Basic Facts Subtraction to 20 (50 questions) x1 Basic Facts Multiplication 2’s, 5’s, 10’s (50 questions) x1 Basic Facts Multiplication up to 12 times tables (100 questions) Worksheets include a space for students to record the basic facts they need to learn. Happy teaching & learning! Be purposeful teachers Who are in control Feel inspired And know they’ve done enough. ☆ If you found this product helpful, please leave a review below! @attheminute.teaching

Sick of wonky lines and missing axis labels on your students’ graphs? Get them on track with this blank bar graph template! This worksheet includes a WALT, Success Criteria and Key Words for presenting data in a bar graph. Happy teaching & learning! Be purposeful teachers Who are in control Feel inspired And know they’ve done enough. ☆ If you found this product helpful, please leave a review below! @attheminute.teaching

We want to promote curiosity in our learners right? Where better to start than by constructing questions! Instead of writing 10 questions starting with ‘What’, get students to use the sentence starters on this grid - easy! Comes with 2 copies per page. Happy teaching & learning! Be purposeful teachers Who are in control Feel inspired And know they’ve done enough. ☆ If you found this product helpful, please leave a review below! @attheminute.teaching

Worried that your students are living increasingly sedentary lives? Encourage them to get moving - whether that’s through organised sport, dance, running, jumping or climbing! 60 minutes of physical activity is a must for children - let’s make it happen! Happy teaching & learning! Be purposeful teachers Who are in control Feel inspired And know they’ve done enough. ☆ If you found this product helpful, please leave a review below! @attheminute.teaching

Ready-to-go editable slides for your students to See Think Feel & Wonder about the topic of Climate Change! The prep is all done for you - simply assign the Google Slides to your students on Google Classroom and your students will be all set to go with thought-provoking picture prompts and tables to record their responses. Easy! If you’re looking for an engaging way to introduce a new topic to your students, ‘See Think Feel Wonder’ is the way to go! It’s a way to spark discussions and unearth students’ prior knowledge and perceptions. The aim is to encourage students to dig deeper than just surface-level observations and GET CURIOUS about the world around them. The pictures in this resource include: Transport, deforestation, farming, bush fires, glacier melting, factory pollution and protest for climate change. Photo credit to the following Pixabay artists (in order of pictures): makabera, MariaGullestrup, NickyPe, rauschenberger, shivaphotographyy, Picography, stevePB (2), Manubird, cubicroot How I recommend using these Google Slides: Complete the Bus Stop activity outlined in the printable version with students either just discussing their ideas or recording their responses on post-it notes. Show students the Google Slides and model how to fill in the ‘See Think Feel Wonder’ charts, ensuring that you are specific about your personal expectations of length/quality of responses. Make the slides available for students to complete independently through the ‘Create an Assignment’ function on Google Classroom (explained below). Look at the assignments once they have been submitted by your students and use this information to identify prior knowledge, misconceptions and possible areas to explore further in following lessons. If you haven’t used the ‘Create an Assignment’ function in Google Classroom before, you can check out instructions on Google support. There are also a bunch of videos out there you can watch on Youtube if that’s easier for you! The most important thing is that when you first create the assignment, you select ‘Make a copy for each student’. This means that your students will all get their own copy of the slides with their name added to the document title. You and the student will be able to edit their copy of the document and, importantly, your students will not be able to edit your original copy of the slides (yes, I have made this mistake before!). Please note: When you purchase this resource, you will download a PDF which gives you access to the Editable Google Slides. After clicking the link, you will be prompted to ‘Make a Copy’ of the resource which will automatically save to your personal Google Drive. Please ensure that you are signed into your Google account to enable this. Enjoy! Be purposeful teachers Who are in control Feel inspired And know they’ve done enough. @atm.teaching

Launch into learning about climate change with this set of picture prompts! This resource comes with 10 thought-provoking pictures as well as a recording worksheet for students. If you’re looking for an engaging way to introduce a new topic to your students, ‘See Think Feel Wonder’ is the way to go! Use this activity to spark discussion and explore students’ prior knowledge and perceptions. The aim is to encourage students to dig deeper than just surface-level observations and GET CURIOUS about the world around them. My favourite way to use this in class is as a Bus Stop or Carousel activity. For this, you’ll want to print off the photos (A4 or A3-sized) and spread them out around the classroom. Split students into small groups and get them to move between each of the stations, discussing and recording their thoughts. Post-it-notes are a great way for students to record their ideas anonymously and can later be collated to guide a whole class discussion. If you’d like students to record their responses for their workbooks, I’ve included a template for you to use at the end of this resource. I’ve also included some headings which you can print off to create a wall display alongside the picture prompts and student responses. Photo credit to the following Pixabay artists (in order of pictures): makabera, MariaGullestrup, NickyPe, rauschenberger, shivaphotographyy, Picography, stevePB (2), Manubird, cubicroot Happy teaching and learning! Be purposeful teachers Who are in control Feel inspired And know they’ve done enough. ☆ If you found this product helpful, please leave a review below! @attheminute.teaching

We’ve got to build positive school cultures if we want teachers to be able to thrive. If you’re looking to boost morale, promote well-being and increase motivation, here are some ideas you can use yourself, with your team or for the whole staff body. I’m out to help teachers feel good and teach at their best. I believe that we can achieve this through four key areas: Being purposeful - Having intent behind our actions and connecting with what’s important with us to stay motivated Being in control - Focusing on what’s within our locus of control and building helpful habits into our daily routines Being inspired - Being a learner at heart, open to new ways of doing things, taking opportunities to grow and keeping our teaching ‘fresh’ Knowing we’ve done enough - Valuing ourselves and fostering a school culture of positivity and celebration where we are all happy and proud to call ourselves teachers. It’s a shame that ‘well-being’ initiatives and activities have a reputation for ‘missing the mark’ or feeling tokenistic because we have an undeniable need to see more of them in our schools. We’ve got to get the talk going, engage in authentic experiences and really build well-being into our school cultures so it’s a given - not a bonus. I hope you find this resource helpful and that, at the very least, it sets the wheels in motion for building a community of happy and supportive teachers at your school. Together let’s make schools the positive environments they should be and make teaching the uplifting experience we all want it to be. Go well, team! ☺ Be purposeful teachers Who are in control Feel inspired And know they’ve done enough. ☆ If you found this product helpful, please leave a review below! @attheminute.teaching

Get your students generating ideas before a piece of writing! Comes in present tense (I can see…) and past tense (I saw…) versions so you can use it for both those descriptive moment-in-time and recount pieces of writing! 2 pages, pdf Enjoy! Be purposeful teachers Who are in control Feel inspired And know they’ve done enough. @atm.teaching

Say goodbye to constant reminders about full stops and capital letters and say hello to student-led improvements with these proofreading and editing cards! These differentiated cards are carefully crafted to suit various writing genres, ensuring that while success criteria may change, the core elements of effective writing remain consistent. With this resource, students can take charge of their own writing by engaging in the essential steps of proofreading and editing (aka “re-crafting”). Encouraging independent checking and enhancing their written work not only cultivates valuable skills but also saves us precious time and preserves our teacher sanity during lessons! Check out the different versions available within this resource to discover the perfect fit for each of your learners. You’ll find: 6x versions of proofreading cards 6x versions of editing/re-crafting cards (choose your preferred option) These versatile cards transcend specific genres, making them ideal for narratives, descriptions, recounts, and beyond! All that’s left to do now is print, cut and laminate. Bring on those literary masterpieces! 18 pages, pdf Be purposeful teachers Who are in control Feel inspired And know they’ve done enough. ☆ If you found this product helpful, please leave a review below! @attheminute.teaching

Who doesn’t love a bit of colouring in?! This resource contains 7 original hand drawn houses inspired by the colourful houses on the island of Burano. If you’re after a wall display for your classroom, you can get your students to cut out their houses and then stick them up in a row to make a piece of collective artwork - teamwork makes the dream work, right?! I instantly fell in love with the island of Burano on my whistle-stop trip there last year. I loved how despite being a seemingly random array of colours and a little wonky, everything just looked so in place. Perfectly imperfect. I’m super excited to create more classroom resources inspired by my travels! Here’s what I’ve created so far - hope you find something that takes your fancy! Alphabet Wall Display | Travel Inspired Classroom Decor | Venice | Bright Theme Alphabet Wall Display | Travel Inspired Classroom Decor | Venice | Blush Theme Word Wall | Alphabet & Sight Words | Travel Inspired Classroom Decor | Venice Number Wall Display | Travel Inspired Classroom Decor | Venice | Bright Pastels Student Name Tags for Desks | Travel Inspired Classroom Decor | Venice | Burano Enjoy! Be purposeful teachers Who are in control Feel inspired And know they’ve done enough. ☆ If you found this product helpful, please leave a review below! @attheminute.teaching

Ready to dive into Biography Writing with your students? My students LOVE making little books (often for comics) so I figured why not turn Biography Writing into booklet form too?! I’ve created several versions to help you differentiate for students of varying writing abilities. When you download this, have a scroll through to pick out what’ll work best for your students! This resource contains 97 pages with multiple versions: Year 1-2 booklet (8 pages x4 versions with sentence starter prompts) Year 3-4 booklet (8 pages x2 versions) Year 5-6 booklet (10 pages x1 version) Year 7-8 booklet (12 pages x2 versions) *Product last updated 27/06/23 (removal of square bordering and update of some fonts) Biography Writing is great fun in that students get the opportunity to research a significant person of interest or influence. The trouble is that Biography Writing tends to get quite research-heavy. That’s why it’s important to make the recording of facts and writing up of information fun and achievable! Using booklets gives students ownership of their writing and chunks the task into manageable bite-sized sections. And of course, the chance to colour in and add illustrations! You can even turn it into a group project by divvying up the pages amongst group members before securing them together into a full booklet! I recommend printing out two pages per A4 sheet to make A5-sized booklets. Trim off any excess paper around the border before stapling or hole-punching and securing the pages together. Let me know how your students get on with it! Happy writing! If you’re after a biography planning template, check this out or if you’re looking for success criteria for biography writing have a look at this! Be purposeful teachers Who are in control Feel inspired And know they’ve done enough ❤ If you found this resource helpful, leave a review and star rating on the product page!

Need a writing frame for an assessment or piece of published writing? This 12-page resource includes 3 blank writing frame templates; narrow lines and picture box, wide lines and picture box, and full page narrow lines. Bonus: Also includes a diary writing template, summer-themed borders and heart borders, perfect for Valentine’s Day letters! Happy teaching & learning! Be purposeful teachers Who are in control Feel inspired And know they’ve done enough. ☆ If you found this product helpful, please leave a review below! @attheminute.teaching

How would you sum up 2022? How do you want to be able to sum up 2023? Start the year off with purpose and set yourself up to make the most of the year ahead. I’m all about teachers taking back control and creating the conditions where we can all thrive. Teaching is tough but together we have the capability to excel AND feel good doing it. This giveaway comes with a printable affirmation card, goal-setting activity for you (yes, teachers need goals much as their students), and a link to a desktop wallpaper template on Canva which you can customise. Let me know how you get on! Until next time, Kath x Be purposeful teachers Who are in control Feel inspired And know they’ve done enough ♥ ☆ If you found this product helpful, please leave a review below! @attheminute.teaching

Just what you need for your next Science experiment! On this worksheet, students will need to record the equipment and ingredients required to make salt crystals, the method they used to make them and observational drawings recorded once per week. I created this worksheet to use with my Year 2 students during our Science unit on Rocks. My students loved this activity and especially liked how they could add food colouring to get different coloured salt crystals! Just a word of warning to ensure that all of your students create a super-saturated solution (to the point where no more salt can dissolve in the water), otherwise you’re at risk of getting some very disappointed little faces! I also included a WALT (We Are Learning To) and Success Criteria at the top of the worksheet. Hope you find it helpful! Be purposeful teachers Who are in control Feel inspired And know they’ve done enough. ☆ If you found this product helpful, please leave a review below! @attheminute.teaching