A great resource for anyone teaching how to write a balanced argument. Included with this pack are: 16 x connective vocabulary display cards appropriate for writing a balanced argument. E.g. although, furthermore, on the contrary. 16 x phrases of debate vocabulary display cards. E.g. no one can deny, scientists fear, supporters of. 1 x A4 How to write a balanced argument resource mat which lists the above connectives and phrases of debate as well as a list of things to include in the child’s piece of writing. All of the cards are colourfully designed and can be clearly seen from a distance.

A detailed and comprehensive maths investigation based on designing and running your own theme park. Task 1: Planning your site using squared paper on a £500,000 budget Task 2: Running your theme park Task 3: Deciding on entry price (revised) Task 4: Profit on entry fee (revised) Task 5 - Profit & Loss Task 6 - Annual Profit Task 7 - Making Improvements Task 8 - Running your theme park Task 9 - Entry Fee Task 10 - How many visitors? Task 11 - What are your profits Task 12 - Taxes and Insurance Task 13 - Your loan 18 further tasks now included taking you up to the final season (season 3) The investigation gives the children opportunities to practise key aspects of number including adding, subtracting, multiplying, dividing and finding percentages of numbers. The investigation takes the children through step by step, they are in complete control of their spending and decide exactly what is included in their park. It also gives the children an insight to running a business with taxes, insurance and running costs all included. They learn about the power of marketing and the effect this has on the visitors to their park and their profit. We have also included a spreadsheet which children can type into to work out their profit or loss and a smart board file to help with your teaching. Finally, we have added a ‘design an advert’ competition where the winner wins some spending money for their park.

An essential pack for any member of SLT. Included are seven tried and tested monitoring proformas Learning Walk Proforma - perfect for general learning walks as well as those with a specific focus Observation Template - a comprehensive template which has space for general comments, differentiation, SMSC, pupil voice feedback and work sampling. The template includes prompts to make reference against. On the back page are the Ofsted judgements in a simple grid. Subject Planning Monitoring Proforma - great for coordinators to record monitoring. Includes prompts to make comments against. Writing Moderation Template - a great form to record moderation comments within a year group. Prompts help to focus comments Writing Moderation Template (across school) - as above but prompts focus on progression across the school. Great when moderating across a number of year groups. Maths Book Sampling Template - perfect for recording evidence from a maths book look. Prompts help to make comments focused and evidence based. Topic and Science Sampling Template - a simple form to record evidence of work in science and topic books.

A great resource for children when they are story writing. On this Literacy mat are 27 different openings for a story organised under headings. Examples include: 1. “Help me, I’m stuck and I cannot get out!” sobbed Louise. 2. Kiran stared at the open space and began to cry. Enclosed in this pack: 1 x Colour Copy (A4) 1 x Black & White Copy (A4 but can be enlarged to A3)

This pack includes guided reading plans for the following text: The Gorilla Who Wanted to Grow Up by Jill Tomlinson (years 2/3) In total there are 8 guided reading lesson plans, covering each of the chapters in the book. Each plan contains a 'reading and responding to the text' activity which is designed to be completed with the class teacher with the reading group. There are then follow up independent activities which the children can then complete during the remainder of the week. All of these activities are closely linked to the new National Curriculum objectives and these are listed at the beginning of each plan. Each plan also has a list of difficult words which the children can check the meaning of before the teacher led session, space to list the names of the children who are working on the text and a space for a teacher notes and evaluation. The plans have been written by an experienced primary school teacher and have been tried and tested in the classroom.

This pack includes guided reading plans for the following text: Millions by Frank Cottrell Boyce (Years 5/6) In total there are 11 guided reading lesson plans, covering each of the sections in the book. Each plan contains a 'reading and responding to the text' activity which is designed to be completed with the class teacher with the reading group. There are then follow up independent activities which the children can then complete during the remainder of the week. All of these activities are closely linked to the new National Curriculum objectives and these are listed at the beginning of each plan. Each plan also has a list of difficult words which the children can check the meaning of before the teacher led session, space to list the names of the children who are working on the text and a space for a teacher notes and evaluation. The plans have been written by an experienced primary school teacher and have been tried and tested in the classroom.

A great resource for any Year 5 or 6 classroom. Enclosed are 10 A4 posters which show the various aspects of teaching angles. Included are: Definitions of acute, obtuse and reflex angles. Definitions of a right angle and a straight line angle. Posters showing angles of quadrilaterals & triangles. Question posters for pupils to interact with. One A4 title poster.

Reasoning is a very important part of the new end of KS2 expectations. This pack provides 15 slides of practice reasoning questions covering a wide range of National Curriculum Objectives. Perfect for plenaries and extension activities as well as SATs Revision practice. Areas covered include: Ratio Area Pie charts Algebra Decimals Angles Multiplication and division Sequences and patterns Percentages Multiples and factors Multiplication and division Measurement Fractions Many of the slides include more than one question and include opportunities for children to fully explain their thinking. Included in this PowerPoint is 15 slides covering a range of different reasoning type questions. There is also a contents page and answers section which are all hyperlinked for ease of use. The pack is aimed at children in years 6 but can be used with other pupils throughout the Primary phase. These activities are provided in PowerPoint format so they can be displayed on a whiteboard or printed out.

This Teach, Practise, Extend PowerPoint resource focuses on area and is linked to the Year 4 National Curriculum. In total there are three slides: Slides 1 (teach) - Detailed visual teaching points showing how to find the area of a shape by counting the number of centimetre or metre squares.Information is also given on how area is recorded Slide 2 (practise) - Children need to count the numbers of squares in 5 shapes and record the area. Slide 3 (extend) - Children need to apply their skills by solving an area problem about a farmer and his sheep. The resource is colourfully designed and can clearly be seen from a distance making it ideal to display on the Interactive Whiteboard and providing you with a straightforward and highly effective teaching resource. Great for a lesson starter, revision or early morning activity. It is aimed at the Year 4 maths objective but can be used at any time during KS2. The slides can be edited to suit the needs of your class but this resource, including the images must not be distributed to others without our permission.

This Teach, Practise, Extend PowerPoint resource focuses on using the equivalences between fractions, decimals and percentages and is linked to the Year 6 National Curriculum. In total there are seven slides: Slides 1, 3 - 5 (teach) - Slide 1 teaches children how to convert a fraction into a decimal. Slides 3 - 5 show the children, with examples how to convert between fractions, decimals and percentages. Slide 2, 6 (practise) - Children practice changing fractions into decimals with answers. Slide 6 - chidren have to complete a table filling in the missing fractions, decimals and percentages. Slide 7 (extend) - Children have to solve a coding table to reveal a hidden message. The resource is colourfully designed and can clearly be seen from a distance making it ideal to display on the Interactive Whiteboard and providing you with a straightforward and highly effective teaching resource. Great for a lesson starter, revision or early morning activity. It is aimed at the Year 6 maths objective but can be used at any time during KS2. The slides can be edited to suit the needs of your class but this resource, including the images must not be distributed to others without our permission.

This pack includes guided reading plans for the following text: The Water Horse by Dick King-Smith (years 4/5) In total there are 10 guided reading lesson plans, covering each of the chapters in the book. Each plan contains a 'reading and responding to the text' activity which is designed to be completed with the class teacher with the reading group. There are then follow up independent activities which the children can then complete during the remainder of the week. All of these activities are closely linked to each of the reading assessment focuses and these are listed at the beginning of each plan. Each plan also has a list of difficult words which the children can check the meaning of before the teacher led session, space to list the names of the children who are working on the text and a space for a teacher notes and evaluation. The plans have been written by an experienced primary school teacher and have been tried and tested in the classroom.

A great mental maths resource which is perfect for the beginning of the lesson. However what makes these loop cards different to other packs is that they are differentiated, meaning that all the children in the group/class can be challenged or participate in the activity. This pack of loop cards are differentiated three ways and are indicated by a traffic light. Red light - designed for the more able children in the class/group Yellow light - designed for the middle group in the class Green light - designed for the less able children in the class/group Once the class or group have completed the loop card activity once, why not time them to see if they can complete the 'loop' in a faster time. Each child could keep the same card or they can be rotated between groups. TOP TIP - After printing, why not laminate so that you have a resource which can be used over and over again? Included in this set are 32 loop cards which include multiplication questions from 2x to 12x tables. There are 4 loop cards on each A4 sheet, making them easy to keep and store.

This poster pack includes 12 different posters which provides definitions and examples of full stop, commas, apostrophes, exclamation mark, question mark, hyphen, ellipsis, speech marks, colon, semi colon and brackets. This display pack comes in two sizes 12 A4 posters that can be stuck to the window, hung across the centre of the room or used to create a display. 12 small poster cards which can easily be stuck into books and used as a revision guide for pupils (16 cards per A4 sheet)

A great poster resource when you come to teach position and direction. Enclosed in this free pack are 8 A4 direction posters showing north, south, east, west, north-west, north-east, south-east and south-west. There is also an additional poster showing all 8 points - see picture.

This pack includes guided reading plans for the following text: Gangsta Granny by David Walliams (year 5) In total there are 13 guided reading lesson plans, covering each of the chapters in the book. Each plan contains a 'reading and responding to the text' activity which is designed to be completed with the class teacher with the reading group. There are then follow up independent activities which the children can then complete during the remainder of the week. All of these activities are closely linked to the new National Curriculum objectives and these are listed at the beginning of each plan. Each plan also has a list of difficult words which the children can check the meaning of before the teacher led session, space to list the names of the children who are working on the text and a space for a teacher notes and evaluation. The plans have been written by an experienced primary school teacher and have been tried and tested in the classroom.

Great for little and often practice.

Perfect for early formation of numbers. Sheets cover the digits 0 to 9.

A great display resource which will act as a good reminder of the different properties of a solid, liquid and gas. In this pack are three A4 posters showing the properties of a solid, liquid and a gas All the posters are attractively designed in colour and can be clearly seen from a distance.

This pack includes guided reading plans for the following text: Adolphus Tips by Michael Morpurgo (aimed at years 5/6) In total there are 8 guided reading lesson plans, one for each chapter of the book. Each plan contains a 'reading and responding to the text' activity which is designed to be completed with the class teacher with the reading group. There are then follow up independent activities which the children can then complete during the remainder of the week. All of these activities are closely linked to each of the reading assessment focuses and these are listed at the beginning of each plan. Each plan also has a list of difficult words which the children can check the meaning of before the teacher led session, space to list the names of the children who are working on the text and a space for a teacher notes and evaluation. The plans have been written by an experienced primary school teacher and have been tried and tested in the classroom.

An essential resource for any KS2 classroom. Enclosed in this pack are 5 A4 Numeracy conversion and fact posters which can be displayed in the classroom for the children to learn. Included are: Measures Conversion Poster Fractions, Decimal and Percentages Conversions How many days in each month poster. Time Poster (e.g. how many days in a century) Metric Conversion Table