Created by a year six teacher (100% maths, 100% reading and 93% English at and above expected pass rate last SATs year), maths coordinator and deputy head. I am also a published author under the name Andrew Thomas. I have had my resources recommended by TES 3 times.
I've been teaching for years and love my job. My school is in Lewisham (London). My kids are engaged when the resources are good.
Created by a year six teacher (100% maths, 100% reading and 93% English at and above expected pass rate last SATs year), maths coordinator and deputy head. I am also a published author under the name Andrew Thomas. I have had my resources recommended by TES 3 times.
I've been teaching for years and love my job. My school is in Lewisham (London). My kids are engaged when the resources are good.
The idea is to try and make all the numbers from 0 to 20 by using BIDMAS.
The only number you are allowed to use is 4.
You MUST use four lots of 4 in each equation (number sentence).
You may not use any other numbers.
If you want to find 0 you can use the following sum:
(4 + 4) – (4 + 4) = 0
To find 3 you can use:
(4 + 4 + 4) ÷ 4 = 3
This is a ready to go lesson that will take an hour+ depending on ability level. It also has a simple extension task.
This PowerPoint covers all of the areas needed to evidence a piece of writing at and above the expected level.
This will take 3 weeks to complete and will show the children (with examples, word banks and sentence starters) how to write a narrative story based on a picture book.
30 full lessons based on the book Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone.
Includes newspaper writing, Diaries, recounts, narrative stories, script writing, reading comprehension, SPaG, art, poetry and much more.
All the lessons are based on a chapter of the book (some chapters have 2 or 3 lessons for that chapter).
Used for home learning but easily adapted for the classroom.
There are links to the on line videos that accompany the lessons and a link to the full book that is read on YouTube.
This is a PowerPoint (that can be converted to a flip chart) that takes pupils through what is required to write a short story at the expected level and is a step by step guide. It is aimed at the criteria and framework and has produced some wonderful writing from my year 6 class. It shows the children where to include the punctuation, grammar and structure throughout a short story. There are 29 slides in total, each with a different focus which enables the children to include all of the skills they have learnt throughout the year. It is based on Eye of the Storm from the Literacy Shed (link included in the PPT).
This is the opening of the story, written by a lower ability child (typed out with no corrections):
As he stared into the sky, not worrying about his destruction from the mesmerising, raging storm, he gazed at the green lightening. His white, dragon like scarf waved in the sky. The black, silver lined coat shone in the sun’s omega light. The empty shell of a man thought that he could survive the storm. He kept his face hidden because he didn’t want to remember who he was. He turned his head slightly; he knew what he had to do.
The ship he was travelling on had a unique energy that was pure electricity. It looked like a war ship, ready for battle. A war to save a dragon, a war to save the world, a war to save everyone.
Terrifying memories of murder in his head. He had never found Martha…
Designed and used by a year 6 teacher with a 93% maths SATs score in 2017.
This is a 4 week maths cycle that covers all the areas needed for the SATs arithmetic test in easy 10 minute starters.
This works perfectly to remind and embed all the concepts needed to do well in the arithmetic paper.
Please check out my other resources by clicking my name at the top of the page.
SATs reading comprehension games
Reasoning Paper revision
Loads of English SATs based writing
Designed and used by a year 6 teacher with a 93% maths SATs score in 2017.
This is a 2 week maths cycle that covers concepts for the SATs reasoning test in easy 10 minute starters.
This works perfectly to remind and embed all the concepts needed to do well in the reasoning paper.
Please check out my other resources by clicking my name at the top of the page.
SATs reading comprehension games
Reasoning Paper revision
Loads of English SATs based writing
This is a flipchart aimed at the SPaG tests with a focus on the different types of adjectives.
Descriptive
Quantitative
Demonstrative
Possessive
Interrogative
Distributive
Articles
Each page gives explanations and examples and then asks the children to do the same in their SPaG books.
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Designed and used by a year 6 teacher with a 100% maths SATs score in the last tests.
Show, then have a go style.
A PowerPoint aimed at the fraction questions in the 2018 arithmetic test. It can be used as a teaching tool or a revision lesson just before they start the test. It also includes a rhyme to help the children to remember the basics.
Teaches pupils to:
Multiply fractions by fractions
Divide fractions by fractions
Multiply fractions by whole numbers
Divide fractions by whole numbers
Change mixed numbers to improper fractions to multiply and divide by fractions and whole numbers.
Tested in a year 6 class and worked very well.
Includes opportunities for pupils to apply what they have learnt and teacher to assess understanding.
Make a bookmark RE activity
Have you ever seen a mustard seed? The mustard seed was, at the time, believed to be the smallest of all seeds. It is so small that if you were holding one in your hand and you dropped it you would have a very hard time finding it because it is so hard to see.
Even though the mustard seed is so small when it is planted in the ground, it grows into a tree large enough for birds to stand on its branches and to make their nests in it.
When you look at this little mustard seed before
planting it in the ground, you might think it would
be impossible for a seed so tiny to grow into a tree.
But God turns that tiny seed into a wonderful place
for birds to come and rest and sing.
When Jesus told this parable He compared it to loving God. When children, like you, or adults begin to love Jesus, their love is like a tiny mustard seed before it is planted in the ground. It starts out very small at first. Then when you keep on listening to what Jesus says and obeying Him, then the love grows bigger and bigger. Soon it will grow like the big mustard tree.
You can also find this parable in Mark 4:30-32; and Luke 13:18-19.
A lesson based around air pollution and most polluted cities by particulate matter concentration. The lesson needs access to the internet and an atlas.
The aim is to research which cities are the most polluted, find them using the atlas index and then transfer that information to a map.
Created by an experienced year 6 teacher and applicable to KS2.
Please click on my name above for other resources and a wide range of SATs revision resources.
This uses an ActivInspire (Promethean) flip chart.
Covers a range of SATs topics and can be done on the sheet so no need for the books.
Covers:
Multiples
Factors
Word Problems
Number sequences
Multiplying and Dividing Decimals
A fun powerpoint about St Patrick that tests pupils memory with a quiz at the end.
This also includes a link to a video about his life.
Happy St Patrick’s Day!
A fun science experiment that shows what air pressure is, firwards and backwards mothion and Sir Isaac Newton’s Laws.
All you need is a 2 litre bottle, carrot, bike pump (a standing, large one works best) and a football inflation needle.
Have fun.
This ActivInspire flip chart is a fresh approach to teaching both percentages of amounts and finding the whole amount from a percentage.
Easy to understand and instant AFL.
Created by a maths lead and year 6 teacher whose class scored 100% in maths with 55% greater depth.
