Resources for children to explore different connective types. I have also included worksheets and a smart notebook to assist. Suitable for years 3-5.

Moving and Growing Year 4 weekly plan.

What is ‘Black Friday’ (shopping event.) How did it originate? Includes a text in Newspaper style about the event and comprehension questions based on this, ideal for a talking point and could lead into some excellent discussions in year 5/6 regarding marketing / advertising etc. I used this last year very successfully and it generated a great deal of valuable discussion.

This is a professionally written pub style complete general knowledge quiz, added to the site 10th June, 2020, beautifully formatted and with full answers and video clips to use as part of the quiz too! Everything you need to host the ULTIMATE quiz night, this pack also contains more BONUS content. There are 60 questions in total! The quiz includes: A mixed picture round - Questions 1-4: Can your quizzers name the Mr Men. Questions 5-8: 4 images of well known celebrities in heavy movie make up or prosthetics, can you name the actor? Questions 9-12: Famous book covers Mixed Video Round (5 questions): High quality edited video, name the voice of the celebrity, what happens next, whats the advert and catchphrases. Music Round with explanatory video (5 questions): From different decades, name of the artist and name of the song being played. BONUS Video (5 questions): From the video clip can you name the correct film in the series? Eg. Back to the Future 1, 2 or 3? General Knowledge questions and answers, starting easy and getting progressively more difficult, one example of a medium difficulty question: What is the maximum contactless card payment limit in the UK: £20, £30 or £45? Answer: £45 BONUS additional hand out sheet (5 questions) can you guess from the options given where thee band is from? ‘Wipeout Round’ (adding a gambling element where participants score 2 points for their answers, but get one wrong and they lose all their points!) A high quality blank answer sheet for quizzers to write their answers on. This really is a quality resource and has taken many hours to formulate. I present live quizzes at www.facebook.com/quizinators this is one of the quizzes used. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X4Q8g_Evc_o There are also lots of quizzes for sale at: www.quizinators.com (Quiz Pack 4.)

Great for an introduction back to school or just as a little fun! This quiz was used during a ‘lockdown quiz’ and was designed from scratch. You may want to adapt bits for your class or use it as it is! All questions are either taken from the KS1 / KS2 curriculum or primary school textbooks just like the show. It contains multimedia clips as well! There are 50 questions in total including a picture round! Suitable for children and adults! A couple of example questions… -In ancient Egyptian times, canopic jars were used to store the organs of a mummy’s body, how many jars were used: 3, 4 or 5? -What acronym is used to describe the computer code used to create web pages?

A 45 question 'pub ’ style quiz, ready to print and pitched at just the right level, the questions selection is done for you, because each quiz starts easy and gets more difficult towards the end, pitched at the average quizzer, retaining an element of fun.  This quiz contains: 12 question picture round (Name the Christmas movie, unscramble the anagrams and name the singer from the photo.) 33 Christmas themed questions and answers A set fo questions without the answers (in case the Quizmaster wants to take part in the quiz.) A blank numbered sheet for players to write their answers on. Great for a staff party or older pupils. To play online quizzes check out: www.youtube.com/c/quizinators

This pack includes a 50 question general knowledge quiz Mixed Picture Round with 12 questions: Name the minimalist movie character from colours and quotes, name the dingbat and name the famous UK TV advert from the still. 38 carefully researched general knowledge questions and answers A version of the questions without the answers (in case the quizmaster wishes to take part.) Blank 50 question template to print out and write on (if required.) The questions selection is done for you, because each quiz starts easy and gets more difficult towards the end, pitched at the average quizzer, retaining an element of fun. Perfect for a standard, or online quiz. Questions 13 - 20: Easier questions designed to give your teams some confidence and even raise some laughs. Questions 21 - 30: Medium difficulty questions, some of these may include a multiple choice element. Questions 31-35: Identify whether the brand contains an apostrophe or not Questions 36-40: If historical figures had Twitter: Can you name the well known people from history from their fictional ‘Twitter posts.’ Questions 41 - 45: Harder questions which teams will find much more challenging. Questions 45 - 50: ‘The Wipeout Round’ or ‘Double or Quits’. It is suggested that in this section, you inform teams that each question is worth 2 points, however if one question is answered incorrectly the team ‘wipes-out’ and scores no points for the round, questions can however be missed out with no penalty (just receiving no points for that particular question.) One example of a question in this resource is… According to the NHS website, what are the approximate chances of a birth in the UK resulting in twins, triplets or more: 1 in 65 or 1 in 165? (Wipeout question.) If you would like to access more resources like this please see: www.quizinators.com

Lots of comprehension based materials on Back to the Future Some based on ‘Newspaper Articles’ written. I’ve added lots of additional materials to match. In the UK this is in my top 5 resources, highly rated! Enjoy!

A pub style picture round for use in a quiz whether online or printed. There are 10 pictures of celebrities taken whilst they were in ‘lockdown.’ Can you name them? Answers included For more quizzes like this please see: www.quizinators.com

The perfect start to a ‘Disney’ themed quiz and a total mixture, so something for everyone. There are 12 questions in total in this picture round: The first 4 questions require the identification of the correct Disney princess The next 4 questions can your quizzers identify which Disney character the actor voiced The final 4 questions are scenes from Disney movies in which quizzers should identify the film the still is from (two of these have multiple choice elements.) We recommend this is used as a handout round at the beginning of your quiz and can be done whilst customers are waiting for the quiz to start. This picture round was added in May, 2020, please note the downloaded file is formatted as a high quality pdf with the answers, the image shown is merely a low quality preview version. I have lots more ‘pub style’ quizzes available at www.quizinators.com

Perfect for hosting a quiz based around the theme of ‘musicals’ This is a professionally written quiz, added to the site May 16th, 2020, beautifully formatted and with full answers and video clips to use as part of the quiz too! Everything you need to host the COMPLETE musicals themed quiz! There are 55 questions in total The quiz includes: Picture round identify the pixelated poster of the musical movie (for sale individually separately) Mixed Video Round: High quality edited video. The first 7 questions require the quizzer to identify the musical from the video clip, the final 3 questions require the identification of the character being played by the actor in the picture. Musicals questions and answers, starting easy and getting progressively more difficult, one example of a ‘medium’ difficulty questions is…‘It was a time of tradition, a time of values, and a time…to shake things up,’ was a tagline for which 2007 musical film? Answer: Hairspray ‘Wipeout Round’ (adding a gambling element where participants score 2 points for their answers, but get one wrong and they lose all their points!) A high quality blank answer sheet for quizzers to write their answers on, alternatively this quiz is ideal and tried and tested as an online quiz. This is a very high quality resource and has taken many hours to formulate. There are lots more quizzes to purchase and some for free at: www.quizinators.com (this resource is 50p cheaper there for you, due to tes charges.) I also host a weekly online quiz on www.facebook.com/quizinators on a Tuesday and Friday evening at 8pm

Powerpoint used to illustrate what powerful verbs and adverbs are. Extremely effective for years 3-5. Due to the popularity of this resource I have included a word bank I have made of adverbs that are very effective in writing.

A set of worksheets I designed to help children practice using a dictionary. The first few letters are correct and children have to find the words in the dictionary, listing the page number at which they find them and correcting their spelling. (Tip, make sure you have a set of the same dictionary types for this!) Also… -KS2 Scheme. -A list of the ‘100 most common mis-spelt words’ that I found and edited from the internet. UPDATE: Lots of other worksheets to use for example using a thesaurus and homophones

I have bullet pointed a few ideas I had to use iMovie in the classroom. Although these were written with a mac in use, many of the ideas could be used with iMovie on the iPad or a similar video editing program. Please leave a comment if you find this useful.

Resources to support the teaching of commas. Notebook, Powerpoint and a couple of worksheets I made.

Weekly lesson Plan / medium term plan Year 3/4 Characteristics of materials.

A set of 'free&' sites I gathered together to support our &';dimensions' ICT curriculum. Hope you find this useful. These are sites the children can use for the key areas of learning.

A nice activity for children to think about designing their own robot.

From a few years ago with links for Art. Hope this helps someone out.