This is a powerpoint to be used as an introduction or revision of 3D Shapes such as cubes, cuboids, spheres, cylinders etc. It can be used on the interactive whiteboard to lead the lesson and is set up so children can perform practical activities in between slides. It includes learning intentions. It also introduces the idea of describing shapes with words such as faces and edges.

A great first day back activity or a fab introduction to coordinates! Pupil hides 10 facts about themselves as pictures in the grid and on writes the matching statement on the otherside. For example, at A1 you will find my favourite food and on that point would be a picture of a pizza!

Writing frame for planning a letter of complaint featuring success criteria.

Powerpoint on whale facts and types of whales. Sea and seashore, ocean, creatures, underwater.

This is a frame for a science report based on an insulation experiment. The experiment is using different types of cups (plastic, ceramic, wooden, polystyrene, glass etc.) to see which one keeps water hottest the longest. Children have to test the water temperature at timed intervals and write up an experiment report.

Children must choose objects from around the classroom and test them to see whether they float or sink in water. This report frame lets them think how to fairly test this and to predict their results first.

This is a report frame which allows children to write up a dissolving experiment. They predict and test several substances such as coffee, sugar, salt etc. in hot and cold water. They can discuss how to make it fair and the results.

This is a powerpoint about Moon Buggies to accompany a space topic. It discusses the surface of the moon and how to describe it then the children must decide what kind of vehicle would be suitable for travel on the moon. There are picture examples of moon buggies and then the children must complete a task to make a moon buggy. We made buggies from K'nex and tested it on a playdough moon surface!

3 eggs to fill and colour using the dice. Each egg has 6 parts so roll the dice, look at which colour that number is and choose a part of your egg to colour! (The background counts as 1 part in eggs 1 and 3!)

Create a dragon themed marble run instructional slide. Includes instructions and extension challenges. (Suggested materials - paper, card and tape)

After reading the story of the first Christmas, I got the children to recount the story in comic strip form to assess their understanding. Can be used with younger children as a story and sentence activity or in greater depth higher up the school.

This is a report frame for a Chocolate science experiment. The children test three types of chocolate - milk, white and dark and each of these has a piece at room temp, fridge temp and freezer temp. The children time how long it takes each to melt in their hands or their mouths!

This is a powerpoint to accompany the novel, Why the Whales Came by Michael Morpurgo. It has several pictures of different settings and leads to a discussion on why setting is important to a story. You can either give the children a copy of a chapter describing setting or get them to take notes of words and phrases relating to setting as you read aloud.

Planning frame to go with Journey to another Planet Powerpoint. Creative writing, setting, space.

Writing frame for a message in a bottle letter. Sea and Seashore, pirates, letters

This is a science report frame for the three little pigs experiment. Basically groups have a time limit to build a house from straw (either real (messy!) or art straws), wood (lollipop stigs or twigs) and brick (lego ones!). You can then test each house to see which material is the strongest. We have tested with a hairdryer and a fan before!

This is a planning sheet I created to help children to consider their ideas for a comic strip. It looks at characters and events.

Cracker template to be folded for up-leveling and extending sentences. See @mrs_c_teach on Instagram for examples.

Getting to know you activity! Guess who by reading the clues in turn! Cut the slits on the first sheet, then stick the 2 together so you can fold the clues over to reveal them!

Four activities which can be used and adapted for any stage to enhance newspaper writing skills. I used these in carousel format with my class but could be used as individual teaching activities for a lesson. The four activities are: Questioning Headlines Note-taking Fact versus Opinion (Cards to accompany from Twinkl or own can be made up)