A PowerPoint containing a variety of mini tasks to help you establish your children's Computing knowledge. See the image to look at which skills this test targets. These skills are taken directly from Martin Goulden's Computing scheme of work. For more information about the scheme please get touch!

Create your own castle in this drag and drop PowerPoint file. Suitable for the interactive whiteboard and for individual laptops/desktops use.

Based on the retelling of The Three Little Pigs by Martin Goulden these writing templates provide a wide variety of line-spacing and picture/writing ratios, all set in borders made from the characters in the story. Pack contains 10 landscape and 10 portrait templates.

Editable worksheets for working with ordinal numbers based on a Mario Kart theme.

Based on the retelling of The Three Little Pigs by Martin Goulden this Microsoft PowerPoint document is a drag and drop build your own bunting. There are 7 bunting backgrounds to choose from to which characters from the story can be added along with dozens of other decorations. A great activity for children to complete either independently or as part of an Interactive Whiteboard activity. As it is created in PowerPoint, the bunting can then be printed easily to decorate your classroom.

Create your own Queen in this Computing PowerPoint activity for KS1. Teach your children how to insert, resize and rotate shapes in addition to changing their outline colour and fill coulr. Use the premade shape templates to help you and then drag and drop the shapes to create the picture of the Queen.

This is a super easy way to practice shading in fractions of shapes. Click sections of the shapes to colour them in. Clicking them multiple times will rotate through 4 diffierent colours. Take on the challenge! -Perfect for the Interactive Whiteboard or for individual use -Over a 160 unique, editable questions -5 levels of difficulty (self-differentiation) -Special macros to create replay-ability and randomise questions. *Note: You must enable macros on opening this PowerPoint file*

“You arrive at three ancient doors. Which door do you choose?” Write your own adventure stories where you, the reader, choose your own path - like authors such as Ian Livingstone. Differentiated through 10,7 or 5 paragraphs, write them on the PowerPoint files provided and the hyperlink buttons will take you to the next part of the story. There are two sets of immersive PowerPoint files that each give you starting/linking sentences - provided are 1st person and 3rd person files. Perfect for practicing setting descriptions and creating writing with suspense! *Included are some images from a computer game called Legend of Grimrock. Please note that these images are readily available via their website and are simply added in this package for convenience, not profit.

-Learn the animal names in French -Use the Slideshow mode on your Interactive Whiteboard and call out names in French/English -Ask the children to select the appropriate animal by clicking on it (on slides 4-5 the animals will flip over to reveal the translation) -Challenge: See if you can identify all the animals in under 30 seconds!

We have a new guide of how to create a treasure chest in PowerPoint. This simple to use guide gives you step-by-step instructions of how to create this Computing lesson. This guide also has the introduction of the different cursor styles that can be taught to your children. If you like our guides, follow us on Facebook and Instagram with our tag @martingouldendigitalresources for more ideas of how to teach Computing in your classrooms!

Editing Stations are a great tool to use in the classroom for children right across Primary School. Included in this resource is all the instructions and stops you will need to help your children learn how to edit. Each of the slides can be edited to make it more personalised for the class and year group you are teaching. If you use these in the classroom, we would love to hear some feedback as a review. Or post it your Instagram page and tag us @martingouldendigitalresources

Let’s get Nursery and Reception typing! Whilst the youngest children are super tech savvy these days, we sometimes forget to teach the basics. This activity introduces EYFS children to typing words on a computer. For this activity we recommend running carpet sessions with small groups of children. Ideally, have this PowerPoint displayed on your interactive white board and use a wireless keyboard that can be passed around the group to type onto. (For your keyboard, we highly recommend buying some lower case letter stickers to stick on the keys!) Work through each slide following the instructions at the beginning of each section. The sections are as follows: Copying letters Initial sounds - type the letter of the initial sound for the pictured animal CVC - type out the cvc words Copy the whole word Type your name Type the alphabet

A beautiful variety of space/alien themed writing templates both in landscape and portrait. Several pages of each, differentiated with varying amounts of lines and line thicknesses. Why not make some of your own aliens using an interactive, drag-and-drop activity? It’s a perfect activity for the interactive whiteboard or for the children to work independently on the computer: You can find the resource on TES at my shop: www.tes.com/teaching-resources/shop/martinjgoulden Or by searching the TES resources for ‘create your own alien’

Number cards 1-10, 1-20, 1-30: Editable (15 colours)

Using the free program Sculptris, teach your children how to sculpt organically in 3D. This is ideal for first time Sculptris users who have never done any 3D modelling - The step-by-step picture guide will show you exactly what and where to click and what each of your settings should look like. Also included is a download link to a Sculptris file that teaches children how to use the camera tools effectively to find 8 hidden numbers. Build on this basic model by creating self portraits, famous people, old/young topics etc.

A beautiful variety of space/alien posters. Contains 14 unique aliens with a variety of features to explore and discuss. Each has a different number of colourful arms, legs, eyes, teeth, antennae and regular shaped mouths to identify. If you want to take the discussions further, you might also be interested in creating some ‘WANTED’ style posters using the same aliens in this resource. Click HERE to view the Wanted Posters Also, why not make some of your own aliens using an interactive, drag-and-drop activity? It’s a perfect activity for the interactive whiteboard or for the children to work independently on the computer: You can find the resource on TES at my shop: www.tes.com/teaching-resources/shop/martinjgoulden Or by searching the TES resources for ‘create your own alien’

A beautiful variety of alien posters. Contains 14 unique aliens with a variety of features to explore and describe. Each has a different number of colourful arms, legs, eyes, teeth, antennae and regular shaped mouths to identify. The resources contains 2 sets of posters. The first set gives each alien one made up name. The second set gives each alien two names to sound out. We threw in a little alliteration on the second set just for fun! Also, why not make some of your own aliens using an interactive, drag-and-drop activity? It’s a perfect activity for the interactive whiteboard or for the children to work independently on the computer: You can find the resource on TES at my shop: www.tes.com/teaching-resources/shop/martinjgoulden Or by searching the TES resources for ‘create your own alien’

This FREE demo file contains: 5 types of arithmetic questions. 30 randomly generated questions for each question type. That’s 150 questions! Each set of questions is differentiated 3 ways with difficulty progression within. Easily printable for worksheets and answers are printable too. Even better completed on the computer by the children as it AUTOMARKS the work giving instant feedback and opportunity to correct. Infinite re-usability due to being able to random generate new questions with the click of a button. The full version contains an incredibly extensive but easy to use file with: 36 types of arithmetic questions. 30 randomly generated questions for each question type. That’s over 1000 questions! Each set of questions is differentiated 3 ways with difficulty progression within. Easily printable for worksheets and answers are printable too. Even better completed on the computer by the children as it AUTOMARKS the work giving instant feedback and opportunity to correct. Infinite re-usability due to being able to random generate new questions with the click of a button. For the best description of this resources, please watch the associated YouTube video. My name is Martin Goulden and I’ve worked in Primary Schools for over 10 years, first as a TA and now as an independent Computing specialist. As my wife is a teacher, I know the pressure that teachers are under in order to provide individualised learning, assessment and feedback for each child. I once saw a teacher spend hours and hours preparing and then marking a handful of individualised arithmetic questions only to find that, as usual, some children had completely missed the mark. I had to help, not just the teachers to save the hours of prep and marking time but the children too, to give them instant feedback and satisfaction during their arithmetic sessions. It has taken me around 100 hours to create this resource in the hope that it will collectively save teachers thousands of hours and provide children with a great platform to learn from.

A beautiful variety of dinosaur themed writing templates in landscape. Several pages of each, differentiated with varying amounts of lines and line thicknesses. Why not make some of your own dinosaurs using an interactive, drag-and-drop activity? It’s a perfect activity for the interactive whiteboard or for the children to work independently on the computer: You can find the resource on TES at my shop: www.tes.com/teaching-resources/shop/martinjgoulden Or by searching the TES resources for ‘create and build your own dinosaur’