2 worksheet to introduce using various interesting sentence openers in writing. Useful for targeting pupils with a writing target of upleveling openers in their writing. Second sheet focused on time openers specifically. Good for a lesson before structuring in a story.

Differentiated questions and answers for finding various fractions of an amount. 3 levels of ability level. Answers on the second slide for older pupils to mark their own work.

Sentences for pupils to improve to practise using more interesting VCOP, in particular punctuation. Great for focusing on individual writing targets relating to using more interesting/advanced punctuation. Also teaches pupils how to improve and edit their writing as they write.

Differentiated numeracy tasks. Good for warm up or soft starts. With answers that pupils can mark themselves with. Particularly suited for SEAL tasks (chapters 7,8 and 9).

A great resource to use with older and younger pupils to help develop their understanding of equivalent fractions using hands on concrete materials created by the pupils. Differentiated to different levels and includes differentiated questions to challenge problem solving skills. Involving all instructions for the pupils and example photos to use as reference for the pupil or the teacher.

A soft start, numeracy warm up or quick finisher which is adaptable and suitable as a extra challenge for pupils who are advanced for their age. Can give to the whole class by differentiated with 3 different level of number (ie, even double digit number, decimal numbers or 4 digit numbers). Pupils can work through the tasks in order to pick ones that suit them.

Pupils think (individually or in pairs/groups) or ends to the simile prompts. Then they draw a ‘literal’ example of the person (ie hair like spagetti so they draw a person with spaghetti for hair). Fun activity that makes similes interesting.

A task to use with a new class or as part of a meet the teacher lesson. Gives an opportunity to get to know your pupils as well as collect early indicators of their writing ability. Pupils share information about their home life, interests, holiday plans and hopes for the coming year. Boxes to add drawings.

Using squared paper, pupils design a floorplan for their superhero/supervillian lair. Useful as part of a topic on Superheros. Allows pupils to have their own creative choice and individualisation while exploring shapes with different areas and developing an understanding of what area is.

Several slides of differentiated tasks about decimals, fractions and percentages including changing between these forms. Good as a warm up, soft start or silent written task.

A resource to use to get to know a new class or as a transition task. Edit the starting numbers to suit the ability of your class and to differentiate within a class to suit all ability levels. Each pupils choose a starting number from the differentiated options and choose which of the 4 operations (plus, minus, divide and multiply) they are going to use. Ie starting number 47, I will plus my number of cousins, which is 12, my answer is 59. Can be used as a written task, game, mental maths or circle time game and adaptable to all levels.

Grids for pupils to complete to practise dividing by 2, 4, 5 and 10. Good for pupils to move onto once they have learnt how to divide decimals by 10. Differentiated by different place value.