Basic design of an orienteering card, to be printed and laminated. The cards can have numbers/letters/images attached to them before being laminated etc.

A way of supporting children's independent work, structuring the way they think through a problem. Each child has this stuck in the front of their book and follow the process if I'm not working with their table. The first B is for Brain. The second is for Book. The third for Buddy. Finally, the fourth for Boss. N.B/ This isn't actually my idea, but a resource I made to support the idea being used.

A five-part story mountain that has been used as an example in my writing area. Each page has been blown up to A3 and laminated for children to record their stories into five succinct parts, which has introduced the idea of using paragraphs to group together related content to my Year 2 pupils. Could easily be used as part of a display, printed off to form a booklet for an extended piece of writing or as a starting point to innovate from.

I created these primarily to be used independently in a maths area as part of my continuous provision. The ideas area adapted from the Year 2 Mastery document from the NCETM.

At the beginning of my NQT year I found a Non-Participation Record Sheet which I have used with great success to involve everyone in PE sessions. With the help of my colleagues these forms were adapted and rolled out for use lower down the school. For some children it may be useful to ask a teaching assistant to talk through and scribe responses.

Just a few items that are in my reading corner at school.

Children have to display their knowledge of shape by completing a ‘Shape Attax’ card as either a classroom activity or for homework. You could make a set yourself and use them as follow on/loop cards or as an actual match attax game. The first file has a quick example of a minimum expectation and the second file has four blank cards.

Broken down explanation of different written methods for division.

The spreadsheet is formatted so that anything below 7 is displayed as red, 7 is orange and 8 or above is green (out of 10). It also calculates the average spelling score which is displayed at the bottom of the page. So, if as a class the average is over 8 out of 10 they get a reward etc. or however you choose to use it.

One of the pupils in school was visiting Australia for a month, too see some relatives. Her parents didn't want her to be missing out on the skills we were looking at at school. So, I created this pack with a variety of activities for them to complete whilst they were away.

Floating and Sinking orientated activity. Originally designed for a Science challenge day, within a topic relating to the Titanic. Links to; Properties of materials. Mass

Designed to increase boys participation and enthusiasm when working in Literacy.The table group names are fictional football teams that are linked to different classes of words. They can also be used in conjunction with the league table, adults give points for whatever they wish to, the table with the most points after a week/half term etc. I find it useful when changing table groups for any reason to talk about children transferring from one team to another or when outside of the transfer window - joining a team on loan with a view to a permanent transfer.

A set of homework activities; linked to curriculum skills and/or life skills, for children to complete at home.

I have used this idea with great success with a handful of children in my first year of teaching. With children who had difficulty with concentrating over long periods, self-motivation or behavioural problems. The idea is that the child comes up with three targets that will help them to become more motivated etc also featuring something that is personal to them, favourite football team, a long term goal they have. With practice, the idea is they keep it in their pocket and when they are struggling a simple command of 'pocket' or something similiar will remind them of their targets.

Simple writing frame, for children to break down the film into shorter concise sections.

Using the 'Get Set' posters as a stimulus, the children created their own Olympic posters. This was my example that I showed them. To produce their own posters, children used the internet to search for images (you may want/need to create an image bank locally stored instead) used internet language translation sites and demonstrated their word processing skills.

A timetable for a two-form entry primary school.

Star of the week bookmarks with different Mister Men and Little Miss pictures.

Featuring; Daily timetable Quote of the day Organisation of groups/reading books