THE ULTIMATE CHRISTMAS ESCAPE ROOM!
An all-new fun and silly end of year Christmas activity.
The escape room should last approximately an hour and is best suited to primary students in Year 5 or 6. The escape room puzzles use a range of ciphers, puzzles, and mathematical problems, which should provide a fun and unique end of year challenge.
The escape room is easy to use, all you have to do is print and go! All of the answers are provided, plus a PowerPoint presentation to explain how it all works.
NEW FOR 2020
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Includes:
KS2 2023 Maths SATs QLA
KS2 2023 Spelling, Punctuation and Grammar SATs QLA
KS2 2023 Reading SATs QLA
Easy to use Excel Spreadsheets to analyse the above SATs test scores using Question Level Analysis (QLA). All papers are analysed and will highlight students’ areas of strength and weaknesses in key maths (number, calculation, problem solving, handling data, shape and measurement), reading (giving/explaining meanings of words in context, retrieving and recording information/identifying key details from fiction and non-fiction, summarising main ideas from one or more paragraphs, making inferences from the text/explaining and justifying inferences with evidence from the text, and identifying and/or explaining how information or narrative content is related and contributes to meaning as a whole) and SPaG (grammatical terms/word classes; functions of sentences; combining words, phrases and clauses; verb forms, tenses and consistency; punctuation; vocabulary; standard English and formality; and spelling) areas. Simply add the students’ name and their score and the spreadsheet will update and produce graphs based on their answers.
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**Seven Key Stage 3 Schemes of work, enough teaching content for almost two years! **
All of my lessons are well planned, engaging, differentiated and fun! Download one of my free ones if you aren´t sure and try before you buy!
The following Schemes of work are included WITH assessments:
*** World biomes (11 lessons)**
• Lesson 1: Ecosystems
• Lesson 2: Food webs
• Lesson 3: Global biomes introduction
• Lesson 4: Mediterranean biome
• Lesson 5: Coral Reefs
• Lesson 6: Bamboo forests
• Lesson 7: Tropical Rainforests
• Lesson 8: Hot deserts
• Lesson 9: Polar biomes
• Lesson 10: Assessment lesson
• Lesson 11: Peer feedback/marking lesson
River landscapes of the UK (7 lessons)
• Lesson 1: Where are the UK’s rivers?
• Lesson 2: What are the UK’s rivers like?
• Lesson 3: What processes happen inside a river?
• Lesson 4: How do waterfalls form?
• Lesson 5: Meanders… they’re forever changing
• Lesson 6: The Landforms of the Lower Course
• Lesson 7: The Somerset levels floods 2014
• Lesson 8: How can we our manage rivers?
• Lesson 9: Rivers Assessment lesson
*** Weather and climate of the UK (9 lessons)***
• Lesson 1: What is weather and climate?
• Lesson 2: Recording the Weather
• Lesson 3: Who cares about the weather?
• Lesson 4: Where does the UK’s weather come from?
• Lesson 5: The Beast from the East
• Lesson 6: How can the UK use it’s wind?
• Lesson 7: Does the UK need so much rain?
• Lesson 8: What are Urban Micro climates and how do they affect London?
• Lesson 9: Assessment and feedback
Tropical Rainforests (12 lessons)
• Lesson 1: What and where are our rainforests?
• Lesson 2: What is the structure of the Rainforests?
• Lesson 3: What is the climate like in the Rainforest?
• Lesson 4: How are plants and animals adapted to the rainforest?
• Lesson 5: How do we benefit from the Rainforest?
• Lesson 6: What is Deforestation?
• Lesson 7: What are the effects of Deforestation?
• Lesson 8: How can we use the rainforest sustainably?
• Lesson 9: Saving the Rainforest!
• Lesson 10: Assessment lesson
• Lesson 11: Assessment feedback and peer marking lesson.
• Lesson 12: Extended project: Researching a rainforest.
*** UK landscapes and processes (7 lessons) **
• Lesson 1: introduction to UK landscapes
• Lesson 2: How does geology shape the UK?
• Lesson 3: Chemical weathering and limestone plateaus
• Lesson 4: Mountains in the UK: Their birth and erosion
• Lesson 5: Forests in the UK
• Lesson 6: Map reading and tourist developments in the lake district.
• Lesson 7: Assessment lesson with feedback PPT.
Hot deserts (9 lessons)
Lesson 1: What is a hot desert and where are they found?
Lesson 2: Drawing a climate graph for hot deserts
Lesson 3: How can animals and plants survive in hot deserts?
Lesson 4: What is desertification and why is it happening?
Lesson 5: Can desertification be stopped?
Lesson 6: Tourism in a hot desert far far away…
Lesson 7: Can you navigate through a hot desert?
Lesson 8: Assessment lesson
Lesson 9: Peer marking and assessment feedback
**Globalisation 12 lessons: **
Lesson 1: An introduction to globalisation
Lesson 2: How has globalisation happned?
Lesson 3: Why do companies go global? Mcdonalds
Lesson 4: What is a TNC and why do they work in so many countries?
Lesson 5: The pros and cons of globalisation
Lesson 6: The dark side of globalisation
Lesson 7: A TNC in Nigeria: Shell
Lesson 8: How is globalisation helpful? NGOs
Lesson 9: IGOs: WHO will stop Malaria?
Lesson 10: Assessment lesson
Lesson 11: Peer marking and assessment feedback
Lesson 12: Optional project on a TNC
extras!
This includes ALL of my lessons, quizzes, and six full schemes of work with over 75 lessons in total!!!
(some stand alone lessons are omitted as they are repeated/included in SoW)
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Y6 SATS 2020 - Including practice questions and a 2020 presentation for parents, this bundle contains three useful resources to help you prepare your pupils for the Y6 SATS/end of KS2 assessments,
1: Reading Question Generator: a highly-rated revision resource providing 100 practice questions for the reading test! You can focus on a particular area to revise or use this as a random question generator.
2. SPAG Question Generator: a popular revision resource providing 100 practice questions for the grammar, punctuation & vocabulary test. You can focus on a particular area to revise or use this as a random question generator.
3. SATS Presentation to Parents: an editable Powerpoint to be used in your information meeting with parents and carers, explaining all about the Y6 SATS.
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An easy to use Excel Spreadsheet to analyse the maths test scores from the 2023 KS2 SATs though Question Level Analysis (QLA). Papers 1 (arithmetic), 2 and 3 (reasoning) are analysed. Will highlight students’ areas of strength and weaknesses in key maths areas including number, calculation, problem solving, handling data, and shape and measurement. Simply add the students’ name and their score and the spreadsheet will update and produce graphs.
These anagram wheels provide an opportunity for children to practice their spelling techniques/rules as well as having fun!
20 wheels and answers included.
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Are you teaching year 5 or 6 children (UKS2) about obtuse, acute, and right angles and how to use protractors to measure angles in math? This outstanding interview lesson plan is perfect for you!
This outstanding interview lesson teaches year 5 and year 6 children about obtuse, acute and right angles and using protractors to measure angles in maths is designed to showcase your mastery of subject knowledge and effective teaching techniques, impressing any Ofsted inspector.
Using the principles of mastery learning and reasoning, this lesson is differentiated to meet the needs of all learners. The learning objective is to accurately use a protractor, with success criteria that include lining up the bottom of the protractor with one of the lines, making sure the corner (vertex) of the angle is in the middle of the protractor, and looking at where the 0 is on the line to use the correct set of numbers.
The starter activity invites the children to look at the success criteria and complete a cold task on the screen, while the main activity provides teacher input on what angles are, as well as a discussion of real-life examples and different types of angles, such as right angles, obtuse angles, and acute angles. Children also have the opportunity to play “Simon Says” to identify whole turns, half turns, and 90-degree turns, shouting out the degrees of each angle as they do it.
To engage higher ability children, they can complete the Hot Task (input) silently and independently while the rest of the class receives input. Differentiated activities include using angle eaters to measure and identify different types of angles, estimating and measuring angles on worksheets, and exploring the patterns and relationships between angles in different shapes.
In the plenary, students will review the success criteria and reflect on their learning, sharing which part of the lesson was the easiest or hardest. The resources for this lesson include a PowerPoint, protractors, angle eaters, cold task, show it tasks, table display, and challenge tasks.
Overall, this lesson is a strong example of how to teach a complex mathematical concept while promoting mastery and reasoning skills, making it an excellent choice for showcasing your teaching abilities during an interview or impressing an Ofsted inspector or SLT observer.
Ideal for a 30 minute-1 hour lesson.
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Create your primary maths reports quickly using these 280 differentiated maths report comments for KS2. The subject of maths is broken down into 7 skill sections, relevant for all year groups, with 4 ability groups provided. Use the girl and boy versions to save time, just quickly choose the right comments to suit each child. There are enough comments to create different personalised paragraphs of comments for at least a whole class of 30 children.
High Quality
Written for the whole of KS2 focusing on learning aptitudes and the general areas of maths. Some spaces are left for you to add some relevant objectives for your year group.
These are perfect for years 3, 4, 5 and 6 as they cover:
Attitude
Mathematical concepts
Lesson content
Operations and calculations
Mental strategies
Reasoning
Problem Solving
Understanding, explaining and checking solutions
Strengths and Assessments
Presentation
Targets
Differentiated
Maths report comment banks for four different ability groups are provided with at least 70 comments in each, so a minimum of 280 different statements for your reports.
Easy to Use
They all come in a girl and a boy version saving you having to change any pronouns. All names are shown with 3 stars so you just have to find and replace, to insert names.
Save Time
Teaching is busy enough without report writing as well, save time whilst doing a good job. Easily copy and paste these thoughtful comments to create personalised and admired reports.
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Year 2 - Multiplication & Division - Week 11 - Differentiated planning & resources.
See week 12 or get the whole Block 4 BUNDLE (save 20%!)
It covers the small steps:
• Recognise equal groups
• Make equal groups
• Add equal groups
• Multiplication using the x symbol
• Multiplication sentences from pictures
You will receive everything you need - lesson plans, presentation for the whole week, differentiated worksheets & answers, differentiated activities and extensions, templates and displays for your own resource creation.
In this pack you will get:
• Worksheets - Recognise equal groups
• Worksheets - Make equal groups
• Worksheets - Add equal groups
• Worksheets -Multiplication using the x symbol
• Worksheets - Multiplication sentences from pictures
• Weekly lesson plan (hyperlinked to resources)
• Weekly PowerPoint (labelled slides -fluency, reasoning and problem solving)
• Practical - Equal group discussion cards
• Practical - Equal or unequal
• Practical - Recognise equal groups
• Game - Roll and make
• Activity - Calculation stories
• Activity - Draw it, say it, add it
• Practical - Group match up
• Display - Number frames
• Template - 0-9 digit cards
• Yearly overview - Small steps, NC links, TAF statements cross-mapping document
PDF format (please set print option to fit).
To ensure the hyperlinks fully work, you must download the Zip file provided and extract the folder to your computer. You must also ensure you have the latest update for your PDF reader.
The resources support a mastery approach to encourage a deeper understanding of the topics taught. It follows a CPA (Concrete, Pictorial, Abstract) approach to ensure all children can access learning. The pack provides pictorial and abstract representations, along with fluency, reasoning, problem solving and open-ended investigation questions. This can be seen in our product previews.
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These comprehensive checklists have been created to aid school leaders when performing learning walks with a particular focus e.g. questioning, differentiation, etc. Clearly structured and organised, they present a central idea surrounded by a breakdown of a number of its key components.
For the user, this layout provides a simple reference list of each of the desirable skills, categorised appropriately. The checklists also provide an alternative to regular feedback methods, which often focus too heavily on the standard or ‘judgement’, as opposed to being a developmental tool.
Alternatively, these are really handy for teachers looking to develop their practice in the key teaching areas listed below. Included in the pack are checklists for:
-Questioning
-Differentiation
-Utilising Resources (including support staff)
-Engagement
-Building Literacy Skills
-Planning and Expectations
-Building Learning Power
-A blank template for you to design your own based upon your own focus
Note: The checklists offer a range of desirable strategies that teachers should look to implement over time - it would be damaging to expect teachers to utilise each of these strategies in every lesson!
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A step by step guide (animation) on how to draw a science lin GCSE spec graph.
Suitable for Year9-Y11 (AQA + OCR = GCSE).
Age: 13-16 (Suitable for other ages with minor changes).
100 powerpoint animations timed together to represent the different stages of drawing a graph.
There is an hours work on one slide! This is perfect for those who find it hard to create animations!
This will save you lots of time and the pupils will respond well!
I have been observed using this slide multiple times and I have always been asked to share it after!
I would recommend following this up with three differentiated graph tasks.
This resource is a 1 slide animation that can be easily copied into your own powerpoint or used as a stand alone file.
Animation, presentation, line of best fit, axis, labels, units, table, title, plotting, scaling, graph paper, dependent, independent & variables.
Verbal steps to follow animation:
Find the largest data values for the dependent and independent variables.
Check the number of squares along the X and Y axis on the graph paper.
Draw a line on the X and Y axis.
Add a scale for the X and Y axis.
Label the independent variable (with units) on the X axis and
the dependent variable (with units) on the Y axis.
Plot the data from the table onto the graph.
Draw a line of best fit.
Give the graph a title.
This is the ultimate Philosophy for Children (P4C) Pack: perfect for any teacher wishing to bring philosophy and critical thinking into their classroom.
It contains 20 resources and includes:
-An 8-Lesson P4C Course
-Debate generating software
-Philosophy Boxes Discussion Sessions
-A host of other tools and templates
Teaching philosophy is my passion and this resource has been made by me over years of spreading the joy of philosophy to young minds. I hope you will help me bring philosophy into the lives of children around the world by using this resource .
This product is suitable for any teacher (around the world) to bring P4C into their classroom. It provides enough resources for whole-school initiatives and may be of interest to those in leadership positions, or coordinating P4C/PSHE/SMSC/Ethics provisions.
Its uses include:
-Introducing philosophy and P4C
-Boosting critical-thinking skills
-Enhancing meta-cognitive ability
-Practicing conversation and debate skills
Feel free to email me with any questions :)
Adam,
godwin86@gmail.com
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Template for you to create your own Pointless games - whatever subject or topic you are teaching!
Based on the popular game show 'Pointless', this resource is perfect for use as a starter activity, plenary, or revision tool. Editable, so that you can change to any other topic or change the questions/answers. Containing almost 30 slides of sound clips, engaging visuals, and suitably challenging questions, this resource is effective at both promoting engagement and enhancing learning.
There are several built-in rounds of questions to build students' understanding in your topics, including:
- Identifying terms from definitions
- Anagrams of key terms round
- Recalling the highest level knowledge.
The nature of the game ensures that this resource can challenge students of all levels.
NOTE: You can buy this resource alone, or in a bundle of 8 Pointless games, for only £1 more!
This resource contains templates for the 2023 Rugby World Cup tournament of the matches in the pool stages, quarter finals, semi-finals , third place play-off and final. It also contains results tables for the pools and a summative results table. Engage your pupils by getting them to fill in the sheets as matches are played.
Please note, the watermark on the preview images is not present on the resource itself.
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Rugby World Cup Maths Game
This resource contains a rugby-themed maths dice and a coin toss game. Both games are played with a partner. The aim of the dice game is to score as many points as possible. Players take turns to throw the dice. Every time a 5 is rolled, the player scores a try (5 points). If a player rolls a 5 he/she has another turn straightaway. If a 2 is rolled the player gets a conversion worth 2 points. If a 3 is rolled the player gets a penalty - 3 points. If a player scores four tries in the game he/she gets a bonus point. In the coin game players toss a coin. If it lands on heads a try is scored worth 5 points. If it lands on tails no try is scored.
Rugby World Cup Puzzle Pack
This resource is a World Cup Rugby themed puzzle pack containing differentiated word searches and anagrams and a crossword. There are three differentiated word searches, three differentiated anagrams and one crossword.
Rugby World Cup Quiz
This is a fully editable, 100-question PowerPoint quiz on the Rugby World Cup. It contains questions on the following categories:
History of the Rugby World Cup
2023 Rugby World Cup
The Game of Rugby
Emblems and Flags
World Cup Rugby Facts
National Rugby Teams’ Nicknames
Rugby World Cup Statistics
Rugby World Cup Music and Dance
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This resource contains a fully editable and informative 68-slide PowerPoint presentation on pi and Pi Day which takes place on 14th March. It is also a useful resource for Pi Approximation Day on July 22nd.
The PowerPoint focuses on:
The history of pi - Babylon and Egypt - Rhind Papyrus
Archimedes calculations - Pythagorean Theorem
The Origin of the pi symbol – William Jones and Leonhard Euler
Pi formulas for the circumference and area of a circle
The infinite nature of pi
World record holders for the memorisation of pi digits
Piems and mnemonics for pi digits and formulas
Pi Day and the different ways Pi Day is celebrated
How ‘hat size’ is determined by pi
Albert Einstein sharing his birthday with Pi Day
Pi dingbats
Suggestions and ideas for Pi Day activities
The PowerPoint also contains hyperlinks to:
Display of the first million digits of pi
Pi rap ‘Lose Yourself In The Digits’
Video - Math Antics - Circles, area of circle, circumference of circle, pi
Pi-Search Page - a web-site that searches the first 200 million digits of pi
Pi Domino Spiral
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These are excel spreadsheets Gap Analysis documents for the May 2022 Year Six SATs Papers for Maths (Arithmetic, Reasoning 1 and Reasoning 2).
**The sheet totals up the scores automatically and each child’s final score changes colour to reflect their ability.
If their total score for a subject goes green, it means they would have passed the 2022 SATs with that score. If it goes Purple with a white font, it means that child would have achieved a ‘More Able’ score for that tested subject.**
I have also included an instructions and document page, linking to a freely available copy of each test, mark scheme and instructions. Additionally, I have included a link to the conversion tables from RAW Score to Scaled Score.
All a teacher has to do is enter their children’s names and enter the 0’s, 1’s, 2’s or 3’s for each question, which also change colour too for a visual reference. I recommend that a teacher should enter ‘N’ if a child did not attempt that question. This gives an idea of who is not even attempting certain questions, not just whether they got the question wrong.
The sheets are set up for 30 or 90 pupils but more can be added/deleted and instructions are on the first page/sheet. Some cells are locked/protected in this document but the parts that you need to insert yourself are editable. This is so that the formulas/algorithms do not break and render the spreadsheet’s functionalities as broken. This password will not be given out, but I am more than happy to make adaptations or changes for you, provided you show proof of purchase. All of my contact details are in the resource.
I take requests for Gap Analysis Grids. Please leave feedback if you like this resource as I am planning to produce more for each SATs paper going forward, as well as CGP Practice Papers.
Please remember to rate this resource as I made this to save teachers time. Thank-you.
A complete bundle of Gap Analysis Grids / QLA (Reading, GPS, Spelling, Arithmetic and Reasoning) for the 2022 KS2 SATs assessments. I have also included links to the papers, the mark schemes and the conversion grids within each spreadsheet.
Please read the description of each individual resource for more information.
This reasoning paper is in the style of the reasoning paper 2 - 2016 SATs papers. Each question is based on the same objective from the 2016 tests but are adapted with different numbers/shapes/scales etc. These test will help you gage whether or not your year 6 pupils are on track to meet the standards for the end of year 6.
ALL ANSWERS PROVIDED to enable self marking
the questions are based on the following objectives:
missing number boxes
2 step worded questions
temperature data reading
fractions/equivalent fractions
converting time
clock reading
multiples
algebra decoding of pictures
drawing shapes
roman numerals
mathematical language match up
rounding to the nearest 10 and 100
missing angles
mean averages
pie chart data
fraction word problems
mass
find more here:
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/5-reasoning-sats-papers-paper-3-year-6-11431596
This Christmas maths quiz is packed with 8 questions ranging in difficulty from the easiest of maths for a bit of fun, to some more challenging questions for older kids. What you tend to find is that even the smartest older kids will sometimes make mistakes on the easy ones ;)
Made by Learning Haven for free use.
PLEASE NOTE: Do not republish this as your own work, all rights go to Learning Haven except for graphics.
Acknowledgements:
All pictures are used from google images under the free use act.
The Big Book of Fractions includes a range of fraction topics within it over 95 pages including:
What a fraction is
Colouring fractions
Representing fractions
Equivalent fractions including simplifying
Comparing fractions
Finding fractions of amounts including finding original numbers - Using the bar model
Converting between mixed and improper fractions
Adding fractions
Subtracting fractions
Multiplying fractions by whole numbers
Multiplying fractions by fractions
Dividing fractions by whole numbers
Fractions, decimals and percentages equivalence
Glossary of what particular terms mean
Within this there are help sheets, showing how to do different operations with fractions through the maths and also through showing pictorial representations, generally using the bar model.
After the help sheets most topics include practise questions and then questions that challenge children's fluency, reasoning and problem solving abilities.
This can be used for a range of things, whether it be just to print the help sheets to encourage children to be independent or to give children a practise activity or activity that requires them to think more deeply.
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