I provide a wide range of resources for use in the classroom and around school. My resources build on children's learning and consider the smaller steps children need to take to achieve the learning. My resources have a focus on 'mastery' style questions where possible, to develop children's critical thinking and reasoning skills. As a practicing primary teacher myself, I know how essential it is to have well organised lesson resources with engaging activities that focus on the learning.
I provide a wide range of resources for use in the classroom and around school. My resources build on children's learning and consider the smaller steps children need to take to achieve the learning. My resources have a focus on 'mastery' style questions where possible, to develop children's critical thinking and reasoning skills. As a practicing primary teacher myself, I know how essential it is to have well organised lesson resources with engaging activities that focus on the learning.
39 speaking parts, approximtely 15 non-speaking parts plus dance troupe and choir - these can be edited to suit your school.
Lasts approximately 45 minutes.
Ideal for KS2.
Option for inserting your own song choices - I began with some well loved Chistmas carols and then used more traditions Christmas hymns/carols throughout the play script.
This really warmed the hearts of our audiences and even brought a tear to some eyes!
Quite a traditional play script as written for a C of E primary, but without being too dry.
Opportunity to personalise some parts to your school too.
Very easy to follow. Everyone can get involved and have a great time!
54 spelling lists for Y1
40 spelling lists for Y2
30 spelling lists for Y3
30 spelling lists for Y4
22 spelling lists for Y5
14 spelling lists for Y6
Well organised. Each spelling list covers a specific rule from the year group curriculum, including common exception words.
For ease of coverage, I have split the year 3/4 and 5/6 spelling rules and common exception words into separate year groups.
The bulk of the Y5/6 spellings are covered in the year 5 set, in order to give year 6 time to recap spellings from other year groups before SATs week.
Easy to use in class and can be used easily alongside lessons/ other resources for learning spellings. Also useful to help you identify spelling rules to teach.
Sheets can be sent home to help children with learning their spellings.
PowerPoint lesson to guide children in identifying South America, Brazil and some significant places in Brazil.
To be used along side atlases.
You may want to download blank maps of Brazil/ South America for children to work on.
22 spelling lists for year 5 and 14 spelling lists for year 6.
Well organised. Each spelling list covers a specific rule from the year 5/6 curriculum. For ease of coverage, I have split the year 5/6 spelling rules and common exception words into two separate year groups. The bulk of the spellings are covered in the year 5 set, in order to give year 6 time to recap spellings from other year groups before SATs week.
Easy to use in class and can be used easily alongside lessons/ other resources for learning spellings. Also useful to help you identify spelling rules to teach.
Sheets can be sent home to help children with learning their spellings.
You may also like to use the year 3/4 sets for recap work.
14 spelling lists for year 6 (enough to cover the whole year, with room for recapping spellings from years 3/4/5 as necessary, in time for sitting those all important SATs)
Well organised. Each spelling list covers a specific rule from the year 6 curriculum, or common exception words. Note, as the spelling curriculum for year 6 is merged with that of year 5, I have separated the spellings into two separate year groups. The bulk of the spellings are in the year 5 spelling lists, to allow ample time for recapping in time for year 6 SATs.
Each spelling has space for children to find out what the word means and then use the word in a sentence, so as they learn more about the word than just the spelling.
Easy to use in class and can be used easily alongside spelling lessons/other resources for learning spellings. Also useful to help you identify spelling rules to teach.
Sheets can be sent home to help children with learning their spellings.
Children may need to recap the spelling work from KS1, or years 3/4/5 (also available).
30 spelling lists for year 3 and 30 spelling lists for year 4.
Well organised. Each spelling list covers a specific rule from the year 3/4 curriculum. For ease of coverage, I have split the year 3/4 spelling rules and common exception words into two separate year groups.
Easy to use in class and can be used easily alongside lessons/ other resources for learning spellings. Also useful to help you identify spelling rules to teach.
Sheets can be sent home to help children with learning their spellings.
These have also been used for recap work in upper key stage 2.
22 spelling lists for year 5 (enough to cover the whole year, with room for recapping lower key stage 2, or progressing onto year 6 spellings)
Well organised. Each spelling list covers a specific rule from the year 5 curriculum, or common exception words. Note, as the spelling curriculum for year 5 is merged with that of year 6, I have separated the spellings into two separate year groups.
Each spelling has space for children to find out what the word means and then use the word in a sentence, so as they learn more about the word than just the spelling.
Easy to use in class and can be used easily alongside spelling lessons/other resources for learning spellings. Also useful to help you identify spelling rules to teach.
Sheets can be sent home to help children with learning their spellings.
These have also been used for recap work in year 6.
Children may need to recap the spelling work from years 3/4 (also available).
54 spelling lists for year 1 and 40 spelling lists for year 2.
Well organised. Each spelling list covers a specific rule from the year 1 or year 2 curriculum.
Easy to use in class and can be used easily alongside lessons/ other resources for learning spellings. Also useful to help you identify spelling rules to teach.
Sheets can be sent home to help children with learning their spellings.
These have also been used for recap work in lower key stage 2.
30 spelling lists for year 4.
Well organised. Each spelling list covers a specific rule from the year 4 curriculum. Note, as the spelling curriculum for year 3 is merged with year 4, I have separated the spellings into two separate year groups.
Each spelling has space for children to find out what the word means and then use the word in a sentence, so as they learn more about the word than just the spelling.
Easy to use in class and can be used easily alongside spelling lessons/other resources for learning spellings. Also useful to help you identify spelling rules to teach.
Sheets can be sent home to help children with learning their spellings.
These have also been used for recap work in years 5/6.
Children may need to recap the spelling work from year 3.
30 spelling lists for year 3.
Well organised. Each spelling list covers a specific rule from the year 3 curriculum. Note, as the spelling curriculum for year 3 is merged with year 4, I have separated the spellings into two separate year groups.
Each spelling has space for children to find out what it means and then use the word in a sentence, so as they learn more about the word than just the spelling.
Easy to use in class and can be used easily alongside other resources for learning spellings. Also useful to help you identify spelling rules to teach.
Sheets can be sent home to help children with learning their spellings.
These have also been used for recap work in years 4/5.
Children may need to recap the spelling work from year 2.
40 spelling lists for year 2.
Well organised. Each spelling list covers a specific rule from the year 2 curriculum.
Easy to use in class and can be used easily alongside other resources for learning spellings. Also useful to help you identify spelling rules to teach.
Sheets can be sent home to help children with learning their spellings.
These have also been used for recap work in years 3/4.
54 spelling lists for year 1.
Each spelling list covers a specific rule/sound from the curriculum.
Easy to use in class and can be used easily alongside other resources for learning spellings. Also useful to help you identify spelling rules to teach.
Sheets can be sent home to help children with learning their spellings.
These have also been used for recap work in year 2 and lower KS2 where required.
A lesson PowerPoint which looks at what happened to Jewish people after the holocaust.
Where do Jewish people live? How are they accepted by others?
Lots to think about and discuss.
At the end of the PowerPoint are a series of differentiated questions for children to choose from and answer. It is up to you how they do this e.g. in pairs, as a written piece of work, through drama etc.
This is a lesson PowerPoint the explores some aspects of Jewish life in the Roman Empire and how the Jewish people came to be persecuted by the Romans. At the end of the PowerPoint are three different follow up tasks.
Links well with topics on the Romans/Judaism.
Lesson PowerPoint covering the life of Julius Caesar, his role in Ancient Rome and his assassination. You may prefer to print the PowerPoint and hide it around your classroom for children to research for themselves.
At the end of the PowerPoint are three different task options.
Used with my Y4 task as part of a literacy project.
Lesson to introduce different types of nouns: proper nouns, pronouns, common nouns and collective nouns. Opportunity to practice within lesson plus separate, differentiated follow up task.
Lesson to introduce different types of verbs: action verbs (both physical and mental), ‘to be’ verbs, and modal verbs. Lesson includes opportunity to practise.
Used successfully with my capable year 4 class in the summer term, otherwise is suited to year 5.
Three easy to follow lesson PowerPoints to build on children’s learning about how to create an expanded noun phrase. Each PowerPoint also has examples for children to practise.
Follow up activities for lessons 1 and 2 (lesson 3 is just on the PowerPoint) - each with 2/3 differentiated levels of work sheet.
Focus is on building children’s knowledge to create expanded noun phrases e.g. determiner + adjective (s) + noun + preposition phrase.
PowerPoints and work sheets are very visual, with supporting pictures.
Included is a preposition phrase mat to support children in writing the preposition phrase.
You may also want to work with your class on creating a word bank of adjectives.
Comprehension questions on explorers, exploration and discovery (past, present and future).
Set of images to develop children's reading comprehension skills and discussion. Each image has two questions. These are particularly aimed at developing children's inference skills, justifying from using evidence in the pictures and broadening vocabulary. These will give any ability of child the opportunity to develop their comprehension skills.
Two lessons to help children understand remembrance day.
One lesson focuses on remembrance day itself, the other on the significance of the poppy - and the different types of poppy available today.
Both lessons are detailed and end in a choice of learning tasks. The lessons are well researched and informative.
5 Lesson PowerPoints and resources for activities for teaching or re-covering fronted adverbials. End of unit test on fronted adverbials - answer paper and mark scheme.
Ancient Greece theme to all lessons/ resources so really good for supporting writing if you are doing a topic on Ancient Greece. The lessons could also add to children's exploration of Ancient Greek, including of: Gods, heroes, mythical beasts, temples and battles.
Lessons explore what a fronted adverbial is and encourage children to consider where in the sentence it goes; what the verb is that it describes; whether it describes when, where or how; and what punctuation is required.
Each lesson has a relevant task with it (task for lesson 4 is included within the lesson PowerPoint)
Some critical thinking is required from children as they have to reason why their fronted adverbial was appropriate.
There are opportunities for peer assessment.
Lessons continue to re-cap children's knowledge, whilst also building on it. Very visual with use of images.
Learning objectives include:
We are learning to...
identify a fronted adverbial;
re-order sentences to create a fronted adverbial;
create fronted adverbials;
write fronted adverbials.
