A couple of lovely Christmas activities for literacy and numeracy that I have adapted and developed over the years. I have aimed them at my year 4 class but they can be edited for use in any KS2 class. Some are my own, some I have found and adapted for my class. My husband would like recognition for helping me to write the ‘Twas the night before Christmas’ comprehension questions. If you find this resource useful, please let me know. Enjoy! HoHoHO

I am posting these on behalf of Stephanie Bowgett. Stephanie is a retired teacher who worked for two years as a consultant for the Black Children’s Achievement Programme funded by the DFS. They produced loads of teaching materials to supplement the curriculum, all at public expense which were free on the National Strategies website, all lost or archived as soon as there was a government change. Most of us will remember this trauma. The following resources were developed to encourage group discussion, questioning and looking at probabilities. They include strategies from the sister EAL programme designed to develop academic language and draw heavily on Philosophy for Children. All tried in classrooms in Kirklees. They include Sarah Forbes Bonetta, Muhammad Ali, Walter Tull, Pablo Fanque, Mae Jemison, Anansi in Africa and Jamaica, a wall display of Black inventors and audits of the environment and curriculum to identify Black representation. There are several PowerPoint assemblies, including Muhammad Ali, Walter Tull, Ruby Bridges, Sarah Breedlove Walker, Willard Wigan, Chinwe Chukwuogo Roy. Useful sets of photos if nothing else. Stephanie has shared them so if anyone can use them they are welcome, they were paid for by the tax payer!

I made this resource for my y4 SEN maths group (intervention). I found they were still confusing ty and teen. I created this to follow the progression steps and can be adapted for use with any year group. I also included reading 4,5,6,7,8 and 9 digit numbers as well as decimals for my more able children. Please let me know if you have found this resource useful and how you have used it with your class. Enjoy

I deliver mindfulness lessons to 7-11 year olds and during the lessons I use lots of models to represent the process of mindfulness. The glitter jar is one of those tools that has proven to be a big hit with the kids. This is just a set of simple instructions to make a jazzy glitter jar. I hope you enjoy this resource, if so let me know. Enjoy :) EDIT: Remember to use biodegradable glitter

I am posting these on behalf of Stephanie Bowgett. Stephanie is a retired teacher who worked for two years as a consultant for the Black Children’s Achievement Programme funded by the DFS. They produced loads of teaching materials to supplement the curriculum, all at public expense which were free on the National Strategies website, all lost or archived as soon as there was a government change. Most of us will remember this trauma. The following resources are part of a collection, developed to encourage group discussion, questioning and looking at probabilities. They include strategies from the sister EAL programme designed to develop academic language and draw heavily on Philosophy for Children. All tried in classrooms in Kirklees. The following resources and others in this collection linked to this (see my shop) include Sarah Forbes Bonetta, Muhammad Ali, Walter Tull, Pablo Fanque, Mae Jemison, Anansi in Africa and Jamaica, a wall display of Black inventors and audits of the environment and curriculum to identify Black representation. There are several PowerPoint assemblies, including Muhammad Ali, Walter Tull, Ruby Bridges, Sarah Breedlove Walker, Willard Wigan, Chinwe Chukwuogo Roy. Useful sets of photos if nothing else. Stephanie has shared them so if anyone can use them they are welcome, they were paid for by the tax payer!

I have created this resource to support transition between year 6 and 7 but it could be a great ice breaker for a new KS2 class. It focuses on identifying and sharing core values and core skills.

I have made this for my year 2 class. We have just completed the addition and subtraction unit and I wanted some fun questions to use as revision. I will show one question each morning for the children to attempt as they come into the classroom. Before our maths lesson, we will look at the children’s ideas and work through the problem together. I will then put up a similar problem after lunch for them to have a go again. You can easily edit the resource. I’ve taken the questions from the MathsHubs. www.mathshubs.org.uk I hope you find this useful. Let me know if find it useful.

I created this resource for my y4 clas, although it can be adapted. The activity is designed to be a quick fire number activity that develops competency in understanding place value, counting and calculation. There is an emphasis on developing fluency using the 9x tables. Please let me know if you have found this resource useful and how you have used it with your class. Enjoy :)

This game is a basic bingo board with randomised numbers to help your class practise the times tables. It is based on TNT Tables from 10 Maths Miracles. I can’t seem to download it so my husband made this basic version. If any one knows how I can obtain the real game, please let me know. Let me know how you get on. :)

I have created this resource as I love teaching maths using the CLIC maths format. ‘Where’s Mully?’ is among one of the most popular maths games in my class. (For me and the kids!) This game develops competency in quick mental division and is an excellent and instant assessment of your children’s times tables knowledge. In this powerpoint I have worked through all of the progression steps. If you start at the beginning, you can see accelerated learning. Please let me know if you have found this resource useful and how you have used it with your class. Enjoy

I created this presentation as a way to help my year 4 children to better understand and identify the many different feelings they have, to be able to name them specifically and to enable them to better express themselves when they have a problem . This is also an excellent way to develop emotional vocabulary for story telling. I hope you enjoy this resource, please let me know if you find it useful. Thank You :)

I created this presentation to support our class guided reading sessions for Michael Morpurgo’s interpretation of Beowulf. The tasks are suited to a more able y4/5 class and only cover chapter 1. I hope you find this resource useful, please let me know what you think. Enjoy :)

I have been practicing different forms of mindfulness for over twenty years and have found these techniques to be a valuable method for remaining focused, calm and successful. I began teaching mindfulness as I am keen to share the benefits with others. When I am teaching, I find mindfulness is a great technique to foster in the classroom as it can create a calm and positive learning environment for both myself and the children. For several years I have been teaching children, adults and families, focused mindfulness techniques. I have always been a personal advocate of using these techniques to help us find more joy in our day to day lives. This is one of the main reasons for creating this workbook, 7 Days of mindfulness. I want to share with you some of the techniques I use regularly, the reasons I use them and the benefit of regular mindful practice. I am a teacher with an interest in promoting positive mental health in young children, teenagers and in young adults. However, I think children and young adults of all ages can enjoy my 7 days of mindfulness. Here are the audio links to accompany. https://soundcloud.com/minibee/sets/7-days-of-mindfulness-by-beth (some of the audios are unavailable as they are in edit) Please enjoy and if you find them useful, please like my resource and leave a comment. I am also interested in any feedback, how you found the session went and anything I could improve. Please feel free to send a private message if you have any questions. Kind regards and happy breathing, Beth Reynolds :) If you are interested in training to teach Mindfulness, check out: my website: bethreynolds.uk

I adapted this progression in thinking document to support curriculum enrichment in our school. A few years ago, we wanted to make philosophical enquiry the focus for our cross curricular creative curriculum. This document enables teachers to confidently plan in lots of age appropriate thinking and talking opportunities. Children are instinctively curious about life. Growing up raises lots of questions, some to do with their experience, both the good and the bad, and some to do with their sense of wonder at the universe we live in. Many of our children have an interest in exploring how these ideas and experiences help them to develop their own sense of identity, self-worth, personal insight, meaning and purpose. We expect our children to think, so we need to teach them to do so. it is important to encourage them to explore thinking using all facets of their cognitive ability and respecting their amazing capacity to engage with high levels philosophical debate from a very young age. In each classroom we have a thinking and talking book displayed in a designated ‘reflection’ space. We have a philosophical question displayed, for example: Would an octopus make a good lifeguard? or There are two doors, one with yes written on it and one with no. Which door do you go through and why? In the book we write philosophical questions linked to the curriculum, for example: Can one person change the world? What does it meant to be free? What makes an everyday hero? We also introduce the topic using thinking skills activities like alphabet analysers, thinkers keys and jigsaw reveal. To provoke discussion, elicit prior knowledge and to engage the children in the subject giving them the curiosity to become independent learners. I have included an example of resources that I have adapted to support thinking in my classroom and across our school. I hope you enjoy them. Please leave feedback and a review if you do. Kind Regards, Mrs Beth Reynolds

Are you new to the role of PSHE and want a template to help you write whole school planning for your school? In a recent moderation, this panning was viewed as exemplary so you will find this a great start. My advice is to think about your school and how you can weave and embed the PSHE and RSE curriculum into all areas of the curriculum. Included, is a year by year overview of PSHE planning from early years to year 6, our school policy documents and a skills and knowledge planner. This should provide a great start to anyone new to the role.

I have created this resource as I love teaching maths using the CLIC maths format. Coin Multiplication is among one of the most popular maths games in my class. (For me and the kids!) This game develops competency in the skills of partitioning, halving , doubling and multiplying by 10 and 100. In this powerpoint I have worked through all of the progression steps. If you start at the beginning, you can see accelerated learning. I haven’t included decimal numbers but once you get the hang of it, you can adapt it to whatever your children need. Please let me know if you have found this resource useful and how you have used it with your class. Enjoy :)

I created writing target lists to stick into my English books. They have helped me with my marking (and the children with their editing) leading up to moderation. Let me know if they help. Thank you :)

An introduction to the Pied Piper. We read the text to support our topic, Medieval Life. We wanted to investigate archaic language and discover what the characters were searching for. I wrote my own shorter version so we could teach it through Talk For Writing. Let me know if you are interested in this version of the text.

I put together these lessons after a brilliant Literature Works training session. They introduce the text from chapter 1 to chapter 4. My class are year 4 but I'm sure you could adapt this resource for other years. I hope you enjoy them as much as we did.

I am posting these on behalf of Stephanie Bowgett. Stephanie is a retired teacher who worked for two years as a consultant for the Black Children’s Achievement Programme funded by the DFS. They produced loads of teaching materials to supplement the curriculum, all at public expense which were free on the National Strategies website, all lost or archived as soon as there was a government change. Most of us will remember this trauma. The following resources are a part of a collection that were developed to encourage group discussion, questioning and looking at probabilities. They include strategies from the sister EAL programme designed to develop academic language and draw heavily on Philosophy for Children. All tried in classrooms in Kirklees. The resources here and other linked resources (see my shop) include Sarah Forbes Bonetta, Muhammad Ali, Walter Tull, Pablo Fanque, Mae Jemison, Anansi in Africa and Jamaica, a wall display of Black inventors and audits of the environment and curriculum to identify Black representation. There are several PowerPoint assemblies, including Muhammad Ali, Walter Tull, Ruby Bridges, Sarah Breedlove Walker, Willard Wigan, Chinwe Chukwuogo Roy. Useful sets of photos if nothing else. Stephanie has shared them so if anyone can use them they are welcome, they were paid for by the tax payer!