Ideas for the week commencing 23rd March 2026

Good Friday falls on April 3rd this year which seems to have come around quickly. We all tend to break up at slightly different times for this holiday – I hope you enjoy the busy end of the term. As always, I’ve pulled together some resources which should help save you time next week.

You may be carrying out your spring term assessments – we’ve just updated all our GPS assessments – there’s one for every year group and we’ve provided answers as well.

https://classroomsecrets.co.uk/campaign/gps-spring-assessment

We’ve also added a new assessment tracker which will help identify areas for development for individual pupils as well as all things to celebrate. A video with our content specialist, Chris, can be found here.

https://classroomsecrets.co.uk/courses/how-to-use-our-gps-assessment-tracker

Don’t forget our Science post-unit assessments which are always in demand. There’s one for each unit.

Science Post Unit Assessments

As Easter is around the corner – here are a selection of activities including an assembly, Rise and Read and Activity Packs.

Easter Resources

World Piano Day

For something different, we are excited to launch brand new resources to support World Piano Day on March 29th.

https://classroomsecrets.co.uk/campaign/world-piano-day

Our series of Around the World in 80 Stories is now complete. As it is the The National Year of Reading 2026.I think you will love these. Around the World in 80 Stories is a captivating collection of short stories inspired by real and imagined tales from every corner of the globe.

Around the World in 80 Stories

I’ve also added links to lesson collections in Maths and GPS. You may not be teaching this exact objective but you can easily navigate the areas of the website from there.

Maths  

Y1 – Mass and Volume

Classroom Secrets | Collection Page Year 1 Compare Volume

Y2 – Mass, Capacity and Temperature 

Classroom Secrets | Collection Page Year 2 Four Operations With Volume and Capacity

Y3 – Mass and Capacity 

Classroom Secrets | Collection Page Year 3 Compare Mass

Y4 – Fractions 

Classroom Secrets | Collection Page Year 4 Tenths as Fractions

Y5 – Decimals A

Classroom Secrets | Collection Page Year 5 Perimeter of Rectangles

Y6 – Area, Perimeter and Volume 

Classroom Secrets | Collection Page Year 6 Volume of a Cuboid

Year 6 teachers – if you are looking for something different to help with SATs revision then take a look at our mistake investigators (for both maths and reading!) – children work together to identify common misconceptions. Great for small group discussions. 

Mistake Investigators Resources 

GPS 

If you’re in need of some Spring 2 Week 3 resources for GPS, why not give our GPS scheme a try? We’ve selected the resources for the current week on our GPS plan. Don’t worry if you at at a different point – simply go to the schemes page and navigate from there. 

Y1 – Capital Letters 2 

Classroom Secrets | Collection Page Year 1 Capital Letters for Places 2

Y2 – Sentence Types 2 

Classroom Secrets | Collection Page Year 2 Recognising Simple Past and Present Tenses

Y3 – Tenses 

Classroom Secrets | Collection Page Year 3 Using the Present Perfect Form in Sentences

Y4 – Noun Phrases 

Classroom Secrets | Collection Page Year 4 Using Expanded Noun Phrases

Y5 – Tenses 

Classroom Secrets | Collection Page Year 5 Recognising the Future Perfect Form

Y6 – Formal and Informal 

Classroom Secrets | Collection Page Year 6 Formal and Informal Vocabulary

Have a great week!