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Place Value to 20 Year 1 Display Pack

This Place Value to 20 Year 1 Display Pack includes a range of printable resources linked to place value to twenty that can be used on displays or working walls to support teaching and learning as a point of reference, or as supporting materials for use on tables within lessons or activities.

Place Value to 20 Vocabulary Display Pack

This Place Value to 20 Vocabulary Display Pack includes a range of printable resources that are ideal for working walls, or to support during lessons.

First Week Back – Suggested Activities

A timetable of suggested activities for your first week back at school in autumn for Key Stage 1 and Key Stage 2.

Hundreds Year 3 Place Value Free Resource Pack

Step 1: Hundreds Year 3 Resource Pack includes a teaching PowerPoint and differentiated varied fluency and reasoning and problem solving resources for Autumn Block 1.

Counting Objects Year 1 Place Value Resource Pack

Step 2: Counting Objects Year 1 Resource Pack includes a teaching PowerPoint and differentiated varied fluency and reasoning and problem solving resources for Autumn Block 1.

Place Value Charts Year 2 Place Value Resource Pack

Step 5: Place Value Charts Year 2 Resource Pack includes a teaching PowerPoint and differentiated varied fluency and reasoning and problem solving resources for Autumn Block 1.

Count One More Year 1 Place Value Resource Pack

Step 6: Count One More Year 1 Resource Pack includes a teaching PowerPoint and differentiated varied fluency and reasoning and problem solving resources for Autumn Block 1.

Count One Less Year 1 Place Value Resource Pack

Step 7: Count One Less Year 1 Resource Pack includes a teaching PowerPoint and differentiated varied fluency and reasoning and problem solving resources for Autumn Block 1.

Division Using Factors Year 6 Four Operations Resource Pack

Step 4: Division Using Factors Year 6 Resource Pack includes a teaching PowerPoint and differentiated varied fluency and reasoning and problem solving resources for Autumn Block 2.

A is for Anxiety

We all know how this feels, particularly at this time of year when our thoughts turn to the first few days back at school. My friend tells a story about his first job as an NQT… He was preparing his new classroom during the last few days of the summer holidays, ready for his very […]

New School Year’s Resolutions

Setting New Year’s resolutions for the first of January is widely accepted as the norm, whether or not we stick to them. But for teachers, ‘New Year’ comes around not once, but twice a year. September is often a time for change and doing something new: be it a new year group, or a new […]

Choose Life (Work Balance)

Choose life. Choose a job. Choose a career. The first lines of Ewan McGregor’s infamous introductory monologue to the film version of Irvine Welsh’s Trainspotting are an opening gambit that start out with a recommendation of choosing life, before then doubling down on choosing work as both a job, and a career. Even in Mark […]

Here we are again…

I’m stood in front of 30 young, eager and expectant faces. I imagine that the majority of them got out of bed rather reluctantly this morning, after being forced by jubilant parents to get dressed, eat breakfast and get out of the house after 6 long weeks at home. Yet somehow, the majority of them […]

The Dreaded ‘First Week Back’ Activities

With September approaching, a discussion arose here at Classroom Secrets about the first week of a new school year, and the sorts of activities teaching staff use to ease themselves and their pupils back into the patterns of school life. That first week is a time when so many of the pieces which make up […]

5 Minute SPAG Revision Year 2 ABC Guide to School

5 minute SPAG revision Year 2 activity includes questions to practise using contractions using apostrophes and subordinating and coordinating conjunctions.

Year 1 Autobiography Writing Prompt Differentiated Worksheets

Year 1 Autobiography Writing Prompt has 4 levels of worksheets for Year 1 to complete simple autobiographical sentences about themselves.

The Same but Different Year 4 Human Geography Comprehension Whole Class Guided Reading

Year 4 Human Geography Comprehension in the form of an information text about three different schools and how each school varies.

KS1 and KS2 Ordering Numbers Activity New Class Information Back to School

KS1 and KS2 Ordering Numbers Activity - a maths resource aimed at Years 1 - 6. Order children according to birth dates and height; organise a seating plan.

The Secret Life of a Teacher Year 5 Back to School Comprehension Whole Class Guided Reading

Year 5 Back to School Comprehension Whole Class text in the form of a blog about how it feels to be going back to school from the viewpoint of a teacher.

Two Sides of a Coin Year 6 Back to School Comprehension Whole Class Guided Reading

Year 6 Back to School Comprehension Whole Class text in the form of a narrative from the viewpoint of a pupil and a teacher starting a new school year.

New Year New Chances Year 4 Back to School Comprehension Whole Class Guided Reading

Year 4 Back to School Comprehension Whole Class Guided Reading text in the form of a poem about four children beginning a new year at primary school.

Welcome to Y2R Year 2 Back to School Comprehension Whole Class Guided Reading

Year 2 Back to School Comprehension In the form of a newsletter from the new class teacher, Mr Robinson, to the parents and guardians.

Welcome Back Year 3 Back to School Comprehension Whole Class Guided Reading

Year 3 Back to School Comprehension text In the form of a script for a school assembly to be performed by a new Year 3 class.

All About Me Year 1 Back to School Comprehension Whole Class Guided Reading

Year 1 Back to School Comprehension Whole Class Guided text in the form of an 'All About Me' page for a young boy starting a new year group at school.