Being a Good Listener and a Good Talker
6 picture slides on how to listen well, how to take turns, how to ask good questions and how to disagree politely.
The final year of Key Stage 1. End-of-KS1 teacher assessments and consolidating the foundations of reading, writing, and maths.
6 picture slides on how to listen well, how to take turns, how to ask good questions and how to disagree politely.
10 questions on the rules of good conversation and listening — what to do, what to avoid, and why.
12 flip cards introducing rich vocabulary children can drop into their talk — each card has the word, what it means, …
8 flashcards covering every KS1 punctuation mark and when to use it.
5 slides covering every KS1 punctuation mark with kid-friendly explanations and examples.
Three pages introducing the two largest religions in the UK: what Christians and Muslims believe, where they worship,…
A clue appears (a holy book, a place, a festival). Decide: Christianity, Islam, or BOTH? 12 rounds.
7 slides covering what religions are, the basics of Christianity and Islam, and why people who believe different thin…
10 questions on the two religions — holy books, places of worship, festivals, key beliefs, and the things they share.
12 flip cards covering key RE vocabulary across Christianity and Islam: God, prayer, holy book, festival, Bible, Qur'…
Five pages exploring religion in your local area: places of worship near you, a Christmas-vs-Eid comparison, a story-…
How to support KS1 RE at home, however your family handles religion — religious, non-religious, mixed, or "we're not …
Legal framework, the SACRE/locally agreed syllabus context, sensitivity guidance, common misconceptions to pre-empt, …
10 mixed questions on counting, tens & ones, one more/less, and comparing numbers up to 100.
Five pages of reflection: my feelings, my five trusted grown-ups, my family tree, my healthy day, my kindness diary.
8 flashcards showing key numbers as tens-and-ones diagrams.
How to talk to your KS1 child about feelings, secrets, and online safety without making it weird — and what to do if …
5-slide explainer: why we group numbers in tens, how to read them, and how to compare them.
DfE 2020 RSHE mapping, withdrawal rights, safeguarding flow, what KS1 covers (and what it doesn't), and a 6-lesson sc…
12 warm-up questions on naming plants and parts of a plant. Y1-appropriate.
A one-page worksheet covering capital letters, full stops, question marks, exclamation marks, commas in lists, and ap…
18 questions on Y1+Y2 plants — parts, growth, what plants need, seeds vs bulbs.
Tap every word in the sentence that NEEDS a capital letter. Quick, visual, satisfying.
15 stretch questions: investigations, plant life cycles, why each need matters, evidence-based reasoning.
10 questions on capitals, full stops, question marks, commas in lists, and apostrophes.
A four-task worksheet covering position words, direction, turns, and clockwise vs anti-clockwise.
Read the instructions, predict where the robot ends up. 8 rounds across a 5×5 grid.
10 questions on position words, turns, clockwise/anti-clockwise.
4 slides showing how to build position and direction language into everyday play, walks, and even tidying up.
A ready-to-teach lesson plan using physical movement and (optionally) Bee-Bots, with assessment criteria and extensio…
Three pages on feelings, friendships and families. Name your feelings, draw a kindness, and celebrate every kind of f…
A scenario appears — was that a kind, unkind, or "tricky" thing to do? 12 real-life moments to think through.
7 slides on naming feelings, what to do when a feeling is too big, asking for help, and the difference between a secr…
A 12-question worksheet covering counting, tens & ones, one more/one less, and comparing two-digit numbers — Year 1 a…
10 questions on feelings, friendships, family diversity, online safety, healthy habits and asking trusted grown-ups f…
Build any two-digit number by dragging tens-blocks and ones-blocks. Visual, kinaesthetic, immediate feedback.
12 flip cards covering feelings vocabulary, friendship words, family words, safety words and healthy-habit words.
7 slides on six big musical words (pulse, rhythm, pitch, tempo, dynamics, timbre) plus three real composers whose mus…
10 questions on pulse, rhythm, pitch, tempo, dynamics, timbre, and the three real composers in the pack.
12 flip cards covering pulse, rhythm, pitch, tempo, dynamics, timbre, plus ta/ti-ti rhythms and the three composers n…
Five pages of hands-on music: kitchen percussion, body-percussion patterns, name rhythms, listening detective, and "c…
Why singing badly with your child matters more than singing well — and four no-equipment ways to build their musician…
NC mapping (4 statutory reqs + Model Music Curriculum), suggested listening list, the Kodály method explained, and a …
Three pages: tick off the movements you can already do, set yourself a goal, and design a 5-minute morning warm-up. A…
Marker answers, common money misconceptions, and parent prompts for the Money activity sheet.
A movement card appears. Do the action. Tap "Done!" to get the next one. 15 challenges across all the fundamental ski…
15 flashcards covering every UK coin and note from 1p to £20, plus change. Tap to flip — two minutes a day builds mon…
6 slides on the three fundamental movement skills, why we warm up, how to play fairly, and why dance counts as PE too.
Year 2 builds on Year 1. Pupils read with increasing fluency and comprehension, write coherent short paragraphs, learn to tell the time, work with money (pence and pounds), explore fractions of shapes and quantities, and consolidate addition/subtraction to 100.
At the end of Year 2, teachers carry out statutory assessments of reading, writing, mathematics, and science. Although the formal externally-marked KS1 SATs were ended in 2023, teacher assessment continues. Pupils who didn’t pass the Phonics Screening Check in Year 1 retake it in Year 2.