A teacher-facing lesson plan covering one 45-minute lesson on position and direction. Includes warm-up activity, main teaching points with vocabulary list, paired practice, plenary assessment questions, and three levels of differentiation. Optional Bee-Bot variant if you have them.
A one-page printable worksheet covering the core KS1 place value skills: representing numbers as tens and ones, writing numbers up to 100, identifying one more / one less, and comparing numbers with the symbols <, > and =. Includes a hands-on Dienes (base-10 blocks) activity that works with kitchen objects: ten lego bricks per “ten”, single bricks for “ones”.
A drag-and-drop building game: the screen shows a target number, the child taps tens-blocks and ones-blocks to build it. Tracks accuracy and time. Great for visual + kinaesthetic learners — they can see the structure of the number being built and reset / try again with no penalty.
A 10-question multiple-choice quiz covering the breadth of KS1 place value: representing numbers, counting in 2s/5s/10s (Year 2), one more/one less, and comparing numbers with <, >, =. Best-of-N scoring captures the personal best.
Eight flashcards: one side shows a two-digit number (like 34), the other shows its tens-and-ones breakdown with visual blocks. Quick visual reinforcement of the part-whole relationship.
A 5-slide explainer suitable for Year 1 and Year 2. Builds from “10 fingers” up to formal place value with comparison symbols. Designed to be co-read with an adult for 5-7 year olds, or independently for confident Year 2 readers.
A one-page printable worksheet covering the Y1 + Y2 position and direction curriculum: position vocabulary (left/right/above/beside), directional movement, quarter/half/three-quarter turns, and clockwise vs anti-clockwise (Y2). Hands-on activity uses any toy.
