I’m going to spend the next few weeks working with my Year 6s on designing a theme park in maths.
It’s based on an idea found on Teaching Ideas. The Primary Teacher Resource Centre have added new sections, smartboard files and an advert activity.
The idea is quite similar to the Theme Park sim games available.
I used [...]
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SAT Attack has been recommended by my head teacher as a useful revision scheme. I’ve started creating Smart Notebook files to accompany each lesson, with all the key questions and answers for children to mark their work. At the moment, I’m uploading these to the Year 6 Wikispaces site.
http://yr6teachers.wikispaces.com/SAT+Attack+resources+-+Maths
http://yr6teachers.wikispaces.com/SAT+Attack+resources+-+English
I’m also going to make [...]
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Objectives:
To develop speed of mental calculations
You will need:
Dingo board 1-12
2 dice
Instructions:
Each child has a copy of the board. Two dice are rolled and the children use these two numbers with any operation to make one of the numbers on their board (e.g. a 2 and 4 could be 2×4=8, 2+4=6 or 4-2=2) . [...]
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I’ve used a few of these games before, for example ‘Hit the Button’ for mulitplication tables, but never found the page that contains the links to all of them:
http://www.wmnet.org.uk/wmnet/14.cfm?p=125,index&zz=20060605123751308
They’re great for mental/oral starters and cover all areas of maths!
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http://www.cleavebooks.co.uk/trol/
Lots of really useful maths sheets, including dotty paper, investigations and worksheets.
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So far this year, I’m really enjoying teaching. I have a reasonably bright Year 6 class, with some very able children. Most of my class are fairly well behaved, with just a small handful of attention-seeking boys. The majority of the children were in my class last year, so I know them really well and [...]
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Someone on TES posted a link to a really useful website, which I thought I’d share.
http://www.teachers-direct.co.uk/resources/quiz-busters/subjects/ks2.aspx?page=2
It has Blockbuster games which use key vocabulary for maths, science, languages, etc. You can also create your own Blockbuster games, or wordsearches which can be completed online or printed out.
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If you don’t have Testbase, you might find these helpful:
http://www.satspapers.co.uk/ (Maths, English and Science for 2003, 2004 and 2005 – PDF files)
http://www.st-josephs-pickering.n-yorks.sch.uk/past_test_papers.htm (Maths, English and Science for 2000 to 2006 – Word files)
http://www.emaths.co.uk/KS2SAT.htm (Maths for 2000 to 2006 – PDF files)
http://www.netagency.co.uk/keyedin2/satsprep.html (Maths – interactive tests in a similar style to SATs)
http://www.woodlands-junior.kent.sch.uk/maths/sats/index.html (other links to sites with papers / practice activities)
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Schools Links has some really helpful pages, including these two which contain links to all the bits of the old Primary Strategy that are now nearly impossible to find on their site (e.g. Unit plans, Spelling bank).
http://www.schoolslinks.co.uk/links_literacy.htm
http://www.schoolslinks.co.uk/links_numeracy.htm
The science page is also useful, with links to QCA documents, BBC resources, etc.
http://www.schoolslinks.co.uk/links_sciencea.htm
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After going on a very brief course about transition from Year 5 to Year 6, I spent a morning with the literacy advisor adapting the parents leaflet produced by the DfES. We simplified many of the objectives and activities to make it more user-friendly to the sort of parents I work with. I then produced [...]
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