E4MC
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Nottingham, United Kingdom
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I have had over 30 years experience in education both in the UK and Australia, as a class teacher, school leader, teacher trainer and local authority adviser. The majority of my teaching experience has been at the upper end of KS2 with the 9 - 11 year olds but I have taught throughout the primary school age ranges.
Having a mainly arts background and a specialism in drama and literacy, I was asked to join the local authority Maths Advisory Team because of my creative approach to the teaching of mathematics. Following this I spent four years working with the National Numeracy Strategy in Bradford as Director of Numeracy before returning to school and spending the last 9 years teaching years 5 and 6 in a leadership role.
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Dinosaur Discoveries - Teaching Notes
A comprehensive set of teaching notes and related resource masters for six cross-curricular, creative, dinosaur themed activities for children aged 7 - 11. Designed to creatively develop skills in reading and research, art and design, maths and creative writing, each activity takes between 2 and 3 hours to complete. There are lots of resources available to develop a child's maths and English skills but very little with a focus on develop creativity across the curriculum. As an experienced prim
3rd - 6th
Creative Writing, Measurement
Times Tables Race
In just ten minutes per day, this resource is proven to improve a child’s speed and accuracy with multiplication facts to support all areas of calculation in mathematics. In order to access the Year 5 and 6 maths curricula, children benefit greatly from the ability to rapidly recall their times tables facts. Without this skill, children spend valuable time having to ‘work out’ their times tables facts and this has a negative impact on accuracy, efficiency and most importantly confidence, in math
3rd - 5th
Math, Mental Math
Christmas Holiday Activities for Year 3
A set of 10 literacy and maths activities to help children keep their basic skills active during the school Christmas holidays. Designed to take only fifteen minutes a day, this pack of activities covers reading, vocabulary development, word puzzles, calculation, times-tables and word problems complete with answer sheets and a self assessment tracking grid. All the activities are written by an experienced primary school teacher - Jan Mace.
3rd - 5th
English Language Arts, Math
Christmas Holiday Activities for Year 4
A set of 10 literacy and maths activities to help children keep their basic skills active during the school Christmas holidays. Designed to take only fifteen minutes a day, this pack of activities covers reading, vocabulary development, word puzzles, calculation, times-tables and word problems complete with answer sheets and a self assessment tracking grid. All the activities are written by an experienced primary school teacher.
3rd - 4th
Balanced Literacy, Math
Activities to develop an effective pencil grip and good handwriting.
This is a set of tips for teachers and parents to help develop a good, strong pencil grip in their pupils and children. It also has links to a range of FREE handwriting resources. Unless children learn how to hold a pencil correctly, it is difficult to develop a clear, fluent and legible style of handwriting. Children with poor pencil grips tend to have greater problems writing neatly at speed and may end up with wrist pain.
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For All Subjects, Handwriting, Writing
Autumn Half Term Activities for Year 6
5 x 15 minute literacy and maths activities for Year 3. Are you.... * Struggling to get your children to practice their basic literacy and maths skills during the half term holiday? * Looking for some short, age appropriate resources to send home with the children to complete each day? * Searching for something with answers included? I've been a class teacher just like you, and spent hours designing suitable resources to encourage my pupils to keep working on their maths and literacy skil
5th - 6th
English Language Arts, Math, Reading
Autumn Half term Activities for Year 5
5 x 15 minute literacy and maths activities for Year 3. Are you.... * Struggling to get your children to practice their basic literacy and maths skills during the half term holiday? * Looking for some short, age appropriate resources to send home with the children to complete each day? * Searching for something with answers included? I've been a class teacher just like you, and spent hours designing suitable resources to encourage my pupils to keep working on their maths and literacy skil
4th - 5th
English Language Arts, Math, Reading
Autumn Half term Activities for Year 4
5 x 15 minute literacy and maths activities for Year 3. Are you.... * Struggling to get your children to practice their basic literacy and maths skills during the half term holiday? * Looking for some short, age appropriate resources to send home with the children to complete each day? * Searching for something with answers included? I've been a class teacher just like you, and spent hours designing suitable resources to encourage my pupils to keep working on their maths and literacy skil
3rd - 4th
English Language Arts, Math, Reading
Autumn Half Term Activities for Year 3
5 x 15 minute literacy and maths activities for Year 3. Are you.... * Struggling to get your children to practice their basic literacy and maths skills during the half term holiday? * Looking for some short, age appropriate resources to send home with the children to complete each day? * Searching for something with answers included? I've been a class teacher just like you, and spent hours designing suitable resources to encourage my pupils to keep working on their maths and literacy skil
2nd - 4th
Math, Reading, Vocabulary
Journey to the River Sea - Eva Ibbotson - a full term's literacy planning
This is a full term's literacy planning for Year 6 based on the book - Journey to the River Sea by Eva Ibbotson. I taught this with my year 5/6 class and it was a great favourite. The book is an adventure story, set in the Amazon with a boy and a girl as the key characters. The resource contains fourteen full weeks of literacy lesson plans (five lessons per week), together with all resource masters (including 6 full reading comprehension activities and mark schemes) - an answer booklet and ful
5th - 6th
Literature, Reading, Writing
Strategies to promote effective group work in the primary classroom.
This resource will help you organise, promote and develop, effective group working skills in your classroom. In life, people need to be able to work together but these group working skills need to be carefully developed to ensure that they are effective and positive. Much has been said already about the positive impact of working in groups, but this isn’t always the case. For some children, working in a group can be daunting as they are either over-powered by a more confident person or demotiva
3rd - 6th
Just Let Me Think! Strategies to Encourage Thinking in the Primary Classroom.
This resource is a series of strategies to build in thinking time in the primary classroom to promote effective, active participation. The strategies suggested are all tried and tested in Key Stage 2 but there are a number of strategies suggested which would work well with younger or older children. This resource is for you if you are working with children in a group setting and want to encourage more children to take an active role in lessons. So often, less confident children will sit back and
2nd - 6th
For All Subjects
Being Me - Celebrating the Individual
This is a single page worksheet to be used with key stage 2 to celebrate each individual as a unique creation. Could be used at the beginning of term to introduce each child to a new class or at the start of a unit of work on relationships education. It was originally designed for a year 6 class to rebuild confidence after the SATs experience!
4th - 6th
Character Education, Health
Maths and English on the Move
Teachers... how about giving these to the parents to make good use of the time spent in the car this summer? These 20 games using the numbers and letters on car number plates are suitable for use with children from age 4 – 13, are simple and easy to play and will improve those all-important basic literacy and maths skills. Each game is unique so select the ones you think will appeal or which meet the learning needs of your child. Some require a little recording, but many do not. Some are quite c
Not Specific
Mental Math, Spelling
Keep Calm and Let the Children Lead
Wednesday Work was an initiative I introduced with my Year 5/6 Class following a seminar at the Global Leadership Summit led by Patrick Lencioni. He taught a session based on businesses who had increased productivity by allowing their employees 20% of their working week to follow their own lines of enquiry and plan their own time. These goals had to be in line with the companies aims but gave employees ownership of their time and their direction. This had a significant impact on both employee re
4th - 6th
For All Subjects, Performing Arts
Self Assessment Grid- writing a story
This is a self and peer assessment grid to be used with Y5/6 children when marking a short story. Contains clear success criteria and space for the child to identify their next improvement target.
5th - 6th
Creative Writing
Year 1 Maths Targets - Term 1a
This is a set of maths targets for use with Year 1 children in the first half term of the academic year. Suitable for teachers, teaching assistants, parents, home schoolers and trainee teachers. Can be used at home or at school to monitor progress, for homework or as a group activity. The full set of Maths Targets for Y1 and for Years 1 - 6 is available from E4MC on Teachers Pay Teachers.
K - 1st
Math
Year 2 Maths Targets Term 1a
This is a set of maths targets for use with Year 2 children in the first half term of the academic year. Suitable for teachers, teaching assistants, parents, home schoolers and trainee teachers. Can be used at home or at school to monitor progress, for homework or as a group activity. The full set of Maths Targets for Y2 and for Years 1 - 6 is available from E4MC on Teachers Pay Teachers
1st - 2nd
Math
Year 3 Maths Targets term 1a
This is a set of maths targets for use with Year 3 children in the first half term of the academic year. Suitable for teachers, teaching assistants, parents, home schoolers and trainee teachers. Can be used at home or at school to monitor progress, for homework or as a group activity. The full set of Maths Targets for Y3 and for Years 1 - 6 is available from E4MC on Teachers Pay Teachers.
2nd - 3rd
Math
Year 4 Maths Targets - Term 1a
This is a set of maths targets for use with Year 4 children in the first half term of the academic year. Suitable for teachers, teaching assistants, parents, home schoolers and trainee teachers. Can be used at home or at school to monitor progress, for homework or as a group activity. The full set of Maths Targets for Y4 and for Years 1 - 6 is available from E4MC on Teachers Pay Teachers.
3rd - 4th
Math
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About the store
Experience
I have had over 30 years experience in education both in the UK and Australia, as a class teacher, school leader, teacher trainer and local authority adviser. The majority of my teaching experience has been at the upper end of KS2 with the 9 - 11 year olds but I have taught throughout the primary school age ranges.
Having a mainly arts background and a specialism in drama and literacy, I was asked to join the local authority Maths Advisory Team because of my creative approach to the teaching of mathematics. Following this I spent four years working with the National Numeracy Strategy in Bradford as Director of Numeracy before returning to school and spending the last 9 years teaching years 5 and 6 in a leadership role.
Teaching style
Throughout my career, I have been passionately interested in actively involving the children in their own learning and harnessing their innate creativity. I believe that children need to understand the relevance behind the concepts being taught and to take ownership through practical activities and resource based learning.I describe myself as a creative teacher with a mission to build confidence in the children I teach. If the children do not see themselves as learners, the long term benefits of education are lost.
My own education history
B ED Hons Degree 2:1 from North Riding College of Education.
NCSL National Professional Qualification of Headship.
Additional biographical information
I have become increasingly concerned about the adverse impact of the current education system in the UK on children's confidence - particularly those who do not naturally excel in mathematics and literacy. My mission is to inject some creativity back into the curriculum to enable all children to shine and to celebrate all children whatever their unique giftings and to support learning in mathematics and literacy. I believe that all children have the potential to learn effectively and need to have the opportunity to show case their individual strengths.
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