Hands-on / practical activity

Cooking , contructing, measuring and other kinaesthetic activities.

A rather nifty Word document template where learners can move the digits to the right or left to see the changes in place value when multiplying or dividing decimals by 10, 100 and 1000.

Level
Level 1
Maths
Mental maths
AN N2/L1.6

A hands-on activity that covers measuring, multiplying and 3D shapes (and a quick game of Jenga!).
Plus suggested L1 extension activities that cover perimeter, area, volume, metric measures and tessellation.

Level
Entry Level 2
Entry Level 3
Level 1
Maths
MSS2/E3.2
MSS2/L1.2
MSS1/L1.10
MSS2/L1.1
MSS1/L1.8
MSS1/L1.9
MSS1/L1.7
MSS1/E3.5
MSS1/E2.5
MSS2/E2.2
N1/E3.5

A scheme of work and progress sheet accompanied by many resources including: tallies, counting to 100, odd and even numbers, number bonds, adding on ten, ideas for card games and links to web based games.

Level
Entry Level 2
Maths
N1/E2.4
AN N1/E2.1 Count reliably to 100, count on in 2s and 10s
AN N1/E2.2 Read, write, order & compare numbers to 100; odd even nos.

A fabulous 19 page booklet providing comprehensive coverage of measuring length at Entry 2 (and above). Cleverly links in with all the Entry 2 data handling elements by asking learners to record data in tables and bar charts. Includes using non-standard units, estimating and measuring height, using bar charts and tables and interpreting the results, measuring lines, investigations, frog jumping and paper aeroplane races; plus student progress tracker.

Level
Entry Level 2
Maths
HD1/E2.3
HD1/E2.4
HD1/E2.5
HD1/E2.1
HD1/E2.2
MSS1/E2.5

A great warm-up activity. Students work in pairs to find information in holiday brochures. Easily adapted for your own brochures. Covers scanning, organisational features, detailed reading, etc. at E3-L2.

Level
Entry Level 3
Level 1
Level 2
English
Rt/E3.4
Rt/L1.3
Rt/L2.3 Identify the main points and specific detail
Rt/E3.5
Rt/L1.4
Rt/L2.6 Use organisational features and systems to locate texts and information
Rt/E3.6
Rt/E3.7
Rt/E3.8
Rt/L1.5
Rt/L2.7 Use different reading strategies to find and obtain information, e.g. skimming, scanning, detailed reading
Context
Leisure, Hobbies, Travel & Tourism

A challenging kinaesthetic paired activity that is bound to promote discussion about possessive and omissive apostrophes (and the greengrocer’s apostrophe!).

Level
Level 1
Level 2
English
Apostrophes
Rs/L1.2
AL Ws/L2.4 Use apostrophes & inverted commas

Heroes and Celebrations chocolate tasting game cleverly combines reading instructions, alphabetical ordering and adjectives into a delicious activity!

Level
Entry Level 2
English
AL Rt/E2.1 Follow main points of short texts
Rw/E2.4
Adult Lit Ws/E2.2 Use Adjectives

A paired task that introduces thermometers and reading simple scales.

Level
Entry Level 2
Entry Level 3
Maths
MSS1/E2.8
MSS1/E3.9
Context
Health, Social care, Early years

A fabulous activity which takes learners through grouping, division by subtraction, and remainders – in a structured, logical fashion so that their pile of Smarties will gradually get eaten!

Level
Entry Level 3
Maths
N1/E3.6

A useful, very effective template for making place value sliders. The laminated Slider allows the learner to see the digits moving left or right when they multiply or divide by powers of 10 and discourages the use of ‘adding zeros’ or ‘moving the decimal point’ which are not now used in schools. Covers whole numbers up to 7 digits and decimals to 2 decimal places.

Level
Level 1
Maths
AN N2/L1.4
AN N1/L1.1 Place value to millions. < and > symbols