A ppt to help children identify a sample of 8 rocks/minerals based on their properties. The rocks included are: flint, sandstone, feldspar granite, quartzite, slate, diorite, chalk and galena - but they could be edited to suit the rocks you have available. I would print out the first slide for the table groups, large, and print out the information 2 slides per sheet to accompany the rock samples. Children can physically place their rock samples on the correct rock pictured. This activity would accompany a lesson where children have to sort rocks based on their appearance and properties. https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/compare-and-group-different-kinds-of-rocks-11910312 I would ask children to read the information sheet - if it says it’s a hard rock, they can perform the scratch test and see for themselves if this is true. If it says it is permeable, they can place sample in a beaker of water and look out for bubbles forming on the rock etc. **Note: **Our rock sample kit contained galena already - I have researched carefully, and it is not considered a risk to handle, but I have taken the precaution of asking children not to perform the scratch test on this mineral. (Just in case you were wondering!) I hope this activity is of some help. :-)

Loveliest of Trees the Cherry Now by A E Housman Whole lesson: suitable for a whole class reading session with opportunities for an extended activity (into writing, a performance during the afternoon or part of a a range of activities during a poetry-themed day or event at your school.) This is a must if you are lucky enough to have cherry trees in bloom in or around your grounds. The slide show enables the teacher to introduce key vocab and set the poem in context (time written, poet and his life) Introduces the poem - to be read out the whole way through, without pause (as a whole class/in pairs) and then there is a line by line analysis of the poem, designed to be done as a whole class, with plenty of opportunities for talk partner discussion as part of this exercise. Some prior knowledge of poetic techniques and language is assumed. (e.g personification, alliteration, a couplet) but if the pupils do not know these terms. the poem affords the perfect opportunity for them to learn them. This lesson meets the National Curriculum requirements: participate in discussions about poems, prepare poems to read out loud and perform; learn a wider range of poetry by heart. I have delivered this in Year 5 and it was really successful - but I could equally see this working in any age group - through the simplicity or complexity of the discussion. There is so much that can come from it - reading into writing - biography of the author, descriptive writing of a cherry tree, a poem about an element of a season the children find equally as attractive (there are slides to support this objective). Cross-curricular ideas - supporting science objectives - observing life cycles in own locality - I could see children sketching blossom, photo evidencing the change in seasons, pressing flowers - using pressed flowers for art work later … No separate lesson plan is needed as the slides are very self explanatory. I hope you enjoy using this resource. I would be grateful if you could leave a review.

This is a simple Power Point which asks questions and answers them in the following slides, accompanied by simple graphics and photos. I would use the presentation as an overview, and then ask children to ask further questions, which they could write on speech bubbles to be displayed on the working wall. Includes: What is Hinduism? Where do Hindus worship? What do Hindus believe happens after you die? Images of gods and goddesses Do Hindus have a sacred symbol? Do Hindus believe in one or many gods? It would be good for an RE day, or topic introduction. I have used it in year 4. The children in our church school had never heard of the idea of reincarnation and were fascinated to hear about other ideas from other religions.

PRACTICE SPELLING AND GRAMMAR PAPER This practice spelling and grammar test has been designed to resemble the actual SAT test paper as closely as possible. These are original questions. They test National Curriculum content. This download includes: Practice Paper 1 Grammar and Punctuation Practice Paper 2 Spelling Mark Scheme Papers 1 and 2.

This is a resource I created to be able to take the Year 3s beach combing/fossil hunting on a shingle beach on the SE coast. Whilst our beach does have some amazing fossils, the area was deemed too unsafe to go to, as access is tough and the cliffs are unstable, so instead I needed to research what the children were most likely to be able to find on a typical shingle beach (flint and chert) away from the cliffs. I have chosen to introduce only what I suspect the children might have luck in finding, and also included some information about quartz in pebbles (geodes), as these can be found. We will tie it in with a visit to a local museum to see and handle some real fossils, and it should make for a nice summer outing. This ppt is meant to be able to be used as an introduction, prior to a beach hunt (ideally with your own examples gathered in a pre-visit) Children will ideally receive instruction before or after on the formation of fossils. When I use it, I will take care to ensure the children know that we are relying on speculation, assumption and deduction, and all fossils would really require expert identification to be sure what they actually are. The ppt is not long, but does represent hours of painstaking research! It’s so hard to wade through the higher brow guides to get to the basics. I’ve included a .pdf that can be used as a guide in situ. I hope you will find it useful. If you like this resource you may also like my resources on comparing and sorting different rock types. https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/compare-and-group-different-kinds-of-rocks-11910312 or Rock Identification (free) https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/what-s-my-rock-or-mineral-11912410

Children solve the maths equations in order to determine what colour to colour the chameleon. There is an easy version, suitable for lower year groups or older pupils with additional maths needs. There is a harder version, suitable for year 4 upwards, due to the fact it contains squares, brackets and square roots, but the calculations themselves are not too tricky. There is also a blank version that children can use to create their own calculations. A slide show accompanies the printouts, that can be used to model what to do. It also includes a couple of facts about chameleons - and introduces ‘Charmander the maths chameleon’. The calculations can be modified directly on the ppt and printed directly from the ppt to suit the needs of your class. I imagine this resource to be suitable for a maths activity as part of a meet the teacher transition, as a light hearted end to a topic/learning journey that covers rain forests, or towards the end of term/a busy week e.g. if there have been tests, when pupils are tired, so they can still engage in maths but in a less formal/structured manner. Tip: if there are some calculations that are too tricky on the harder version, have a few spare easier versions printed, so pupils can cross reference. I hope you enjoy using this resource.

Power Point presentation and games to introduce vocabulary for places in town. This includes an auto play recording of each piece of vocabulary introduced. It is selected to introduce vocabulary for what might be found in most English towns. It has vocabulary for seaside towns included. Includes typical games that can be played to help consolidate new vocabulary (noughts and crosses, que manque-t-il) Includes a slide to help guide some writing using the new vocabulary. There is an optional printout in the slides of a map of a UK town - there are spaces to write the French equivalent next to the English symbol (practise map reading skills too!) Print directly from Power Point. I hope you enjoy using this resource. I would be grateful if you could leave a review.

Use skateboarding as a novel way to teach acute, obtuse, reflex, right and straight angles. These are eye catching posters that can be printed at size, or enlarged, and are suitable for a classroom working wall. They support a skater-themed learning journey. These posters were developed to support resources: Skateboard Angles, and Skater Turns.

This is a slides how focusing specifically on degrees in turns. It uses the theme of skating to show that there are 360 degrees in a turn and encourages children to spot that each quarter turn is a multiple of 90 - it invites children to calculate the degrees needed for a turn and a half, and two turns. The guided activity asks children to stand and turn as per instruction e.g. 90 degrees right, (on imaginary skateboards). This activity would be ideal for a lesson starter, and outside of the maths lesson to keep up interest. It also works well inking to clips of snowboarders and BMXers doing spins - sometimes children can listen in the commentary for how big the turn was, and sometimes you can pause and count the turns as they take place.

Real-life examples of acute, obtuse, reflex, right and straight angles drawn from skating. Each angle type is clearly introduced Followed by an example of how this relates to skating Interactive task/printable. This resource works well with Skater Angles, which focuses an input on degrees in turns. These lessons complement a learning journey based on skating; further resources are available at: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/narrative-writing-bubble-wrap-boy-11868862 If you like this resource, I would be grateful if you could leave a review.

Powerpoint presentations with printables for the first 5 days of this teaching unit.

This is a whole lesson encouraging children to think critically and evaluate whether the information they see on the internet is real or fake. This resource includes: lesson (or session) plan and an activity. The plan details how to encourage children to think about what we use the internet for, and through the use of classroom clips introduces the idea of fake news. Children are given tips about how to evaluate whether a story etc might be fake or genuine. The activity is to look at a screen shot of a news story/twitter feed/web page/email/viral photo and decide whether it is is real or fake. Children click the answer each time (real or fake) -most are fake - and then there is extra information about how they might have reasoned this, what clues or warnings there were etc. These are mostly real-life examples. Although the activity has been entitled ‘Fake News Spotter’, the scope of the lesson is actually much broader than ‘Fake News’ as it also touches upon scams, trusted sources of information and using the internet for research. Tip: The activity is designed to be completed by the children individually/in pairs in ppt, but if that is not possible, it can be delivered as a whole class activity, or the slides can be printed and children can examine them in groups or pairs and sort them into a pile of ‘real’ or ‘fake’ before the answers are talked through as a whole class. This makes a nice reading-based activity in mixed ability pairs - perfect if there are carousels of activities taking places as part of a whole school approach to Safer Internet Day. I’m really pleased with this lesson which I have used with Year 4. I did notice that, when using the ppt, they all were very keen simply to see if they were correct or incorrect and whizzed through the slides without really reading the important information, so I would advise that you put in place some incentives to ensure that they actually read the slides - perhaps partner has to ask a question based on the content, or each taking it in turns to read the slide aloud before moving on - I had to make at least one quarter of the class go back over it again when finished. I hope you enjoy using this resource - there is so much misinformation out there, even for us adults - anything that helps our young people think more carefully about what they see or share, or how they select what sites they visit, is, in my view, a good thing!

Whole lesson (plan and resources) on using algebra to solve a given number problem. This resource has been developed to encourage children to think mathematically about a given problem, use existing number sense and understand how a formula can express a general rule. The learning is tied to a story the children are told about the mathematician Carl Friedrich Gauss, and how he ‘got the better of’ his teacher at the age of ten, having been set the task of adding up all the numbers from 1-100 so the teacher could have a rest. The children are taught how to solve the query by pattern-spotting, making generalisations and finally algebraic expression and then asked to investigate further. Everything is extremely structured/scaffolded. Although it has been labelled as suitable for ‘Upper Primary’ (Years 5 and 6), it is suitable to extend the mathematical thinking of younger children. It is especially ideal for an adult to deliver with a small group of higher-achievers, when something is being done in the classroom they do not need to go over at all. This resource would work best with a whole class if there are other adults available to scaffold the learning as described in the lesson plan. I would be very grateful if you would take the time to feed back, after you have used this resource. Tip: For work in books, print slide 27 at the end of the slideshow in ‘2 slides per page’ mode, and ask children to glue in books, next to their workings out. (Trim into strips to show differentiated tasks.)

Resource developed for teaching children to convert between g and kg in context based problems. This resource includes a teaching presentation with guided examples and differentiated activities with answers - the activities can be used with different ability groups or over the course of several lessons for progression. There are four sets of ‘what weighs more …’ comparison questions allowing for two days of activities moving to the next level up over the course of both days or for four-way differentiation. The tasks are presented as word problems. The answers are included as slides on the presentation so children can mark their own work. The presentation allows for: Re-visiting the metric units of measurement for weight (mass) grams and kilograms (and milligrams/tons in relation to these) Encouraging children to use knowledge of halves/doubles and patterns etc. to convert mentally between grams and kilograms using knowledge the 1000g = 1kg. Explaining how to use place value (grids) for more complex calculations by going forwards or backwards three places to convert between g and kg or kg and g. The problems are designed to include more complex use of number, as well as conversions as the level of challenge increases. Includes a print-friendly Word version of all activities. For neatness of presentation, ask children to cut and stick each box as they go, showing their workings out beneath. Ideal for use in Year 5 or year 6. I would be grateful if you could leave a review once you have used this resource in class. If you like this, you may also like: imperial to metric conversions https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/imperial-measurements-11869571 Updated: Nov 2019

This resource is a lesson/series of up to 3 lessons suitable. I believe, for years 6, 7 or 8 depending on the themes you focus on. Children read and analyse a palindrome poem and understand what the word palindrome means. Children are given a template and a guided structured/scaffolded method to come up with their own poems Children write up their poems in presentation form. I have deliberately chosen a topic for the children with statements that they will likely find inflammatory, as this then supports the discussion about these poems being a good vehicle for protest, as they often ridicule insensitive and judgmental statements. Note: You will need to use assessment for learning in the lesson, so that you know no children are left with the misunderstanding that any controversial statements made are supported or true. I hope you find this resource helpful/

Two simple time-saving Power Point resources - one simply with each letter of the alphabet per slide, for simple teaching of the alphabet - listen/repeat exercises. One Power Point will spin randomly - when in presentation mode (push F5) through all the letters, and will stop/start again on pushing s on the keyboard. Lots of fun activities to be done with this - far beyond knowing the letters of the alphabet - depending on the level of vocabulary acquired this could be used as a starter for a - ‘un object qui commence par …’ (something that starts with …) Equally useful in other languages, and deliberately written plainly to support use in many different ways. Alternatively - print in smaller (e.g. 2 slides per page) versions and use as flash cards, or for small group games.

Five lesson ppt presentations meeting new NC objectives regarding forces (friction, air resistance, water resistance, Isaac Newton and transferring forces) Used with a year 5 class, NB we had also done a lot of work on gravity when we covered space the previous term - the Newton lesson was a recap of that, the transferring forces lesson is also Tudor themed, but easily adaptable)

This resource was prepared for a themed project at the end of a survival-themed learning journey. I wanted something different, maths but not the usual maths, that would continue to engage the children into that final week of term. Children imagine themselves shipwrecked on a desert island, and need to be able to read the shipping map and the timetable to know when a ship will come close enough to their island to be able to pick up their radio signal for help. This is quite different to a typical timetable reading lesson, and will need careful modelling for the pupils to experience success. ( The slides do this.) There is an alternative, more traditional timetable for LA pupils, but they may still need the help of an adult. Print the activities directly from the power point slides. (Slides 8 and 12) This lesson leads nicely to the second and third lessons of the project (create a look-out rota, and draw a map using coordinates in all 4 quadrants). https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/coordinates-in-four-quadrants-desert-island-map-11866571 If you do use this resource in class, I would be really interested to hear your feedback.

This is a power point that walks children through how to solve missing number pyramids in very simple steps, but has calculations that are a little more difficult than the most basic. (It goes beyond facts within 20, for example, but keeps within 100.) The pyramids themselves are set out at an angle because I created them in Excel - a tip I picked up from another TES user - teaching the children to be familiar with them in this layout, means it can take you seconds to create your own alternative pyramids! I’ve uploaded the spreadsheet so you can do that, if you need more, follow the instructions below: Simply highlight and copy the selection (number) of pyramids you want, then paste them into a new sheet - it will randomly create more with different numbers. I then paste into a document (such as ppt or word) and quickly delete some of the numbers to create missing number pyramids (remembering of course to keep the original for the answers!) You can also change the parameters to make them harder or easier. Anyway, I hope this resource is of some use to you. Happy teaching. I would appreciate you leaving a review. :-)

This is a ppt presentation I have adapted from 2 different free resources downloaded from TES so as to be suitable for primary school aged children. Although not strictly in the National Curriculum at this level, I used it as part of a couple of lessons supporting the LO: Identify how the habitat changes throughout the year, in year 4, as once we had had the initial practice drawing scientific diagrams in the classroom, I could take them into their local habitat, and they could use this skill amongst others, such as identifying creatures/plants in their habitats and photo records etc. I used this in class with a number of objects, such as beautiful feathers, pine cones, geodes, a live spider, and some preserved insects in perspex. Some of the children drew an artistic sketch alongside it in their artists sketchbooks, in 2B pencil to compare how they are similar and different. Acknowledgements to https://www.tes.com/member/mightygus and https://www.tes.com/member/benji5626 for the intial ppts. I would be grateful if you could leave a review if you liked this resource.